AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:21:27

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

Friday March 30, 2001, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Optimal Control, Calculus of Variations, and Nonsmooth Analysis, I
Room 554, Snow Hall
Organizers:
Michael Malisoff, Texas A\&M University, Corpus Christi malisoff@penguin.tamucc.edu
Peter R. Wolenski, Louisiana State University
- 8:30 a.m.
  Necessary Conditions of Optimality for Impulsive Control Problems with State Constraints.
  Fernando Pereira*, Porto University
  Geraldo da Silva, Universidade Estadual Paulista
  (964-49-200)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Sub-Lipschitz Mappings and Connections to Optimal Control and the Hamilton-Jacobi Equation.
  Grant N. Galbraith*, University of California, Davis
  (964-49-205)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Recent Results on Viscosity Solutions of the Bellman Equation for Optimal Control Problems with Exit Times.
  Michael A. Malisoff*, Texas A \& M University-Corpus Christi
  (964-49-238)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Optimal Control and Hamilton-Jacobi Equations with Discontinuous Data Dependence.
  Dan Ostrov*, Santa Clara University
  (964-49-193)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Necessary Conditions for Constrained Optimization Problems, their Applications and a Variational Proof.
  Qiji J Zhu*, Western Michigan University
  (964-49-111)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Discussion

Friday March 30, 2001, 3:00 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
Special Session on Optimal Control, Calculus of Variations, and Nonsmooth Analysis, II
Room 554, Snow Hall
Organizers:
Michael Malisoff, Texas A\&M University, Corpus Christi malisoff@penguin.tamucc.edu
Peter R. Wolenski, Louisiana State University
- 3:00 p.m.
  Convergence Questions for Augmented Lagrangian Methods in an Optimal Control Setting.
  Joe Dunn*, North Carolina State University
  (964-49-214)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Direct Transcription Solution of Inequality Constrained Optimal Control Problems.
  Stephen L Campbell*, North Carolina State University
  Neil Biehn, North Carolina State University
  John T Betts, Boeing Corporation
  (964-65-138)
- 4:30 p.m.
  A Lyapunov Characterization of a Notion of Detectability for Nonlinear Systems.
  Brian P Ingalls*, Rutgers University
  (964-93-156)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Nonlinear Observer Design in the Siegel Domain.
  Arthur Krener, University of California, Davis
  Mingqing Xiao*, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
  (964-49-140)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Faithful representations for convex Hamilton-Jacobi equations.
  Franco Rampazzo*, Universita' di Padova (Italy)
  (964-49-175)
- 6:00 p.m.
  Discussion

Saturday March 31, 2001, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Optimal Control, Calculus of Variations, and Nonsmooth Analysis, III
Room 554, Snow Hall
Organizers:
Michael Malisoff, Texas A\&M University, Corpus Christi malisoff@penguin.tamucc.edu
Peter R. Wolenski, Louisiana State University
- 8:30 a.m.
  Discontinuous solutions and comparison results for a class of Hamilton-Jacobi equations.
  Antonio Siconolfi*, Univ. di Roma "La Sapienza''
  (964-49-195)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Numerical Analysis in Optimal Control.
  William W Hager*, University of Florida
  (964-49-250)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Discussion
- 10:30 a.m.
  Viscosity solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations for the optimal control of Navier-Stokes equations.
  Andzrej Swiech*, Georgia Institute of Technology
  F. Gozzi, Universita di Pisa
  S. S. Sritharan, Space & Naval Warfare Systems Center
  (964-49-165)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Optimal Stochastic Control Applied to Mathematical Finance.
  Agnes Tourin*, University of Toronto
  Thaleia Zariphopoulou, University of Texas at Austin
  (964-93-126)

Saturday March 31, 2001, 3:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
Special Session on Optimal Control, Calculus of Variations, and Nonsmooth Analysis, IV
Room 554, Snow Hall
Organizers:
Michael Malisoff, Texas A\&M University, Corpus Christi malisoff@penguin.tamucc.edu
Peter R. Wolenski, Louisiana State University
- 3:30 p.m.
  Minimal Curves of Constant Torsion.
  Thomas A. Ivey*, College of Charleston
  (964-49-68)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Discrete Optimal Control and the Dynamics of Rigid Bodies.
  Anthony M Bloch*, University of Michigan
  Peter E Crouch, Arizona State University
  Jerrold E Marsden, California Institute of Technology
  Tudor S Ratiu, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
  (964-49-150)
- 4:30 p.m.
  High-order conditions for optimality and high-order approximating cones using a geometric language.
  Matthias Kawski*, Arizona State University
  (964-93-215)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Path-Integral generalized differentials and the maximum principle of optimal control theory.
  H\'ector J Sussmann*, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
  (964-49-207)

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