AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Day

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:43

Associate secretaries:
Bernard Russo, AMS brusso@math.uci.edu

Thursday June 20, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Meeting Registration
Atrium, Third Floor, Neuberger Hall

Thursday June 20, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
MAA Minicourse
Using Geometer's Sketchpad (version 4) in undergraduate mathematics courses.
Room 465, Neuberger Hall
Organizers:
Keith Leatham, Portland State University

Thursday June 20, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
MAA Minicourse
Senior capstones: Meaningful closure to the undergraduate experience.
Room 343, Neuberger Hall
Organizers:
Dusty E. Sabo, Southern Oregon University
Kemble R. Yates, Southern Oregon University

Thursday June 20, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
AMS Special Session on Matroid Theory, I
Room 387, Neuberger Hall
Organizers:
Jennifer M. McNulty, University of Montana mcnulty@selway.umt.edu
Nancy Ann Neudauer, Pacific University nancy@pacificu.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Cocircuit Covers of Bicircular Matroids.
  Jenny McNulty*, The University of Montana
  Nancy Neudauer, Pacific University
  (978-05-126)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Circuits intersecting Cocircuits in Graphs and Matroids.
  Sean W Mcguinness*, University of Montana/ University of Ume{\aa}
  (978-05-58)
- 10:00 a.m.
  On Largest Circuits in Matroids.
  Nolan B McMurray*, The University of Mississippi
  Talmage J Reid, The University of Mississippi
  (978-05-39)
- 10:30 a.m.
  On edges meeting vertices of degree $k$ in a minimally $k-$connected graph.
  Talmage J Reid*, The University of Mississippi
  Haidong Wu, The University of Mississippi
  (978-05-40)

Thursday June 20, 2002, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
AMS Invited Address
New solutions for the $N$-body problem.
Room 338, Smith Memorial Center
Richard W. Montgomery*, University of California Santa Cruz
(978-70-03)

Thursday June 20, 2002, 12:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
Exhibits and Book Sales
Room 307, Neuberger Hall

Thursday June 20, 2002, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
AMS Invited Address
The Navier--Stokes and Other Related Equations.
Room 338, Smith Memorial Center
Edriss S. Titi*, University of California Irvine
(978-35-04)

Thursday June 20, 2002, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
AMS Special Session on Qualitative Properties and Applications of Functional Equations, I
Room 388, Neuberger Hall
Organizers:
Theodore A. Burton, Southern Illinois University taburton@olypen.com
- 2:30 p.m.
  An Exponential Function on a Time Scale.
  Allan C Peterson*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  (978-34-08)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Qualitative Behavior of Solutions of a Certain Hybrid System.
  George Seifert*, Iowa State University
  (978-34-36)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Filippov solutions, dry friction and hysteresis.
  Bogdana Georgieva, Pacific University
  Ronald Guenther*, Oregon State University
  (978-34-67)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Asymptotic behavior of solutions of functional differential equations by fixed point theorems.
  T. A. Burton, Northwest Research Institute
  Tetsuo Furumochi*, Shimane University
  (978-34-15)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Questions/Conjectures.

Thursday June 20, 2002, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
AMS Special Session on Mathematical Biology, I
Room 373, Neuberger Hall
Organizers:
Richard S. Gomulkiewicz, Washington State University gomulki@wsu.edu
Sebastian Schreiber, Western Washington University sschreib@cc.wwu.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Models for Marine Reserves.
  Alan Hastings*, University of California, Davis
  (978-92-88)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Dispersal, Competition and Spatio-temporal Heterogeneity.
  Konstantin Mischaikow*, Georgia Institute of Technology
  (978-92-59)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Edgd-linked dynamics and the scale-dependence of competitive dominance.
  R S Cantrell, University of Miami
  Chris Cosner*, University of Miami
  W Fagan, University of Maryland
  (978-92-32)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Oscillation and synchronization in parallel neural circuits.
  R. Edwards*, University of Victoria
  (978-92-107)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Discussion.

Thursday June 20, 2002, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
AMS Special Session on Low Dimensional Homotopy and Combinatorial Group Theory, I
Room 364, Neuberger Hall
Organizers:
F. Rudolf Beyl, Portland State University beylf@pdx.edu
Paul Latiolais, Portland State University paul@mth.pdx.edu
William A. Bogley, Oregon State University bogley@math.orst.edu
Micheal N. Dyer, University of Oregon dyer@math.uoregon.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  A Generalization of the Bias Invariant.
  Katherine S Byler*, University of Oregon
  (978-55-113)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Exotic homotopy types of algebraic 2-complexes.
  F. Rudolf Beyl, Portland State University
  Nancy Waller*, Portland State University
  (978-57-97)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Embedded 2-polyhedra with Regular Neighborhoods which have Sphere Boundaries.
  Marcia Lynne Burdon*, Portland State University
  (978-57-120)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Some interesting new results concerning the fundamental groups of one-dimensional spaces.
  Gregory R Conner*, BYU
  Erin Summers, BYU
  Kristin Spencer, BYU
  (978-57-119)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Multiplicative Invariants of Special 2-Complexes.
  John Rosson*, University of Minnesota, Morris Campus
  (978-57-128)

Thursday June 20, 2002, 2:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
AMS Special Session on Association Schemes and Distance-Regular Graphs, I
Room 341, Neuberger Hall
Organizers:
John S. Caughman, Portland State University caughman@mth.pdx.edu
Paul M. Terwilliger, University of Wisconsin terwilli@math.wisc.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Two linear transformations each tridiagonal with respect to an eigenbasis for the other.
  Paul M. Terwilliger*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  (978-05-73)
- 3:25 p.m.
  A $p$-adic generalization of the Johnson Scheme.
  Gregory M Hill*, University of Portland
  (978-05-65)
- 4:20 p.m.
  Jones Pairs and Association Schemes.
  Ada Chan*, University of Waterloo
  (978-05-61)

Thursday June 20, 2002, 2:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
MAA Minicourse
What to teach and how not to teach it.
Room 350, Neuberger Hall
Organizers:
Edward B. Burger, Williams College

Thursday June 20, 2002, 2:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
MAA Minicourse
Visualization in Mathematics: Using proofs without words in your classrooms.
Room 343, Neuberger Hall
Organizers:
Roger B. Nelsen, Lewis \& Clark College
Jeanette R. Palmiter, Portland State University

Thursday June 20, 2002, 5:30 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
Reception
Foyer, Simon Benson House

Inquiries: meet@ams.org