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 Spectral Theory, Mathematical Physics, and Disordered Media, I
Room 1, Burhans Hall
Organizers:
Peter David Hislop, University of Kentucky hislop@ms.uky.edu
Gunter H. Stolz, University of Alabama at Birmingham stolz@vorteb.math.uab.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Solutions, spectrum and dynamics of Schr\"odinger operators on infinite domains.
  Alexander A Kiselev*, University of Chicago
  Yoram Last, Caltech
  (931-81-252)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Measurable enumeration of eigenelements of self-adjoint operators .
  Alexander Y Gordon*, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
  (931-47-30)
- 9:00 a.m.
  The essential spectrum of the Nuemann Laplacian on a tree imbedded in a domain.
  W. D. Evans, University of School College of Cardiff
  Yoshimi Sait\B o*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
  (931-35-214)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Mourre Theory for a Schroedinger Operator on a Binary Tree Graph.
  Christine S. Allard*, UBC, Vancouver
  (931-47-130)
- 10:00 a.m.
  On the absolutely continuous spectrum of Jacobi matrices with power-like weights.
  Jan Janas*, Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences
  Serguei Naboko, Dept. of Math. Phys., Inst. of Physics, S-Petersburg Univ.
  (931-47-169)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The analyticity of semigroups generated by degenerate elliptic operators.
  Jerome A. Goldstein*, University of Memphis
  (931-47-320)

Friday March 20, 1998, 2:45 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
Special Session on Spectral Theory, Mathematical Physics, and Disordered Media, II
Room 1, Burhans Hall
Organizers:
Peter David Hislop, University of Kentucky hislop@ms.uky.edu
Gunter H. Stolz, University of Alabama at Birmingham stolz@vorteb.math.uab.edu
- 2:45 p.m.
  On the essential spectrum of some singular systems of matrix- differential operator related to the MHD problems.
  Sergeui Naboko*, Dept. of Math. Physics, Institute of Physics, S-Petersburg University
  (931-47-148)
- 3:15 p.m.
  New models in the localization theory.
  Stanislav A. Molchanov*, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
  (931-81-219)
- 3:45 p.m.
  On the Density of States for a Periodic Schr\"{o}dinger Operator.
  Yulia Karpeshina*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
  (931-81-241)
- 4:15 p.m.
  Quantum Stability of Hamiltonians with decreasing gaps.
  James S. Howland*, Univ. of Virginia
  (931-81-274)
- 4:45 p.m.
  Complex measures in random Schroedinger operators.
  Wei-Min Wang*, Institute for Advanced Study
  (931-47-317)
- 5:15 p.m.
  On spectral properties of photonic crystals.
  Peter Kuchment*, Wichita State University
  Leonid Kunyansky, Wichita State University
  (931-35-270)

Saturday March 21, 1998, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Spectral Theory, Mathematical Physics, and Disordered Media, III
Room 1, Burhans Hall
Organizers:
Peter David Hislop, University of Kentucky hislop@ms.uky.edu
Gunter H. Stolz, University of Alabama at Birmingham stolz@vorteb.math.uab.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Recovering Asymptotics of Metrics From Fixed Energy Scattering Data.
  Antonio Sa Barreto*, Purdue University
  (931-35-288)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Asymptotics of Forced Elastic Waves.
  Gis\`ele Ruiz Goldstein*, University of Memphis
  Jerome A. Goldstein, University of Memphis
  Enrico Obrecht, Universit\`a di Bologna
  (931-35-325)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Bilinear optimal control of a Kirchhoff plate by means of a velocity controller.
  Mary E Bradley*, University of Louisville
  Suzanne M Lenhart, Universtiy of Tennessee
  Jiongmin Yong, Fudan University
  (931-35-166)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Rate of relaxation to fronts for the Lebowitz-Orlandi-Presutti equation.
  Eric A Carlen*, Georgia Tech
  (931-82-318)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Long-Time Behavior of Scalar Viscous Shock Fronts in Two Dimensions .
  Jonathan Goodman, Courant Institute/NYU
  Judith R. Miller*, Georgetown University
  (931-35-273)
- 10:30 a.m.
  One-dimensional nonlinear diatomic particle chains.
  Anna Vladimirova Georgieva*, Duke University
  (931-82-172)

Saturday March 21, 1998, 2:45 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
Special Session on Spectral Theory, Mathematical Physics, and Disordered Media, IV
Room 1, Burhans Hall
Organizers:
Peter David Hislop, University of Kentucky hislop@ms.uky.edu
Gunter H. Stolz, University of Alabama at Birmingham stolz@vorteb.math.uab.edu
- 2:45 p.m.
  Eigenvalue Estimates in the Semi-Classical Limit for Pauli and Dirac Operators with a Magnetic Field.
  W. D. Evans, University of Wales, Cardiff
  Roger T. Lewis*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
  (931-81-218)
- 3:15 p.m.
  An improved Feynman-Kac-It\^{o} formula.
  Dirk Hundertmark*, Princeton university
  (931-60-279)
- 3:45 p.m.
  Bohr--Sommerfeld Quantization Rules and Rydberg States of Hydrogen.
  George A. Hagedorn*, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  Sam L. Robinson, William Paterson University of New Jersey
  (931-81-176)
- 4:15 p.m.
  On Moments of Negative Eigenvalues for the Pauli Operator.
  Zhongwei Shen*, University of Kentucky
  (931-35-286)
- 4:45 p.m.
  Eigenvalues of Schr\"odinger operators with potentials depending on curvature.
  Evans M. Harrell, II*, Georgia Institute of Technology
  Michael Loss, Georgia Institute of Technology
  (931-81-167)
- 5:15 p.m.
  Spectral and Scattering Theory for Kleinian Groups.
  Peter A Perry*, University of Kentucky
  (931-35-228)

Inquiries: meet@ams.org