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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

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