AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

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2004 Fall Central Section Meeting
Evanston, IL, October 23-24, 2004
Meeting #1001

Associate secretaries:
Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu

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Special Session on Spectral Problems of Differential Operators

• Saturday October 23, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Spectral Problems of Differential Operators, I
  Room M 128, Technological Institute
  Organizers:
  Qingkai Kong, Northern Illinois University kong@math.niu.edu
  Hongyou Wu, Northern Illinois University wu@math.niu.edu
  Anton Zettl, Northern Illinois University zettl@math.niu.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Sturm-Liouville Problems: A Survey.
    Anton Zettl*, Northern Illinois University
    (1001-34-244)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Comparison of eigenvalue problems due to Krein, Feller and Atkinson.
    Hans W Volkmer*, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
    (1001-47-216)
• Saturday October 23, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Spectral Problems of Differential Operators, II
  Room M 128, Technological Institute
  Organizers:
  Qingkai Kong, Northern Illinois University kong@math.niu.edu
  Hongyou Wu, Northern Illinois University wu@math.niu.edu
  Anton Zettl, Northern Illinois University zettl@math.niu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Continuous Families of Complete, Negatively Curved Metrics with the Same Scattering Data.
    Peter A. Perry*, University of Kentucky
    Dorothee Schueth, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    (1001-35-349)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On the spectrum of the Euler equations.
    Susan Friedlander*, University of Illinois-Chicago
    (1001-76-87)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Detour torsion.
    Thomas Branson*, University of Iowa
    A. Rod Gover, University of Auckland
    (1001-53-300)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Asymptotic expansions of the eigenvalues of anharmonic oscillators.
    Kwang C. Shin*, University of Missouri-Columbia
    (1001-34-393)
• Sunday October 24, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Spectral Problems of Differential Operators, III
  Room M 128, Technological Institute
  Organizers:
  Qingkai Kong, Northern Illinois University kong@math.niu.edu
  Hongyou Wu, Northern Illinois University wu@math.niu.edu
  Anton Zettl, Northern Illinois University zettl@math.niu.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Simple and double eigenvalues of the Hill operator with a two term potential.
    Boris Mityagin*, Department of Mathematics, the Ohio State University
    Plamen Djakov,
    (1001-47-226)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Asymptotics of spectral gaps of 1D periodic Schroedinger operators with two term potentials.
    Plamen Djakov*, Sofia University
    Boris Mityagin, The Ohio State University
    (1001-47-26)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Abstract Left-Definite Theory for Positive Self-Adjoint Operators.
    L. L. Littlejohn*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Utah State University
    (1001-34-302)
• Sunday October 24, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Spectral Problems of Differential Operators, IV
  Room M 128, Technological Institute
  Organizers:
  Qingkai Kong, Northern Illinois University kong@math.niu.edu
  Hongyou Wu, Northern Illinois University wu@math.niu.edu
  Anton Zettl, Northern Illinois University zettl@math.niu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    A Borg type theorem for matrix-valued supersymmetric Dirac difference operators.
    S Clark*, University of Missouri-Rolla
    F Gesztesy, University of Missouri-Columbia
    (1001-34-339)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On Periodic Matrix-Valued Weyl-Titchmarsh Functions.
    Miron Bekker*, University of Missouri-Rolla
    Eduard Tsekanovskii, Niagara University
    (1001-47-157)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The spectral function associated with Sturm-Liouville equations with potential of Wigner-von Neumann type.
    D. J. Gilbert, Dublin Institute of Technology
    B. J. Harris, Northern Illinois University
    S. M. Riehl*, University of Northern Iowa
    (1001-34-108)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Right-definite half-linear Sturm-Liouville Problems.
    Lingju Kong*, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL 60115
    Qingkai Kong, Northern Illinois University
    (1001-34-45)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Break
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Geometric Aspects of Sturm-Liouville Problems, V. Natural Loops of Boundary Conditions for Monotonicity of Eigenvalues and Their Applications.
    Wu-Jian Peng, Northern Illinois University
    Mihai T. Racovitan*, Northern Illinois University
    Hong-You Wu, Northern Illinois University
    (1001-34-08)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Discontinuous Boundary-Value Problems: Expansion and Sampling Theorems.
    Ahmed Zayed*, DePaul University
    M. Annaby, Cairo University
    G. Freiling, University of Duisburg
    (1001-34-430)

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