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1999 Fall Central Sectional Meeting
Austin, TX, October 8-10, 1999
Meeting #948

Associate secretaries:
Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu

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Friday October 8, 1999

• Friday October 8, 1999, 1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  RLM, Robert Lee Moore Hall
• Friday October 8, 1999, 1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  RLM, Robert Lee Moore Hall
• Friday October 8, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Characterization of non-smooth domains via potential theory.
  Room 106, Burdine Hall
  Carlos E. Kenig, University of Chicago
  Tatiana Toro*, University of Washington
  (948-28-260)
• Friday October 8, 1999, 4:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Wavelets and Approximation Theory, I
  Room 5.122, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  Don Hong, Eastern Tennessee State University hong@access.etsu.edu
  Michael Prophet, Murray State University mike@banach.mursuky.edu
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    Orthogonal lifting: constructing nonseparable orthogonal wavelets.
    Eugene Belogay*, Purdue University
    (948-42-291)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Integer-to-Integer Transformations Using Scaling Vectors.
    Patrick J Van Fleet*, University of St. Thomas
    (948-41-311)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Conjugate Wavelets.
    Tian-Xiao He*, Illinois Wesleyan University
    (948-42-67)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Multiwavelets on the interval and divergence-free wavelets on a rectangle.
    Maria C Pereyra*, University of New Mexico
    Joseph Lakey, New Mexico State University
    (948-41-250)
• Friday October 8, 1999, 4:00 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Analysis and PDEs, I
  Room 6.104, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  William Beckner, University of Texas at Austin beckner@math.utexas.edu
  Luis A. Caffarelli, University of Texas at Austin caffarel@math.utexas.edu
  Toti Daskalopoulos, University of California, Irvine pdaskalo@math.uci.edu
  Tatiana Toro, University of Washington toro@math.washington.edu
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    Regularity of Zakharov System Evolutions.
    James E Colliander*, University of California, Berkeley
    (948-35-298)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Small Solutions of the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili Equation.
    Jim Colliander, University of California Berkeley
    Carlos E Kenig, University of Chicago
    Gigliola Staffilani*, Stanford University
    (948-35-278)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Multilinear singular integrals.
    Christoph M Thiele*, UC Los Angeles
    (948-42-231)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Boundary unique continuation: doubling property and nodal domains.
    Paul MacManus, N.U.I. Maynooth, Ireland
    Andrea Nahmod*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    (948-42-208)
  • 6:30 p.m.
    Recent Regularity Results for Nonlinear Wave Equations.
    Hart Smith, University of Washington, Seattle
    Christopher D Sogge, Johns Hopkins University
    Terence Tao, University of California, Los Angeles
    Markus A Keel*, Cal Tech
    (948-35-277)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Break.
• Friday October 8, 1999, 4:00 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Aperiodic Tiling, I
  Room 6.122, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  Charles Radin, University of Texas, Austin radin@math.utexas.edu
  Lorenzo Sadun, University of Texas, Austin sadun@math.utexas.edu
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    Self-similarity and Invariant Measures in Model Sets.
    Robert V Moody*, University of Alberta
    (948-52-100)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Substitution Delone sets.
    Jeffrey C. Lagarias*, AT&T
    (948-52-192)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    When are two tilings the same?
    Charles Radin*, University of Texas at Austin
    Lorenzo Sadun, University of Texas at Austin
    (948-52-70)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Cohomology and K-theory of spaces of tilings.
    Ian F Putnam*, University of Victoria
    (948-37-80)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Rotations and the topology of substitution spaces.
    Nicholas Ormes*, University of Texas at Austin
    (948-52-193)
  • 6:30 p.m.
    Pseudo-self-similar tilings are MLD from self-similar tilings.
    Natalie M. Priebe*, Rensellaer Polytechnic Institute
    Boris Solomyak, University of Washington
    (948-52-194)
• Friday October 8, 1999, 4:00 p.m.-7:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Banach and Operator Spaces:Isomorphic and Geometric Structure, I
  Room 5.118, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  Edward Odell, University of Texas, Austin odell@math.utexas.edu
  Haskell P. Rosenthal, University of Texas, Austin rosenthl@math.utexas.edu
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    Homogeneous Hilbertian subspaces of $L_p$.
    Timur Oikhberg*, The University of Texas at Austin
    (948-46-271)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Approximate units and complete M-ideals.
    Alvaro Arias*, The University of Texas at San Antonio
    Haskell Rosenthal, The University of Texas at Austin
    (948-46-328)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Non-commutative Lp-spaces and their operator space structures.
    Marius Junge*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (948-46-139)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    On Injectivity and Nuclearity for Operator Spaces.
    Edward G Effros, UCLA
    Narutaka Ozawa, Texas A&M University
    Zhong-Jin Ruan*, University of Illinois
    (948-46-111)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Exactness of Cuntz-Pimsner algebras.
    Ken Dykema*, Texas A&M University
    Dimitri Shlyakhtenko, UCLA
    (948-46-255)
  • 6:30 p.m.
    Norming $C^*$-algebras by subalgebras.
    Allan M Sinclair, University of Edinburgh
    Roger R Smith*, Texas A&M University
    (948-46-57)
  • 7:00 p.m.
    The measure of non-compactness, the essential spectrum, and the essential spectral radius of a positive operator.
    Vladimir G Troitsky*, University of Texas, Austin
    (948-47-63)
• Friday October 8, 1999, 4:00 p.m.-6:45 p.m.
  Special Session on Recent Developments in Index Theory, I
  Room 6.126, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  Daniel S. Freed, University of Texas, Austin dafr@math.utexas.edu
  John Roe, Pennsylvania State University roe@math.psu.edu
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    Transverse index theory and cyclic cohomology of Hopf algebras.
    Henri Moscovici*, Ohio State University
    (948-58-219)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Family Index Theorems for Manifolds with Boundary and Adiabatic limit.
    Xianzhe Dai*, UCSB
    Weiping Zhang, Nankai Institute of Mathematics
    (948-58-319)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Positive scalar curvature metrics and K-theory of $C^*$-algebras.
    Stephan A Stolz*, Notre Dame
    (948-47-220)
• Friday October 8, 1999, 4:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Dynamics, I
  Room 7.122, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  Robert J. McCann, University of Toronto mccann@math.toronto.edu
  Catherine Sulem, University of Toronto sulem@math.toronto.edu
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    Discussion.
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Formation of singularities in solutions of the derivative nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation on the half line.
    Hayato Nawa*, Nagoya University
    (948-35-202)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Nonlinear stability and bifurcation in Optical Parametric Oscillators.
    Keith S. Promislow*, Simon Fraser University
    J. Nathan Kutz, University of Washington
    (948-47-237)
• Friday October 8, 1999, 4:00 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical and Computational Finance, I
  Room 7.104, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  Stathis Tompaidis, University of Texas, Austin stathis@athena.bus.utexas.edu
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    Modeling Credit Risk.
    Alain Belanger*, Bank of Nova Scotia
    Steven E Shreve, Carnegie Mellon
    Dennis Wong, Scotia Capital Markets
    (948-91-322)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Modeling of Liquidity Risk.
    Robert Almgren*, University of Chicago
    (948-91-321)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Problems in Real Options.
    Murray Carlson*, University of Texas at Austin
    (948-91-323)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Pricing Lease Options in Dynamic Markets.
    Chris M Kenyon*, Schlumberger
    Stathis Tompaidis, University of Texas at Austin
    (948-90-144)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Agency Costs, Credit Constraints and Default Costs: the case of Commercial Mortgages.
    Sheridan Titman, University of Texas at Austin
    Stathis Tompaidis, University of Texas at Austin
    Sergey Tsyplakov*, University of Texas at Austin
    (948-91-336)
  • 6:30 p.m.
    The Impact of Large Changes in Asset Prices on Intra-Market Correlations in the Stock, Bond, and International Markets.
    Ehud I Ronn, University of Texas at Austin
    Akin Sayrak*, University of Pittsburgh
    Stathis Tompaidis, University of Texas at Austin
    (948-91-333)
• Friday October 8, 1999, 4:00 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
  Special Session on DNA Topology, I
  Room 4.102, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  Isabel K. Darcy, University of Texas, Austin darcy@math.utexas.edu
  Makkuni Jayaram, Univeristy of Texas, Austin jayaram@intron.icmb.utexas.edu
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    On the elastic stability of configurations of knotted and unknotted miniplasmids.
    Bernard D Coleman*, Rutgers University
    David Swigon, Rutgers University
    (948-74-140)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On minimum elastic energy configurations of torus knots.
    David Swigon*, Rutgers University
    Bernard D Coleman, Rutgers University
    (948-74-141)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Biology and Physics of DNA Knots.
    Andrzej Stasiak*, Universite de Lausanne
    (948-92-264)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Moving knots with obstacles.
    Kenneth Hunt, Dept. Computer Science, UW-La Crosse
    Jonathan Simon*, University of Iowa
    (948-92-266)
  • 6:30 p.m.
    Notions of writhing and linking density for closed, circular DNA.
    David C Miller*, William Paterson University
    Craig J Benham, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
    (948-92-182)
• Friday October 8, 1999, 4:00 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Dehn Surgery and Kleinian Groups, I
  Room 6.116, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  John Luecke, University of Texas, Austin luecke@math.utexas.edu
  Alan Reid, University of Texas, Austin areid@math.utexas.edu
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    Incompressible surfaces and Dehn surgery on knots.
    Hugh N Howards*, Wake Forest University/ UT Austin
    (948-57-294)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Virtual Betti numbers of bundles.
    Joseph D Masters*, Rice University
    (948-57-286)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Immersed essential surfaces without triple points in 3-manifolds.
    Joachim Hyam Rubinstein*, University of Melbourne
    (948-57-76)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Knots and links in $S^3$ without parallel tangent lines.
    Ying-Qing Wu*, University of Iowa
    (948-57-204)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Surgery when degeneracy is $\pm 2$.
    Rachel D Roberts*, Washington University in St Louis
    (948-57-195)
  • 6:30 p.m.
    On Algebraic Components Of SL(2,C)-Character Varieties Of Knot Exteriors.
    Steven Boyer, University of Quebec at Montreal
    Erhard Luft, University of British Columbia
    Xingru Zhang*, SUNY at Buffalo
    (948-57-58)
• Friday October 8, 1999, 4:00 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Problems in Transport Phenomena, I
  Room 5.116, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  Jose Antonio Carrillo, University of Texas, Austin carri@math.utexas.edu
  Irene M. Gamba, University of Texas, Austin gamba@math.utexas.edu
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    Structure of an infinitely strong shock waves.
    Carlo Cercignani*, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy
    Aldo Frezzotti, Milano, Italy
    P Grosfils, Milano,Italy
    (948-82-59)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Approximate Summation of the Chapman-Enskog Expansion.
    Marshall Slemrod*, Univ. of Wisconsin
    (948-76-08)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Unsteady Continuum/Rarefied Gasdynamics Simulations with a Hybrid Euler/Monte Carlo Approach.
    David Goldstein*, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, University of Texas at Austin
    Roberto Roveda, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, University of Texas at Austin
    Philip Varghese, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, University of Texas at Austin
    (948-82-61)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Transport eauations and their diffusion approximations.
    Moulay D Tidriri*, Iowa State University
    (948-65-315)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Some properties of kinetic and macroscopic equations in granular media.
    Alexander V Bobylev, Keldysh Institute, Moscow, Russia
    Jose A Carrillo*, Department of Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin
    Irene M Gamba, Department of Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin
    (948-82-69)
  • 6:30 p.m.
    Vibrated Granular Media and Kinetic Theory.
    Mark D. Shattuck*, University of Texas at Austin
    Chris Bizon, Colorado Research Associates
    Jack B. Swift, University of Texas at Austin
    Harry L. Swinney, University of Texas at Austin
    (948-76-267)
• Friday October 8, 1999, 4:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
  Special Session on The Diverse Mathematical Legacy of Jean Leray, I (A)
  Room 7.116, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  Eric M. Friedlander, Northwestern University eric@math.nwu.edu
  Susan J. Friedlander, University of Illinois, Chicago susan@math.uic.edu
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    Navier-Stokes Equations.
    Roger M Temam*, Indiana University
    (948-35-85)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Beyond Sobolev norms in the study of the Navier-Stokes equations.
    Ciprian Foias*, Indiana University
    (948-35-36)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    An Eulerian-Lagrangian Approach to Incompressible Fluids.
    Peter Constantin*, The University of Chicago
    (948-35-53)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Some remarks on the post War contributions of Jean Leray.
    Pierre Cartier*, IHES
    (948-01-196)
• Friday October 8, 1999, 4:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on The Diverse Mathematical Legacy of Jean Leray, I (B)
  Room 7.118, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  Eric M. Friedlander, Northwestern University eric@math.nwu.edu
  Susan J. Friedlander, University of Illinois, Chicago susan@math.uic.edu
  

  • 5:00 p.m.
    Spectral Sequence.
    Haynes R Miller*, MIT
    (948-55-103)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    The Cohomological Dimension of Function Fields.
    John Tate*, University of Texas at Austin
    (948-14-136)
• Friday October 8, 1999, 4:00 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Theoretical, Computational and Experimental Aspects of Mechanics, I
  Room 7.120, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  Jerry Bona, University of Texas, Austin bona@math.utexas.edu
  Steven Levandosky, University of Texas, Austin slevan@math.utexas.edu
  Jiahong Wu, University of Texas, Austin jiahong@math.utexas.edu
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    Stability of the Solution with Respect to the Boundary.
    Ivo M Babuska*, Texas Institute of Computational and Applied Mathematics, The University of Texas at Austin
    Jan Chleboun, Mathematical Institute, Academy of Science, Czech Republic
    (948-35-105)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Modelling of crack propagation.
    Michael P Marder*, University of Texas at Austin
    (948-76-341)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Stability of instability for the two dimensional Euler equations.
    Susan Friedlander*, U of Illinois-Chicago
    (948-35-72)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    The renormalization group method. Application to a slightly compressible fluid model.
    Ioana Moise*, University of Texas at Austin
    Mohammed Ziane, Texas A&M University
    (948-35-33)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    The geometric structure of the super-level sets and global regularity for 3D Navier-Stokes equations.
    Zoran Grujic*, University of Texas
    (948-76-26)
  • 6:30 p.m.
    Zero-dissipation limits of nonlinear waves.
    Jerry L Bona, University of Texas at Austin
    Jiahong Wu*, University of Texas at Austin
    (948-76-115)
• Friday October 8, 1999, 4:00 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Topology of Continua, I
  Room 6.124, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  Wayne Lewis, Texas Tech University wlewis@math.ttu.edu
  Carl Seaquist, Texas Tech University seaqucr@math.ttu.edu
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    Minimal trees.
    Krystyna M. Kuperberg*, Auburn University
    Wlodzimierz Kuperberg, Auburn University
    (948-54-68)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The Hahn-Mazurkiewicz Theorem: A characterization.
    Dale B Daniel, Lamar University
    Jacek Nikiel, American University of Beirut
    L Bruce Treybig*, Texas A\&M University
    H Murat Tuncali, Nipissing University
    (948-54-295)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    On strongly monotone mappings.
    Janusz J Charatonik*, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico and University of Wroclaw
    (948-54-118)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Concerning the Role of Local Separating Points of Decomposition Spaces in the Hahn-Mazurkiewicz Theorem.
    Dale Daniel*, Lamar University
    (948-54-216)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    A Tale of Six Atriodic Tree-like Continua.
    W. T. Ingram*, University of Missouri -- Rolla
    (948-54-133)
  • 6:30 p.m.
    A problem concerning topological properties which are inheredited.
    Raul Escobedo*, Instituto de Matematicas, UNAM
    (948-54-305)
• Friday October 8, 1999, 4:00 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Dynamical Systems, I
  Room 6.120, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  David Delatte, University of North Texas delatte@sol.acs.unt.edu
  R. Daniel Mauldin, University of North Texas mauldin@unt.edu
  Mariusz Urbanski, University of North Texas urbanski@unt.edu
  Luca Quardo Zamboni, University of North Texas lqz0001@jove.acs.unt.edu
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    Safe states of subshifts of finite type are not so powerful.
    Robert M Burton*, Oregon State University
    Arthur Robinson, George Washington University
    (948-37-179)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Expansive homeomorphisms of solenoids and generalizations thereof.
    Alex D Clark*, University of North Texas
    (948-58-112)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Minimal sets.
    Krystyna M Kuperberg*, Auburn University
    (948-58-107)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Uniformly perfect analytic and conformal attractor sets.
    Rich L Stankewitz*, Texas A&M University
    (948-30-91)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    On Besicovitch's 1/2-Conjecture.
    Hany M Farag*, Caltech
    (948-28-40)
  • 6:30 p.m.
    Discussion.
• Friday October 8, 1999, 4:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
  Special Session on Advances in the Mathematics and Applications of Finite Elements, I
  Room 5.124, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  J. Tinsley Oden, University of Texas, Austin oden@ticam.utexas.edu
  

  • 5:00 p.m.
    Approximation Problems and Generalized Finite Element Method.
    Ivo M Babuska*, Texas Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics, The University of Texas at Austin
    (948-65-106)
• Friday October 8, 1999, 7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.
  Reception
  Texas Union Building, Texas Union Building

Saturday October 9, 1999

• Saturday October 9, 1999, 8:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  RLM, Robert Lee Moore Hall
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 8:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  RLM, Robert Lee Moore Hall
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Banach and Operator Spaces:Isomorphic and Geometric Structure, II
  Room 5.118, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  Edward Odell, University of Texas, Austin odell@math.utexas.edu
  Haskell P. Rosenthal, University of Texas, Austin rosenthl@math.utexas.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Non reflexive subspaces of duals of $C^*$-algebras.
    Narcisse J Randrianantoanina*, Miami University
    (948-46-296)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Uniform duality of the weak essential norm.
    Hans-Olav J Tylli*, University of Helsinki
    (948-46-200)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A separable space with no Schauder decomposition.
    Denka Kutzarova*, Bulgarian Academny of Sciences and University of South Carolina
    G. Alexandrov, University of Sofia, Bulgaria
    A. Plichko, Pedagogical University, Kirovograd, Ukraine
    (948-46-156)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Dual Banach spaces which contain an isometric copy of $L_1$.
    S. J Dilworth, University of South Carolina
    Maria Girardi*, University of South Carolina
    James N Hagler, University of Denver
    (948-46-276)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Daugavet property of Banach spaces.
    Roman Shvidkoy*, University of Missouri
    (948-46-138)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    On the size of approximately convex sets in normed spaces.
    Stephen J Dilworth*, University of South Carolina
    Ralph Howard, University of South Carolina
    James W Roberts, University of South Carolina
    (948-46-155)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Topology of Continua, II
  Room 6.124, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  Wayne Lewis, Texas Tech University wlewis@math.ttu.edu
  Carl Seaquist, Texas Tech University seaqucr@math.ttu.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Irreducible Whitney levels.
    Wlodzimierz J Charatonik*, University of Missouri-Rolla
    (948-54-292)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Joinable Continua-An Application of Inverse Limits.
    William S Mahavier*, Department of Mathematics and C.S., Emory University
    (948-54-205)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Applications of Topology to Medicine.
    Beverly L Brechner*, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
    (948-54-147)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Expansive Homeomorphisms and Plane Continua.
    Christopher G Mouron*, University of Delaware
    (948-54-265)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Indecomposable continua having hyperspaces as cones.
    Maria de Jesus Lopez*, Instituto de Matematicas, UNAM.
    (948-54-275)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Open maps on Knaster Continua.
    Carl Eberhart, University of Kentucky
    Brauch Fugate*, University of Kentucky
    Shannon Schumann, Centre College
    (948-54-169)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Dynamical Systems, II
  Room 6.120, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  David Delatte, University of North Texas delatte@sol.acs.unt.edu
  R. Daniel Mauldin, University of North Texas mauldin@unt.edu
  Mariusz Urbanski, University of North Texas urbanski@unt.edu
  Luca Quardo Zamboni, University of North Texas lqz0001@jove.acs.unt.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Discussion.
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Integral means of derivative of conformal mappings.
    Alexander Volberg*, Michigan State University
    (948-37-352)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Growing trees, laminations and the dynamics on the Julia set.
    Alexander Blokh*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
    Genadi Levin, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
    (948-37-175)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Dimension of quasicircles.
    Stanislav K Smirnov*, KTH (Stockholm)
    (948-30-262)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Phasetransitions for equilibrium states on subshifts.
    Nicolai T A Haydn*, Department of Mathematics, University of Southern California
    (948-60-224)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Attractors for graph critical rational functions.
    Alexander Blokh, University of Alabama in Birmingham
    Michal Misiurewicz*, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis
    (948-58-114)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on The Development of Topology in the Americas, I
  Room 7.124, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  Cameron Gordon, University of Texas, Austin gordon@math.utexas.edu
  Ioan Mackenzie James, University of Oxford imj@maths.ox.ac.uk
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Golden Age of Princeton Topology.
    I. M. James*, University of Oxford
    (948-01-06)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Steenrod and his students.
    Franklin P Peterson*, M.I.T.
    (948-01-52)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Topological groups vis-\`a-vis Lie groups.
    Robert D. Edwards*, UCLA
    (948-22-280)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Little and Haseman -- early American tabulators of knots.
    Jozef H Przytycki*, GWU
    (948-01-24)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Wavelets and Approximation Theory, II
  Room 5.122, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  Don Hong, Eastern Tennessee State University hong@access.etsu.edu
  Michael Prophet, Murray State University mike@banach.mursuky.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Algorithm for optimal triangulations in scattered data representation and implementation in MatLab.
    Brad Dyer*, East Tennessee State University
    Don Hong, East Tennessee State University
    (948-41-129)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On Optimal Triangulation and Local Basis of Bivariate Spline Spaces.
    Don Hong*, East Tennessee State University
    (948-41-228)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Cardinal interpolation by Gaussian radial-basis functions.
    N Sivakumar*, Texas A&M University
    (948-41-42)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Interpolants with bounded derivatives.
    Tom Kunkle*, College of Charleston
    (948-41-218)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Bivariate Polynomial Natural Spline Interpolation Algorithm with Local Basis for Scattered Data.
    Lutai Guan*, Zhongshan University
    (948-41-152)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Analysis and PDEs, II
  Room 6.104, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  William Beckner, University of Texas at Austin beckner@math.utexas.edu
  Luis A. Caffarelli, University of Texas at Austin caffarel@math.utexas.edu
  Toti Daskalopoulos, University of California, Irvine pdaskalo@math.uci.edu
  Tatiana Toro, University of Washington toro@math.washington.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Rank sets of harmonic mappings.
    Qing Han*, University of Notre Dame
    Fanghua Lin, Courant intitute
    (948-35-206)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    An application of corner comparison theorems.
    John McCuan*, Georgia Tech
    (948-39-176)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Break.
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Crystals in a Cone: Equilibrium Shapes in the Plane.
    Robert J McCann*, University of Toronto
    Felix Otto, University of California at Santa Barbara
    (948-73-236)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Gamma limits of Ginzburg-Landau functionals.
    R L Jerrard*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    H M Soner, Applied Mathematics, Princeton University
    (948-49-270)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Dynamics, II
  Room 7.122, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  Robert J. McCann, University of Toronto mccann@math.toronto.edu
  Catherine Sulem, University of Toronto sulem@math.toronto.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Time-dependent solutions of the Benjamin Equation.
    Juan Mario Restrepo*, Mathematics Deparment, University of Arizona
    James Hyman, T-7 Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    (948-35-223)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Time-Evolving Interfaces in Viscous Flows.
    Mary Catherine A Kropinski*, Simon Fraser University
    (948-76-269)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A New Approach to Analytic Continuation of Dirichlet-Neumann Operators Upon Boundary Variations.
    David P Nicholls*, University of Minnesota
    (948-35-283)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Discussion.
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical and Computational Finance, II
  Room 7.104, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  Stathis Tompaidis, University of Texas, Austin stathis@athena.bus.utexas.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Hybrid Calibration of Interest Rate Models: Implied and Statistical.
    Raphael Douady*, CIBC New York
    (948-91-324)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Comparing Stochastic Discount Factors Through Their Implied Measures.
    Yan Jin*, Goldman, Sachs NY
    (948-91-325)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Stochastic Volatility Modeling, Asymptotics & Parameter Estimation.
    Jean-Pierre Fouque, North Carolina State University
    George Papanicolaou, Stanford University
    Ronnie Sircar*, University of Michigan
    (948-91-335)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Calibration of Financial Models.
    David Saunders*, University of Toronto
    (948-91-332)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on DNA Topology, II
  Room 4.102, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  Isabel K. Darcy, University of Texas, Austin darcy@math.utexas.edu
  Makkuni Jayaram, Univeristy of Texas, Austin jayaram@intron.icmb.utexas.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Chirality of knots and links.
    Corinne Cerf*, Universit\'e Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
    (948-57-50)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Topological Symmetry Groups of Embedded Graphs.
    Erica L Flapan*, Pomona College
    David L Li, Stanford University
    (948-92-167)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Self-Assembling Graphs with DNA molecules.
    Nata\v sa Jonoska*, University of South Florida
    (948-68-143)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Characterizing DNA knots from bacteriophage P4.
    Francisco J Arsuaga*, Mathematics Department, Florida State University
    Carles Rojals, Department of Molecular Biology, I.B.M.B. - C.S.I.C.
    Maria E Vazquez, Mathematics Department, Florida State University
    Sonia Trigueros, Department of Molecular Biology,I.B.M.B. - C.S.I.C.
    Joaquim Roca, Department of Molecular Biology, I.B.M.B. - C.S.I.C.
    De Witt L Sumners, Mathematics Department, Florida State University
    (948-92-95)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Knotting under Spatial Constraints.
    Kenneth C Millett*, University of California
    (948-57-235)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Free Surface Interfaces and PDEs, I
  Room 7.112, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  Kirk Lancaster, Wichita State University lancaste@twsuvm.uc.twsu.edu
  Thomas Vogel, Texas A & M University tvogel@math.tamu.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Phragmen-Lindelof theorems for quasilinear elliptic partial differential equations.
    Kirk E Lancaster*, Wichita State University
    (948-35-110)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Asymptotic Behavior of Minimal Surfaces Over Strips and Sectors.
    David Siegel*, University of Waterloo
    (948-35-226)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Equilibrium Configurations for a Floating Drop.
    Alan R Elcrat*, Wichita State University
    (948-35-78)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Bubble Development of Known Radius from Capillary Surfaces.
    Kevin M Hemphill*, Wichita State University
    (948-35-213)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Wetting barriers and local minimizers in the calculus of variations.
    Erich Miersemann*, Department of Mathematics, Leipzig University, Germany
    (948-49-84)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Dehn Surgery and Kleinian Groups, II
  Room 6.116, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  John Luecke, University of Texas, Austin luecke@math.utexas.edu
  Alan Reid, University of Texas, Austin areid@math.utexas.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Foliations and group actions on $S^1$ and $\mathbb{R}$.
    Danny Calegari*, UC Berkeley
    (948-57-146)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Volumes of Haken hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
    Ian Agol*, U. C. Davis
    (948-57-342)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Supercrossing Number for Knots and Links.
    Colin C Adams*, Williams College
    Sang Pahk, University of California-Davis
    (948-57-145)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Abelian Subgroup Separability of Kleinian Groups and Fundamental Groups of Haken Manifolds.
    Emily Hamilton*, Emory University
    (948-57-71)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Pseudomodular surfaces.
    Darren Long*, UC Santa Barbara
    Alan W Reid, UT, Austin
    (948-57-116)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Problems in Transport Phenomena, II
  Room 5.116, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  Jose Antonio Carrillo, University of Texas, Austin carri@math.utexas.edu
  Irene M. Gamba, University of Texas, Austin gamba@math.utexas.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    High frequency behavior of the focusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation wtih random inhomogeneities.
    Shi Jin*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    George Papanicolaou, Stanford University
    Albert Fannjiang, University of California, Davis
    (948-65-07)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A High Order Discontinuous Galerkin Method for 2D Incompressible Flows.
    Jian-Guo Liu, University of Maryland
    Chi-Wang Shu*, Brown University
    (948-65-14)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Maximum Entropy Closure for Nonparabolic Band Transport in Semiconductors .
    Angelo M Anile*, University of Catania
    Vittorio Romano, Politecnico di bari
    (948-76-15)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Entropy Based Numerical Methods For Kinetic And Fluid Dynamic Semiconductor Models.
    Christian Ringhofer*, Arizona State University
    (948-65-21)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Relaxation, Stability and Oscillation in a Reactive Transport Model of Bioremediation.
    Jack Xin*, UT Texas,Austin
    (948-35-81)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on The Diverse Mathematical Legacy of Jean Leray, II (A)
  Room 7.116, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  Eric M. Friedlander, Northwestern University eric@math.nwu.edu
  Susan J. Friedlander, University of Illinois, Chicago susan@math.uic.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Jean Leray and Algebraic Analysis.
    Pierre B Schapira*, University of Paris 6
    (948-32-30)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Space time decay of solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations.
    Cherif E Amrouche, Univ. de Tecnologie de Compiegne
    Vivette Giraud, Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie
    Maria E Schonbek*, University of California
    Tomas P Schonbek, Florida Atlantic University
    (948-35-123)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On the connection between the Camassa-Holm equations and turbulence theory.
    Edriss Titi*, U of California, Irvine
    (948-35-177)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Regularity of solutions of Navier-Stokes equations for rotating fluids .
    Anatoli V Babin*, UC at Irvine
    (948-35-39)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on The Diverse Mathematical Legacy of Jean Leray, II (B)
  Room 7.118, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  Eric M. Friedlander, Northwestern University eric@math.nwu.edu
  Susan J. Friedlander, University of Illinois, Chicago susan@math.uic.edu
  

  • 10:00 a.m.
    A DeRham/Federer approach to the Cheeger/Simons theory of differential characters.
    Reese Harvey*, Rice University
    (948-53-128)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    CR-characteristic classes and residues.
    Daniel M. Burns, Jr.*, University of Michigan
    (948-32-215)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    The Spectral Sequence Relating Algebraic $K$-theory to Motivic Cohomology.
    Eric M Friedlander, Northwestern University
    Andrei A Suslin*, Northwestern University
    (948-19-73)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Theoretical, Computational and Experimental Aspects of Mechanics, II
  Room 7.120, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  Jerry Bona, University of Texas, Austin bona@math.utexas.edu
  Steven Levandosky, University of Texas, Austin slevan@math.utexas.edu
  Jiahong Wu, University of Texas, Austin jiahong@math.utexas.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    On similarity solutions in theories of curvature driven motion of planar curves.
    Bernard D Coleman*, Rugters University
    (948-76-55)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Stability and symmetry of solitary-wave solutions to model systems for long waves.
    John P. Albert*, University of Oklahoma
    Felipe Linares, IMPA
    (948-35-31)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Stability of solitary waves for a complex modified KdV system.
    Judith R. Miller*, Georgetown University
    (948-35-28)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Strong instability of solitary-wave solution of Boussinesq equations.
    Yue Liu*, Univ. of Texas, Arlington
    (948-35-56)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    The Boussinesq Limit of the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam Equation.
    John F Bukowski*, Juniata College
    (948-35-168)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Advances in the Mathematics and Applications of Finite Elements, II
  Room 5.124, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  J. Tinsley Oden, University of Texas, Austin oden@ticam.utexas.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Some recent results on "shift" theorems for elliptic problems on plane polygonal domains.
    James Bramble*, Texas A&M University
    (948-65-131)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Approximation theory of the p-version finite element method and spectral method in the framework of Jacobi-weighted Besov spaces.
    Benqi Guo*, university of Manitoba
    (948-65-258)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Nonlinear subgrid upscaling of two-phase flow in porous media.
    Todd Arbogast*, Texas Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics, The University of Texas at Austin
    (948-65-120)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 9:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Aperiodic Tiling, II
  Room 6.122, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  Charles Radin, University of Texas, Austin radin@math.utexas.edu
  Lorenzo Sadun, University of Texas, Austin sadun@math.utexas.edu
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    Diffraction of Stochastic Structures.
    Michael Baake*, Unversity of T\"ubingen
    (948-37-162)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Energy spectra and eigenstates of discrete quasiperiodic Schr\"{o}dinger operators.
    Uwe Grimm*, Institut f\"{u}r Physik, Technische Universit\"{a}t Chemnitz, Germany
    (948-81-166)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Crystallography of Quasiperiodic Tilings.
    Ted Janssen*, University of Nijmegen
    (948-20-238)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Crystallography and Riemann surfaces.
    Veit Elser*, Cornell University
    (948-06-203)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 9:30 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
  Special Session on Recent Developments in Index Theory, II
  Room 6.126, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  Daniel S. Freed, University of Texas, Austin dafr@math.utexas.edu
  John Roe, Pennsylvania State University roe@math.psu.edu
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    The Schwartz algebra, Chern characters and the Baum-Connes conjecture.
    Jacek Brodzki*, University of Exeter, UK
    Roger J Plymen, Manchester University
    (948-46-90)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    An index theorem for families of elliptic operators invariant with respect to the action of a bundle of Lie groups.
    Victor Nistor*, Penn State
    (948-58-126)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 9:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Interconnections Among Diophantine Geometry, Algebraic Geometry, and Value Distribution Theory, I
  Room 5.126, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  William Cherry, University of North Texas wcherry@unt.edu
  Min Ru, University of Houston minru@math.uh.edu
  Felipe Voloch, University of Texas, Austin voloch@fireant.ma.utexas.edu
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    Big Picard and trichotomy.
    Alexandru Buium*, University of New Mexico
    (948-32-19)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Contribution of the Infinite Valuations to the Radical.
    Machiel van Frankenhuysen*, University of California, Riverside
    (948-11-96)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Transcendental B\"ezout Estimates.
    Bao Qin Li*, Florida International University
    (948-32-242)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    A geometric version of the ``lemma on the logarithmic derivative''.
    Paul Vojta*, University of California, Berkeley
    (948-32-222)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 11:30 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Derived deformation theory.
  Room 106, Burdine Hall
  Mikhail M Kapranov*, Northwestern University Evanston IL
  (948-14-308)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Invited Address
  The Nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation: Self-focusing and Wave Collapse.
  Room 106, Burdine Hall
  Catherine Sulem*, University of Toronto
  (948-35-353)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
  Special Session on The Development of Topology in the Americas, II
  Room 7.124, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  Cameron Gordon, University of Texas, Austin gordon@math.utexas.edu
  Ioan Mackenzie James, University of Oxford imj@maths.ox.ac.uk
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    $3$-manifolds in Princeton in the 50's and 60's.
    John R Stallings*, University of California, Berkeley
    (948-01-127)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The Harvard-Princeton connection: The development of the exact sciences in Latin America, 1942-1950.
    Eduardo L Ortiz*, Imperial College, London (UK)
    (948-01-117)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Algebraic Topology in Brazil.
    Duane Randall*, Loyola University New Orleans
    (948-55-29)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Discussion.
  • 5:30 p.m.
    The development of infinite-dimensional topology in the United States.
    James E. West*, Cornell Univ.
    (948-01-354)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Wavelets and Approximation Theory, III
  Room 5.122, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  Don Hong, Eastern Tennessee State University hong@access.etsu.edu
  Michael Prophet, Murray State University mike@banach.mursuky.edu
  

  • 3:30 p.m.
    On the Hahn-Banach Operators.
    Boris Shekhtman*, University of South Florida
    (948-41-244)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Constrained Optimal Location.
    Robert Huotari, California State Automobile Association
    Michael P Prophet*, University of Northern Iowa
    (948-41-172)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    An $n$-Dimensional Hahn-Banach Extension Theorem and Minimal Projections.
    Bruce L Chalmers*, University of California
    (948-41-161)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Bounding nonharmonic, nonnegative, trigonometric sums.
    John N McDonald, Arizona State University
    Andrew J Siefker*, Murray State University
    (948-42-45)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    M.I.N.D.Y BASIC as a Data Collection.
    Franc Dominica S Mueller*, C.F.C.T.E., Inc.
    (948-53-12)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Analysis and PDEs, III
  Room 6.104, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  William Beckner, University of Texas at Austin beckner@math.utexas.edu
  Luis A. Caffarelli, University of Texas at Austin caffarel@math.utexas.edu
  Toti Daskalopoulos, University of California, Irvine pdaskalo@math.uci.edu
  Tatiana Toro, University of Washington toro@math.washington.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    A Priori Estimates for Solutions of Fully Nonlinear Equations with Convex Level Set.
    Luis A Caffarelli, Uinversity of Texas at Austin
    Yu Yuan*, University of Texas at Austin
    (948-35-268)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Legendrian energy minimizers.
    Luca Capogna*, University of Arkansas
    (948-49-214)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Break.
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Existence and uniqueness in the Monge's transport problem.
    Mikhail Feldman*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (948-49-199)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The Gauss Curvature Flow on Rotationally Symmetric Surfaces with with Flat Sides.
    Ki-ahm Lee*, UC-Irvine
    Panagiota Daskalopoulos, UC-Irvine
    (948-35-230)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Aperiodic Tiling, III
  Room 6.122, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  Charles Radin, University of Texas, Austin radin@math.utexas.edu
  Lorenzo Sadun, University of Texas, Austin sadun@math.utexas.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Construction of dual substitution on the stepped surface tiling.
    Maki Furukado*, Tsuda College
    (948-37-83)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Tilings from stepped surfaces and dual substitutions.
    Shunji Ito*, Tsuda College
    (948-37-82)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A dynamical systems approach to the symmetry properties of aperiodic tilings.
    Arthur Robinson*, George Washington University
    (948-37-158)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Optimal Circle Packing in the Hyperbolic Plane.
    Lewis P Bowen*, University of Texas
    (948-51-188)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Non-repetitive tilings.
    James Currie*, University of Winnipeg
    (948-52-189)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Old Open Questions: Whither the Einstein?
    Chaim Goodman-Strauss*, University of Arkansas
    (948-52-191)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Banach and Operator Spaces:Isomorphic and Geometric Structure, III
  Room 5.118, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  Edward Odell, University of Texas, Austin odell@math.utexas.edu
  Haskell P. Rosenthal, University of Texas, Austin rosenthl@math.utexas.edu
  

  • 3:30 p.m.
    A geometric inequality concerning the average Banach Mazur diameter of proportional sections symmetric convex bodies in $R^n$.
    Piotr Mankiewicz*, Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences
    Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann, University of Alberta, Edmonton
    (948-46-151)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A functional analytic approach to intersection bodies.
    Alexander Koldobsky*, University of Missouri - Columbia
    (948-46-17)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Asymptotic uniform smoothness.
    William B Johnson*, Texas A&M University
    Joram Lindenstrauss, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    David Preiss, University College London
    Gideon Schechtman, Weizmann Institute of Science
    (948-46-98)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The maximal regularity problem.
    Nigel Kalton*, University of Missouri
    Gilles Lancien, University of Missouri
    (948-46-93)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    One-complemented subspaces in $H_p$, $1
    Beata Randrianantoanina*, Miami University
    (948-46-297)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
  Special Session on Recent Developments in Index Theory, III
  Room 6.126, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  Daniel S. Freed, University of Texas, Austin dafr@math.utexas.edu
  John Roe, Pennsylvania State University roe@math.psu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Finite energy Seiberg-Witten monopoles.
    Liviu I Nicolaescu*, University of Notre Dame
    (948-58-240)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Combinatorial Morse Theory.
    Robin Forman*, Rice University
    (948-58-159)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Exact triangle in Seiberg--Witten Floer theory.
    Matilde Marcolli*, MIT
    Bai-Ling Wang, University of Adelaide
    (948-57-122)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Dynamics, III
  Room 7.122, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  Robert J. McCann, University of Toronto mccann@math.toronto.edu
  Catherine Sulem, University of Toronto sulem@math.toronto.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Soliton perturbations and the random Kepler problem.
    Jared C Bronski*, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    Fatkhulla Kh Abdullaev, Physical/Technical Institute, Tashkent
    George Papanicolaou, Stanford University
    (948-34-314)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Optimal Transportation on Manifolds with Obstacles.
    Mikhail Feldman, University of Wisconsin
    Robert J McCann*, University of Toronto
    (948-49-241)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Stability and Instability of Ginzburg-Landau Vortices.
    Stephen J Gustafson*, University of Toronto
    (948-35-251)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On a nonlinear heat equation.
    Changfeng Gui*, University of Connecticut and University of British Columbia
    (948-35-46)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    On a p-Laplacian Type of Evolution System Arising from Bean's Superconductivity Theory.
    Hong-Ming Yin*, Washongton State University
    (948-35-35)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical and Computational Financem, III
  Room 7.104, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  Stathis Tompaidis, University of Texas, Austin stathis@athena.bus.utexas.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    New Ways to Price Options: Unleashing the Power of PDEs.
    Curt Randall*, SciComp, Inc.
    (948-91-331)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A new integral representation of the early exercise boundary for American Put Options.
    Chunli Hou, PriceWaterhouseCoopers
    Thomas D Little*, PriceWaterHouseCoopers
    Vijay Pant, PriceWaterHouseCoopers
    (948-91-329)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A PDE method for Computing Moments.
    Thomas D Little, PriceWaterHouseCoopers
    Vijay Pant*, PriceWaterHouseCoopers
    (948-91-330)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On the Robustness of Option Pricing.
    Thomas Schlumprecht*, Texas A&M University
    (948-60-256)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Options on a Traded Account.
    Steven E. Shreve*, Carnegie Mellon University
    Jan Vecer, Carnegie Mellon University
    (948-60-38)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
  Special Session on DNA Topology, III
  Room 4.102, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  Isabel K. Darcy, University of Texas, Austin darcy@math.utexas.edu
  Makkuni Jayaram, Univeristy of Texas, Austin jayaram@intron.icmb.utexas.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Introduction to DNA Recombination.
    De Witt Sumners*, Florida State University
    (948-92-349)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Topology of Xer recombination at {\it psi}.
    Sean D Colloms*, Biochemistry, University of Oxford
    (948-92-284)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Tangle Analysis of Xer Site-Specific Recombination.
    Maria Elena Vazquez*, Mathematics Department, Florida State University
    De Witt Sumners, Mathematics Department, Florida State University
    (948-92-88)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    DNA Structure and Topology in FLP Site-specific Recombination.
    Stephen D Levene*, University of Texas at Dallas
    Kenneth E Huffman, University of Texas at Dallas
    (948-92-273)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Topological investigations of Flp site-specific recombination.
    Ian Grainge*, University of Texas at Austin
    Dorothy Buck, University of Texas at Austin
    Makkuni Jayaram, University of Texas at Austin
    (948-92-164)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Coordination of bilateral cleavage of DNA four-way junctions by resolving enzymes.
    David MJ Lilley*, University of Dundee
    Jon M Fogg, University of Dundee
    Mark Schofield, University of Dundee
    (948-92-130)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    The Double Helix Knot.
    Louis H Kauffman*, Univ of Illinois at Chicago
    (948-57-97)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Free Surface Interfaces and PDEs, II
  Room 7.112, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  Kirk Lancaster, Wichita State University lancaste@twsuvm.uc.twsu.edu
  Thomas Vogel, Texas A & M University tvogel@math.tamu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    C-singular solutions of the capillary problem.
    Robert Finn*, Stanford University
    Robert W Neel, Universität Leipzig
    (948-35-150)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Uniqueness of the singular solution to the capillary equation.
    Radoslav P Nickolov*, Stanford University
    (948-35-183)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Instability of non-spherical liquid bridges.
    Paul Concus, Lawrence Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley
    Robert Finn, Stanford University
    John McCuan*, Georgia Tech
    (948-53-181)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Behaviour of singularities for the rotationally symmetric, volume-preserving mean curvature flow.
    Maria Athanassenas*, Monash University
    (948-35-234)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Sufficient Conditions for Capillary Surfaces to be Energy Minima.
    Thomas I Vogel*, Texas A&M University
    (948-53-163)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Constant mean curvature surfaces of annular type.
    Henry C Wente*, University of Toledo
    (948-49-27)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    A general variational method for crystalline triple junction motion.
    Jean Taylor*, Rutgers University
    (948-49-355)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Dehn Surgery and Kleinian Groups, III
  Room 6.116, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  John Luecke, University of Texas, Austin luecke@math.utexas.edu
  Alan Reid, University of Texas, Austin areid@math.utexas.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    On the Weak Lopez Conjecture.
    Marc E Culler, U. of I. at Chicago
    Nathan M Dunfield, Harvard University
    Peter B Shalen*, U. of I. at Chicago
    (948-57-184)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    More on the Weak Lopez Conjecture.
    Marc E Culler*, U. of I. at Chicago
    Nathan M Dunfield, Harvard University
    Peter B Shalen, U. of I. at Chicago
    (948-57-186)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Levelling a knot's tunnel.
    Hiroshi Goda, Kobe University
    Martin Scharlemann*, U. C. Santa Barbara
    Abigail Thompson, U. C. Davis
    (948-57-187)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Some local properties of the $SL_2(\mathbb C)$-character variety of $3$-manifolds.
    Steven P Boyer*, UQAM
    (948-57-281)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Boundary slopes of immersed surfaces in 3-manifolds.
    Joel Hass*, U. C. Davis
    Hyam Rubinstein, University of Melbourne
    Shicheng Wang, Bejing University
    (948-57-307)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    The shape of hyperbolic Dehn surgery space.
    Steve Kerckhoff*, Stanford University
    Craig Hodgson, University of Melbourne
    (948-53-303)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Problems in Transport Phenomena, III
  Room 5.116, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  Jose Antonio Carrillo, University of Texas, Austin carri@math.utexas.edu
  Irene M. Gamba, University of Texas, Austin gamba@math.utexas.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Novel results in the kinetic thoery of vehicular traffic.
    Paul Nelson*, Texas A\&M University
    Alexandros Sopaskis, Texas A\&M University
    (948-76-13)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Kinetic formulation for system of two conservation laws.
    Benoit Perthame, ENS-Ulm
    Athanasios Tzavaras*, Univ. of Wisconsin
    (948-35-16)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Inviscid limits of the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation.
    Ansgar Jungel*, TU Berlin
    (948-35-25)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Strong uncertainty principle and stability of fronts.
    Eric A. Carlen, Georgia Tech
    Maria C. Carvalho*, Lisbon University and Georgia Tech
    E. Orlandi, Universita degli Studi di Roma Tre
    (948-35-180)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Asymptotic Analysis of some Nonlinear Schroedinger Equations for charged particle transport.
    Norbert J. Mauser*, Univ. of Vienna and Courant Institute
    (948-81-60)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Derivation of Fokker-Planck type equations from coupled quantum oscillators.
    Francois Castella, University of Rennes, France
    Laszlo Erdos*, Georgiatech, Atlanta
    Florian Frommlet, Technical Univesity of Berlin, Germany
    Peter Markowich, University of Vienna,Austria
    (948-81-18)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Self-consistent quantum-diffusion models.
    Anton Arnold*, TU-Berlin, MA 6-2
    (948-35-09)
  • 6:30 p.m.
    Magnetically created instability in a collisionless plasma.
    Walter Strauss*, Brown University
    (948-35-356)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on The Diverse Mathematical Legacy of Jean Leray, III (A)
  Room 7.116, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  Eric M. Friedlander, Northwestern University eric@math.nwu.edu
  Susan J. Friedlander, University of Illinois, Chicago susan@math.uic.edu
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    The damping of fluid motion.
    Jerry Bona*, U of Texas, Austin
    (948-35-178)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On Leray's self-similar solution to the Navier-Stokes equations in three dimensions.
    Jindrich Necas*, Northern Illinois U.
    (948-35-75)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Approximation dynamics for the Navier-Stokes equations.
    Victor A Pliss, St Petersburg University, St Petersburg, Russia
    George R Sell*, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
    (948-35-165)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    On the minimal scale for the Navier-Stokes equation.
    Igor Kukavica*, University of Southern California
    (948-35-113)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on The Diverse Mathematical Legacy of Jean Leray, III (B)
  Room 7.118, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  Eric M. Friedlander, Northwestern University eric@math.nwu.edu
  Susan J. Friedlander, University of Illinois, Chicago susan@math.uic.edu
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    Jean Leray's work on spectral sequences.
    Douglas C Ravenel*, University of Rochester
    (948-01-99)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Weight filtrations in K-theory.
    Daniel R Grayson*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (948-19-142)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Theoretical, Computational and Experimental Aspects of Mechanics, III
  Room 7.120, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  Jerry Bona, University of Texas, Austin bona@math.utexas.edu
  Steven Levandosky, University of Texas, Austin slevan@math.utexas.edu
  Jiahong Wu, University of Texas, Austin jiahong@math.utexas.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Flows of an ideal incompressible fluid with unbounded vorticity.
    Misha Vishik*, University of Texas at Austin
    (948-35-306)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Numerical simulation of circulation and transport in shallow water systems.
    Clint Dawson*, University of Texas at Austin
    (948-65-51)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Mixed Finite Element Methods on Non-Matching Multiblock Grids.
    Todd Arbogast*, The University of Texas
    Lawrence C Cowsar, Lucent Technologies Bell Labs
    Mary F Wheeler, The Unicversity of Texas at Austin
    Ivan Yotov, University of Pittsburgh
    (948-65-346)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On Temporal Asymptotics in One-Dimensional Nonlinear Thermoviscoelasticity with Phase Transitions.
    Stephen J Watson*, Professor
    (948-35-22)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Discussion.
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Interconnections Among Diophantine Geometry, Algebraic Geometry, and Value Distribution Theory, II
  Room 5.126, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  William Cherry, University of North Texas wcherry@unt.edu
  Min Ru, University of Houston minru@math.uh.edu
  Felipe Voloch, University of Texas, Austin voloch@fireant.ma.utexas.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    A sharp form of the Nevanlinna's error term.
    Yuefei Wang*, Institute of Mathematics, Academia Sinica, PRC
    (948-30-66)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On Cartan's Conjecture and the moving target problem.
    Pit-Mann Wong*, University of Notre Dame
    (948-32-290)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The Radon transform and holomorphic curves in Abelian varieties.
    Ryoichi Kobayashi*, Nagoya University
    (948-32-132)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Break.
  • 5:00 p.m.
    p-coverings and geometric height inequalities.
    Minhyong Kim*, university of arizona
    (948-11-225)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    "The truncated second main theorem over higher dimensional function fields of arbitrary characteristic".
    Julie Tzu-Yueh Wang*, Institute of Mathematics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan & Department of Mathematics, University of Notre Dame
    (948-11-101)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Topology of Continua, III
  Room 6.124, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  Wayne Lewis, Texas Tech University wlewis@math.ttu.edu
  Carl Seaquist, Texas Tech University seaqucr@math.ttu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Preservation of properties of continua by refinable maps.
    Eldon J Vought*, California State University, Chico
    (948-54-282)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Higher-dimensional hereditarily indecomposable continua.
    James T Rogers, Jr.*, Tulane University
    (948-54-217)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Non-hereditarily indecomposable local Siegel disk boundaries.
    Andrew O Maner*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
    (948-54-252)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Circle-like continua with small rotations.
    Andrew O Maner, University of Alabama at Birmingham
    John C Mayer*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
    Lex G Oversteegen, University of Alabama at Birmingham
    (948-54-274)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    On fixed points and prime-ends.
    Lex G Oversteegen*, UAB
    Robbert Fokkink, TuDelft
    John C Mayer, UAB
    (948-54-310)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Locally Connected Continua and Images of Arcs.
    Murat Tuncali*, Nipissing University, North Bay, Ontario, Canada
    (948-54-185)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
  Special Session on Dynamical Systems, III
  Room 6.120, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  David Delatte, University of North Texas delatte@sol.acs.unt.edu
  R. Daniel Mauldin, University of North Texas mauldin@unt.edu
  Mariusz Urbanski, University of North Texas urbanski@unt.edu
  Luca Quardo Zamboni, University of North Texas lqz0001@jove.acs.unt.edu
  

  • 3:30 p.m.
    Numerical calculation of the decay of correlations in particle systems.
    Marek R Rychlik*, University of Arizona
    (948-37-350)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Gaussian Thermostats, Lorentz Gas and Differential Geometry .
    Maciej P. Wojtkowski*, University of Arizona
    (948-58-41)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A Dani Theorem for the Teichmuller Horocycle Flow.
    William A Veech*, Rice University
    (948-37-198)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Periodic billiard orbits for a simple family of polygons.
    Eugene Gutkin*, University of Southern California
    (948-37-197)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Perturbations of piecewise rotations.
    Arek Goetz*, San Francisco State University
    (948-58-327)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Discussion.
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Advances in the Mathematics and Applications of Finite Elements, III
  Room 5.124, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  J. Tinsley Oden, University of Texas, Austin oden@ticam.utexas.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Local discontinuous Galerkin methods for contaminant transport.
    Clint Dawson*, Texas Institute for Computational & Applied Mathematics, The University of Texas at Austin
    (948-65-119)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Locally Conservative Discretizations on Non-matching Grids.
    Raytcho Lazarov*, Texas A&M University
    Joseph Pasciak, Texas A & M University
    P. Vassilevski, Texas A & M University
    (948-65-121)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A Fully Automatic hp-Adaptivity for Maxwell Equations. Is it Possible?
    Leszek Demkowicz*, TICAM, The University of Texas at Austin
    (948-65-243)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Finite Element Approximation of a Linearized Buckling Model.
    Manil Suri*, University of Maryland Baltimore County
    (948-65-288)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
  Session for Contributed Papers
  Room 5.112, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Global solutions for a class of nonlinear dispersive and dissipative equations via semigroups.
    Radu C Cascaval*, University of Memphis
    (948-35-317)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    On the geometry of the free boundary of the one-phase Stefan problem.
    Marianne K Korten*, University of Louisville
    (948-35-54)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Regularity of solutions to the perturbed conservation laws.
    Yudi Soeharyadi*, The University of Memphis
    Jerome A Goldstein, The University of Memphis
    (948-35-300)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    A time dependent model for the transport of heavy pollutants from ground-level aerial sources.
    Ismail Taqi Ali*, Kuwait University
    (948-35-01)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    General Formulas for Solving Solvable Sextic Equations.
    Thomas R Hagedorn*, Centre de Recherche Mathematique
    (948-12-34)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Braid representatives of links in $3$-manifolds.
    Gretchen Wright*, Bronx Community College, CUNY
    (948-57-301)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The Asymptotic Expansion and Numerical Verification of Van der Pol's Equation.
    Deeba Elias, University of Houston-Downtown
    Shishen S Xie*, University of Houston-Downtown
    (948-41-316)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 8:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
  Special Session on Aperiodic Tiling, IV
  Room 6.122, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  Charles Radin, University of Texas, Austin radin@math.utexas.edu
  Lorenzo Sadun, University of Texas, Austin sadun@math.utexas.edu
  

  • 8:30 p.m.
    Roundtable discussion.

Sunday October 10, 1999

• Sunday October 10, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  Invited Address
  Large scale geometric invariants of elliptic operators.
  Room 106, Burdine Hall
  John Roe*, Penn State University
  (948-58-153)
• Sunday October 10, 1999, 9:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
  Special Session on Recent Developments in Index Theory, IV
  Room 6.126, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  Daniel S. Freed, University of Texas, Austin dafr@math.utexas.edu
  John Roe, Pennsylvania State University roe@math.psu.edu
  

  • 10:00 a.m.
    Index Theory of Toeplitz Operators on Transformation Group C*-algebras.
    Efton Park*, Texas Christian University
    (948-47-32)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Coarse obstructions to positive scalar curvature metrics in noncompact quotients of symmetric spaces.
    Stanley S Chang*, Rice University
    (948-19-207)
  • 12:00 p.m.
    C*-algebraic index theory and finite asymptotic dimension.
    Nigel D Higson*, Penn State University
    (948-19-304)
• Sunday October 10, 1999, 10:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Wavelets and Approximation Theory, IV
  Room 5.122, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  Don Hong, Eastern Tennessee State University hong@access.etsu.edu
  Michael Prophet, Murray State University mike@banach.mursuky.edu
  

  • 10:00 a.m.
    Wavelets for Compression of Terrain Data.
    Ratan Guha, University of Central Florida
    Rajkumar Madhuram, University of Central Florida
    R. N Mohapatra*, University of Central Florida
    (948-41-339)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Semi-orthogonal Spline Wavelet Packets for Homogeneous Sobolev Spaces on a Bounded Interval.
    Jianzhong Wang*, Sam Houston State University
    (948-41-249)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Digitized PDE method for data restoration.
    Stanley Osher, Dept. of Math. UCLA
    Jianhong Shen*, Dept. of Math. UCLA
    (948-94-245)
• Sunday October 10, 1999, 10:00 a.m.-1:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Banach and Operator Spaces:Isomorphic and Geometric Structure, IV
  Room 5.118, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  Edward Odell, University of Texas, Austin odell@math.utexas.edu
  Haskell P. Rosenthal, University of Texas, Austin rosenthl@math.utexas.edu
  

  • 10:00 a.m.
    Rotating the unit ball of $l^n_1$.
    Piotr Mankiewisz, Polish Acad. of Sciences
    Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann*, Univ. of Alberta
    (948-46-340)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Constructing isomorphic $\ell_1$-preduals.
    Dale E. Alspach*, Oklahoma State University
    (948-46-259)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Ramsey dichotomies and ordinal indices.
    Vassiliki A Farmaki*, Department Of Mathematics, University of Athens, Greece
    (948-05-48)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Unconditional structures of weakly null sequences.
    Spiros A Argyros, University of Athens
    Ioannis Gasparis*, Oklahoma State University
    (948-46-65)
  • 12:00 p.m.
    A remark on polynomials in several variables.
    Petr Hajek*, Texas A&M University
    (948-46-263)
  • 12:30 p.m.
    On the scalar plus compact problem.
    Thomas Schlumprecht*, Texas A&M University
    George Androulakis, Texas A&M University
    (948-46-253)
  • 1:00 p.m.
    Subsymmetric sequences in Schlumprecht'space.
    George Androulakis*, Texas A&M University
    Thomas Schlumprecht, Texas A&M University
    (948-46-257)
• Sunday October 10, 1999, 10:00 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical and Computational Finance, IV
  Room 7.104, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  Stathis Tompaidis, University of Texas, Austin stathis@athena.bus.utexas.edu
  

  • 10:00 a.m.
    Risk Management in Non-gaussian markets.
    Luis Seco*, University of Toronto
    (948-91-334)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Stratified Sampling and Quasi Monte Carlo Methods to Measure Portfolio Risk.
    Alex Kreinin*, Algorithmics, Inc.
    Leonid Merkoulovitch, Algorithmics, Inc.
    Dan Rosen, Algorithmics, Inc.
    Michael Zerbs, Algorithmics, Inc.
    (948-91-326)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Affine stochastic models for energy prices.
    Mihaela Manoliu*, Caminus LLC/Zai*Net Analytics
    (948-90-229)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Uncertain Growth Prospects, Estimation Risk, and Asset Prices.
    Hong Yan*, University of Texas at Austin
    (948-91-345)
  • 12:00 p.m.
    Equity options with Montecarlo methods: calibration and variance reduction.
    Claudio Albanese*, University of Toronto
    (948-91-337)
• Sunday October 10, 1999, 10:00 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
  Special Session on DNA Topology, IV
  Room 4.102, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  Isabel K. Darcy, University of Texas, Austin darcy@math.utexas.edu
  Makkuni Jayaram, Univeristy of Texas, Austin jayaram@intron.icmb.utexas.edu
  

  • 10:00 a.m.
    Simplification of DNA Topology by Type II Topoisomerases.
    Alexander V Vologodskii*, New York University
    (948-92-293)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    A three DNA-segment recognition model of type II topoisomerases.
    Joaquim Roca*, IBMB - CSIC, Barcelona, Spain
    (948-92-102)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Effect of DNA topology on E. coli DNA topoisomerase IV.
    Richard W. Deibler, Baylor College of Medicine
    Sonia R. Rahmati, Baylor College of Medicine
    Lynn Zechiedrich*, Baylor College of Medicine
    (948-92-149)
  • 12:00 p.m.
    Topoisomerase IV is the Main Unknotting Enzyme in Escherichia coli.
    Richard W Deibler*, Baylor College of Medicine
    Lynn Zechiedrich, Baylor College of Medicine
    (948-92-160)
  • 12:30 p.m.
    Discussion of open problems at the interface of mathematics and molecular biology.
• Sunday October 10, 1999, 10:00 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Free Surface Interfaces and PDEs, III
  Room 7.112, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  Kirk Lancaster, Wichita State University lancaste@twsuvm.uc.twsu.edu
  Thomas Vogel, Texas A & M University tvogel@math.tamu.edu
  

  • 10:00 a.m.
    Approximating Finite 3-energy Maps from the 4 Ball to the 2 Sphere.
    Robert M Hardt*, Rice University
    Tristan Riviere, Ecole Norm. Sup.-Cachan
    (948-35-134)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Gauss map omissions of minimal surfaces.
    Helen Moore*, Stanford University/Bowdoin College
    (948-53-302)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Triunduloids: embedded three-ended surfaces of constant mean curvature.
    John M Sullivan*, Univ. of Illinois
    Rob Kusner, Univ. of Massachusetts
    Karsten Grosse-Brauckmann, Uni. Bonn
    (948-53-232)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Dirac's Equation and Prescribing Mean Curvature.
    George I Kamberov*, Washigton University in St. Louis
    (948-53-299)
  • 12:00 p.m.
    Geometry, topology and conformal structure of properly embedded minimal surfaces.
    Rob Kusner*, University of Massachusetts
    (948-53-313)
• Sunday October 10, 1999, 10:00 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Dehn Surgery and Kleinian Groups, IV
  Room 6.116, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  John Luecke, University of Texas, Austin luecke@math.utexas.edu
  Alan Reid, University of Texas, Austin areid@math.utexas.edu
  

  • 10:00 a.m.
    Finiteness of (H)eegaard splittings for atoridal $3$--manifolds.
    William H Jaco*, Oklahoma State University
    Joachim H Rubinstein, University of Melbourne
    (948-57-210)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Heegaard genus and separating incompressible surfaces.
    Martin G Scharlemann, UCSB
    Jennifer C Schultens*, Emory University
    (948-57-201)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Non-mutant hyperbolic knots with unfaithful double branch covers.
    Steven A. Bleiler*, Portland State University
    Bell Foozwell, University of Melbourne
    Hyam Rubinstein, University of Melbourne
    (948-57-221)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Seifert surfaces and disk decompositions.
    Mark W Brittenham*, University of North Texas
    (948-57-211)
  • 12:00 p.m.
    Decision problems in the space of Dehn fillings.
    William Jaco, Oklahoma State University
    Eric Sedgwick*, DePaul University
    (948-57-309)
• Sunday October 10, 1999, 10:00 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Problems in Transport Phenomena, IV
  Room 5.116, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  Jose Antonio Carrillo, University of Texas, Austin carri@math.utexas.edu
  Irene M. Gamba, University of Texas, Austin gamba@math.utexas.edu
  

  • 10:00 a.m.
    Entropy Production and Convergence to Equilibrium for the Povzner and Povzner-Vlasov Equations.
    Eric A Carlen*, Ga Tech
    M C Carvalho, Ga Tech
    Joel Lebowitz, Rutgers University
    (948-82-148)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Entropy dissipation methods in kinetic theory.
    Cedric Villani*, ENS, DMI
    (948-35-23)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Acoustic and Stokes Limits for the Boltzmann Equation.
    C. David Levermore*, Department of Mathematics, The University of Arizona,
    (948-82-109)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Some geometric mechanisms for transport in classical dynamical systems.
    Rafael de la Llave*, Univ. of Texas at Austin
    (948-35-11)
  • 12:00 p.m.
    Hamiltonian Description of Vlasov Dynamics: Action-Angle Variables for the Continuous Spectrum.
    Philip J Morrison*, Department of Physics and Institute for Fusion Studies, University of Texas at Austin
    (948-82-62)
  • 12:30 p.m.
    Asymmetric Quasiperiodic Solution of Hartree-Fock Systems, and their Counterparts for the Vlasov-Poisson System.
    Jean Dolbeault, CEREMADE
    Reinhard Illner*, University of Victoria
    Horst Lange, Universitaet Koeln
    (948-81-49)
• Sunday October 10, 1999, 10:00 a.m.-1:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Interconnections Among Diophantine Geometry, Algebraic Geometry, and Value Distribution Theory, III
  Room 5.126, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  William Cherry, University of North Texas wcherry@unt.edu
  Min Ru, University of Houston minru@math.uh.edu
  Felipe Voloch, University of Texas, Austin voloch@fireant.ma.utexas.edu
  

  • 10:00 a.m.
    Simultaneous approximation in positive characteristic.
    Wolfgang M Schmidt*, University of Colorado at Boulder
    (948-11-174)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Stability of base loci of linear series.
    Michael Nakamaye*, University of New Mexico
    (948-14-173)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    On Lang's Geometric Conjecture for Surfaces of General Type.
    Cong X Kang*, American University
    (948-14-87)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Rational curves on holomorphic symplectic manifolds, with applications to rational points and rationality problems.
    Brendan E Hassett*, University of Chicago
    Yuri Tschinkel, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (948-14-209)
  • 12:00 p.m.
    Break.
  • 12:30 p.m.
    A uniform bound for the number of solutions to some Thue equations.
    Thomas J Tucker*, University of Georgia
    (948-11-212)
  • 1:00 p.m.
    Quadratic points on some Fermat curves.
    Pavlos Tzermias*, University of Arizona
    (948-11-227)
• Sunday October 10, 1999, 10:00 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Topology of Continua, IV
  Room 6.124, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  Wayne Lewis, Texas Tech University wlewis@math.ttu.edu
  Carl Seaquist, Texas Tech University seaqucr@math.ttu.edu
  

  • 10:00 a.m.
    On $C_n$--Determined Continua.
    Sergio Ma\'{\i}as*, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
    (948-54-37)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Spans of Spaces Contained in a Convex Disc Cross an Arc.
    Thelma R West*, University of Southwestern Louisiana
    (948-54-108)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    On open retractions of the pseudo-arc.
    Janusz R. Prajs*, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas
    (948-54-135)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Concerning Continua that are Irreducible about Finitely Many Points.
    David J Ryden*, University of Missouri - Rolla
    (948-54-157)
  • 12:00 p.m.
    Unions of shore sets in dendroids.
    Alejandro Illanes*, UNAM. Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
    (948-54-320)
• Sunday October 10, 1999, 10:00 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Dynamical Systems, IV
  Room 6.120, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  David Delatte, University of North Texas delatte@sol.acs.unt.edu
  R. Daniel Mauldin, University of North Texas mauldin@unt.edu
  Mariusz Urbanski, University of North Texas urbanski@unt.edu
  Luca Quardo Zamboni, University of North Texas lqz0001@jove.acs.unt.edu
  

  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Eckmann-Ruelle conjecture -- the past, present, and future.
    Yakov B Pesin*, Penn State University
    (948-37-279)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Asymptotic Measures in Dissipative Systems.
    Sheldon E Newhouse*, Michigan State University
    (948-37-171)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Positive entropy for the Standard map.
    Oliver R Knill*, University of Texas
    (948-58-170)
  • 12:00 p.m.
    Smooth Rigidity of Conformal Anosov systems in higher dimensions.
    Rafael de la Llave*, U. Texas at Austin
    (948-37-64)
• Sunday October 10, 1999, 10:00 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Advances in the Mathematics and Applications of Finite Elements, IV
  Room 5.124, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  J. Tinsley Oden, University of Texas, Austin oden@ticam.utexas.edu
  

  • 10:00 a.m.
    Numerical modeling of photonic crystals.
    Joseph E Pasciak*, Texas A&M University
    David C Dobson, Texas A&M University
    (948-65-124)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Some Theoretical and Practical Aspects of Least Squares Finite Element Methods.
    Graham F Carey*, The University of Texas at Austin
    Walter B Richardson, The University of Texas at San Antonio
    Atanas I Pehlivanov, The University of Texas at Austin
    Abhijit Bose, The University of Michigan
    (948-65-137)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Locally Conservative Algorithms for Flow.
    Mary F Wheeler*, Texas Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics, The University of Texas at Austin
    (948-65-125)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Iterative Analysis of the Mortar Element.
    Yuri A Kuznetsov*, University of Houston
    (948-65-261)
  • 12:00 p.m.
    Finite Volume Element Methods for Fluid Flow.
    Richard E. Ewing*, Texas A\&M University, College Station, Texas
    Raytcho Lazarov, Texas A\&M University, College Station, Texas
    Yanping Lin, Texas A\&M University, College Station, Texas
    (948-65-89)

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