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2005 Fall Southeast Section Meeting
Johnson City, TN, October 15-16, 2005
Meeting #1010

Associate secretaries:
Matthew Miller, AMS miller@math.sc.edu

Saturday October 15, 2005

Saturday October 15, 2005, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Exhibit and Book Sale
Room 321, Rogers-Stout Hall

Saturday October 15, 2005, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Meeting Registration
Room 119, Rogers-Stout Hall

Saturday October 15, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Commutative Ring Theory, I
Room 129, Rogers-Stout Hall
Organizers:
David F. Anderson, University of Tennessee at Knoxville anderson@math.utk.edu
David E. Dobbs, University of Tennessee at Knoxville dobbs@math.utk.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Intersections of valuation domains.
  K Alan Loper*, Ohio State University
  (1010-13-119)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Classifying prime ideals in Pr\"ufer domains.
  Marco Fontana, Universit\`a degli Studi Roma Tre
  Evan Houston, University of North Carolina Charlotte
  Thomas G. Lucas*, University of North Carolina Charlotte
  (1010-13-40)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Factorization of ideals in Pr\"ufer domains II.
  Marco Fontana, University of Rome III
  Evan Houston*, UNC Charlotte
  Thomas Lucas, UNC Charlotte
  (1010-13-101)
- 9:30 a.m.
  On t-locally pseudo-valuation domains.
  Gyu Whan Chang*, University of Incheon
  (1010-13-146)
- 10:00 a.m.
  On the Ascent of Properties Related to Unique Factorization Domains, Part I.
  Andrew J. Hetzel*, Tennesee Technological University
  A. Serpil Saydam, University of Louisiana at Monroe
  (1010-13-61)
- 10:30 a.m.
  On the ascent of properties related to unique factorization domains, part II.
  Andrew J Hetzel, Tennessee Technological University
  A. Serpil Saydam*, University of Louisiana at Monroe
  (1010-13-58)

Saturday October 15, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Mathematical Education of Teachers, I
Room 303, Rogers-Stout Hall
Organizers:
Frederick Norwood, East Tennessee State University norwoodr@etsu.edu
Michel Helfgott, East Tennessee State University helfgott@etsu.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Preparing Secondary Mathematics Teachers: Lessons from PMET.
  Patrick Halpin*, SUNY Oswego
  (1010-97-20)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Some Surprising Mathematical Deficiencies of Future High School Math Teachers.
  Richard O. Hill*, Michigan State University
  (1010-97-12)
- 9:00 a.m.
  The Pedagogical Content Knowledge of Secondary Mathematics Teachers.
  David C. Royster*, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
  (1010-97-37)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Math Courses Designed to Foster Mathematical Thinking and to Prepare K-12 Teachers for Classroom Exigencies.
  Tatiana Shubin*, San Jose State University
  (1010-97-15)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The Role of Proof and Proof Classes in the Mathematics Education of Teachers.
  William C Bauldry*, Appalachian State University
  (1010-97-07)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Wallpaper patterns and planar isometries: from art to geometry and beyond.
  George Baloglou*, SUNY Oswego
  (1010-97-08)

Saturday October 15, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Approximation Theory, I
Room 327, Rogers-Stout Hall
Organizers:
Robert Gardner, East Tennessee State University gardnerr@etsu.edu
Narendra Kumar Govil, Auburn University govilnk@mail.auburn.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Quadrature formulas and ZF networks on the sphere.
  Hrushikesh N Mhaskar*, California State University, Los Angeles
  (1010-41-38)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Some Inequalities concerning Polar Derivative of Polynomials and Related Entire Functions.
  N. K. Govil*, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama 36849
  (1010-41-88)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Integrability Theorems of Trigonometric Series.
  Maher M Marzuq*, Gulf University for Science and Technolgy
  (1010-40-06)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Some problems in approximation for certain Durrmeyer type operators.
  Vijay Gupta*, School of Applied Sciences, Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, New Delhi 110075, India.
  (1010-41-98)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Inequalities relating degrees of adjacent nodes to the average degree in edge-weighted uniform hypergraphs.
  P D Johnson*, Auburn University
  R N Mohapatra, University of Central Florida
  (1010-26-46)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Extensions of a result of P. Tur\'an about the local behaviour of polynomials.
  Mohammed A. Qazi*, Tuskegee University
  (1010-30-90)

Saturday October 15, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Geometry and Algorithms in Metric Spaces, I
Room 125, Rogers-Stout Hall
Organizers:
W. J. Bo Brinkman, Miami University brinkmwj@muohio.edu
Beata Randrianantoanina, Miami University randrib@muohio.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Recent developments in geometry and algorithms of metric spaces.
  Ravi Kumar*, Yahoo-Inc.
  (1010-68-142)
- 8:40 a.m.
  Embeddings and data stream algorithms.
  Piotr Indyk*, EECS, MIT
  (1010-68-130)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Embedding Bounded Bandwidth Graphs into $\ell_1$.
  Douglas Edmonds Carroll*, University of California, Los Angeles
  Adam Meyerson, University of California, Los Angeles
  Ashish Goel, Stanford University
  (1010-05-116)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Metric cotype.
  Manor Mendel*, California Institute of Technology
  Assaf Naor, Microsoft Research
  (1010-46-22)

Saturday October 15, 2005, 8:00 a.m.-11:01 a.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear PDE Evolutionary Systems and Their Control, I
Room 328, Rogers-Stout Hall
Organizers:
George Avalos, University of Nebraska-Lincoln gavalos@math.unl.edu
Irena M. Lasiecka, University of Virginia il2v@virginia.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Control of Nonlinear Elastic Systems.
  David L. Russell*, Virginia Tech
  (1010-93-47)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Linear and Nonlinear Controllability of Viscoelastic Shear Flows.
  Michael Renardy*, Virginia Tech
  (1010-76-44)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Exact Controllability of Damped Bending--Torsion Beam Model.
  Marianna Shubov*, University of New Hampshire
  (1010-93-52)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Uniqueness, Stability and Numerical Methods for Some Coefficient Inverse and Ill-Posed Cauchy Problems.
  Michael V. Klibanov*, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
  (1010-35-89)
- 10:00 a.m.
  An observability inequality for the anisotropic dynamic Maxwell system.
  Matthias M Eller*, Georgetown University
  (1010-35-102)
- 10:25 a.m.
  Strong Stability of PDE Semigroups via a Resolvent Criterion of Y. Tomilov.
  George Avalos*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  (1010-35-110)
- 10:38 a.m.
  Numerical Approximation for the Minimal Energy Function Relative to the Null Controllability of the Thermoelastic Parabolic System.
  Paul C. Cokeley*, University of Nebraska Lincoln
  (1010-35-77)
- 10:51 a.m.
  Energy Decay Rates for the Semilinear Wave Equation with Nonlinear Localized Damping and Source Terms - an Intrinsic Approach.
  Irena Lasiecka, University of Virginia
  Daniel Y Toundykov*, University of Virginia
  (1010-93-112)

Saturday October 15, 2005, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Mathematical Applications in Survival Analysis and Biostatistics, I
Room 121, Rogers-Stout Hall
Organizers:
Don Hong, East Tennessee State University hong@etsu.edu
Tiejian Wu, East Tennessee State University wut@etsu.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Adaptive Approximation and Stable Wavelets on Nonuniform Meshes.
  Song-Tao Liu*, Syracuse University, NY
  (1010-65-117)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Improved leaps and bounds algorithm (LABOT) in subset search.
  Xiaoming Huo*, Georgia Institute of Technology
  (1010-62-43)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Diffusion Distance and Anisotropic Diffusions.
  Jianzhong Wang*, Sam Houston State University
  (1010-35-118)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Break
- 10:30 a.m.
  Area Test for Observations Indexed by Time.
  Lisa Bloomer Green*, Middle Tennessee State University
  Erik M. Boczko, Vanderbilt University
  (1010-62-55)

Saturday October 15, 2005, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Discrete Models in Biology, I
Room 124, Rogers-Stout Hall
Organizers:
Debra Knisley, East Tennessee State University knisley@etsu.edu
Michael A. Langston, University of Tennessee, Knoxville mlangsto@utk.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Graphs and DNA rearrangements.
  Mariel Vazquez*, San Francisco State University
  (1010-92-79)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Random De Bruijn Sequences and the Design of DNA Codewords.
  Christine E Heitsch*, University of Wisconsin -- Madison
  (1010-05-129)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Choral Graphs and Evolution of Hard to Gain and Hard Lose Character Traits.
  Teresa Maria Przytycka*, NIH / NLM / NCBI
  (1010-05-21)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Discovering Novel Functional RNAs using Graph Theory.
  Namhee Kim*, Computational Biology IGERT Doctoral Program New York University
  Hin Hark Gan, Chemistry Department New York University
  Tamar Schlick, Chemistry/Computational Biology/Mathematics New York University
  (1010-92-62)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Using graphical invariants to quantify secondary RNA structure.
  Teresa Haynes, East Tennessee State University
  Debra Knisley*, East Tennessee State University
  Jeff Knisley, East Tennessee State University
  Yue Zou, East Tennessee State University
  (1010-92-74)

Saturday October 15, 2005, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Mathematical Aspects of Wave Propagation Phenomena, I
Room 324, Rogers-Stout Hall
Organizers:
Boris P. Belinskiy, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga boris-belinskiy@utc.edu
Anjan Biswas, Tennessee State University ABiswas@Tnstate.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Phase Space and Path Integral Methods in Seismic Imaging.
  Lou Fishman*, MDF International, Slidell, LA
  (1010-86-31)
- 9:30 a.m.
  On a finite algorithm of constructing mother bodies in $R^2$.
  Tatiana Savin*, Georgia Institute of Technology
  Boris Sternin, Independent University of Moscow
  Victor Shatalov, Independent University of Moscow
  (1010-31-42)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Reconstruction problem for the inhomogeneous one dimensional wave equation.
  Slava Krigman*, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
  (1010-49-18)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Scattered waves through a waveguide from a half-opened space.
  Yongzhi S Xu*, University of Louisville
  (1010-35-09)

Saturday October 15, 2005, 11:10 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Invited Address
Markov chain mixing: An update.
Auditorium (Room 118), Rogers-Stout Hall
Prasad V. Tetali*, Georgia Institute of Technology
(1010-60-03)

Saturday October 15, 2005, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
Invited Address
The bi-Lipschitz theory of metric spaces: A survey of recent progress and algorithmic applications.
Auditorium (Room 118), Rogers-Stout Hall
Assaf Naor*, Microsoft Research
(1010-52-02)

Saturday October 15, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
Special Session on Mathematical Education of Teachers, II
Room 303, Rogers-Stout Hall
Organizers:
Frederick Norwood, East Tennessee State University norwoodr@etsu.edu
Michel Helfgott, East Tennessee State University helfgott@etsu.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Improving Pre-Service Teachers' Calculus Understanding Through CAS Programming.
  Judith H. Hector*, Walters State Community College
  (1010-97-19)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Complex Numbers: Making Sense Out of Nonsense.
  David Kay*, University of North Carolina, Asheville
  (1010-97-128)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Mathematics for Teaching.
  Al Cuoco*, Center for Mathematics Education, EDC
  (1010-97-13)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Professional development: the hard work of learning mathematics.
  Hung-Hsi Wu*, University of California at Berkeley
  (1010-97-11)

Saturday October 15, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Wave Equations and Applications, I
Room 325, Rogers-Stout Hall
Organizers:
Alberto Bressan, Pennsylvania State University bressan@math.psu.edu
Yuxi Zheng, Pennsylvania State University yzheng@math.psu.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Axial Symmetry and Classification of Stationary Solutions of the Doi-Onsager Equation.
  Hailiang Liu*, Iowa State University
  Hui Zhang, Beijing Normal University
  Pingwen Zhang, Beijing Univeristy
  (1010-35-33)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Geometric approach to Euler equations of hydrodynamics.
  Gerard Misiolek*, University of Notre Dame
  (1010-35-54)
- 4:00 p.m.
  High frequency solutions and well-posedness of the Camassa-Holm equation.
  Alex A. Himonas*, University of Notre Dame
  (1010-35-75)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Evolution of Skyrme's Hedgehog.
  Lev Kapitanski*, University of Miami
  (1010-35-124)

Saturday October 15, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Approximation Theory, II
Room 327, Rogers-Stout Hall
Organizers:
Robert Gardner, East Tennessee State University gardnerr@etsu.edu
Narendra Kumar Govil, Auburn University govilnk@mail.auburn.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  A Curious Identity on the Stirling Numbers of the Second Kind.
  Xin Li*, University of Central Florida
  (1010-41-68)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Geometric Variational Subdivision.
  Scott N Kersey*, Georgia Southern University
  (1010-41-83)
- 4:00 p.m.
  On Equivalence of Moduli of Smoothness of Polynomials in $L_p$, $0
  Yingkang Hu*, Georgia Southern University
  Yongping Liu, Beijing Normal University
  (1010-41-57)

Saturday October 15, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Mathematical Applications in Survival Analysis and Biostatistics, II
Room 121, Rogers-Stout Hall
Organizers:
Don Hong, East Tennessee State University hong@etsu.edu
Tiejian Wu, East Tennessee State University wut@etsu.edu

3:00 p.m.
Stochastic Mixture Models of Human Colon Cancers.
Wai-Yuan Tan*, The University of Memphis
Li-Jun Zhang, The University of Memphis
Chao W. Chen, US EPA
Junmei Zhu, The University of Memphis
(1010-92-65)

3:30 p.m.
Logspline Density Estimation with an Application to the Study of Survival Data of Lung Cancer Patients.
Yong Chen*, Case Western Reserve University
(1010-62-51)

4:00 p.m.
Serum Iron, Copper and Zinc Concentrations and Risk of Cancer Mortality in US Adults.
Tiejian Wu*, East Tennessee State University
(1010-92-67)

4:30 p.m.
Survival Anlysis Based on High Throughput MALDI-TOF Protein Expression Profiling.
Shuo Chen*, Vanderbilt University
Don Hong, Vanderbilt University
Yu Shyr, Vanderbilt University
(1010-62-93)

5:00 p.m.
Survival Model and Estimation for Lung Cancer Patients with Neural Network Applications.
Xingchen Yuan, Chicago, IL
Don Hong, Middle Tennessee State University
Changbin Guo*, East Tennessee State University
(1010-62-69)

5:30 p.m.
Disease Progression Modeling from Historical Databases.
Ronald K. Pearson, ProSanos Corporation
Robert J. Kingan*, Clayton State University
Alan Hochberg, ProSanos Corporation
(1010-62-151)

Saturday October 15, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Discrete Models in Biology, II
Room 124, Rogers-Stout Hall
Organizers:
Debra Knisley, East Tennessee State University knisley@etsu.edu
Michael A. Langston, University of Tennessee, Knoxville mlangsto@utk.edu

3:00 p.m.
Graph Applications in Systems Genetics.
Elissa J Chesler*, Life Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
M A Langston, Computer Sciences Department, University of Tennessee
(1010-92-96)

3:30 p.m.
Graphs for indexing coordinates specifying molecular shape in 3D space and some applications.
Daniel B. Dix*, University of South Carolina
(1010-53-78)

4:00 p.m.
A Geometric Theorem on Producible Polygonal Protein Chains.
Joseph O'Rourke*, Smith College
(1010-51-72)

4:30 p.m.
Polynomial Dynamical Models for Biological Systems.
Abdul Salam Jarrah*, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute
(1010-12-136)

5:00 p.m.
A Framework for Analysis of Dynamic Social Networks.
Tanya Y. Berger-Wolf*, University of Illinois at Chicago and DIMACS
Jared Saia, University of New Mexico
(1010-92-26)

5:30 p.m.
Cellular Automata Modeling of Signaling and Metabolic Pathways.
Danail G Bonchev*, Department of Mathematics & Center for the Study of Biological Complexity, Virginia Commonwealth University
Lemont B Kier, Center for the Study of Biological Complexity, Virginia Commonwelath University
Sterling Thomas, Virginia Commonwealth University
(1010-92-105)

Saturday October 15, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-6:05 p.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear PDE Evolutionary Systems and Their Control, II
Room 328, Rogers-Stout Hall
Organizers:
George Avalos, University of Nebraska-Lincoln gavalos@math.unl.edu
Irena M. Lasiecka, University of Virginia il2v@virginia.edu

3:00 p.m.
A new proof and generalizations of Gearhart's theorem.
Quoc-Phong Vu*, Ohio University
(1010-47-106)

3:30 p.m.
Exotic linear systems and formal power series with application to robust control.
Joseph A. Ball*, Virginia Tech
(1010-93-132)

4:00 p.m.
Strong instability of standing waves for the nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation and Klein-Gordon-Zakharov system.
Grozdena Todorova*, University of Tennessee
(1010-35-138)

4:30 p.m.
Stabilizability of a nonlinear coupled wave/heat system.
Louis Tebou*, Florida International University
(1010-93-45)

5:00 p.m.
Existence issues for semilinear wave equations.
Petronela Radu*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
(1010-35-152)

5:30 p.m.
The energy decay problem for wave equations with nonlinear dissipative terms in $R^n$.
Grozdena Todorova, University of Tennessee - Knoxville
Borislav Yordanov*, University of Tennessee - Knoxville
(1010-35-80)

5:50 p.m.
Exact Controllability of a Rao-Nakra sandwich beam.
Rajeev Rajaram*, Shepherd University
(1010-93-84)

Saturday October 15, 2005, 3:00 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
Session for Contributed Papers
Room 324, Rogers-Stout Hall

3:00 p.m.
Non-symmetric Schur functions and key polynomials.
Sarah K Mason*, University of Pennsylvania
(1010-05-134)

3:15 p.m.
Convolutions of valuations on convex bodies.
Joseph H.G. Fu, University of Georgia
Jason Parsley*, University of Georgia
(1010-52-137)

3:30 p.m.
A remark on a result by Kato.
Carlos J Almada*, Columbus State University
(1010-35-139)

Saturday October 15, 2005, 3:05 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
Special Session on Geometry and Algorithms in Metric Spaces, II
Room 125, Rogers-Stout Hall
Organizers:
W. J. Bo Brinkman, Miami University brinkmwj@muohio.edu
Beata Randrianantoanina, Miami University randrib@muohio.edu

3:05 p.m.
Non linear $p$ summing operators.
Jeffrey D. Farmer, University of Northern Colorado
William B. Johnson*, Texas A&M University
(1010-52-131)

4:00 p.m.
Coarse dimensions and partitions of unity.
Jerzy Dydak*, University of Tennessee
(1010-54-92)

4:30 p.m.
F\o lner type sequences and constructions of coarse embeddings.
Piotr W Nowak*, Vanderbilt University
(1010-46-60)

5:00 p.m.
Extending Lipschitz maps into $C(K)$-spaces.
Nigel J. Kalton*, University of Missouri
(1010-46-53)

5:50 p.m.
Recent developments in geometry and algorithms in metric spaces.
James R. Lee*, CS, UC Berkeley
(1010-68-141)

Saturday October 15, 2005, 3:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Commutative Ring Theory, II
Room 129, Rogers-Stout Hall
Organizers:
David F. Anderson, University of Tennessee at Knoxville anderson@math.utk.edu
David E. Dobbs, University of Tennessee at Knoxville dobbs@math.utk.edu

3:30 p.m.
Results on the FIP property for extensions of commutative rings.
David E. Dobbs, University of Tennessee
Bernadette Mullins*, Birmingham-Southern College
Gabriel Picavet, Universite Blaise Pascal
Martine Picavet-L'Hermitte, Universite Blaise Pascal
(1010-13-125)

4:00 p.m.
Flat epimorphisms and a generalized Kaplansky ideal transform.
Jay Shapiro*, George Mason University
(1010-13-36)

4:30 p.m.
Some finiteness conditions on the set of overrings of a $\phi$-ring.
Ayman R Badawi*, American Univ. of Sharjah,
Ali Jaballah, University of Sharjah
(1010-13-23)

5:00 p.m.
N-dimensional Pairs.
R. Douglas Chatham*, Morehead State University
David E. Dobbs, University of Tennessee
(1010-13-34)

5:30 p.m.
Quasi-Schreier domains II.
Daniel D Anderson, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Tiberiu Dumitrescu, Universitatea Bucuresti, Bucharest, Romania
Muhammad Zafrullah*, Pocatello, Idaho
(1010-13-121)

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2005 Fall Southeast Section Meeting Johnson City, TN, October 15-16, 2005 Meeting #1010

Saturday October 15, 2005

2005 Fall Southeast Section Meeting
Johnson City, TN, October 15-16, 2005
Meeting #1010