AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Monday, October 30, 2006 00:36:37

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

Saturday October 21, 2006, 9:00 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
Special Session on Boundary Value Problems for Differential Equations with Applications, I
Room 325, Braunstein Hall
Organizers:
Xiaojie Hou, University of Cincinnati houx@email.uc.edu
Philip L. Korman, University of Cincinnati kormanp@math.uc.edu
Bingyu Zhang, University of Cincinnati zhangs@uc.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Singular boundary value problems associated with the Monge-Amp\`{e}re equation.
  Ahmed Mohammed*, Ball State University
  (1020-35-131)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Exclusive traveling waves for competitive reaction-diffusion systems and their stabilities.
  Anthony W Leung*, University of Cincinnati
  Xiaojie Hou, University of Cincinnati
  Yi Li, The University of Iowa
  (1020-35-65)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Traveling Wave Solutions To A Reaction Diffusion Equation Arising From Forest Succession.
  Xiaojie Hou*, University fo Cincinnati
  Paul Tian, The Ohio State University
  (1020-35-140)
- 10:30 a.m.
  BV theory for p-system with damping.
  Constantine M Dafermos, Brown University
  Ronghua Pan*, Georgia Institute of Technology
  (1020-35-213)
- 11:00 a.m.
  A simple example of Arnold diffusion.
  Mark Levi*, Penn State
  Vadim Kaloshin, Penn State
  (1020-37-275)

Saturday October 21, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
Special Session on Boundary Value Problems for Differential Equations with Applications, II
Room 325, Braunstein Hall
Organizers:
Xiaojie Hou, University of Cincinnati houx@email.uc.edu
Philip L. Korman, University of Cincinnati kormanp@math.uc.edu
Bingyu Zhang, University of Cincinnati zhangs@uc.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Conditions for transport in a model of molecular motors.
  S P Hastings*, University of Pittsburgh
  (1020-35-47)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Lower Bounds for Blow-up Time in Some Parabolic Problems.
  Philip Schaefer*, University of Tennessee
  (1020-35-23)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Rate of Decay of Stable Periodic Solutions of Duffing Equations.
  Hongbin Chen, Department of Mathematics, Xian Jiaotong University
  Yi Li*, Department of Mathematics, University of Iowa & Hunan Normal University
  (1020-35-219)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Advection-mediated coexistence of competing species.
  Yuan Lou*, Ohio State University
  Chris Cosner, University of Miami
  Robert Cantrell, University of Miami
  (1020-35-197)
- 5:00 p.m.
  A periodic problem for a nonlinear evolution inclusion.
  Sergiu Aizicovici*, Ohio University
  (1020-34-33)

Sunday October 22, 2006, 9:00 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
Special Session on Boundary Value Problems for Differential Equations with Applications, III
Room 325, Braunstein Hall
Organizers:
Xiaojie Hou, University of Cincinnati houx@email.uc.edu
Philip L. Korman, University of Cincinnati kormanp@math.uc.edu
Bingyu Zhang, University of Cincinnati zhangs@uc.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Quarter-plane and two-point boundary value problems for the KdV equation.
  Shu-Ming Sun*, Virginia Tech
  (1020-35-176)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Numerical investigation of three-dimensional water waves.
  Min Chen*, Dept. of Math., Purdue University
  (1020-76-146)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Using finite intervals to approximate infinite intervals: the BBM-equation.
  Jerry L Bona, University of Illinois at Chicago
  Hongqiu Chen*, University of Memphis
  Shuming Sun, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State
  Bingyu Zhang, University of Cincinnati
  (1020-35-133)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Error Estimation For A Class of Hierarchical Immersed Finite Element Spaces.
  Tao Lin*, Department of Mathematics, Vriginia Tech
  Slimane Adjerid, Department of Mathematics, Vriginia Tech
  (1020-65-116)
- 11:00 a.m.
  Entire Positive Solutions of Elliptic Systems: Understanding the General Structure.
  Alan V Lair, Air Force Institute of Technology
  Xuefeng Wang, Tulane University
  Aihua W Wood*, Air Force Institute of Technology
  (1020-35-88)

Sunday October 22, 2006, 2:00 p.m.-4:55 p.m.
Special Session on Boundary Value Problems for Differential Equations with Applications, IV
Room 325, Braunstein Hall
Organizers:
Xiaojie Hou, University of Cincinnati houx@email.uc.edu
Philip L. Korman, University of Cincinnati kormanp@math.uc.edu
Bingyu Zhang, University of Cincinnati zhangs@uc.edu
- 2:00 p.m.
  Final steady flow near a stagnation point on a vertical surface in a porous medium.
  Keith Merrill, Penn State Erie
  Matthew Beauchesne, Penn State Erie
  Joseph Previte, Penn State Erie
  Joseph Paullet*, Penn State Erie
  Patrick Weidman, University of Colorado
  (1020-34-09)
- 2:30 p.m.
  Conformally Compact Einstein Metrics with Symmetry in Dimension 5.
  Mohammad Javaheri*, University of Oregon
  (1020-53-16)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Scattering for transmission obstacles with variable matrix interfaces.
  Stephen O'Dell*, UCLA
  (1020-35-17)
- 3:30 p.m.
  On the initial-boundary value problem for constrained hyperbolic systems.
  Nicolae Tarfulea*, Department of Mathematics, Purdue University Calumet
  (1020-35-74)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Solutions to the non-homogeneous parabolic problems by the extended homogeneous Adomian decomposition method.
  Bongsoo Jang*, Kent State University at Ashtabula
  (1020-35-152)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Analysis of the Convergence of Fourier Coefficients Using a Variational Approach.
  John L Fleming*, Duquesne University
  (1020-42-166)

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