AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:49

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

Saturday April 25, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Analysis, I
Room 6, Wellman Hall
Organizers:
John K. Hunter, University of California, Davis hunter@math.ucdavis.edu
Blake Temple, University of California, Davis temple@itd.ucdavis.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Shock-Waves, Black Holes and Cosmology.
  Blake Temple*, University of California, Davis
  (934-83-159)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The Gap Lemma and Geometric Criteria for the Instability of Viscous Shock Profiles.
  Robert A. Gardner*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  Kevin A. Zumbrun, Indiana University
  (934-35-158)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Riemann Problems for Multidimensional Conservation Laws .
  Suncica Canic, Iowa State University
  Barbara Lee Keyfitz*, University of Houston
  (934-35-07)

Saturday April 25, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Analysis, II
Room 26, Wellman Hall
Organizers:
John K. Hunter, University of California, Davis hunter@math.ucdavis.edu
Blake Temple, University of California, Davis temple@itd.ucdavis.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Description of singularities via the Fuchsian algorithm.
  Satyanad Kichenassamy*, Max-Planck-Institut, Leipzig
  (934-35-13)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Discussion
- 9:30 a.m.
  Navier and Stokes Meet the Wavelet.
  Paul Federbush*, University of Michigan
  (934-76-157)
- 10:00 a.m.
  An a priori bound for co-dimension one isometric embeddings.
  Yanyan Li, Rutgers University
  Gilbert Weinstein*, UAB
  (934-58-29)
- 10:30 a.m.
  On the Nature of the Generic Cosmological Singularity.
  Beverly K Berger*, Oakland University
  (934-83-15)

Saturday April 25, 1998, 3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Analysis, III
Room 6, Wellman Hall
Organizers:
John K. Hunter, University of California, Davis hunter@math.ucdavis.edu
Blake Temple, University of California, Davis temple@itd.ucdavis.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  The Wulff shape as the Asymptotic Limit of a Growing Crystallin Interface.
  Stanley Joel Osher*, Mathematics Department, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1555
  Barry Lynn Merriman, Mathematics Department, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1555
  (934-73-21)
- 3:40 p.m.
  On the hyperbolic Approximations To First Order Partial Differential Equations.
  Zhouping Xin*, Courant Institute, New York University
  (934-35-155)
- 4:10 p.m.
  An algorithm for the computation of shear bands in granular materials.
  Xabier Garaizar*, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  John Trangenstein, Duke University
  (934-39-28)
- 4:40 p.m.
  Renormalization of the Chapman Enskog expansion.
  Marshall Slemrod*, Center for Math. Sci., UW Madison
  (934-76-14)

Saturday April 25, 1998, 3:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Analysis, IV
Room 26, Wellman Hall
Organizers:
John K. Hunter, University of California, Davis hunter@math.ucdavis.edu
Blake Temple, University of California, Davis temple@itd.ucdavis.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  The Alexandrov-Bakelman-Pucci Inequality.
  Joseph G Conlon*, U. of Michigan
  Renming Song, U. of Illinois
  (934-35-18)
- 3:40 p.m.
  Singularly Perturbed Hodgkin Huxley Systems.
  William E Fitzgibbon*, University of Houston
  Mary E Parrott, University of South Florida
  You Youcheng, University of South Florida
  (934-35-08)
- 4:10 p.m.
  Degenerate Systems of Conservation Laws.
  Robin C Young*, U. Mass.
  (934-35-27)
- 4:40 p.m.
  On the Full Toda Flows.
  Anthony M Bloch*, University of Michigan
  Peter E Crouch, Arizona State University
  Michael W Gekhtman, William and Mary College
  (934-70-31)
- 5:10 p.m.
  Bounds for heat transport in a porous layer.
  Charles R. Doering*, University of Michigan
  (934-76-12)

Sunday April 26, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Analysis, V
Room 6, Wellman Hall
Organizers:
John K. Hunter, University of California, Davis hunter@math.ucdavis.edu
Blake Temple, University of California, Davis temple@itd.ucdavis.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  The zero-Mach limit of compressible Navier-Stokes flows.
  David C Hoff*, Indiana University
  (934-76-83)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Particle-Like Solutions of the Einstein-Dirac Equations .
  Felix Finster*, Harvard University
  Joel Smoller, University of Michigan
  Shing-Tung Yau, Harvard University
  (934-83-36)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Solutions of the Einstein Yang Mills equations.
  Arthur G Wasserman*, U. of Michigan
  (934-83-84)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Fluid flows in nonsmooth domains.
  Michael E. Taylor*, Univ. of North Carolina
  (934-35-20)

Sunday April 26, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Analysis, VI
Room 26, Wellman Hall
Organizers:
John K. Hunter, University of California, Davis hunter@math.ucdavis.edu
Blake Temple, University of California, Davis temple@itd.ucdavis.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Bubbly Flows, Globally Coupled Oscillators, and Landau Damping.
  Peter Smereka*, University of Michigan
  (934-70-16)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Time-Independent Bounds on Spherically Symmetric Solutions of the Relativistic Euler equations on Non-Flat Spacetimes.
  Jeffrey M Groah*, La Sierra University
  (934-35-154)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Beyond Painlev\'e Equations: Darboux-Halphen Systems.
  Mark J. Ablowitz, University of Colorado
  Sarbarish Chakravarty, University of New South Wales
  Rodney G. Halburd*, University of Colorado
  (934-34-120)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The Onset of Chaos in Vortex Sheet Roll-Up.
  Robert Krasny*, University of Michigan
  Monika Nitsche, Tufts University
  (934-76-30)

Sunday April 26, 1998, 3:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Analysis, VII
Room 6, Wellman Hall
Organizers:
John K. Hunter, University of California, Davis hunter@math.ucdavis.edu
Blake Temple, University of California, Davis temple@itd.ucdavis.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Some bifurcation problems of Rayleigh-Benard heat convection.
  Takaaki Nishida*, Department of Mathematics, Kyoto University
  Hideaki Yoshihara, Department of Mathematics, Kyoto University
  (934-35-71)
- 3:40 p.m.
  Global Entropy Solutions for Exothermically Reacting Euler Equations .
  David H. Wagner*, University of Houston
  Gui-Qiang Chen, Northwestern University
  (934-35-40)
- 4:10 p.m.
  Solutions of Spherically Symmetric Einstein Yang Mills Equations with Cosmological Constant.
  Alexander N Linden*, University of Michigan
  (934-83-113)

Sunday April 26, 1998, 3:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Analysis, VIII
Room 26, Wellman Hall
Organizers:
John K. Hunter, University of California, Davis hunter@math.ucdavis.edu
Blake Temple, University of California, Davis temple@itd.ucdavis.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  The Basic Attractor of Jet Engine Flow.
  Bjorn Birnir*, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara.
  Hoskuldur Ari Hauksson, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara.
  (934-35-19)
- 3:40 p.m.
  Euler-Poisson-Darboux Equations and Nonlinear Conservation Laws.
  Gui-Qiang Chen*, Northwestern University
  (934-35-156)

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