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1997 Fall Western Sectional Meeting
Albuquerque, NM, November 8-9, 1997
Meeting #928

Associate secretaries:
William A Harris, Jr, AMS wharris@math.usc.edu

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Saturday November 8, 1997

• Saturday November 8, 1997, 7:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
• Saturday November 8, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Commutative Algebra, I
  Laguna Room, Albuquerque Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Scott Thomas Chapman, Trinity University schapman@trinity.edu
  Alan Loper, Ohio State University, Newark lopera@math.ohio-state.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Factorization properties of the normset.
    James B Coykendall, IV*, North Dakota State University
    (928-13-104)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Prime ideals in birational extensions.
    Serpil Saydam, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    Sylvia M Wiegand*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (928-13-116)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Integral domains with no atoms.
    Jim Coykendall, North Dakota State University
    David Dobbs, University of Tennessee
    Bernadette Mullins*, Youngstown State University
    (928-13-114)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Seminormal and t-closed Rees rings
    Gabriel Picavet*, Universite de Clermont 2
    (928-13-24)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    GCD-Sets in Integral Domains.
    David F Anderson, Mathematics Department
    D D Anderson, Mathematics Department
    Jeanam Park*, Mathematics Department
    (928-13-88)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Finiteness theorems for faithfully flat descent.
    Roger Wiegand*, University of Nebraska
    (928-13-48)
• Saturday November 8, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Analysis, I
  Acoma Room, Albuquerque Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Jay B. Epperson, University of New Mexico jeppers@math.unm.edu
  Christina Pereya, University of New Mexico crisp@math.unm.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Transference in spaces of analytic measures.
    Nakhle H. Asmar*, University of Missouri
    Stephen J. Montgomery-Smith, University of Missouri
    (928-43-35)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    A scale of BMO in product spaces and correspondingCarleson measures.
    Cora Sadosky*, Howard University
    (928-42-73)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Constructive Decomposition of CMO.
    Joseph D Lakey*, New Mexico State University
    (928-42-76)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Principles of Phase Plane Analysis .
    Michael T Lacey*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (928-42-43)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Weighted norm inequalities for the centered maximal operator on ${\Bbb R}^+$.
    David V. Cruz-Uribe*, Trinity College
    (928-42-59)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Ces\`aro Summability of Hardy Spaces on the Ring of Integers in a Local Field.
    Shijun Zheng*, University of New Mexico
    (928-43-38)
• Saturday November 8, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
• Saturday November 8, 1997, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Difference and Differential Equations, I
  Tesuque Room, Albuquerque Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Saber N. Elaydi, Trinity University selaydi@trinity.edu
  Robert J. Sacker, University of Southern California rsacker@mtha.usc.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    A New Approach to Asymptotic Diagonalization of Linear Differential Systems.
    Sigrun I Pabst*, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089
    Robert J Sacker, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089
    (928-34-97)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Asymptotics for difference equations and orthogonal polynomials.
    Saber Elaydi*, Trinity University
    (928-39-113)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Asymptotics for difference equations in Banach lattices.
    Sophia R.-J. Jang*, Texas Tech University
    (928-39-85)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Planar Competitive and Cooperative Difference Equations.
    Hal L Smith*, Arizona State University
    (928-39-132)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Apersistence result for Matrix Equation.
    Jim M. Cushing*, University of Arizona
    (928-39-159)
• Saturday November 8, 1997, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Diophantine Geometry, I
  Apache Room, Albuquerque Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Alexandru Buium, University of New Mexico buium@math.unm.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Canonical lifts of elliptic curves and applications
    Jose' F Voloch*,
    (928-14-10)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Applications of canonical lifts of elliptic curves to coding theory.
    Jose-Felipe Voloch, University of Texas - Austin
    Judy L Walker*, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
    (928-11-39)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The Canonical Lie Stratification and the Integral Manin Problem.
    Adrian Vasiu*, University of California, Berkeley CA 94720
    (928-11-90)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Number of Generic points on curves in semiabelian varieties.
    Anand Pillay*, Univ. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (928-11-62)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The invariant $A$
    Antonios Broumas*, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
    (928-14-22)
• Saturday November 8, 1997, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on (Multi) Wavelets and Numerical PDEs, I
  Navajo Room, Albuquerque Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Peter R. Massopust, Sandia National Laboratories prmasso@cs.sandia.gov
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Why multiwavelets?
    Douglas P Hardin*, Vanderbilt University
    (928-65-125)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Compactly Supported Wavelets in Two Dimensions.
    George C Donovan*, Princeton University
    Jeffrey S Geronimo, Georgia Inst. of Technology
    Douglas P Hardin, Vanderbilt University
    (928-43-106)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A Multiwavelet Approach to Numerical Partial Differential Equations.
    Peter R Massopust*, Sandia National Laboratories
    (928-41-102)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Applications of MRA reduction methods for nonlinear ODEs.
    Anna C Gilbert*, AT&T Labs
    Yannis Kevrekidis, Princeton University
    (928-34-63)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Random Multilevel Methods, Wavelets and Iterated Function Systems for Numerical PDE's
    Andrew J. Kurdila*, Texas A&M University
    (928-65-04)
• Saturday November 8, 1997, 8:30 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Localization and Other Multiple Scattering Phenomena of Classical Waves, I
  Santo Domingo Room, Albuquerque Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Alexander Figotin, University of North Carolina at Charlotte figotin@uncc.edu
  Abel Klein, University of California, Irvine aklein@math.uci.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Transport theory for waves and applications .
    George C Papanicolaou*, Stanford University
    (928-86-153)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Magnetotelluric Probing.
    Benjamin White, Exxon Research & Engineering Co.
    L. J. Srnka, Exxon Exploration Co.
    Werner Kohler*, Virginia Tech
    (928-78-105)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The bispectral problem and some of its applications in mathematical physics.
    F. Alberto Grunbaum*, University of California, Berkeley
    (928-33-99)
• Saturday November 8, 1997, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Quaternions in Global Riemannian and Algebraic Geometry, I
  Zuni Room, Albuquerque Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Charles P. Boyer, University of New Mexico cboyer@math.unm.edu
  Galicki Krzysztof, University of New Mexico galicki@math.unm.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Positively curved cohomogeneity one manifolds.
    Karsten Grove*, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
    Wolfgang Ziller, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
    (928-53-140)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Cohomogeneity one Einstein metrics.
    Andrew S Dancer*, McMaster Univesity
    (928-53-67)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Quantization Formula for Singular Reductions.
    Youliang Tian*, CUNY Graduate Center and Courant Institute
    Weiping Zhang, Nankai Institute of mathematics
    (928-53-96)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Asymptotic metrics for monopoles with maximal symmetry breaking.
    Roger Bielawski*, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Mathematik
    (928-53-52)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    New Weitzenboeck formulas on quaternionic Kaehler manifolds and lower bounds for the spectrum of the Dirac operator.
    Uwe Semmelmann*, Max-Planck-Institut f. Mathematik, Bonn, Germany
    (928-53-118)
• Saturday November 8, 1997, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Computational Mathematics, I
  Isleta Room, Albuquerque Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Richard C. Allen, Jr., Sandia National Laboratories rcallen@cs.sandia.gov
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Combinatorial Algorithms in Scientific Computing.
    Bruce A Hendrickson*, Sandia National Labs
    (928-68-150)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Hexahedral Mesh Generation via the Dual Arrangement of Surfaces.
    Scott A Mitchell*, Sandia National Laboratories
    Timothy J Tautges, Sandia National Laboratories
    (928-68-145)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Recent Advances in Approximating the Network Inhibition Problem.
    Carl B Burch, Carnegie Mellon University
    Sven O Krumke, University of Wurzburg
    Madhav V Marathe, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    Cynthia A Phillips*, Sandia National Laboratories
    Eric L Sundburg, Rutgers University
    (928-68-147)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Parallel Iterative Methods for Large-Scale Linear Systems.
    Ray S Tuminaro*, Sandia National Laboratories
    (928-65-136)
• Saturday November 8, 1997, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Computational Mechanics, I
  Nambe Room, Albuquerque Convention Center
  Organizers:
  D. L. Sulsky, University of New Mexico sulsky@math.unm.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Progress Toward Robust, High-Resolution Finite Volume Methods for Three-Dimensional Solidifying Flows on Unstructured Meshes.
    Douglas B. Kothe*, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    (928-65-163)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A Computational Technique for Moving Boundary Problems in Multicomponent, Multiphase Flows with Phase Change.
    Damir Juric*, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    (928-76-55)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A hybrid numerical method for moving interface problems.
    Zhilin Li*, North Carolina State University
    (928-65-51)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Application of the Conjugate Gradient Algorithm to thin Sheet Forming Problems.
    Martin W. Heinstein*, Sandia National Laboratories
    (928-73-164)
• Saturday November 8, 1997, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometry and Analysis of Foliations, I
  Jemez Room, Albuquerque Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Efton L. Park, Texas Christian University epark@gamma.is.tcu.edu
  Kenneth S. Richardson, Texas Christian University k.richardson@tcu.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Riemannian Foliations and Eigenvalue Comparison.
    Jeffrey M Lee*, Texas Tech University
    Ken Richardson, Texas Christian University
    (928-58-46)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Metric fibrations in Euclidean space
    Detlef Gromoll,
    Gerard Walschap*,
    (928-53-18)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Leafwise heat flow and applications
    Jesus A. Alvarez-Lopez*,
    (928-58-09)
• Saturday November 8, 1997, 11:15 a.m.-12:05 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Localization of classical waves.
  Taos Room, Albuquerque Convention Center
  Abel Klein*, University of California, Irvine
  (928-78-115)
• Saturday November 8, 1997, 1:45 p.m.-2:35 p.m.
  Invited Address
  An adaptive pseudo-wavelet approach for solving nonlinear partial differential equations
  Taos Room, Albuquerque Convention Center
  Gregory Beylkin*, University of Colorado
• Saturday November 8, 1997, 3:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Commutative Algebra, II
  Laguna Room, Albuquerque Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Scott Thomas Chapman, Trinity University schapman@trinity.edu
  Alan Loper, Ohio State University, Newark lopera@math.ohio-state.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Zero-divisor graphs of commutative rings.
    David F. Anderson*, University of Tennessee
    (928-13-47)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Weak normalization and t-closure
    Martine Picavet-L'HermiteE*, Universite de Clermont II
    (928-13-25)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Armendariz rings and Gaussian rings
    D. D. Anderson*, The University of Iowa
    Victor Camillo, The University of Iowa
    (928-13-05)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Decomposition of modules
    Stephen J. McAdam*, The University of Texas at Austin
    (928-13-20)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Zero Sequences and Sets of Lengths.
    Scott T. Chapman, Trinity University
    William W. Smith*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    (928-13-65)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Representation Type of Commutative Noetherian Rings.
    Lee C. Klingler*, Florida Atlantic University
    Lawrence S. Levy, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (928-13-42)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Weak subintegrality of elements and ideals.
    David C. Lantz*, Colgate University
    (928-13-146)
• Saturday November 8, 1997, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Computational Mathematics, II
  Isleta Room, Albuquerque Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Richard C. Allen, Jr., Sandia National Laboratories rcallen@cs.sandia.gov
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Discussion: Mathematics of Molecular Science
• Saturday November 8, 1997, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Computational Mechanics, II
  Nambe Room, Albuquerque Convention Center
  Organizers:
  D. L. Sulsky, University of New Mexico sulsky@math.unm.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Forces on A Bin of Granular Material: The Effect of Random Friction.
    E. Bruce Pitman*, State University of New York
    (928-73-87)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Adaptive Mesh Refinement and Front Tracking For Shear Bands in Granular Flow.
    Xabier Garaizar*, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
    John Trangenstein, Duke University
    (928-39-98)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Overview of a Particle-in-Cell Method for Continuum Mechanics.
    Deborah L Sulsky*, UNM
    (928-73-86)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Material point calculations of static and dynamic stress bridging in granular material.
    Scott G. Bardenhagen*, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM
    Jeremiah U. Brackbill, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM
    Deborah L. Sulsky, Univerisity of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
    (928-73-89)
• Saturday November 8, 1997, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Difference and Differential Equations, II
  Tesuque Room, Albuquerque Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Saber N. Elaydi, Trinity University selaydi@trinity.edu
  Robert J. Sacker, University of Southern California rsacker@mtha.usc.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    On some mathematical models in population dynamcis.
    Jia Li*, University of Alabama
    (928-39-157)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Switching Predator And Prey Dominance In Discrete Predator-Prey Systems With Dispersion.
    Abdul-Aziz Yakubu*, Howard University
    (928-34-34)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Deterministic and stochastic SIS and SIR models in discrete time.
    Linda J. S. Allen*, Texas Tech University
    (928-39-160)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Global qualitative analysis of Gause-type ratio-dependent predator-prey system.
    Yang Kuang*, Arizona State University
    (928-34-154)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Global and Local Behavioir of Solutions of Royama's Logistic Model.
    Vlajko L Kocic*, Xavier University of Louisiana
    (928-39-123)
• Saturday November 8, 1997, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Diophantine Geometry, II
  Apache Room, Albuquerque Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Alexandru Buium, University of New Mexico buium@math.unm.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Rational points on algebraic curves that change genus.
    Sangtae Jeong*, The University of Texas at Austin, TX
    (928-11-32)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Rational points and curves on certain K3 surfaces.
    Arthur Baragar*, UNLV
    (928-14-40)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Purely Inseparable Points on Higher Genus Curves.
    Minhyong Kim*, University of Arizona
    (928-11-78)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Differential algebraic groups.
    Phyllis J Cassidy*, Smith College, Northampton MA 01063
    (928-14-92)
• Saturday November 8, 1997, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometry and Analysis of Foliations, II
  Jemez Room, Albuquerque Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Efton L. Park, Texas Christian University epark@gamma.is.tcu.edu
  Kenneth S. Richardson, Texas Christian University k.richardson@tcu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    An extension of Pestov's identity to the frame bundle.
    Maung Min-oo*,
    (928-53-13)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    Quasigeodesic Flows on Hyperbolic 3-Manifolds Which Fiber Over the Circle
    Diane Hoffoss*, UC Santa Barbara
    (928-57-21)
  • 4:20 p.m.
    Entropy Rigidity for Foliations.
    Christopher G. Connell*, University of Michigan
    Jeffrey R. Boland, University of Michigan
    (928-53-36)
• Saturday November 8, 1997, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Analysis, II
  Acoma Room, Albuquerque Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Jay B. Epperson, University of New Mexico jeppers@math.unm.edu
  Christina Pereya, University of New Mexico crisp@math.unm.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Hardy spaces and Time-frequency analysis for Canonical Bilinear operators.
    Andrea Nahmod, Institute for Advanced Study
    John E. Gilbert*, The University of Texas at Austin
    (928-42-128)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Boundedness results for bilinear operators with non-smooth symbols.
    Andrea Nahmod*, Institute for Advanced Study
    John E. Gilbert, The University of Texas at Austin
    (928-42-127)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Pointwise convergence of Fourier-Bessel series with general boundary conditions.
    Mark A. Pinsky*, Northwestern University
    (928-42-137)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Geometric asymptotics and analysis on Lie groups
    William Beckner*, University of Texas at Austin
    (928-58-23)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Six sided slf crossing figures problem.
    Nets H Katz*, University of Edinburgh
    (928-28-81)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    A Selberg integral formula and an application to trilinear fractional integral inequalities .
    Loukas Grafakos*, Associate Professor
    Carlo Morpurgo, Assistant Professor
    (928-42-139)
• Saturday November 8, 1997, 3:00 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
  Special Session on Localization and Other Multiple Scattering Phenomena of Classical Waves, II
  Santo Domingo Room, Albuquerque Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Alexander Figotin, University of North Carolina at Charlotte figotin@uncc.edu
  Abel Klein, University of California, Irvine aklein@math.uci.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Spectral properties of classical waves in high contrast periodic media.
    Alexander Figotin*, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
    Peter Kuchment, Wichita State University
    (928-78-110)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Spectral Properties of High Contrast Band-Gap Materials and Operators on Graphs.
    Peter Kuchment*, Wichita State University
    Leonid Kunyansky, Wichita State University
    (928-35-64)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Localization of elastic and other classical waves.
    Andrew J. Koines*, University of California, Irvine
    Abel Klein, University of California, Irvine
    (928-35-130)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    $2D$ Tunable Photonic Crystals.
    Yuri A. Godin*, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
    (928-78-56)
• Saturday November 8, 1997, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Quaternions in Global Riemannian and Algebraic Geometry, II
  Zuni Room, Albuquerque Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Charles P. Boyer, University of New Mexico cboyer@math.unm.edu
  Galicki Krzysztof, University of New Mexico galicki@math.unm.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Hypercomplex structures from 3-Sasakian structures.
    Charles P Boyer, University of New Mexico
    Krzysztof Galicki*, University of New Mexico and MPI-Bonn
    Benjamin M Mann, University of New Mexico
    (928-53-57)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Deformations of Hypercomplex and 3-Sasakian Structures.
    Yat Sun Poon*, Department of Mathematics, University of California at Riverside
    (928-53-124)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Rozansky-Witten Invariants and Atiyah classes.
    Mikhail M Kapranov*, Northwestern University
    (928-32-121)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    "The homotopy type and deloopings of quaternionic algebraic cycles.".
    Blaine Lawson, Jr., SUNY @ Stony Brook
    Paulo Lima-Filho*, Texas A&M University
    Marie-Louise Michelsohn, SUNY @ Stony Brook
    (928-14-131)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    3D Principal fibrations over almost quaternionic manifolds.
    Gerardo Hernandez*, Centro de Investigacion y Estudios Avanzados
    (928-53-143)
• Saturday November 8, 1997, 3:00 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
  Session on Contributed Papers
  Navajo Room, Albuquerque Convention Center
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    A Study of Groups in a Partially Ordered Linear Algebra.
    Donald E Beken*, University of North Carolina at Pembroke
    Ralph E DeMarr, University of New Mexico
    (928-06-37)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Decompositions in quantum logic.
    John R Harding*, New Mexico State University
    (928-06-71)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Renewal processes with long-tailed interrenewal times and long-tailed rewards.
    Joshua Levy*, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
    (928-60-107)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Quaternions in Quantum Theory.
    Charles P. Luehr*, NMERI--The University of New Mexico
    (928-81-41)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Graphs with Degree Sets of Maximal Cardinality.
    Diane M. Spresser*, James Madison University
    (928-05-75)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On a Series
    Florentin Smarandache*, Pima Community Collge
    (928-40-01)

Sunday November 9, 1997

• Sunday November 9, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
  Meeting Registration
• Sunday November 9, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Commutative Algebra, III
  Laguna Room, Albuquerque Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Scott Thomas Chapman, Trinity University schapman@trinity.edu
  Alan Loper, Ohio State University, Newark lopera@math.ohio-state.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Trace properties and pullbacks.
    Salah-Eddine Kabbaj, Universit\`e de F\`es
    Thomas G Lucas*, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
    Abdeslam Mimouni, Universit\`e de F\`es
    (928-13-33)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    The Dilworth number of group rings over Artin local rings.
    James S. Okon, California State University, San Bernardino
    J. Paul Vicknair*, California State Univeristy, San Bernardino
    (928-13-54)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    $m$-Canonical Ideals in Integral Domains, II.
    Marco Fontana, Universit\`{a} degli Studi Roma Tre
    Evan Houston*, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
    Ira Papick, University of Missouri
    (928-13-69)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Elasticity of A+XB[X] domains.
    Nathalie Gonzalez*, Faculte des Sciences Saint-Jerome
    (928-13-44)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On the Krull dimension of integer-valued polynomial ring over a subset.
    Marco Fontana, Dipartimento di Matematica, Terza Universit\`a di Roma
    Lahoucine Izelgue, D\'epartement de Math\'ematiques, Universit\'e de Marrakech
    Salah Kabbaj, D\'epartement de Math\'ematiques, Universit\'e de F\`es
    Francesca Tartarone*, Dottorato di Matematica, Universit\`a La Sapienza, Roma, Italy
    (928-13-94)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Polynomial Rings Over Coherent Rings.
    SARAH GLAZ*, The University of Connecticut
    (928-13-126)
• Sunday November 9, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Analysis, III
  Acoma Room, Albuquerque Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Jay B. Epperson, University of New Mexico jeppers@math.unm.edu
  Christina Pereya, University of New Mexico crisp@math.unm.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Sampling of distributions and error analysis.
    Rodolfo H Torres*, University of Kansas
    (928-42-95)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Paraproducts from the Martingale and Wavelet Point of View.
    James E Daly, University of Colorado
    Keith L Phillips*, University of Colorado
    (928-43-101)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Discrete quadratic estimates and holomorphic functional calculi of operators in Banach space.
    Edwin Franks, Macquarie University
    Alan McIntosh*, Macquarie University
    (928-47-60)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Spectra of pseudo-differential operators in the Hormander class.
    Josefina Alvarez*, New Mexico State University
    (928-42-50)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Continuity of Pseudo-differential Operators with Generalized Homogeneity .
    David B Emery*, New Mexico State University
    (928-43-49)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    {\LARGE Weak Type Estimates for Certain Calder\'on-Zygmund Singular Integral Operators}.
    Atanas G. Stefanov*, University of Missouri-Columbia
    (928-42-45)
• Sunday November 9, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
• Sunday November 9, 1997, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Difference and Differential Equations
  Tesuque Room, Albuquerque Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Saber N. Elaydi, Trinity University selaydi@trinity.edu
  Robert J. Sacker, University of Southern California rsacker@mtha.usc.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    A new robustness theorem for the existence of dichotomies.
    George Sell*, University of Minnesota
    (928-34-156)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On difference and differential equations involved with Stokes phenomena.
    Donald A Lutz*, SAN Diego State University
    (928-34-61)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Quadratic Functionals on Time Scales.
    Martin J Bohner*, San Diego State University
    (928-39-74)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Collapsible Backward Continuation and Oscillation in a Functional Differential Equation.
    Kenneth L. Cooke*, Pomona College
    Luiz A.V. Carvalho, Universidade de Sao Paulo
    (928-34-77)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The Gevrey properties of solutions of a singularly perturbed ordinary differential equations.
    Yasukata Sibuya*, University of Minnesota
    (928-34-119)
• Sunday November 9, 1997, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on (Multi) Wavelets and Numerical PDEs, II
  Navajo Room, Albuquerque Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Peter R. Massopust, Sandia National Laboratories prmasso@cs.sandia.gov
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    An adaptive Wavelet ADI methods for two dimensional flame propagation.
    Wei Cai*, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
    (928-65-134)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Multiple Refinable Function Interpolation and Approximate Solutions of Elliptic PDE.
    E. B. Lin*, University of Toledo
    (928-35-91)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Extensions and Applications of Positive Wavelet Expansions .
    David K Ruch*, Sam Houston State University
    Patrick Van Fleet, Sam Houston State University
    (928-42-141)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A Fast Transform for Spherical Harmonics
    Martin J Mohlenkamp*, Yale University
    (928-65-16)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Multiwavelet Prefilters: Orthogonal prefilters preserving approximation order $p\leq 3$.
    Douglas P Hardin, Vanderbilt University
    David W Roach*, Sandia National Laboratories
    (928-41-152)
• Sunday November 9, 1997, 8:30 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Localization and Other Multiple Scattering Phenomena of Classical Waves, III
  Santo Domingo Room, Albuquerque Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Alexander Figotin, University of North Carolina at Charlotte figotin@uncc.edu
  Abel Klein, University of California, Irvine aklein@math.uci.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Localization bounds and the Integral Quantum Hall Effect.
    Michael Aizenman*, Princeton University
    (928-47-151)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Anderson Localization for Random Schr\"odinger Operators with Long Range Interactions.
    Werner Kirsch, Ruhr-University, Bochum, Germany
    Peter Stollmann, Frankfurt University, Germany
    G\"unter Stolz*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
    (928-81-93)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Ultracontractivity and cluster expansions.
    William G. Faris*, University of Arizona
    (928-82-82)
• Sunday November 9, 1997, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Quaternions in Global Riemannian and Algebraic Geometry, III
  Zuni Room, Albuquerque Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Charles P. Boyer, University of New Mexico cboyer@math.unm.edu
  Galicki Krzysztof, University of New Mexico galicki@math.unm.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Self-Duality and Scalar Curvature.
    Claude LeBrun*, State University of New York
    (928-53-162)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Legendre imbeddings of the Calabi (Veronese) submanifolds in ${\Bbb C}P^{2n+1}$
    David E. Blair*, Michigan State University
    Belgin Korkmaz, Middle East Tech Univ
    (928-53-31)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Normal Almost Contact $3$-structures.
    Walter Allan Kehowski*, University of New Mexico
    (928-53-100)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Hyperkaehler Manifolds and Boothby-Wang Fibrations.
    Brendan J Foreman*, Case Western Reserve University
    (928-53-144)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Sharp Bounds for Eigenvalues and Multiplicities on Surfaces of Revolution
    Martin F Engman*, UNM
    (928-58-17)
• Sunday November 9, 1997, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Diophantine Geometry, III
  Apache Room, Albuquerque Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Alexandru Buium, University of New Mexico buium@math.unm.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    On a Conjecture of B. Gross.
    John Tate*, The University of Texas at Austin
    (928-11-122)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Lifting forms with singularities (after Borcherds).
    Fernando Rodriguez-Villegas*, University of Texas at Austin
    (928-11-58)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Diophantine Approximation on Higher Dimensional Varieties.
    Michael J Nakamaye*, Harvard University
    (928-11-72)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Transcendence results by automata techniques.
    Dinesh S. Thakur*, University of Arizona
    (928-11-84)
• Sunday November 9, 1997, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometry and Analysis of Foliations, III
  Jemez Room, Albuquerque Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Efton L. Park, Texas Christian University epark@gamma.is.tcu.edu
  Kenneth S. Richardson, Texas Christian University k.richardson@tcu.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Infinite dimensional symmetric spaces and the Novikov conjecture
    Guoliang Yu*, University of Colorado
    (928-19-19)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Transverse groupoids and transverse foliations.
    Jerome Kaminker*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN, 46202
    (928-58-66)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Heat Kernel Asymptotics on Foliations
    Ken Richardson*, Texas Christian University
    (928-58-15)
• Sunday November 9, 1997, 11:15 a.m.-12:05 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Quaternionic Geometry and Einstein Manifolds.
  Taos Room, Albuquerque Convention Center
  Charles P Boyer*, University of New Mexico
  (928-53-149)
• Sunday November 9, 1997, 2:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Computational Mathematics, III
  Isleta Room, Albuquerque Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Richard C. Allen, Jr., Sandia National Laboratories rcallen@cs.sandia.gov
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Optimization using surrogate objectives - A sabbatical in Industry.
    John E. Dennis, Jr.*, Rice University
    (928-90-148)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    On the Convergence of Evolutionary Pattern Search Algorithms.
    William E Hart*, Sandia National Labs
    (928-90-111)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    A Hybrid Newton-PDS Method for Parallel Optimization.
    Patricia D Hough*, Sandia National Labs
    Juan C Meza, Sandia National Labs
    (928-90-109)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Molecular Energy Minimization in Parallel Using Constraints.
    Todd D Plantenga*, Sandia National Laboratories
    (928-15-68)
• Sunday November 9, 1997, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Difference and Differential Equations, IV
  Tesuque Room, Albuquerque Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Saber N. Elaydi, Trinity University selaydi@trinity.edu
  Robert J. Sacker, University of Southern California rsacker@mtha.usc.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Modelling the growth of individual organisms: A dynamic energy budget approach.
    Konstadia Lika*, Univ of Calif, Santa Barbara
    (928-34-161)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Parameter estimation in nonlinear evolution equations.
    Azmy Ackleh*, Southwestern Louisiana University
    (928-34-155)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Periodic Solutions of 2-dim Forced Systems: the Massera Theorem and its Extension.
    Paresh Murthy*, Mount Saint Mary's College, Los Angeles, CA 90049
    (928-34-138)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Discrete dynamical systems as stroboscopic snapshots of PDEs.
    Shandelle M. Henson*, University of Arizona
    (928-39-158)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On Development of Global Bifurcation Theory in Polynomial Dynamical Systems.
    Valery A. Gaiko*, Belarus State University of Informatics & Radioelectronics
    (928-34-80)
• Sunday November 9, 1997, 2:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometry and Analysis of Foliations, IV
  Jemez Room, Albuquerque Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Efton L. Park, Texas Christian University epark@gamma.is.tcu.edu
  Kenneth S. Richardson, Texas Christian University k.richardson@tcu.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Transversal index theory for Riemannian foliations.
    James F. Glazebrook, Eastern Illinois University and
    James L. Heitsch, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Steven E. Hurder, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Franz W. Kamber*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (928-58-53)
  • 2:40 p.m.
    The index of operators on foliated bundles.
    Victor Nistor*, Penn State University
    (928-58-103)
  • 3:20 p.m.
    Spectrum of Foliation Geometric Operators and Leaf Dynamics.
    Steven E Hurder*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (928-58-142)
• Sunday November 9, 1997, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Analysis, IV
  Acoma Room, Albuquerque Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Jay B. Epperson, University of New Mexico jeppers@math.unm.edu
  Christina Pereya, University of New Mexico crisp@math.unm.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Existence and Uniqueness of Solutions for a modified Navier-Stokes equation on ${\Bbb R}^2$
    Suzanne Tourville*,
    (928-35-14)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Parabolic PDE's in non-cylindrical domains.
    Steve C Hofmann*, University of Missouri at Columbia
    (928-42-135)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Criteria of solvability for multidimensional Riccati's equations.
    Kurt Hansson, University of Link\"oping
    Vladimir Maz'ya, University of Link\"oping
    Igor Verbitsky*, University of Missouri
    (928-35-79)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Poisson's equation and boundary layers on Sobolev-Besov spaces.
    Eugen Fabes, University of Minnesota
    Osvaldo Mendez, University of Missouri
    Marius Mitrea*, University of Missouri
    (928-42-83)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Discussion
• Sunday November 9, 1997, 2:00 p.m.-4:55 p.m.
  Special Session on Localization and Other Multiple Scattering Phenomena of Classical Waves, IV
  Santo Domingo Room, Albuquerque Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Alexander Figotin, University of North Carolina at Charlotte figotin@uncc.edu
  Abel Klein, University of California, Irvine aklein@math.uci.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Impurity Localized Polaritons.
    Lev I Deych, Queens College of City University of New York
    Victor S Podolsky, Queens College of City University of New York
    Alexander A Lisyansky*, Queens College of City University of New York
    (928-78-70)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Frequency Band Gap Structures, Localization and Defects in 2-D Periodic Elastic Waves.
    Brian DeFacio*, Missouri University
    Sankar Chakraborty, Missouri University
    (928-78-112)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Exact solutions for the dispersion relation in a wide class of periodic media with complex moduli.
    Graeme W Milton*, The University of Utah
    (928-78-133)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Finite Frequency Kramers-Kronig Relations: Bounds on the dispersion.
    David J Eyre*, University of Utah
    Graeme W Milton, University of Utah
    Joseph V Mantese, General Motors Corp.
    (928-78-129)

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