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2003 Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting
Baton Rouge, LA, March 14-16, 2003
Meeting #984

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

Sunday March 16, 2003

Sunday March 16, 2003, 8:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Number Theory and K-Theory, IV
Room 206, Tureaud Hall
Organizers:
Jurgen Hurrelbrink, Louisiana State University jurgen@math.lsu.edu
Jorge F. Morales, Louisiana State University morales@math.lsu.edu
Robert Osburn, McMaster University osburnr@math.mcmaster.ca
- 8:00 a.m.
  Chinburg invariants and generalized quaternion groups.
  Jeff Hooper*, Acadia University
  (984-11-255)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Break.
- 10:00 a.m.
  On $k$-Conjugacy Classes of Maximal Tori in Semi-Simple Algebraic Groups.
  Uroyoan R Walker*, University of Puerto Rico at Mayag�ez
  (984-11-175)
- 10:45 a.m.
  Wild primes in Hilbert symbol equivalent number fields.
  Marius M Somodi*, University of Northern Iowa
  (984-11-16)

Sunday March 16, 2003, 8:00 a.m.-8:25 a.m.
Special Session on Applied Mathematics and Materials Science, IV
Room 221, Tureaud Hall
Organizers:
Robert Lipton, Louisiana State University lipton@math.lsu.edu
Stephen Shipman, Louisiana State University shipman@math.lsu.edu
Blaise Bourdin, Louisiana State University bourdin@math.lsu.edu
Yuri Antipov, Louisiana State University antipov@math.lsu.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Bounds on the distribution of extreme values for the stress in composite materials.
  Robert P Lipton*, Louisiana State University
  (984-35-178)

Sunday March 16, 2003, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Special Session on Commutative Ring Theory, IV
Room 203, Tureaud Hall
Organizers:
James B. Coykendall, North Dakota State University Jim.Coykendall@ndsu.nodak.edu
Bernadette Mullins, Birmingham State College bmullins@panther.bsc.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Elasticities of Krull domains with divisor class group ${\mathbb Z}_{b}$.
  Karl Kattchee*, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
  (984-13-165)
- 8:30 a.m.
  On the Boundary Map and Overrings.
  Jack L Maney*, North Dakota State University
  (984-13-91)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Break.
- 10:00 a.m.
  Arithmetic on Free Abelian Groups.
  Clifford Steven Queen*, Lehigh University
  (984-13-151)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Maximal prime divisors in arithmetical rings.
  Laszlo Fuchs, Tulane University
  William Heinzer, Purdue University
  Bruce Olberding*, New Mexico State University
  (984-13-119)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Rings between the Nagata ring and the Kronecker function ring of an integral domain.
  K Alan Loper*, Ohio State University - Newark
  Marco Fontana, University of Rome III
  (984-13-143)
- 11:30 a.m.
  Adjoint Groups of Jacobson Radical Rings.
  Henry E. Heatherly*, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
  (984-16-26)

Sunday March 16, 2003, 8:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on Frames, Wavelets, and Tomography, IV
Room 211, Tureaud Hall
Organizers:
Gestur Olafsson, Louisiana State University olafsson@math.lsu.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Operators associated to Generalized Filter Functions.
  Judith A. Packer*, University of Colorado, Boulder
  (984-46-101)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Coaffine systems in $R^d$.
  Brody Dylan Johnson*, Georgia Institute of Technology
  (984-42-256)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Break.
- 10:00 a.m.
  Localization of Stability, Frame and Sampling in Fourier Domain.
  Qiyu Sun*, University of Houston
  (984-42-94)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Generalization of Frame Potentials (Preliminary Work).
  John J Boncek*, University of Central Florida
  (984-43-222)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Ellipsoidal Tight Frames in Finite and Infinite Dimensional Hilbert Spaces.
  Keri Kornelson*, Texas A&M University
  Ken Dykema, Texas A&M University
  Dan Freeman, Guilford College
  David Larson, Texas A&M Texas A&M University
  Marc Ordower, Randolph Macon Woman's College
  Eric Weber, University of Wyoming
  (984-47-105)

Sunday March 16, 2003, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Special Session on Graphs and Matroids, IV
Room 213, Tureaud Hall
Organizers:
Bogdan S. Oporowski, Louisiana State University bogdan@math.lsu.edu
James G. Oxley, Louisiana State University oxley@math.lsu.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Disjoint paths in planar graphs.
  Laura Sheppardson*, Georgia Institute of Technology
  Xingxing Yu, Georgia Institute of Technology
  (984-05-182)
- 8:30 a.m.
  The existence of separating cycles in triangulations of the double torus.
  Mark N. Ellingham, Vanderbilt University
  Dana L. Jennings*, Vanderbilt University
  Xiaoya Zha, Middle Tennessee State University
  (984-05-24)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Break.
- 10:00 a.m.
  Subsets of the sphere that uniquely embed in the sphere.
  R. Bruce Richter*, University of Waterloo
  Carsten Thomassen, Technical University of Denmark
  (984-57-157)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Trades and flexible graph embeddings.
  Mark N. Ellingham*, Vanderbilt University
  (984-05-158)
- 11:30 a.m.
  Book Embeddings.
  Robin Leigh Blankenship*, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
  Bogdan Oporowski, Louisiana State University
  (984-05-246)

Sunday March 16, 2003, 8:00 a.m.-11:45 a.m.
Special Session on Mathematical Techniques in Musical Analysis, IV
Room 120, Tureaud Hall
Organizers:
Judith L. Baxter, University of Illinois at Chicago baxter@uic.edu
Robert Peck, Louisiana State University rpeck@lsu.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Music, Models, and the Relative Complexity of Analysis.
  Richard R. Randall*, University of Rochester, Eastman School of Music
  (984-00-227)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Chord Quality and General Harmony.
  Ian Quinn*, University of Chicago
  (984-00-208)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Break.
- 10:00 a.m.
  Numbers and the Western Tone-System: Beyond Psychoacoustics.
  Eytan Agmon*, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
  (984-00-43)
- 10:40 a.m.
  Some Recent Developments in Mathematics Applied to Music Theory.
  John Rahn*, University of Washington, Seattle
  (984-01-166)
- 11:15 a.m.
  Aspects of Saturation and Ordering in Twelve-Tone Music.
  Robert D Morris, Eastman School of Music
  Ciro G Scotto*, Eastman School of Music
  (984-20-174)

Sunday March 16, 2003, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Special Session on Asymptotic Analysis, Stability, and Generalized Functions, III
Room 103, Tureaud Hall
Organizers:
Ricardo Estrada, Louisiana State University restrada@math.lsu.edu
Frank Neubrander, Louisiana State University neubrand@math.lsu.edu
Gunter Lumer, University of Mons-Hainaut
- 8:00 a.m.
  Rayleigh's instability of thin rods with strong circumferential surface energy anisotropy.
  Wanxi Kan, LSU
  Harris Wong*, LSU
  (984-35-163)
- 8:30 a.m.
  On the convergence of von Neumann stable methods.
  Yu Zhuang*, Texas Tech University
  (984-46-39)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Break.
- 10:00 a.m.
  Analysis for the functions $f({\bf x})$, $\delta^{(n)}({\bf x})$, $1/r$, and $\psi({\bf x})=\int_{{\bf R}^3} \frac{{\phi({\bf y})}} { \vert {\bf x}-{\bf y}\vert} d{\bf y}$.
  Ram P Kanwal*, Pennsylvania State University
  (984-46-211)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Polynomial asymptotic stability of evolution equations.
  Andras Batkai, E�tv�s Lorand University Budapest
  Klaus-Jochen Engel, University of L'Aquila
  Jan Pr�ss, University of Halle
  Roland Schnaubelt*, University of Halle
  (984-47-99)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Superstability: towards (full) depletion in finite or infinite time (or protection of resources).
  Guenter Lumer*, University of Mons-Hainaut
  (984-35-156)
- 11:30 a.m.
  Discussion

Sunday March 16, 2003, 8:30 a.m.-11:45 a.m.
Special Session on Induced Representations: Connections to Graphs, Number Theory, Geometry, IV
Room 215, Tureaud Hall
Organizers:
J. William Hoffman, Louisiana State University hoffman@math.lsu.edu
Robert V. Perlis, Louisiana State University perlis@math.lsu.edu
Neal W. Stoltzfus, Louisiana State University stoltz@math.lsu.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Mackey functors and Sunada's theorem.
  Benjamin Thomas Webster*, University of California, Berkeley
  (984-53-28)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Break.
- 10:00 a.m.
  Zeta functions of infinite graphs.
  Bryan F Clair*, Saint Louis University
  (984-11-164)
- 11:00 a.m.
  On arithmetically equivalent fields with distinct $p$-class numbers.
  Bart de Smit*, Universiteit Leiden
  (984-11-247)

Sunday March 16, 2003, 9:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
Invited Address
Stability analysis, Paley-Wiener criteria, and related problems in materials science/ecology.
Room 103, Tureaud Hall
G\"unter Lumer*, University of Mons-Hainaut
(984-35-03)

Sunday March 16, 2003, 10:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Special Session on Arrangements in Topology and Algebraic Geometry, IV
Room 226, Tureaud Hall
Organizers:
Daniel C. Cohen, Louisiana State University cohen@math.lsu.edu
Alexander I. Suciu, Northeastern University alexsuciu@neu.edu
- 10:00 a.m.
  Gauss-Manin connections for arrangements.
  Daniel C. Cohen, Louisiana State University
  Peter Orlik*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  (984-32-89)
- 10:40 a.m.
  Deformations of complexified real arrangements.
  Kwai-Man Fan*, National Chung Cheng University
  (984-14-115)
- 11:20 a.m.
  Optimal trajectories for robots in the plane.
  Aaron D Abrams*, University of Georgia
  (984-51-253)

Sunday March 16, 2003, 10:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Special Session on Low Dimensional Topology, IV
Room 225, Tureaud Hall
Organizers:
Oliver T. Dasbach, Louisiana State University kasten@math.lsu.edu
Patrick M. Gilmer, Louisiana State University gilmer@math.lsu.edu
Richard A. Litherland, Louisiana State University lither@math.lsu.edu
- 10:00 a.m.
  Epimorphisms of Knot Groups.
  Daniel S Silver*, University of South Alabma
  Wilbur Whitten, Forest, VA
  (984-57-95)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Lifting representations of knot group commutator subgroups.
  Daniel Silver, University of South Alabama
  Susan Williams*, University of South Alabama
  (984-57-88)
- 11:00 a.m.
  An algorithm to recognize Seifert fiber spaces.
  Tao Li*, Oklahoma State University
  (984-57-176)
- 11:30 a.m.
  Variety of groups of knots.
  Mieczyslaw Dabkowski, GWU
  Jozef H Przytycki*, GWU
  (984-57-266)

Sunday March 16, 2003, 10:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Special Session on Stochastics, Quantization, and Segal-Bargmann Analysis, IV
Room 228, Tureaud Hall
Organizers:
Bruce K. Driver, University of California San Diego driver@euclid.ucsd.edu
Brian C. Hall, University of Notre Dame bhall@darwin.helios.nd.edu
Jeffrey J. Mitchell, Baylor University Jeffrey_Mitchell@baylor.edu
- 10:00 a.m.
  A discrete version of the Wigner-von Neumann potential.
  Stephen Bruce Sontz*, Centro de Investigacion en Matematicas, A.C. (CIMAT)
  Jaime Cruz Sampedro, Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Hidalgo
  (984-81-104)
- 10:30 a.m.
  On Hodge theory with a heat kernel weight.
  Ed Bueler*, University of Alaska, Fairbanks
  (984-58-171)
- 11:00 a.m.
  The Dirac Magnetic Charge Quantization Condition.
  Jeffrey J Mitchell, Baylor University
  Ambar N Sengupta*, Louisiana State University
  (984-81-31)
- 11:30 a.m.
  The Gross isometry for homogeneous vector bundles.
  Jeffrey J. Mitchell*, Baylor University
  Brian C. Hall, University of Notre Dame
  (984-58-117)

Sunday March 16, 2003, 10:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
Special Session on The Role of Mathematics Departments in Secondary Education, III
Room 116, Tureaud Hall
Organizers:
James J. Madden, Louisiana State University madden@math.lsu.edu
Frank Neubrander, Louisiana State University neubrand@math.lsu.edu
- 10:00 a.m.
  On a Master's program in Mathematics and Teaching at Texas A&M University.
  Thomas Schlumprecht*, Texas A&M University
  (984-97-56)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Outreach to High School Mathematics at the University of Tennessee, A Preliminary Report.
  Reid M Davis*, University of Tennessee
  (984-97-203)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Mathematics faculty assisting public schools in improving ACT mathematics scores.
  Frank C Serio*, Northwestern St Univ of La
  Stan Chadick, Northwestern St Univ of La
  (984-97-245)

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AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Day

2003 Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting Baton Rouge, LA, March 14-16, 2003 Meeting #984

Sunday March 16, 2003

2003 Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting
Baton Rouge, LA, March 14-16, 2003
Meeting #984