AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:14

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

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)

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, 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.

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)

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