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2001 Spring Eastern Section Meeting
Hoboken, NJ, April 28-29, 2001
Meeting #966

Associate secretaries:
Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu

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Saturday April 28, 2001

• Saturday April 28, 2001, 7:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Bissinger Room, 4th Floor, Howe Center
• Saturday April 28, 2001, 7:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
  Book Sale and Exhibit
  Bissinger Room, 4th Floor, Howe Center
• Saturday April 28, 2001, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Analytic Number Theory, I
  Room 229, Edwin A. Stevens (EAS) Hall
  Organizers:
  Milos A. Dostal, Stevens Institute of Technology mdostal@stevens-tech.edu
  Werner G. Nowak, Universit\"at f\"ur Bodenkultur, Vienna, Austria nowak@mail.boku.ac.at
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    On Minimal Expansions in Redundant Number Systems: Algorithms, Quantitative Analysis, and Extensions.
    Clemens Heuberger*, Graz University of Technology, Austria
    Helmut Prodinger, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
    (966-11-50)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Lattice points in convex bodies with planar points on the boundary.
    Manfred Peter*, University of Freiburg, Germany
    (966-11-75)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The distribution of $(n\alpha)$ -- sequences and Mahler's classification.
    Christoph Baxa*, University of Vienna
    (966-11-86)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The digit-expansions of a large positive integer to different bases.
    Johannes Schoissengeier*, University of Vienna
    (966-11-71)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A high dimensional lattice point problem.
    Wolfgang M\"uller*, Graz Universty of Technology, Austria
    (966-11-104)
• Saturday April 28, 2001, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on History of Mathematics, I
  Room 222, Edwin A. Stevens (EAS) Hall
  Organizers:
  Patricia R. Allaire, Queensborough Community College, CUNY praqb@cunyvm.cuny.edu
  Robert E. Bradley, Adelphi University bradley@adelphi.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    The Gaussian Solution to 2cos(360/17).
    Peter L Griffiths*, London, UK.
    (966-01-55)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Poincare's on Mathematical Truth and the Nature of Geometry.
    Steven J Gimbel*, Gettysburg College
    (966-01-15)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Origins of Banach Space Theory.
    Andrew B Perry*, Springfield College
    (966-01-17)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Warren Weaver On the C.L. Dodgson Nachlass.
    Francine F Abeles*, Kean University
    (966-01-13)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Mina Rees and the Founding of the Graduate School at CUNY.
    Amy E Shell*, United States Military Academy
    (966-01-09)
• Saturday April 28, 2001, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Computational Algebraic Geometry and Its Applications, I
  Room 329, Edwin A. Stevens (EAS) Hall
  Organizers:
  Serkan Hosten, San Francisco State University
  Frank Sottile, University of Massachusetts at Amherst sottile@math.umass.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Asymptotics from multivariate rational generating functions.
    Robin Pemantle*, Ohio State University
    (966-05-49)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The Asymptotic Growth Rate of the Mean Number of Equlibria of a Two Player Game.
    Andrew McLennan*, Econ Dept, U of Minnesota
    Johannes Berg, Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics
    (966-91-80)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Applications of Cartan's Moving Frame Method to Classical Invariant Theory.
    Irina A Kogan*, Yale University
    (966-14-176)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Invariant approximation of differential invariants: an algorithmic approach.
    Mireille Boutin*, University of Minnesota
    (966-53-116)
• Saturday April 28, 2001, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Singular and Degenerate Nonlinear Elliptic Boundary Value Problems, I
  Room 106, McLean Hall
  Organizers:
  Joe McKenna, University of Connecticut mckenna@math.uconn.edu
  Changfeng Gui, University of Connecticut gui@math.uconn.edu
  Yung Sze Choi, University of Connecticut choi@math.uconn.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Two-diimensional travelling waves in suspended plates and nonlinear Schrodinger equations in free space: fission, fusion, and interactions.
    Jiri Horak, University of Connecticut
    P.J. McKenna*, University of Connecticut
    (966-35-147)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Singular concave semilinear elliptic problems.
    Junping Shi*, College of William and Mary
    (966-35-110)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A new best Sobolev inequality on Riemannian manifolds.
    YanYan Li, Rutgers University
    Tonia Ricciardi*, Universit\'a di Napoli Federico II
    (966-35-150)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Complex Spatio-Temporal Dynamics in Acarine Populations and the Huffaker Phenomenon.
    Robert A Gardner*, University of Massachusetts
    (966-35-138)
• Saturday April 28, 2001, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Ricci Curvature and Related Topics, I
  Room 212, Edwin A. Stevens (EAS) Hall
  Organizers:
  George I. Kamberov, Stevens Institute of Technology gkambero@stevens-tech.edu