AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

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1998 Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting
Louisville, KY, March 20-21, 1998
Meeting #931

• 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)