AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:42

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

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, 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)

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, 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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