AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Day
Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:01
1999 Fall Central Sectional Meeting
Austin, TX, October 8-10, 1999
Meeting #948
Associate secretaries: Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu
Sunday October 10, 1999
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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
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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)
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10:00 a.m.
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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
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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)
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10:00 a.m.
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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
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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)
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10:00 a.m.
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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
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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)
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10:00 a.m.
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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
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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.
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10:00 a.m.
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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
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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)
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10:00 a.m.
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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
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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)
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10:00 a.m.
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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
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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)
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10:00 a.m.
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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
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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.
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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)
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10:00 a.m.
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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
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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)
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10:00 a.m.
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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
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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)
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10:00 a.m.
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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
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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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10:00 a.m.