AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Day

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:11

Associate secretaries:
John L Bryant, AMS bryant@math.fsu.edu

Sunday April 16, 2000, 8:30 a.m.-9:20 a.m.
Invited Address
Periods, L-functions, and arithmetic.
Room 147, Griffin Hall
Fernando Rodriguez Villegas*, University of Texas at Austin
(954-11-03)

Sunday April 16, 2000, 9:30 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Special Session on Rings and Their Generalizations, IV
Room 318, Griffin Hall
Organizers:
Gary F. Birkenmeier, University of Louisiana at Lafayette gfb1127@usl.edu
Henry E. Heatherly, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
- 9:30 a.m.
  Near-Rings Formed Using the Set of Solutions of Conditional Cauchy Equations.
  Chris G Devillier*, Louisiana State University at Eunice
  (954-08-181)
- 10:00 a.m.
  A class of 2-primal rings that satisfy (PS I).
  Greg T Marks*, University of California at Berkeley
  (954-16-83)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Mappings of Finite Groups.
  Alan Oswald*, University of Teesside, UK
  Peter Birch, England
  (954-08-89)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Modules with fully invariant submodules essesntial in fully invariant summands.
  Gary F. Birkenmeier, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
  Jae K. Park, Busan National University
  S. Tariq Rizvi*, The Ohio State University
  (954-16-84)
- 11:30 a.m.
  Stacked bases over $h$-local Pr\"ufer domains.
  Laszlo Fuchs*, Tulane University
  Sang Bum Lee, Sangmyung University
  (954-13-94)

Sunday April 16, 2000, 9:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Differential Equations and Their Applications, IV
Room 205, Griffin Hall
Organizers:
C. Y. Chan, University of Louisiana at Lafayette chan@usl.edu
Keng Deng, University of Louisiana at Lafayette kxd5858@usl.edu
A. S. Vatsala, University of Louisiana at Lafayette vatsala@usl.edu
- 9:30 a.m.
  Global bifurcations for models of phase transitions.
  Junping Shi*, Department of Mathematics, Tulane University
  (954-35-60)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Exchange of conserved quantities in systems of conservation laws.
  Michael Sever*, The Hebrew University
  (954-35-62)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Viscosity Solutions of Fully Nonlinear Functional Parabolic Differential Equations.
  Liu Wei-an*, Associate Prof./Central China Normal University
  (954-39-65)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Analysis of new meshless methods for conservation laws.
  Nathalie Lanson*, MIP-INSA
  Jean Paul Vila, MIP-INSA
  (954-35-15)

Sunday April 16, 2000, 9:30 a.m.-11:45 p.m.
Special Session on Quantum Topology, IV
Room 321, Griffin Hall
Organizers:
Patrick M. Gilmer, Louisiana State University gilmer@marais.math.lsu.edu
- 9:30 a.m.
  Relativistic Spin networks, with topological and physical applications.
  Louis Crane*, Kansas State University
  (954-83-80)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Presentations of $q$-Homotopy Skein Modules of $3$-manifolds.
  Uwe Kaiser*, Siegen University
  (954-57-79)
- 11:00 a.m.
  On the noncommutative generalization of the A-polynomial.
  Razvan Gelca*, University of Michigan
  (954-57-193)

Sunday April 16, 2000, 9:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Continuum Theory, IV
Room 301, Griffin Hall
Organizers:
Thelma R. West, University of Louisiana at Lafayette trw7348@usl.edu
- 9:30 a.m.
  A Complete Classification of Inverse Limit Spaces of Tent Maps with Periodic Critical Points.
  Brian E Raines*, University of Missouri-Rolla
  (954-54-112)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Weak and small Whitney properties.
  Wlodzimierz J. Charatonik*, University of Mossouri-Rolla
  (954-54-146)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Investigating the Selection Space of Dendrites.
  Joseph E McParland*, National Security Agency
  (954-54-189)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Spans of the Hilbert Cube.
  Isabel Puga Espinosa*, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
  Raul Escobedo Conde, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
  Thelma R West, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
  (954-54-203)

Sunday April 16, 2000, 9:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on L-functions, Periods, and Arithmetic, II
Room 405, Griffin Hall
Organizers:
Fernando Rodriguez Villegas, University of Texas at Austin villegas@fireant.ma.utexas.edu
Jeff Vaaler, University of Texas at Austin vaaler@math.utexas.edu
- 9:30 a.m.
  Toric Varieties and Modular Forms.
  Lev A Borisov, Columbia University
  Paul E Gunnells*, Columbia University
  (954-11-54)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Theta Correspondence and Zeta Series with Respect to a Quadratic Extension (Preliminary Report).
  Ze-Li Dou*, Texas Christian University
  (954-11-55)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Mollifiers, zeros, and mean values of L-functions.
  David W Farmer*, Bucknell University
  J. Brian Conrey, American Institute of Mathematics
  (954-11-166)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Stark's conjecture in multiquadratic extensions, revisited.
  Jonathan W Sands*, University of Vermont
  David S Dummit, University of Vermont
  Brett Tangedal, College of Charleston
  (954-11-10)

Sunday April 16, 2000, 9:30 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
Special Session on Graph Theory, IV
Room 215, Griffin Hall
Organizers:
Robin Thomas, Georgia Institute of Technology thomas@math.gatech.edu
Dhruv Mubayi, Georgia Institute of Technology mubayi@math.gatech.edu
- 9:30 a.m.
  Totally positive hypergraphs.
  Jen{\H o} Lehel*, University of Louisville
  (954-05-138)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Fragile Graphs.
  Guantao Chen, Georgia State University
  Ralph J Faudree*, University of Memphis
  Michael S Jacobson, University of Louisville
  (954-05-134)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Vertex covers by edge disjoint cliques.
  Lubos Thoma*, Carnegie Mellon University
  (954-05-182)
- 11:00 a.m.
  From Triangulated Spheres to Triangulated Balls.
  Andre\u{\i} Kotlov*, CWI (Amsterdam)
  (954-05-93)
- 11:30 a.m.
  Minimum Span Vertex Labellings.
  Jerrold R. Griggs*, University of South Carolina
  (954-05-196)
- 12:00 p.m.
  Growing grids in matroids of high branch-width.
  Thor Johnson, Princeton University
  Neil Robertson*, Ohio State University
  Paul Seymour, Princeton University
  (954-05-192)

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