AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Day
Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:58
1999 Spring Western Section Meeting
Las Vegas, NV, April 10-11, 1999
Meeting #942
Associate secretaries: Bernard Russo, AMS brusso@math.uci.edu
Saturday April 10, 1999
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Saturday April 10, 1999, 7:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Meeting Registration
108 Lobby Area, Classroom Building Complex A -
Saturday April 10, 1999, 7:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Exhibit and Book Sale
108 Lobby Area, Classroom Building Complex A -
Saturday April 10, 1999, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Graph Theory
Room 213, Classroom Building Complex C
Organizers:
Hung-Lin Fu, National Chiao-Tung University-Taiwan hlfu@math.nctu.edu.tw
Chris A. Rodger, Auburn University rodgec1@mail.auburn.edu
Michelle Schultz, University of Nevada, Las Vegas schultzm@nevada.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Irreducible snarks.
Martin Skoviera*, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
(942-05-141) -
8:30 a.m.
Equitable Coloring of Disconnected Graphs.
Bor-Liang Chen*, National Taichung Institute of Commerce
Chih-Hung Yen, Tunghai University
(942-05-152) -
9:00 a.m.
A Coloring Problem.
Hong-Jian Lai*, Department of Mathematics West Virginia University
(942-05-30) -
9:30 a.m.
Chromatic Index of Graphs.
S. Louis Hakimi*, University of California, Davis
(942-05-94) -
10:00 a.m.
Multi list colorings of the two-clique graph: an efficient algorithm.
Dean G. Hoffman*, Auburn University
(942-05-125) -
10:30 a.m.
Diophantine approximations and regular coloring of distance graphs.
Xuding Zhu*, National Sun Yat-sen University
(942-05-131)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday April 10, 1999, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Group Theory
Room 212, Classroom Building Complex C
Organizers:
Eric M. Freden, Southern Utah University freden@suu.edu
Eric Lewis Swenson, Brigham Young University eric@math.byu.edu
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8:00 a.m.
On Higman type embeddings of groups.
Mark V Sapir*, Vanderbilt University
(942-20-241) -
8:30 a.m.
The Uniform Membership Problem for the Modular Group is Solvable in Polynomial Time .
Paul E. Schupp*, University of Illinois
Yuri Gurevich, Microsoft Corporation
(942-20-229) -
9:00 a.m.
Orbits under the action of $Aut(F_n)$.
Vladimir Shpilrain*, The City College of New York
Alexei G. Myasnikov, The City College of New York
(942-20-22) -
9:30 a.m.
Rational homology of automorphism groups of free groups .
Karen L Vogtmann*, Cornell University
(942-20-216) -
10:00 a.m.
Intersection number operators and Chebyshev polynomials.
Stephen P. Humphries*, Brigham Young University
(942-57-191) -
10:30 a.m.
Homotopy Theory in low-dimensional spaces .
Gregory R Conner*, Brigham Young University
James W Cannon, Brigham Young University
Jack W Lamoreaux, Brigham Young University
(942-55-54)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday April 10, 1999, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Invariants, Distributions, Differential Operators and Harmonic Analysis
Room 217, Classroom Building Complex C
Organizers:
Ronald L. Lipsman, University of Maryland, College Park rll@math.umd.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Rationality of Generalized Binomial Coefficients.
Chal Benson*, University of Missouri - St. Louis
Gail Ratcliff, University of Missouri - St. Louis
(942-22-110) -
8:30 a.m.
Orbital convolutions and character formulae .
Anthony H Dooley*, University of New South Wales
(942-22-09) -
9:00 a.m.
Gelfand Pairs for Nilpotent Lie Groups.
Joe W Jenkins*, National Science Foundation
(942-22-180) -
9:30 a.m.
An Invariant Symmetric Non--Selfadjoint Differential Operator.
Erik G.F. Thomas*, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
(942-22-33) -
10:00 a.m.
The Gelfand Space for free two-step nilpotent groups.
Gail Ratcliff*, University of Missouri - St. Louis
Chal Benson, University of Missouri - St. Louis
(942-22-243) -
10:30 a.m.
Projective limit representations of direct limit Lie groups.
R. Michael Howe*, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
(942-22-45)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday April 10, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Control and Dynamics of Partial Differential Equations
Room 221, Classroom Building Complex C
Organizers:
Zhonghai Ding, University of Nevada-Las Vegas dingz@nevada.edu
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9:00 a.m.
Uniform stability of full von Karman models describing nonlinear elasticity with thermoelastic effects.
Irena Lasiecka*, University of Virginia
(942-93-26) -
9:30 a.m.
An example of a globally controllable semilinear heat equation with superlinear term.
Alexander Y Khapalov*, Washington State University
(942-93-32) -
10:00 a.m.
Chaotic Vibration of the Wave Equation by Nonlinear Feedback Boundary Control .
Goong Chen*, Texas A&M University
(942-93-37) -
10:30 a.m.
Measure Solutions for Semilinear and Quasilinear Evolution Equations and Their Optimal Control.
Nasir U Ahmed*, University of Ottawa
(942-93-49)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday April 10, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear PDEs - Methods and Applications
Room 222, Classroom Building Complex C
Organizers:
David Costa, University of Nevada-Las Vegas costa@nevada.edu
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9:00 a.m.
On Quasi-linear PDEs Involving the Critical Sobolev and Hardy Exponents .
Nassif Ghoussoub*, University of British Columbia
C. Yuan, University of British Columbia
(942-35-86) -
9:40 a.m.
Sign-changing solutions to singular second-order boundary value problems.
P.J. McKenna*, University of Connecticut
W. Reichel, Universit\"at Basel
(942-35-190) -
10:20 a.m.
On quasilinear elliptic problems.
Klaus Schmitt*, Univ. of Utah
Vy K Le, Univ. Missouri-Rolla
(942-35-215)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday April 10, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Set Theory
Room 210, Classroom Building Complex C
Organizers:
Douglas Burke, University Nevada-Las Vegas dburke@nevada.edu
Derrick DuBose, University Nevada-Las Vegas dubose@nevada.edu
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9:00 a.m.
A property of Reznichenko and additivity of the meager ideal.
Marion Scheepers*, Boise State University
Ljubisha Kocinac, University of Nis
(942-04-130) -
9:30 a.m.
Ramsey Games and Sequoias.
Carl Darby*, UNLV
(942-04-227) -
10:00 a.m.
The Yellow Cake.
Andrzej Roslanowski*, Boise State University
Saharon Shelah, Hebrew University
(942-03-173) -
10:30 a.m.
Cardinal invariants and ideals.
Tomek Bartoszynski*, Boise State University
(942-04-231)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday April 10, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Number Theory
Room 215, Classroom Building Complex C
Organizers:
Gennady Bachman, University of Nevada, Las Vegas bachman@nevada.edu
Richard A. Mollin, University of Calgary ramollin@math.ucalgary.ca
Peter J. Shiue, University of Nevada, Las Vegas shiue@nevada.edu
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9:00 a.m.
Winners and Losers in the Shanks-Renyi Race Game.
Andrey Feuerverger, University of Toronto
Greg Martin*, University of Toronto
(942-11-223) -
9:30 a.m.
Evaluation of central binomial series.
Jonathan M Borwein*, Simon Fraser University
David Broadhurst, Open University, UK
(942-11-80) -
10:00 a.m.
Continuous analogues of the counting function of $y$-smooth numbers.
Harold G. Diamond*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ferrell S. Wheeler, Center for Computational Sciences
(942-11-156) -
10:30 a.m.
On a problem of Turan.
Michael A Filaseta*, University of South Carolina
(942-12-200)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday April 10, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Combinatorial Theory
Room 214, Classroom Building Complex C
Organizers:
Kequan Ding, University of Illinois, Urbana k-ding@math.uiuc.edu
Peter Shiue, University of Nevada, Las Vegas shiue@nevada.edu
Yeong-Nan Yeh, Academia Sinica mayeh@ccvax.sinica.edu.tw
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9:00 a.m.
$f$-vectors of Cutsets in the Truncated Boolean Lattice.
Shahriar Shahriari*, Pomona College
(942-05-228) -
9:30 a.m.
A Uniform Approach to Problems on Intersecting Families of a Finite Set.
Hunter S. Snevily*, University of Idaho
(942-05-128) -
10:00 a.m.
Asymptotic and Sharp Bounds for Graphical Ramsey Numbers.
Cecil C. Rousseau*, The University of Memphis
(942-05-182) -
10:30 a.m.
Monochromatic arithmetic forests.
Tom C Brown*, Simon Fraser University
(942-05-55)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday April 10, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-11:05 a.m.
Special Session on Analysis and Geometry
Room 218, Classroom Building Complex C
Organizers:
Peter Li, University of California, Irvine pli@math.uci.edu
Song-Ying Li, University of California, Irvine sli@math.uci.edu
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9:00 a.m.
Invariant metric estimates for the Cauchy-Riemann equations on some pseudoconvex domains.
Jeffery D McNeal*, Ohio State University
(942-32-219) -
9:25 a.m.
Recent progress on the Kakeya conjecture.
Terence C Tao*, UCLA
Nets H Katz, University of Illinois at Chicago
Izabella Laba, Princeton University
(942-42-53) -
9:55 a.m.
Concerning the solution of the Levi problem by d-bar methods.
Emil J. Straube*, Texas A&M University
(942-32-169) -
10:20 a.m.
Base change in moment problems.
Florian-Horian Vasilescu, UNiversite de Lille
Mihai Putinar*, University of California
(942-41-38) -
10:45 a.m.
Uniquely factorizable of certain classes of functions.
Chung-chun Yang*, Hong Kong Univ. of Science \& Technology
(942-30-139)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday April 10, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Diophantine Problems
Room 216, Classroom Building Complex C
Organizers:
Arthur Baragar, University of Nevada, Las Vegas baragar@nevada.edu
Michael Bennett, University of Illinois mabennet@math.uiuc.edu
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9:00 a.m.
Old and new results on Diophantine equations of the form $aX^4-bY^2= \pm 1$.
Michael A. Bennett, University of Illinois, Urbana
Gary Walsh*, University of Ottawa
(942-11-05) -
9:30 a.m.
Some recent results on the modularity of two-dimensional $p$-adic Galois representations.
Chris Skinner*, IAS
(942-11-210) -
10:00 a.m.
the regularity theorem and conductor-discriminant inequalities.
Minhyong Kim*, University of Arizona
(942-11-203) -
10:30 a.m.
Arithmetic of Fermat curves .
Pavlos Tzermias*, University of Arizona
(942-11-194)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday April 10, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Symmetries of Knots and Three-manifolds
Room 219, Classroom Building Complex C
Organizers:
Swatee Naik, University of Nevada, Reno naik@unr.edu
Jozef H. Przytycki, George Washington University przytyck@math.gwu.edu
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9:00 a.m.
Intrinsically Asymmetric 2-colorings of Graphs in $S^{3}$.
Erica Flapan*, Pomona College
David L. Li, Pomona College
(942-57-150) -
9:30 a.m.
Symmetries of 2-strand string links up to concordance.
Theodore B Stanford*, United States Naval Academy
(942-57-184) -
10:00 a.m.
Alexander polynomials of equivariant slice knots.
James F. Davis*, Indiana University
Swatee Naik, University of Nevada, Reno
(942-57-27) -
10:30 a.m.
Quantum Invariants of periodic three-manifolds.
Patrick M Gilmer*, Louisiana State University
(942-00-104)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday April 10, 1999, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Numerical Analysis and Computational Mathematics
Room 223, Classroom Building Complex C
Organizers:
Jun Zhang, University of Kentucky jzhang@cs.uky.edu
Jennifer Zhao, University of Michigan, Dearborn xich@umich.edu
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9:30 a.m.
Finite Element Domain Decomposition Methods for A Fluid--Solid Interaction Problem in the Frequency Domain.
Xiaobing Feng*, The University of Tennessee
(942-65-183) -
10:00 a.m.
Multiscale simulation of a granular medium using multi-grid methods.
Richard B Clelland*, University of Colorado, Boulder
(942-65-77) -
10:30 a.m.
A Finite Difference Scheme for Solving Heat Transport Equation in Microscale.
Weizhong Dai*, Louisiana Tech University
(942-65-253)
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9:30 a.m.
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Saturday April 10, 1999, 11:10 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Invited Address
Large cardinals, determinacy, and inner models.
Auditorium A-108, Classroom Building Complex A
John Steel*, University of California, Berkeley
(942-04-254) -
Saturday April 10, 1999, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
Invited Address
Representation theory and four-dimensional conformal field theory.
Auditorium A-108, Classroom Building Complex A
Igor Frenkel*, Yale University
(942-17-251) -
Saturday April 10, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Control and Dynamics of Partial Differential Equations
Room 221, Classroom Building Complex C
Organizers:
Zhonghai Ding, University of Nevada-Las Vegas dingz@nevada.edu
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3:00 p.m.
Formation of a Nonlinear Elastic Plate.
David Russell*, Virginia Tech
(942-93-192) -
3:30 p.m.
Global Uniqueness Theorems for Boundary Control.
Walter Littman*, University of Minnesota
(942-93-146) -
4:00 p.m.
Continuous observability inequalities for hyperbolic and Schrodinger equations with variable coefficients .
Roberto Triggiani*, University of Virginia
(942-93-181) -
4:30 p.m.
Convergence and Morse Index Results on a Minimax Method for Finding Critical Points.
Jianxin Zhou*, Texas A&M University
Yongxin Li, Texas A&M University
(942-41-71) -
5:00 p.m.
Ergodic Control of Turbulence.
Sivaguru S Sritharan*, US Navy
P Sundar, Louisiana State University
(942-93-233)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday April 10, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Graph Theory
Room 213, Classroom Building Complex C
Organizers:
Hung-Lin Fu, National Chiao-Tung University-Taiwan hlfu@math.nctu.edu.tw
Chris A. Rodger, Auburn University rodgec1@mail.auburn.edu
Michelle Schultz, University of Nevada, Las Vegas schultzm@nevada.edu
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3:00 p.m.
Symbolic dynamics and the spectra of nonnegative integer matrices.
Nicholas S. Ormes*, University of Texas, Austin
Ki H. Kim, Alabama State University
Fred W. Roush, Alabama State University
(942-05-73) -
3:30 p.m.
Graph Connectivity After Path Removal.
Guantao Chen, Georgia State University
Ronald J. Gould*, Emory University
Xingxing Yu, Georgia Tech
(942-05-59) -
4:00 p.m.
Graphs of diameter two and collapsible graphs.
Zhi-Hong Chen*, Dept of Math, Butler University
(942-05-51) -
4:30 p.m.
Surfaces and connectivities.
Michael Plummer, Vanderbilt University
Xiaoya Zha*, Middle Tennessee State University
(942-05-149) -
5:00 p.m.
Recent developments in the theory of Cayley maps.
Robert Jajcay*, Indiana State University
(942-05-153) -
5:30 p.m.
Chess and the Order of Polyominoes.
C. S. Felicitas, C.F.C.T.E., Inc.
Joseph Gould*, c/o C.F.C.T.E., Inc.
(942-90-36)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday April 10, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear PDEs - Methods and Applications
Room 222, Classroom Building Complex C
Organizers:
David Costa, University of Nevada-Las Vegas costa@nevada.edu
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3:00 p.m.
Computation and visualization of multiple solutions of semilinear elliptic boundary value problems.
Goong Chen*, Dept. of Math., Texas A&M Univ.
(942-35-83) -
3:40 p.m.
Boundary value problems with concave nonlinearities near the origin.
Zhi-Qiang Wang*, Utah State University
(942-35-101) -
4:20 p.m.
Liouville Properties and a conjecture of de Giorgi.
Changfeng GUI*, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
(942-35-224) -
5:00 p.m.
Existence and Multiplicity Results for Indefinite Semilinear Elliptic Equations in the Whole Space .
Hossein T Tehrani*, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
David G. Costa, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
(942-35-193)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday April 10, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Set Theory
Room 210, Classroom Building Complex C
Organizers:
Douglas Burke, University Nevada-Las Vegas dburke@nevada.edu
Derrick DuBose, University Nevada-Las Vegas dubose@nevada.edu
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3:00 p.m.
On the classification problem for rank 2 torsion-free abelian groups.
Alexander S Kechris*, Caltech
(942-04-171) -
3:30 p.m.
Much ado about counterexamples to Vaught's Conjecture.
Howard Becker*, Univ. of South Carolina
(942-04-127) -
4:00 p.m.
Borel completeness of Boolean algebras and some related equivalence relations.
Riccardo Camerlo*, Caltech
Su Gao, Caltech
(942-04-168) -
4:30 p.m.
A counterexample to the strong Martin conjecture.
Su Gao*, Department of Mathematics, California Institute of Technology
(942-03-151) -
5:00 p.m.
Borel functions, continuity, and recursion theorem.
Slawomir Solecki*, Indiana University
(942-03-157) -
5:30 p.m.
Prewellorders and inner model theory.
Greg Hjorth*, University of California, Los Angeles
(942-04-162)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday April 10, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Numerical Analysis and Computational Mathematics
Room 223, Classroom Building Complex C
Organizers:
Jun Zhang, University of Kentucky jzhang@cs.uky.edu
Jennifer Zhao, University of Michigan, Dearborn xich@umich.edu
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3:00 p.m.
A Multilevel Preconditioning Technique with Implicit Coarse Level System Construction.
Jun Zhang*, University of Kentucky
(942-65-40) -
3:30 p.m.
Interface Preserving Coarsening Multigrid for Discontinuous Coefficient Problems.
Wing Lok Wan*, Stanford University
(942-65-164) -
4:00 p.m.
Numerical Solution of Stiff ODEs with Applications to Neural Networks.
Alan Q Li, University of Southern California
Edwaed Blum*, University of Southern California
(942-34-111) -
4:30 p.m.
A New Formulation for the Valuation of American Options.
Junping Wang*, University of Wyoming
(942-65-178) -
5:00 p.m.
Transpose-free Matrix Pad\'e Via Lanczos Method.
Manchung Yeung*, University of California, Los Angeles
(942-65-43) -
5:30 p.m.
A nonlinear parabolic equation modeling surfactant diffusion.
Xinfu Chen, University of Pittsburgh
Chaocheng Huang, Wright State University
Jennifer Zhao*, University of Michigan-Dearborn
(942-65-10)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday April 10, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Number Theory
Room 215, Classroom Building Complex C
Organizers:
Gennady Bachman, University of Nevada, Las Vegas bachman@nevada.edu
Richard A. Mollin, University of Calgary ramollin@math.ucalgary.ca
Peter J. Shiue, University of Nevada, Las Vegas shiue@nevada.edu
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3:00 p.m.
Number Fields with Prescribed Ramification.
John W Jones*, Arizona State University
David P Roberts, Rutgers University
(942-11-12) -
3:30 p.m.
An algorithm for computing fundamental units of bicubic fields.
Charles J. Parry*, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
(942-11-89) -
4:00 p.m.
The Size of the Fundamental Solutions of Consecutive Pell Equations.
Hugh C. Williams*, University of Manitoba
Michael J. Jacobson, Jr., University of Waterloo
(942-11-126) -
4:30 p.m.
A structure theorem for units and its application.
Mary E. Flahive*, Oregon State University
(942-11-235) -
5:00 p.m.
Complete classification of quadratic polynomials producing primes for an initial range of input values.
Bart E. Goddard*, Texas A\&M University - Commerce
Richard A. Mollin, University of Calgary
(942-11-209)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday April 10, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Combinatorial Theory
Room 214, Classroom Building Complex C
Organizers:
Kequan Ding, University of Illinois, Urbana k-ding@math.uiuc.edu
Peter Shiue, University of Nevada, Las Vegas shiue@nevada.edu
Yeong-Nan Yeh, Academia Sinica mayeh@ccvax.sinica.edu.tw
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3:00 p.m.
Cyclic Relative Difference Sets with Classical Parameters.
K T Arasu*, Wright State University
John F Dillon, National Security Agency
K H Leung, National University of Singapore
S L Ma, National University of Singapore
(942-05-188) -
3:30 p.m.
A recursive method for Orthogonal Designs.
Hadi Kharaghani*, University of Lethbridge
(942-05-158) -
4:00 p.m.
$q$-Statistics and perfect matchings with forbidden edges.
James Haglund*, Penn State University
Jeffrey B Remmel, Univ. of Cal., San Diego
(942-05-154) -
4:30 p.m.
Some remarks on extending $AG(4,2)$.
Joseph L. Yucas*, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL 62901
(942-05-65) -
5:00 p.m.
Iterative roots of constant polynomials over finite fields, preliminary report.
Wun-Seng Chou*, Institute of Mathematics Academia Sinica
(942-05-135) -
5:30 p.m.
An estimation of the number of irreducible polynomials of given degree over a finite field.
Yaotsu Chang*, Dept. of Applied Math., I-Shou University
(942-12-175)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday April 10, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
Special Session on Analysis and Geometry
Room 218, Classroom Building Complex C
Organizers:
Peter Li, University of California, Irvine pli@math.uci.edu
Song-Ying Li, University of California, Irvine sli@math.uci.edu
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3:00 p.m.
Bundles rigidity on complex surfaces of general type.
Bun Wong*, UC Riverside
(942-32-163) -
3:25 p.m.
WDVV Equations on Kaehler Manifolds.
Huai-Dong Cao*, Texas A&M University
Jian Zhou, Texas A&M University
(942-53-202) -
3:50 p.m.
Special Lagrangian fibration and stable bundles.
Jingyi Chen*, UBC
Gang Tian, MIT
(942-53-159) -
4:20 p.m.
Constant mean curvature surfaces in Hyperbolic space with prescribed asymptotic behaviour at infinity.
Giovanni Gregori*, Universitaet Bonn
Rafe Mazzeo, Stanford University
(942-49-136) -
4:45 p.m.
Homogenous B\"acklund transformations of hyperbolic Monge-Amp\`ere systems.
Jeanne Nielsen Clelland*, University of Colorado
(942-58-15) -
5:10 p.m.
A superrigidity type theorem for complex hyperbolic manifolds.
Mu-Tao Wang*, Stanford University
(942-53-84)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday April 10, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Diophantine Problems
Room 216, Classroom Building Complex C
Organizers:
Arthur Baragar, University of Nevada, Las Vegas baragar@nevada.edu
Michael Bennett, University of Illinois mabennet@math.uiuc.edu
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3:00 p.m.
On the discriminant of classical polynomials.
Fernando Rodriguez-Villegas*, University of Texas at Austin
(942-11-214) -
3:30 p.m.
Automorphisms of cubic moduli spaces.
William M. Goldman*, University of Maryland
(942-14-129) -
4:00 p.m.
Torsion Points on $X_0(N)$.
Matthew H Baker*, UC Berkeley
(942-14-34) -
4:30 p.m.
Constraints on value sets over finite fields.
Wayne Aitken*, California State University
(942-11-225) -
5:00 p.m.
Algebraic families of nonzero elements of Shafarevich-Tate groups.
Jean-Louis Colliot-Th\'el\`ene, Universit\'e de Paris-Sud
Bjorn Poonen*, University of California at Berkeley
(942-11-46)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday April 10, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Invariants, Distributions, Differential Operators and Harmonic Analysis
Room 217, Classroom Building Complex C
Organizers:
Ronald L. Lipsman, University of Maryland, College Park rll@math.umd.edu
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3:00 p.m.
Orbit geometry and noncommutativity of invariant differential operators on nilpotent homogeneous spaces.
Frederick P. Greenleaf*, New York University/Courant Inst.
(942-43-81) -
3:30 p.m.
The Hua system on non-tube type Hermitian symmetric spaces.
Richard C Penney*, Purdue University
(942-22-197) -
4:00 p.m.
Analysis of monomial representations.
Hidenori Fujiwara*, Kinki University in Kyushu
(942-22-107) -
4:30 p.m.
Non-commutativity of Certain Subquotients in the Enveloping Algebra of a Nilpotent Lie Algebra.
Bradley N Currey*, Saint Louis University
(942-22-142) -
5:00 p.m.
Holomorphically induced representations of some solvable Lie groups.
Junko Inoue*, Tottori University
(942-22-166) -
5:30 p.m.
Generalized Moment Sets and Unitary Representations of Exponential Solvable Lie Groups.
Ali Baklouti*, Sfax, Tunisia
(942-22-252)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday April 10, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Symmetries of Knots and Three-manifolds
Room 219, Classroom Building Complex C
Organizers:
Swatee Naik, University of Nevada, Reno naik@unr.edu
Jozef H. Przytycki, George Washington University przytyck@math.gwu.edu
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3:00 p.m.
Periodicity of homology spheres.
Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska*, Boise State University
Jozef H. Przytycki, George Washington University
(942-57-198) -
3:30 p.m.
Periodic knots and the twisted Alexander polynomials.
Swatee Naik*, University of Nevada-Reno, and Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai.
(942-57-205) -
4:00 p.m.
Murakami-Ohtsuki-Okada invariants and periodicity of 3-manifolds.
Maxim V. Sokolov, Mr.*, George Washington University
(942-57-199) -
4:30 p.m.
Homotopy skein module, dichromatic polynomial and symmetry .
Jozef H. Przytycki*, GWU
(942-57-237) -
5:00 p.m.
The Casson-Walker-Lescop invariant and link invariants.
Jeff Johannes*, University of Nevada Las Vegas
(942-57-13) -
5:30 p.m.
Concordance of Classical Knots.
Andrius Tamulis*, Monmouth College
(942-57-20)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday April 10, 1999, 3:30 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
Session on Contributed Papers
Room 225, Classroom Building Complex C
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3:00 p.m.
Results on the Blow-up of a Heat Source Traveling with Varying Speed and Direction in a Diffusive Medium .
Colleen M Kirk*, graduate student
W E Olmstead, Professor
(942-45-170) -
3:15 p.m.
Stability of Impulsive Delay Differential Equations.
Xinzhi Liu*, University of Waterloo
(942-34-78) -
3:30 p.m.
Theorems on n-dimensional Laplace Transforms and their applications.
R. S. Dahiya*, Iowa State University
(942-44-244) -
3:45 p.m.
Approximation methods for integrodifferential equations.
James H Liu*, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA 22807
(942-34-44) -
4:00 p.m.
A Noncommutative Generalization of Gelfand Duality for $C\sup{*}$-algebras.
Mukul S Patel*, San Leandro, California
(942-46-120) -
4:30 p.m.
Interpolation wavelets and their application in solving nonlinear anisotropic diffusion equations.
Jianzhong Wang*, Sam Houston State University
(942-35-16) -
4:45 p.m.
WKB Analysis of the General Fourth Painleve Equation.
Alisher S. Abdullayev*, Faculty
(942-34-28) -
5:00 p.m.
Fuzzy contractions and fixed points.
Mark Burgin*, University of California
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5:15 p.m.
Data, Data Spaces, Restrictions, and Generalities.
C. S. Felicitas*, C.F.C.T.E., Inc.
(942-92-122)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday April 10, 1999, 7:00 p.m.-11:00 p.m.
Council
Patio Cafe, La Quinta Inn