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2000 Fall Southeastern Section Meeting
Birmingham, AL, November 10-12, 2000
Meeting #960

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

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Friday November 10, 2000

• Friday November 10, 2000, 12:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  First Floor, Educational Building
• Friday November 10, 2000, 12:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  First Floor, Educational Building
• Friday November 10, 2000, 1:15 p.m.-1:25 p.m.
  Opening Remarks and Welcome
  Auditorium, Hill University Center
• Friday November 10, 2000, 1:25 p.m.-2:15 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Perturbation theory on integrable systems.
  Auditorium, Hill University Center
  Xin Zhou*, Duke University
  Percy Deift, New York University-Courant Institute
  (960-35-02)
• Friday November 10, 2000, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Inverse Problems, I
  Room 134, Educational Building
  Organizers:
  Ian Walker Knowles, University of Alabama at Birmingham iwk@math.uab.edu
  Rudi Weikard, University of Alabama at Birmingham rudi@math.uab.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    On Determining a Riemannian Manifold from the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map.
    Gunther Uhlmann*, University of Washington
    (960-35-183)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Electrical Impedance Imaging.
    David Isaacson*, RPI
    (960-78-223)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Gradients with respect to metrics: Applications to superconductivity.
    John W Neuberger*, University of North Texas
    (960-35-25)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    break
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Algorithms for making time reversal mirror calculations in wave guides.
    Joyce R. McLaughlin*, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York
    (960-35-237)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Time-Reversal Acoustics for Multiple Targets.
    James G Berryman*, Lawrence Livermore Lab
    (960-35-196)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Super-resolution Processing of Multi-static Data Using Time Reversal and MUSIC.
    Anthony J Devaney*, Northeastern University
    (960-15-192)
• Friday November 10, 2000, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Relations Between Spectral Theory and Analytic Number Theory, I
  Room 128, Educational Building
  Organizers:
  Robert M. Kauffman, University of Alabama at Birmingham kauffman@vorteb.math.uab.edu
  Martin N. Huxley, Cardiff University, Wales Huxley@cardiff.ac.uk
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Some old ideas on the Riemann Hypothesis.
    Martin N Huxley*, University of Cardiff
    (960-11-151)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    discussion
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Boundary Distributions of Automorphic Forms and Their L-functions.
    Stephen D Miller*, Yale University
    (960-11-139)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Eigenfunctions of Quantized Cat Maps.
    Par Kurlberg*, University of Georgia
    (960-11-255)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Trace formulas, resonances, and asymptotics of the length spectrum for hyperbolic manifolds of infinite volume.
    Peter A Perry*, University of Kentucky
    (960-58-205)
• Friday November 10, 2000, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Billiards and Related Topics, I
  Room 148, Educational Building
  Organizers:
  Nikolai I. Chernov, University of Alabama at Birmingham chernov@math.uab.edu
  Nandor Simanyi, University of Alabama at Birmingham simanyi@math.uab.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Topological entropy of convex billiards with small obstacles.
    Roberto Markarian*, IMERL, Universidad de la Rep\`ublica, Uruguay
    (960-58-90)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Measurements of decay of correlations in large particle systems.
    Marek R Rychlik*, University of Arizona
    (960-70-233)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Search light in billiard tables.
    Gregory Galperin*, Eastern Illinois University
    (960-37-157)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Decay of correlations for some almost Anosov systems.
    Huyi Hu*, The University of Southern California
    (960-37-210)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Nonholonomic constraints, normal form and high frequency oscillations.
    Mark Levi*, Penn State University
    Warren Weckesser, University of Michigan
    (960-37-134)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Polyhedral billiards and a caricature on the Boltzmann-Sinai gas.
    Eugene Gutkin*, Santa Monica, California
    (960-37-43)
• Friday November 10, 2000, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Spectral and Transport Problems in Solid State Physics, I
  Room 129, Educational Building
  Organizers:
  Peter D. Hislop, University of Kentucky hislop@ms.uky.edu
  Yulia Karpeshina, University of Alabama at Birmingham karpeshi@math.uab.edu
  Gunter H. Stolz, University of Alabama at Birmingham stolz@math.uab.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    The Creation of Spectral Gaps by Graph Decoration.
    Jeffrey H Schenker*, Princeton University
    Michael Aizenman, Princeton University
    (960-47-167)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Finite rank perturbations of spectra.
    Alexei Poltoratski*, Texas A\&M University
    (960-47-75)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Break.
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Liouville theorems and dispersion relations for periodic elliptic equations.
    Peter Kuchment*, Wichita State University
    Yehuda Pinchover, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
    (960-35-51)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Random Excitation of the Linear Mechanical Systems.
    Boris P. Belinskiy*, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
    Peter Caithamer, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
    (960-60-20)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The Spectral Shift Function for $2\times 2$ Operator Matrices.
    Konstantin A Makarov*, University of Missouri-Columbia
    (960-47-206)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Dynamical and Exponential Localization for One Dimensional, Continuum, Bernoulli-Anderson Models.
    David Damanik, California Institute of Technology
    Robert Sims*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
    Gunter Stolz, University of Alabama at Birmingham
    (960-81-253)
• Friday November 10, 2000, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Analytical Problems in Mathematical Physics, I
  Room 130, Educational Building
  Organizers:
  Roger T. Lewis, University of Alabama at Birmingham lewis@math.uab.edu
  Michael P. Loss, Georgia Institute of Technology loss@math.gatech.edu
  Marcel Griesemer, University of Alabama at Birmingham marcel@math.uab.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    On the existence of resonances for the Laplacian on waveguides.
    Julian K Edward*, Florida International University
    (960-35-174)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Small-energy asymptotics of the scattering matrix for the matrix Schr\"odinger equation on the line.
    Martin Klaus*, Virginia Tech
    Tuncay Aktosun, North Dakota
    Cornelis Van der Mee, University of Cagliari
    (960-34-162)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Quantum scattering with a homogeneous potential of degree zero.
    Ira Herbst*, University of Virginia
    Erik Skibsted, Aarhus University
    (960-81-185)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    break
  • 5:00 p.m.
    An Exponentially Accurate Time--Dependent Born--Oppenheimer Approximation.
    George A. Hagedorn*, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
    (960-81-101)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Stability of fronts for the Cahn-hilliard equation.
    Eric A Carlen*, Georgia Tech
    M C Carvalho, Geogia Tech
    Enza Orlandi, University of Rome III
    (960-35-215)
• Friday November 10, 2000, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Operator Algebras and Their Representations, I
  Room 133, Educational Building
  Organizers:
  Alan Hopenwasser, University of Alabama ahopenwa@euler.math.ua.edu
  Justin R. Peters, Iowa State University peters@iastate.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Two operator relations used in the construction of wavelets.
    Palle E.T. Jorgensen*, The University of Iowa
    (960-47-33)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    A prewavelet and its Ruelle operator.
    Beth P Peterson*, Lamar University
    (960-47-214)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Remarks on Operator Theory and the Corona Problem for the Bidisk.
    Tavan T Trent*, University of Alabama
    (960-47-84)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Families Index Theory for Operators in Subspaces.
    Carla Farsi*, University of Colorado
    (960-46-106)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Square-Summable Sequences Of Hilbert Space Operators And The Theory Of Frames.
    David R Larson*, Texas A\&M University
    (960-47-141)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Frame Wavelet Sets in $R^d$.
    Xingde Dai, UNC Charlotte
    Yuanan Diao*, UNC Charlotte
    Qing Gu, Beijing Univ
    (960-42-88)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    The symmetric imprimitivity theorem and regularity of induced representations.
    Astrid an Huef*, University of Denver
    Iain Raeburn, University of Newcastle, Australia
    (960-46-111)
• Friday November 10, 2000, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Dynamics and Low-Dimensional Topology, I
  Room 131, Educational Building
  Organizers:
  Alexander M. Blokh, University of Alabama at Birmingham ablokh@math.uab.edu
  Lex G. Oversteegen, University of Alabama at Birmingham overstee@math.uab.edu
  John C. Mayer, University of Alabama at Birmingham mayer@math.uab.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Regular Branched Covering Spaces and Chaotic Maps on Riemann Sphere.
    Joo Sung Lee*, Dept. of Math. Dongguk University, Univ. of Florida
    (960-37-204)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Compact One-dimensional Minimal Sets.
    Alex D Clark*, University of North Texas
    (960-37-170)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Topology in Mixing Problems.
    Judy A. Kennedy*, University of Delaware
    (960-37-148)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Dynamical decomposition of a topological space.
    Robbert Fokkink*, Delft University
    (960-54-108)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Minimal Flows and Global Cross Sections which are Disks.
    Bill F Basener*, Boston University / Colby Sawyer College
    (960-37-67)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Attractors which Contain All Chainable Continuua.
    Brian F Martensen*, Montana State University - Bozeman
    (960-37-179)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Real laminations and topological dynamics of complex polynomials.
    Jan Kiwi*, P.Universidad Catolica de Chile
    (960-37-229)
• Friday November 10, 2000, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Differential Equations and Applications, I
  Room 151, Educational Building
  Organizers:
  James R. Ward, Jr., University of Alabama at Birmingham ward@math.uab.edu
  Wenzhang Huang, University of Alabama at Huntsville huang@math.uah.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    A duality principle for periodic solutions of nonlinear telegraph equations.
    Rafael Ortega*, Universidad de Granada
    Aureliano Robles-Perez, Universidad de Granada
    (960-35-11)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Persistence, Coexistence and Extinction in Almost Periodic Competition Diffusion Systems.
    Georg Hetzer, Auburn University, Alabama
    Wenxian Shen*, Auburn University, Alabama
    (960-35-120)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Global Regularity of Solutions to the Three-Dimensional Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations with Pipe-Flow Boundary Conditions.
    Douglas A Riley*, Birmingham-Southern College
    (960-76-154)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Generalized Harmonic Oscillators: Velocity Dependent Frequencies.
    Ronald E Mickens*, Clark Atlanta University
    (960-34-27)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Existence and Multiplicity Results for Classes of p-Laplacian Equations.
    Ratnasingham Shivaji*, Mississippi State University
    (960-35-135)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Abstract Integrodifferential Equation and Viscoelastic Equation.
    Min He*, Kent State University Trumbull Campus
    (960-35-240)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Superlinear indefinite equations on the real line.
    Anna Capietto*, University of Torino, Italy
    Walter Dambrosio, University of Torino
    Duccio Papini, International School for Advanced Studies
    (960-34-126)
• Friday November 10, 2000, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Applications, I
  Room 144, Educational Building
  Organizers:
  Dehua Wang, University of Pittsburgh dwang@math.pitt.edu
  Yanni Zeng, University of Alabama at Birmingham zeng@math.uab.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Weak Solutions to a Nonlinear Variational Wave Equation.
    Ping Zhang, Academia Sinica
    Yuxi Zheng*, Indiana University
    (960-35-182)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Wind-Driven Ocean Circulation.
    Reza Malek-Madani*, U. S. Naval Academy
    (960-35-26)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Sharp Well-Posedness Theory for the BBM Equation.
    Jerry L Bona*, University of Texas at Austin
    Nickolay Tzvetkov, Universit\'e de Paris Sud
    (960-35-23)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Wave Interactions in Nonlinear Elastic Strings.
    Robin C Young*, Univ of Mass
    (960-35-254)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A discrete model for an ill-posed nonlinear parabolic PDE.
    David G Schaeffer*, Duke University
    (960-35-241)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Nonlinear problems in magnetohydrodynamics and related equations.
    Dehua Wang*, University of Pittsburgh
    (960-35-226)
• Friday November 10, 2000, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Methods in Approximation, I
  Room 146, Educational Building
  Organizers:
  Vladimir N. Temlyakov, University of South Carolina temlyak@math.sc.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    On the representation of band-limited signals using finitely many bits.
    Hrushikesh N Mhaskar*, California State University, Los Angeles
    (960-41-93)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Triebel-Lizorkin spaces and $N$-term wavelet approximation.
    Guergana P Petrova*, University of Michigan
    (960-41-220)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Kolmogorov and linear widths of weighted Sobolev-type classes on a finite interval.
    Dany Leviatan*, Univ. of South Carolina
    Victor A Konovalov, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
    (960-41-228)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Algorithms for Tree Approximations.
    Peter G Binev*, University of South Carolina
    (960-41-248)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Interpolation by Polynomils on the plane and in higher dimensions.
    Boris Shekhtman*, University of South Florida
    (960-41-199)
• Friday November 10, 2000, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Wavelets, Frames, Sampling, and Time-Frequency Representations, I
  Room 237, Educational Building
  Organizers:
  Akram Aldroubi, Vanderbilt University aldroubi@math.vanderbilt.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Optimal Weyl-Heisenberg Sets for Two Stochastic Models.
    Radu V Balan*, Siemens Corporate Research
    (960-42-63)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Frequency estimation algorithms.
    Carlos A Berenstein*, Univ. of Maryland
    (960-42-222)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Classifying certain irregular Weyl-Heisenberg (Gabor) frames.
    Peter G Casazza*, University of Missouri - Columbia
    Ole Christensen, Technical University of Denmark
    (960-43-28)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Gabor Expansions in $L^p$.
    Karlheinz Gr\"ochenig, University of Connecticut
    Christopher Heil*, Georgia Tech
    (960-42-31)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Generalized frame multiresolution analysis of abstract Hilbert spaces.
    Manos I Papadakis*, University of Houston
    (960-41-87)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Tight Spline Frames and Sibling Frames.
    Joachim St\"ockler*, University of Missouri-St. Louis
    (960-41-259)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Robertson Type Theorems for Frames.
    Eric Weber*, Texas A\&M University
    (960-42-146)
• Friday November 10, 2000, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Operators and Function Theory on Holomorphic Space, I
  Room 127, Educational Building
  Organizers:
  James L. Wang, University of Alabama jwang@gp.as.ua.edu
  Zhijian Wu, University of Alabama
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Subnormal Operators and their duals.
    Robert F Olin*, University of Alabama
    (960-47-238)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Invariant subspaces, quasi-invariant subspaces and Hankel operators.
    Dechao Zheng*, Vanderbilt University
    Kunyu Guo, Fudan University
    (960-47-70)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The Density Problem for Unbounded Bergman Operators.
    Sherwin Kouchekian*, Virginia Tech
    (960-47-69)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The Ces\`aro operator on the Bergman space.
    Thomas L Miller*, Mississippi State University
    (960-47-178)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Bergman-type reproducing kernels, contractive divisors, and dilations.
    Scott McCullough*, University of Florida
    Stefan Richter, University of Tennessee
    (960-47-74)
• Friday November 10, 2000, 2:30 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Integrable Systems and Riemann-Hilbert Problems, I
  Room 147, Educational Building
  Organizers:
  Xin Zhou, Duke University zhou@math.duke.edu
  Kenneth McLaughlin, University of Arizona mcl@math.arizona.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Asymptotic Solution of the Second Harmonic Generation Equations.
    David J. Kaup*, Clarkson University
    (960-78-145)
  • 3:10 p.m.
    Asymptotics for Racah Coefficients and Polynomials.
    Mourad E Ismail, University of South Florida
    Plamen C Simeonov*, University of Houston-Downtown
    (960-33-53)
  • 3:50 p.m.
    The Defocusing Nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger Equation with Finite Density Initial Data: Leading Order Asymptotics via the Riemann-Hilbert Approach.
    Arthur H Vartanian*, Winthrop University
    (960-35-73)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Elementary and direct proof of Painleve property for Painleve equations.
    Min Yan*, Hong Kong U of Sci and Tech
    (960-34-92)
  • 5:10 p.m.
    Commuting Differential Operators and Integrable Systems.
    Rudi Weikard*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
    (960-34-110)
• Friday November 10, 2000, 2:30 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
  Special Session on Differential Operators and Function Spaces, I
  Room 135, Educational Building
  Organizers:
  R. C. Brown, University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa dicbrown@bama.ua.edu
  D. B. Hinton, University of Tennessee, Knoxville hinton@math.utk.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Modeling evanescent waves: some theoretical and computational aspects.
    Rolando Magnanini, Florence University
    Luca Sgheri, Istituto Analisi Globale ed Applicazioni - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy
    Giorgio G Talenti*, Florence University
    (960-35-32)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The heat equation with generalized Wentzell boundary conditions.
    Jerome A. Goldstein*, University of Memphis
    (960-35-123)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Dirac Operators and Over-Chirped Optical Pulses.
    J. K Shaw*, Virginia Tech
    (960-35-17)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A Twin Fixed Point Theorem and Twin Solutions of Boundary Value Problems.
    Richard I. Avery, Dakota State University
    Chuan Jen Chyan, Tamkang University
    Johnny Henderson*, Auburn University
    (960-34-09)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Upper and Lower Solution Methods for Fully Nonlinear Boundary Value Problems.
    Jeffrey Ehme, Spelman College
    Paul W Eloe*, University of Dayton
    Johnny Henderson, Auburn University
    (960-34-132)
• Friday November 10, 2000, 7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.
  Reception

Saturday November 11, 2000

• Saturday November 11, 2000, 7:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  First Floor, Educational Building
• Saturday November 11, 2000, 7:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  First Floor, Educational Building
• Saturday November 11, 2000, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Billiards and Related Topics, II
  Room 148, Educational Building
  Organizers:
  Nikolai I. Chernov, University of Alabama at Birmingham chernov@math.uab.edu
  Nandor Simanyi, University of Alabama at Birmingham simanyi@math.uab.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Singularities in Multi-dimensional (Semi-)Dispersing Billiards.
    Peter Balint*, Renyi Institute of the H.A.S.
    Nikolai Chernov, University of Alabama at Birmingham
    Domokos Szasz, Technical University of Budapest
    Peter I Toth, Technical University of Budapest
    (960-37-127)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The fundamental theorem for algebraic semi-dispersing billiards.
    Domokos Szasz*, Technical University of Budapest
    Nikolai Chernov, University of Alabama at Birmingham
    Peter I. Toth, Technical University of Budapest
    Peter Balint, Renyi Institute of the H.A.S.
    (960-37-144)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Billiards in truncated ellipses.
    Gianluigi Del Magno*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (960-37-172)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Subexponential estimate of local proliferation of singularities in 2D billiards.
    Leonid A Bunimovich*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (960-37-100)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Natural Asymptotic Measures on the Unstable, Stable and Invariant Manifolds of Open Billiard Systems in the Plane.
    Peter A Richardson*, Baylor College Of Medicine / VHA
    (960-37-212)
• Saturday November 11, 2000, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Operator Algebras and Their Representations, II
  Room 133, Educational Building
  Organizers:
  Alan Hopenwasser, University of Alabama ahopenwa@euler.math.ua.edu
  Justin R. Peters, Iowa State University peters@iastate.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Noncommutative M-structure.
    David P Blecher*, University of Houston
    Edward G Effros, UCLA
    Vrej Zarikian, UCLA
    (960-46-125)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Structure of Free Semigroup Algebras.
    Kenneth R Davidson, University of Waterloo
    Elias Katsoulis, East Carolina University
    David R Pitts*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (960-47-91)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On Ternary Rings of Operators.
    Manmohan Kaur, University of Illinois
    Zhong-Jin Ruan*, University of Illinois
    (960-46-130)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Primitive Limit Algebras and C*-envelopes.
    Kenneth R Davidson, University of Waterloo
    Elias G Katsoulis*, East Carolina University
    (960-47-45)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Isomorphisms of CSL Algebras.
    Robert L Moore*, University of Alabama
    (960-47-97)
• Saturday November 11, 2000, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Differential Equations and Applications, II
  Room 151, Educational Building
  Organizers:
  James R. Ward, Jr., University of Alabama at Birmingham ward@math.uab.edu
  Wenzhang Huang, University of Alabama at Huntsville huang@math.uah.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Dispersal, Disease and Life-History Evolution.
    Carlos Castillo-Chavez*, Cornell University
    Abdul-Aziz Yakubu, Howard and Cornell University
    (960-92-264)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    An age-structured TB model with resistant strains.
    Zhilan Feng*, Purdue University
    Mimmo Iannelli, Trento University
    Fabio A Milner, Purdue University
    (960-35-266)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Global Asymptotic Behavior of a Chemostat Model with Two Perfectly Complementary Resources and Distributed Delay.
    Bingtuan Li*, University of Utah
    Gail Wolkowicz, McMaster University
    Yang Kuang, Arizona State University
    (960-92-236)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Habitat edges and predator-prey interactions : effects on critical patch size.
    Robert S Cantrell*, University of Miami
    George C Cosner, University of Miami
    William F Fagan, Arizona State University
    (960-92-41)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Systems of Partial Differential Eqautions Modeling the Spread of Infectious Disease Through Highly Heterogeneous Habitats.
    William Fitzgibbon*, University of Houston
    Michel Langlais, Universite de Bordeaux 2
    Jeffery J Morgan, Texas A\&M
    (960-35-48)
• Saturday November 11, 2000, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Applications, II
  Room 144, Educational Building
  Organizers:
  Dehua Wang, University of Pittsburgh dwang@math.pitt.edu
  Yanni Zeng, University of Alabama at Birmingham zeng@math.uab.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Renormalization Group and Scaling Methods in Differential Equations.
    Gunduz Caginalp*, University of Pittsburgh
    (960-35-40)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Large-Time Behavior of Entropy Solutions with Large Oscillation for Hyperbolic Conservation Laws.
    Gui-Qiang Chen*, Northwestern University
    (960-35-216)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Critical threshold phenomena in Euler-Poisson equations.
    Eitan Tadmor*, UCLA
    (960-35-116)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Recent results on the Chapman-Enskog expansion.
    Marshall Slemrod*, UW Madison
    (960-35-118)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Cavitation in one-dimensional compressible Navier-Stokes flows.
    David C Hoff*, Indiana University
    (960-35-30)
• Saturday November 11, 2000, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Methods in Approximation, II
  Room 146, Educational Building
  Organizers:
  Vladimir N. Temlyakov, University of South Carolina temlyak@math.sc.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Worst case analysis of greedy algorithms in Banach spaces.
    Peter Oswald*, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies
    (960-41-198)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On Approximate $\ell_1$ Systems in Banach Spaces.
    Stephen J Dilworth, University of South Carolina
    Denka N Kutzarova*, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
    Przemyslaw Wojtaszczyk, Warsaw University
    (960-41-105)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Nonlinear ridge approximation and gridge algorithms.
    Konstantin I Oskolkov*, University of South Carolina
    (960-41-184)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Approximate Weak Greedy Algorithms~: numerical motivations and sufficient condition of convergence.
    R\'emi Gribonval*, University of South Carolina.
    Morten Nielsen, University of South Carolina.
    (960-41-78)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Approximate Weak Greedy Algorithms~: detailed study of convergence.
    Morten Nielsen*, University of South Carolina.
    R\'emi Gribonval, University of South Carolina.
    (960-41-79)
• Saturday November 11, 2000, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Wavelets, Frames, Sampling, and Time-Frequency Representations, II
  Room 237, Educational Building
  Organizers:
  Akram Aldroubi, Vanderbilt University aldroubi@math.vanderbilt.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Sampling, Banach frames, and applications.
    Akram Aldroubi*, Vanderbilt University
    (960-42-133)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Computing eigenvalues in the presence of a continuous spectrum.
    Amin Boumenir*, Moravian college
    (960-41-94)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Construction of wavelets by interpolation over famlies of wavelet sets.
    David R Larson*, Texas A\&M University
    (960-46-142)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Sampling Expansions in Unitarily Translation Invariant Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces.
    M. Zuhair Nashed*, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716
    (960-42-260)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Sampling on a String.
    Ahmed I Zayed*, University of Central Florida
    Amin Boumenir, Sultan Qaboos University
    (960-42-44)
• Saturday November 11, 2000, 8:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
  Special Session on Integrable Systems and Riemann-Hilbert Problems, II
  Room 147, Educational Building
  Organizers:
  Xin Zhou, Duke University zhou@math.duke.edu
  Kenneth McLaughlin, University of Arizona mcl@math.arizona.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Statistical Mechanics and Algebraic Combinatorics.
    Vladimir E Korepin*, YITP, SUNY at Stony Brook
    (960-82-47)
  • 9:10 a.m.
    Symplectic structures of the Painlev\'e test.
    Jishan Hu*, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
    Min Yan, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
    (960-00-171)
  • 9:50 a.m.
    The RH problem in a semiclassical continuum limit.
    Stephen P Shipman*, Duke University
    (960-35-191)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Statistical properties of the Fourier spectrum of the nonlinear Schroedinger equation in the semi-classical limit.
    David Cai*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    (960-35-265)
• Saturday November 11, 2000, 8:30 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Differential Operators and Function Spaces, II
  Room 135, Educational Building
  Organizers:
  R. C. Brown, University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa dicbrown@bama.ua.edu
  D. B. Hinton, University of Tennessee, Knoxville hinton@math.utk.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Nonlinear Boundary Value Problems with Multiple Positive Solutions.
    John V Baxley*, Wake Forest University
    Lyndsey J Haywood, Wake Forest University
    (960-34-242)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Sturm-Liouville problems with finite spectrum.
    Qingkai Kong, NIU
    Hongyou Wu, NIU
    Anton Zettl*, NIU
    (960-34-08)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Positive eigenvalues of second order boundary value problems and a theorem of M. G. Krein.
    Steve Clark*, University of Missouri-Rolla
    Don Hinton, University of Tennessee
    (960-34-211)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The BKS(N,M) Problem in Orthogonal Polynomials and Differential Equations.
    Lance L Littlejohn*, Utah State University
    (960-34-263)
• Saturday November 11, 2000, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Inverse Problems, II
  Room 134, Educational Building
  Organizers:
  Ian Walker Knowles, University of Alabama at Birmingham iwk@math.uab.edu
  Rudi Weikard, University of Alabama at Birmingham rudi@math.uab.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Numerical Conformal Mapping.
    John R. Cannon*, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, 32816
    (960-65-10)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Acoustic imaging in a shallow ocean with a thin ice-cap.
    Robert P Gilbert*, University of Delaware
    Yongzhi S Xu, University of Tennessee
    (960-35-158)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Which PDE describes suspensions?
    Jerome A. Goldstein*, University of Memphis
    (960-35-119)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The Best Generalized Inverse.
    Gisele R Goldstein*, University of Memphis
    Jerome A Goldstein, University of Memphis
    (960-47-239)
• Saturday November 11, 2000, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Spectral and Transport Problems in Solid State Physics, II
  Room 129, Educational Building
  Organizers:
  Peter D. Hislop, University of Kentucky hislop@ms.uky.edu
  Yulia Karpeshina, University of Alabama at Birmingham karpeshi@math.uab.edu
  Gunter H. Stolz, University of Alabama at Birmingham stolz@math.uab.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Discussion.
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Absolute Continuity of Periodic Schrodinger Operators with Potentials in the Kato Class.
    Zhongwei Shen*, University of Kentucky
    (960-35-98)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    General Perturbations Preserving the Absolutely Continuous Spectrum.
    Rowan Killip*, University of Pennsylvania
    (960-81-193)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Enhanced Multiscale Analysis and Localization in Random Media.
    Abel Klein*, University of California, Irvine
    (960-81-149)
• Saturday November 11, 2000, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Analytical Problems in Mathematical Physics, II
  Room 130, Educational Building
  Organizers:
  Roger T. Lewis, University of Alabama at Birmingham lewis@math.uab.edu
  Michael P. Loss, Georgia Institute of Technology loss@math.gatech.edu
  Marcel Griesemer, University of Alabama at Birmingham marcel@math.uab.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Droplet States in the XXZ Heisenberg Chain.
    Bruno X Nachtergaele, U.C. Davis
    Shannon L Starr*, U.C. Davis
    (960-82-81)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Exponential rate of convergence to nonequilibrium stationary states in classical statistical mechanics.
    Luc Rey-Bellet*, University of Virginia
    Lawrence E Thomas, University of Virginia
    (960-82-71)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Decay of Correlations in a Class of Multidimensional Dissipative Probabilistic Cellular Automata (PCA).
    Joseph Slawny*, Virginia Tech
    (960-60-217)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Kinetic Equilibration Rates for Granular Media.
    Robert J McCann*, University of Toronto and Georgia Instiute of Technology
    (960-70-19)
• Saturday November 11, 2000, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Dynamics and Low-Dimensional Topology, II
  Room 131, Educational Building
  Organizers:
  Alexander M. Blokh, University of Alabama at Birmingham ablokh@math.uab.edu
  Lex G. Oversteegen, University of Alabama at Birmingham overstee@math.uab.edu
  John C. Mayer, University of Alabama at Birmingham mayer@math.uab.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Finite group actions on the products of Menger compacta.
    Krystyna M Kuperberg*, Auburn University
    (960-54-115)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Asymptotic composants in inverse limit spaces of tent maps.
    Marcy Barge, Montana State University
    Beverly Diamond*, College of Charleston
    (960-54-224)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Essential Turnlinks in Graph-Chainable Continua.
    Brian E Raines*, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
    (960-54-175)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Hereditarily Indecomposable Inverse Limits of Graphs.
    K. Kawamura, University of Tsukuba, Japan
    H. M. Tuncali*, Nipissing University, North Bay, Ontario
    E. D. Tymchatyn, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
    (960-54-173)
• Saturday November 11, 2000, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Operators and Function Theory on Holomorphic Space, II
  Room 127, Educational Building
  Organizers:
  James L. Wang, University of Alabama jwang@gp.as.ua.edu
  Zhijian Wu, University of Alabama
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    A New Estimate for the Vector-valued Corona Problem.
    Tavan T Trent*, University of Alabama
    (960-47-83)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Hankel type operators on the upper half space.
    Jie Miao*, Arkansas State University
    (960-46-72)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Multipliers and Carleson measures for $D(\mu)$.
    Rick Chartrand*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (960-46-77)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Lax-Phillips scattering, conservative linear systems and Schur-class functions: a multidimensional setting.
    Joseph A Ball*, Virginia Tech
    Victor Vinnikov, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
    (960-47-66)
• Saturday November 11, 2000, 9:00 a.m.-10:10 a.m.
  Session for Contributed Papers, I
  Room 225, Educational Building
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    New optimal control problems with non-local operators.
    S A Belbas*, University of Alabama
    (960-49-46)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Existence of Minimizers for a Class of Monge-Kantorovich Problem.
    Yewande Olubummo*, Spelman College
    (960-46-202)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Stability and Asymptotic Behavior of Nonlinear Operator Differential Equations.
    Reza R Ahangar*, University of Central Arkansas
    (960-34-249)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Cosubnormal Composition Operators with Complex Symbol on Weighted Bergman Spaces.
    Alexander E Richman*, Purdue University
    (960-47-218)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Monotone Maps, Hereditarily Weakly Confluent Maps, W-sets, and Continua in Class W.
    Jonathan R Hatch*, Southeastern Louisiana University
    (960-54-231)
• Saturday November 11, 2000, 11:10 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Double Hecke algebras, Q-Gauss integrals, and Gaussian sums.
  Auditorium, Hill University Center
  Ivan Cherednik*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  (960-22-05)
• Saturday November 11, 2000, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Geometric evolution problems.
  Auditorium, Hill University Center
  Nicholas D. Alikakos*, University of Athens
  (960-35-01)
• Saturday November 11, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Inverse Problems, III
  Room 134, Educational Building
  Organizers:
  Ian Walker Knowles, University of Alabama at Birmingham iwk@math.uab.edu
  Rudi Weikard, University of Alabama at Birmingham rudi@math.uab.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    The Role of Operator Symbols in Classical Elliptic Direct and Inverse Problems.
    Louis Fishman*, University of New Orleans
    (960-35-99)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Generalized Dual Space Indicator Method for Inverse Scattering Problems in a Waveguide.
    Yongzhi S Xu*, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
    (960-35-36)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    break
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A Paley-Wiener theorem with applications to inverse spectral theory.
    Christer Bennewitz*, Lund University
    (960-34-131)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Computing the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of the one dimensional p-Laplacian.
    Malcolm Brown*, Cardiff University UK
    Wolfgang Reichel, Univerity of Basel
    (960-34-61)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Recovery of Analytic Potentials.
    Amin Boumenir*, Moravian College
    (960-34-137)
• Saturday November 11, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Billiards and Related Topics, III
  Room 148, Educational Building
  Organizers:
  Nikolai I. Chernov, University of Alabama at Birmingham chernov@math.uab.edu
  Nandor Simanyi, University of Alabama at Birmingham simanyi@math.uab.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Rigidity of Connected limit sets of conformal iterated function systems.
    R. Daniel Mauldin*, University of North Texas
    Mariusz Urbanski, University of North Texas
    (960-37-103)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On the Ergodicity of Geodesic Flow.
    Robert M Kauffman*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
    (960-37-195)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Orbits of unbounded energy in geodesic flows and time dependent potential and in other mechanical systems.
    Amadeu Delshams, Univ Polit. Catalunya
    Rafael de la Llave*, Univ of Texas, Austin
    Tere Seara, Univ.Polit. Catalunya
    (960-37-58)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Embedded Surfaces with Anosov Geodesic Flow.
    Victor J Donnay*, Bryn Mawr College
    Charles Pugh, University of California at Berkeley
    (960-37-160)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Reflective properties of orientation reversing homeomorphisms of the plane.
    Krystyna M Kuperberg*, Auburn University
    (960-58-114)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Chromos and Covering Residue Classes.
    Pantelimon Stanica*, Auburn University Montgomery
    (960-05-12)
• Saturday November 11, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Spectral and Transport Problems in Solid State Physics, III
  Room 129, Educational Building
  Organizers:
  Peter D. Hislop, University of Kentucky hislop@ms.uky.edu
  Yulia Karpeshina, University of Alabama at Birmingham karpeshi@math.uab.edu
  Gunter H. Stolz, University of Alabama at Birmingham stolz@math.uab.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Lower bound on phase-averaged transport exponents for self-dual quasiperiodic Hamiltonians.
    Hermann Schulz-Baldes*, University of California at Irvine
    (960-81-62)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Oscillatory Integrals in Nonlinear Wave Propagation.
    Alexander Figotin*, University of California at Irvine
    (960-78-65)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    An optimal $L^p$-bound on the Krein spectral shift function.
    Dirk Hundertmark*, Caltech
    Barry Simon, Caltech
    (960-81-190)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Break.
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Log-dimensional properties of spectral measures.
    Michael Landrigan*, UC Irvine
    (960-81-143)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Geometry and Statistics of quantum pumps.
    Lorenzo A Sadun*, U. of Texas at Austin
    (960-81-95)
• Saturday November 11, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Analytical Problems in Mathematical Physics, III
  Room 130, Educational Building
  Organizers:
  Roger T. Lewis, University of Alabama at Birmingham lewis@math.uab.edu
  Michael P. Loss, Georgia Institute of Technology loss@math.gatech.edu
  Marcel Griesemer, University of Alabama at Birmingham marcel@math.uab.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Pauli operator and Aharonov-Casher theorem for measure-valued magnetic field.
    Laszlo Erdos*, GeorgiaTech
    Vitali Vougalter, University of British Columbia
    (960-81-227)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Ground States in Non-relativistic Quantum Electrodynamics.
    Marcel Griesemer*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
    Elliott H Lieb, Princeton University
    Michael Loss, Georgia Tech
    (960-81-246)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Break.
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Lorentz Electrodynamics.
    Michael K-H Kiessling*, Rutgers University
    (960-83-163)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Realizing holonomic constraints.
    Richard G Froese*, University of British Columbia
    Ira w Herbst, Unversity of Virginia
    (960-70-197)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Discussion.
• Saturday November 11, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Operator Algebras and Their Representations, III
  Room 133, Educational Building
  Organizers:
  Alan Hopenwasser, University of Alabama ahopenwa@euler.math.ua.edu
  Justin R. Peters, Iowa State University peters@iastate.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Approximation Properties for Crossed Products by Actions and Coactions.
    May M Nilsen, Texas A\&M University
    Roger R Smith*, Texas A\&M University
    (960-46-113)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Hopf C*-algebras.
    May M Nilsen*, Texas A&M
    (960-46-177)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Analytic algebras with large extended asymptotic range.
    Belisario A Ventura*, California State University San Bernardino
    (960-46-219)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A continuous analogue of Cuntz-Krieger algebras.
    Igor Fulman*, Arizona State University
    (960-47-252)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Z-Anaytic TAF Algebras and Partial Dynamical Systems.
    Justin R Peters, Iowa State University
    Yiu T Poon*, Iowa State University
    (960-37-39)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Positivity of two by two operator matrices.
    William L Green*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (960-47-76)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Algebraic Isomorphisms and Spectra of Triangular Limit Algebras.
    Allan P Donsig*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    David R Pitts, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    Stephen C Power, Lancaster University
    (960-47-29)
• Saturday November 11, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Dynamics and Low-Dimensional Topology, III
  Room 131, Educational Building
  Organizers:
  Alexander M. Blokh, University of Alabama at Birmingham ablokh@math.uab.edu
  Lex G. Oversteegen, University of Alabama at Birmingham overstee@math.uab.edu
  John C. Mayer, University of Alabama at Birmingham mayer@math.uab.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    On light mappings of manifolds.
    E D Tymchatyn*, U. of Saskatchewan
    Lex Oversteegen, UAB
    (960-54-176)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Semiconjugacies to toral automorphisms.
    Philip L Boyland*, University of Florida
    (960-37-52)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Inverse limits of simplicial maps and the fixed point property problem in the plane.
    Piotr Minc*, Auburn University
    (960-54-181)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Invariant Sets and Inverse Limits.
    W. T. Ingram*, University of Missouri - Rolla
    (960-54-128)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Existence of Knaster-like continua for unstable exponentials.
    Monica Moreno-Rocha*, Boston University
    (960-37-57)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Classifying embeddings of nonseparating planar continua.
    Andrew P Fabel*, Mississippi State University
    (960-58-187)
• Saturday November 11, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Differential Equations and Applications, III
  Room 151, Educational Building
  Organizers:
  James R. Ward, Jr., University of Alabama at Birmingham ward@math.uab.edu
  Wenzhang Huang, University of Alabama at Huntsville huang@math.uah.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Some results on linear and nonlinear Tricomi problems.
    Daniela Lupo*, Politecnico di Milano
    Kevin R Payne, Universita' di Milano
    (960-35-168)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Continuous dependence on modeling and nonexistence results for a Ginzburg-Landau equation.
    Karen A Ames*, University of Alabama in Huntsville
    (960-35-122)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Linearized Stability in Functional Differential Equations with State-Dependent Delays.
    Janos Turi*, The University of Texas at Dallas
    (960-34-221)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On a Class of Asymptotically Linear Elliptic Problems in $R^N$.
    David G Costa*, University of Nevada - Las Vegas
    Hossein Tehrani, University of Nevada - Las Vegas
    (960-35-96)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Analytical and Numerical Results for Stationary Flows of Viscous, Incompressible, Electrically and Thermally Conducting Fluids.
    Paul G Schmidt*, Auburn University
    Amnon J Meir, Auburn University
    (960-35-54)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Existence of Positive Periodic Solutions of Delay Differential Equations.
    Daqing Jiang, Northeast Normal University
    Junjie Wei, Northeast Normal University
    Bo Zhang*, Fayetteville State University
    (960-34-121)
• Saturday November 11, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Applications, III
  Room 144, Educational Building
  Organizers:
  Dehua Wang, University of Pittsburgh dwang@math.pitt.edu
  Yanni Zeng, University of Alabama at Birmingham zeng@math.uab.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Waves in ferromagnetic materials.
    Hans G Kaper*, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, USA
    (960-35-124)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Asymptotic Analysis of Fluid Mixing Equations in the Incompressible Limit.
    James G Glimm*, State University of New York at Stony Brook
    Hyeonseong Jin, State University of New York at Stony Brook
    Marc Laforest, State University of New York at Stony Brook
    (960-35-16)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Extensions and Amplifications of a Traffic Model of Aw and Rascle.
    James M Greenberg*, Carnegie Mellon University
    (960-35-49)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On Approximate Solutions to Some Transonic Flow Problems.
    Gui Qiang Chen, Northwestern University
    Pui Tak Kan*, IUPUI and Northwestern U.
    (960-35-235)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    On the structure of the equations of elastodynamics.
    Athanasios E Tzavaras*, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
    (960-35-201)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Fundamental Solutions and Nonlinear Stability of Shock Profiles.
    Yanni Zeng*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
    (960-35-234)
• Saturday November 11, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Methods in Approximation, III
  Room 146, Educational Building
  Organizers:
  Vladimir N. Temlyakov, University of South Carolina temlyak@math.sc.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Symmetric framelets.
    Alexander Petukhov*, University of South Carolina
    (960-41-82)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Compression using wavelet frames.
    H. Narfi Stefansson*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (960-42-230)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Spectral and approximation problems in potential theory.
    Irina Mitrea*, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
    (960-35-188)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Weakly Non-Oscillatory Schemes for Scalar Conservation Laws.
    Bojan D Popov*, Vanderbilt University
    (960-65-112)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    On Best Meromorphic Approximation in the Space $L_p$.
    Vasiliy A Prokhorov*, University of South Alabama
    (960-41-165)
• Saturday November 11, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Wavelets, Frames, Sampling, and Time-Frequency Representations, III
  Room 237, Educational Building
  Organizers:
  Akram Aldroubi, Vanderbilt University aldroubi@math.vanderbilt.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Orthogonal lifting: constructing new (symmetric) orthogonal scaling functions.
    Eugene Belogay*, Florida Atlantic University, Honors College
    (960-42-24)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Developments on the Riesz-Fejer lemma for positive trignometric polynomials in two variables.
    Jeff Geronimo*, Georgia Tech
    (960-42-152)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Bits and Pieces: The H-D Problem for Refinable Functions.
    Douglas P Hardin*, Vanderbilt University
    Thomas A Hogan, Ohio University
    (960-41-42)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Smoothness of Refinable Function Vectors.
    Denise A Jacobs*, Georgia Tech
    (960-42-18)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Infinite dimensional groups in wavelet theory.
    Palle E.T. Jorgensen*, The University of Iowa
    (960-46-07)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Three Ways of Raising Multiwavelet Approximation Order.
    Fritz -- Keinert*, Iowa State University
    (960-42-34)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Analysis of Wavelet Bases in Numerical Resolution of Differential Equations.
    Jianzhong Wang*, Sam Houston State University
    (960-41-156)
• Saturday November 11, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Operators and Function Theory on Holomorphic Space, III
  Room 127, Educational Building
  Organizers:
  James L. Wang, University of Alabama jwang@gp.as.ua.edu
  Zhijian Wu, University of Alabama
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Hardy spaces and boundary value problems on spheres and hyperbolas via Clifford analysis.
    John Ryan*, University of Arkansas
    (960-44-203)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The Decomposition Theorem for $Q_p$ Spaces.
    Zhijian Wu, The University of Alabama
    Chunping Xie*, The university of Alabama
    (960-32-56)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Alexandrov operators and smoothness.
    Alec L Matheson*, Lamar University
    (960-46-15)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Best constants for some inequalities involving the Riesz projection.
    Brian Hollenbeck*, University of Missouri-Columbia
    Igor E Verbitsky, University of Missouri
    (960-42-80)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    On the norm of the Riesz projection in weighted $L^p$ spaces.
    Igor Verbitsky*, University of Missouri-Columbia
    (960-46-155)
• Saturday November 11, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
  Special Session on Integrable Systems and Riemann-Hilbert Problems, III
  Room 147, Educational Building
  Organizers:
  Xin Zhou, Duke University zhou@math.duke.edu
  Kenneth McLaughlin, University of Arizona mcl@math.arizona.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Semiclassical Distributions of Solitons: Complex Turning Point Theory for the Nonselfadjoint Zakharov-Shabat Eigenvalue Problem.
    Peter D Miller*, The University of Michigan
    (960-41-213)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    Limiting distributions for a polynuclear growth model with external sources.
    Jinho Baik*, Princeton Univ. and IAS
    Eric M Rains, AT\&T Research
    (960-60-225)
  • 4:20 p.m.
    The Eigenvalue Problem for the Focusing Nonlinear Schroedinger Equation: New Solvable Cases.
    Alexander Tovbis*, University of Central Florida
    Stephanos Venakides, Duke University
    (960-35-232)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    On the semi-classical limit of the focusing nonlinear Schroedinger equation.
    Spyros Kamvissis, Univ. of Patras, Greece
    Ken D McLaughlin*, UNC-Chapel Hill and Univ. of AZ.
    Peter D Miller, Univ. of Michigan
    (960-35-256)
• Saturday November 11, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Differential Operators and Function Spaces, III
  Room 135, Educational Building
  Organizers:
  R. C. Brown, University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa dicbrown@bama.ua.edu
  D. B. Hinton, University of Tennessee, Knoxville hinton@math.utk.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Laplace Transform for Time Scales.
    Martin J Bohner*, University of Missouri-Rolla
    Allan C Peterson, University of Lincoln-Nebraska
    (960-39-261)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Relative Boundedness-Compactness Inequalities for a Second Order Differential Operator.
    Don B Hinton, University of Tennessee
    Suzanne C Melescue*, Arkansas State University
    (960-34-244)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Universal Eigenvalue Inequalities for Domains in Riemannian Manifolds.
    Mark S. Ashbaugh*, University of Missouri-Columbia
    (960-58-243)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Necessary conditions for Poincare domains.
    David E Edmunds, University of Sussex
    Ritva Hurri-Syrjanen*, University of Helsinki, University of Kentucky
    (960-46-194)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Approximation numbers for the Hardy operator and the Sobolev embedding.
    Jan Lang*, University of Missouri-Columbia
    (960-46-166)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Sharp estimates for integrals over small intervals for functions possessing some smoothness.
    Victor C. Burenkov*, University of Wales, Cardiff
    (960-46-267)
• Saturday November 11, 2000, 3:00 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
  Session for Contributed Papers, II
  Room 225, Educational Building
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Closure spaces and an algorithm to generate frequent sets.
    Alan P. Sprague*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
    (960-05-257)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    The Basic Fraenkel Model.
    Henry A Gore*, Jackson State University
    (960-03-245)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On a Polynomial Inequality of P. L. Chebyshev.
    Mohammed A Qazi*, Tuskegee University
    Qazi I Rahman, Université de Montréal
    (960-30-107)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Angular Ratio Transference.
    James H Mulberry*, Houston, TX
    (960-49-38)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The counterfactual of Nelson Goodman cc:udel.edu/apa/ J Sample.
    G. W. Bill Lee*, Seoul National University
    (960-00-06)

Sunday November 12, 2000

• Sunday November 12, 2000, 8:30 a.m.-9:20 a.m.
  Invited Address
  Greedy algorithms in nonlinear approximation.
  Room 133, Educational Building
  Vladimir N. Temlyakov*, University of South Carolina
  (960-41-03)
• Sunday November 12, 2000, 9:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Inverse Problems, IV
  Room 134, Educational Building
  Organizers:
  Ian Walker Knowles, University of Alabama at Birmingham iwk@math.uab.edu
  Rudi Weikard, University of Alabama at Birmingham rudi@math.uab.edu
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    Inverse problem for a semibounded crystal (three-dimensional case).
    Yulia Karpeshina*, UAB
    (960-35-136)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Sturm-Liouville problems with eigenvalue dependent and independent boundary conditions.
    Paul A Binding*, University of Calgary
    (960-34-117)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    An efficient algorithm for approximate inversion of truncated spiral cone beam data.
    Alexander Katsevich*, University of Central Florida
    (960-44-89)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    An Efficient Implementation of Recursive Triangular Factorization for Cauchy-like Matrices.
    Zhao Chen*, Math Dept, CUNY
    (960-15-186)
• Sunday November 12, 2000, 9:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Special Session on Relations Between Spectral Theory and Analytic Number Theory, II
  Room 128, Educational Building
  Organizers:
  Robert M. Kauffman, University of Alabama at Birmingham kauffman@vorteb.math.uab.edu
  Martin N. Huxley, Cardiff University, Wales Huxley@cardiff.ac.uk
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    $L(1,\chi)$ values.
    Andrew Granville*, U of Georgia
    K Soundararajan, U. Michigan
    (960-11-262)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Discussion.
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A formula for the Dedekind $\xi$-function of an imaginary quadratic field.
    Xian-Jin Li*, Brigham Young University
    (960-11-189)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Generalized eigenfunction expansions and number theory.
    Robert M Kauffman, University of Alabama at Birmingham
    Mayumi Sakata*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
    (960-47-209)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Discussion.
• Sunday November 12, 2000, 9:30 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Billiards and Related Topics, IV
  Room 148, Educational Building
  Organizers:
  Nikolai I. Chernov, University of Alabama at Birmingham chernov@math.uab.edu
  Nandor Simanyi, University of Alabama at Birmingham simanyi@math.uab.edu
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    Dynamical Systems and Statistical Mechanics.
    E. G. D. Cohen*, The Rockefeller University
    (960-82-50)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Kinetic Theory Methods for Lyapunov Exponents and KS Entropies.
    Robert J Dorfman*, The University of Maryland at College Park
    (960-37-161)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Infinite billiards and statistical mechanics.
    Carl P Dettmann*, University of Bristol
    (960-82-147)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Billiard gas dynamics in regions with moving boundaries.
    Oliver R Knill*, Harvard University
    (960-37-159)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Billiards with a non-compact cusp.
    Marco Lenci*, SUNY at Stony Brook
    (960-37-208)
• Sunday November 12, 2000, 9:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
  Special Session on Spectral and Transport Problems in Solid State Physics, IV
  Room 129, Educational Building
  Organizers:
  Peter D. Hislop, University of Kentucky hislop@ms.uky.edu
  Yulia Karpeshina, University of Alabama at Birmingham karpeshi@math.uab.edu
  Gunter H. Stolz, University of Alabama at Birmingham stolz@math.uab.edu
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    Discussion: Open problems in spectral study of random media.
• Sunday November 12, 2000, 9:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Analytical Problems in Mathematical Physics, IV
  Room 130, Educational Building
  Organizers:
  Roger T. Lewis, University of Alabama at Birmingham lewis@math.uab.edu
  Michael P. Loss, Georgia Institute of Technology loss@math.gatech.edu
  Marcel Griesemer, University of Alabama at Birmingham marcel@math.uab.edu
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    The Dimension of the Attractor for the non-homogeneous Navier-Stokes equations in non-smooth domains.
    Russel M Brown, University of Kentucky
    Peter A Perry*, University of Kentucky
    Zhongwei Shen, University of Kentucky
    (960-76-207)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Rearrangement inequalities for multiple integrals and exit times.
    Almut Burchard*, University of Virginia
    (960-26-251)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A direct proof of a theorem of Blaschke and Lebesgue.
    Evans M Harrell*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (960-52-55)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Capacity of Quantum Channels.
    Christopher King, Northeastern University
    Mary Beth Ruskai*, University of Massachusetts Lowell
    (960-94-164)
• Sunday November 12, 2000, 9:30 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Operator Algebras and Their Representations, IV
  Room 133, Educational Building
  Organizers:
  Alan Hopenwasser, University of Alabama ahopenwa@euler.math.ua.edu
  Justin R. Peters, Iowa State University peters@iastate.edu
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    Flow of Weights and the AT Property for Product States of the Gauge Invariant and Rotation Invariant CAR Algebras.
    Bennett M Baker*, U.S. Naval Academy
    Thierry Giordano, University of Ottawa
    (960-46-104)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A groupoid approach to graph $C^{*}$-algebras.
    Alan L Paterson*, University of Mississippi
    (960-46-14)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Hecke $C^{\ast}$-Algebras.
    Rachel W Hall*, St. Joseph's University
    (960-16-129)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Hilbert bimodules with involution.
    Nik Weaver*, Washington University
    (960-46-60)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    The Non-commutative Curvature Invariant.
    David W Kribs*, University of Iowa
    (960-47-22)
• Sunday November 12, 2000, 9:30 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Dynamics and Low-Dimensional Topology, IV
  Room 131, Educational Building
  Organizers:
  Alexander M. Blokh, University of Alabama at Birmingham ablokh@math.uab.edu
  Lex G. Oversteegen, University of Alabama at Birmingham overstee@math.uab.edu
  John C. Mayer, University of Alabama at Birmingham mayer@math.uab.edu
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    Minimal combinatorial models for maps of an interval with a given set of periods.
    Louis Block*, University of Florida
    Ethan M Coven, Wesleyan University
    William Geller, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis
    Kristin Hubner, Innosoft International Inc.
    (960-37-153)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    New results and old results with new proofs concerning adding machines.
    James Keesling*, University of Florida
    Louis Block, University of Florida
    Jianhua Xie, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chendu, P.R. China
    (960-37-200)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Entropy jumps for transitive interval maps.
    Michal Misiurewicz*, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis
    (960-37-140)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    A Classification of the Inverse Limit Spaces of Tent Maps with Periodic Critical Points.
    Lois P Kailhofer*, Alverno College
    (960-37-180)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Two unusual orientation reversing homeomorphisims of the annulus onto itself.
    Harold Bell*, University of Cincinnati
    (960-57-258)
• Sunday November 12, 2000, 9:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Applications, IV
  Room 144, Educational Building
  Organizers:
  Dehua Wang, University of Pittsburgh dwang@math.pitt.edu
  Yanni Zeng, University of Alabama at Birmingham zeng@math.uab.edu
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    A Free Boundary Problem for a Quasilinear Degenerate Elliptic Equation.
    Sun\v{c}ica \v{C}ani\'{c}, University of Houston
    Barbara L Keyfitz*, University of Houston
    Eun Heui Kim, University of Houston
    (960-35-59)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Continuum Models of Granular Flow.
    Michael Shearer*, North Carolina State University
    (960-35-102)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The random projection method for hyperbolic conservation laws with stiff reaction terms.
    Shi Jin*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (960-35-169)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    `Thin Fluid Film' PDEs: Stability and Energy Landscape of Steady States.
    Richard S. Laugesen*, University of Illinois, Urbana--Champaign
    Mary C. Pugh, University of Pennsylvania
    (960-35-13)
• Sunday November 12, 2000, 9:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Special Session on Integrable Systems and Riemann-Hilbert Problems, IV
  Room 147, Educational Building
  Organizers:
  Xin Zhou, Duke University zhou@math.duke.edu
  Kenneth McLaughlin, University of Arizona mcl@math.arizona.edu
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    $L^p$ estimates for solutions of Riemann-Hilbert Problems (RHP's) with coefficients depending on external parameters.
    Percy A Deift*, University of Pennsylvania and Courant Institute
    Xin Zhou, Duke University
    (960-30-150)
  • 10:10 a.m.
    Discussion.
  • 10:50 a.m.
    Discussion.
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Discussion.

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