AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:41

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

Saturday March 9, 2002, 10:15 a.m.-12:05 p.m.
Special Session on Bridges from `Applied' to `Mathematics', I
Room 111, Instructional Center
Organizers:
Peter Mucha, Georgia Institute of Technology mucha@math.gatech.edu
John A. Pelesko, Georgia Institute of Technology pelesko@math.gatech.edu
John E. McCuan, Georgia Institute of Technology mccuan@math.gatech.edu
Guillermo H. Goldsztein, Georgia Institute of Technology ggold@math.gatech.edu
- 10:15 a.m.
  An Overview of Electrostatic Actuation.
  John A Pelesko*, Georgia Institute of Technology
  (975-74-217)
- 10:45 a.m.
  Symmetry-breaking and Bifurcation Phenomena for Capillary Surfaces and More on Exotic Containers.
  Henry C Wente*, University of Toledo
  (975-49-381)
- 11:15 a.m.
  Geometric problems involving surfaces.
  Mohammad Ghomi*, University of South Carolina
  (975-53-359)
- 11:45 a.m.
  Mean Curvature, Restoring Force, and Surface Shape.
  George I Kamberov*, Stevens Institute of Technology
  Gerda L Kamberova, Hofstra University
  (975-53-275)

Saturday March 9, 2002, 3:05 p.m.-4:55 p.m.
Special Session on Bridges from `Applied' to `Mathematics', II
Room 111, Instructional Center
Organizers:
Peter Mucha, Georgia Institute of Technology mucha@math.gatech.edu
John A. Pelesko, Georgia Institute of Technology pelesko@math.gatech.edu
John E. McCuan, Georgia Institute of Technology mccuan@math.gatech.edu
Guillermo H. Goldsztein, Georgia Institute of Technology ggold@math.gatech.edu
- 3:05 p.m.
  Electrostatic Micro Actuators.
  Wenjing Ye*, Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology
  (975-65-406)
- 3:35 p.m.
  Annular Capillary Surfaces.
  Alan R Elcrat*, Wichita State University
  (975-35-129)
- 4:05 p.m.
  Taylor's experiment and systems of elliptic equations.
  John McCuan*, Georgia Tech
  John Pelesko, Georgia Tech
  (975-49-335)
- 4:35 p.m.
  Discussion

Sunday March 10, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
Special Session on Bridges from `Applied' to `Mathematics', III
Room 111, Instructional Center
Organizers:
Peter Mucha, Georgia Institute of Technology mucha@math.gatech.edu
John A. Pelesko, Georgia Institute of Technology pelesko@math.gatech.edu
John E. McCuan, Georgia Institute of Technology mccuan@math.gatech.edu
Guillermo H. Goldsztein, Georgia Institute of Technology ggold@math.gatech.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Elastic and elastoplastic response of periodic versus random composites.
  Mingxiao Jiang, General Electric Corporate R&D
  Iwona Jasiuk*, Georgia Instgitute of Technology
  Martin Ostoja-Starzewski, McGill University
  (975-74-419)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Design of Fiber Reinforced Rods for Maximum Torsional Rigidity.
  Robert Lipton*, Louisiana State University
  (975-49-208)
- 8:55 a.m.
  Break.
- 10:10 a.m.
  The strenght domain of perfectly plastic polycrystals.
  Guillermo H Goldsztein*, Georgia Institute of Technology
  (975-74-130)
- 10:40 a.m.
  Homogenization of a nonlinear elliptic boundary value problem modeling galvanic currents.
  Shari Moskow*, University of Florida
  (975-35-318)
- 11:10 a.m.
  On radial minimizers of the Ginzburg-Landau functional.
  Dmitry Golovaty*, The University of Akron
  Leonid Berlyand, The Pennsylvania State University
  (975-49-399)

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