AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Day
Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:30
1996 Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting
Baton Rouge, LA, April 19-21, 1996
Meeting #911
Associate secretaries: Robert J Daverman, AMS daverman@math.utk.edu
Sunday April 21, 1996
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Sunday April 21, 1996, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Meeting Registration
Atrium, Howe-Russell Geoscience Complex Building -
Sunday April 21, 1996, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations
Room 104, A. P. Tureaud Building
Organizers:
James R. Dorroh, Louisiana State University
Gisele Ruiz Goldstein, Louisiana State University
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8:00 a.m.
On wave motions in moving penetrable media.
Gary Francis Roach*, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom
(911-35-24) -
8:30 a.m.
The Neumann Laplacian on generalized ridged domains.
David E. Edmunds, University of Sussex, United Kingdom
Robert M. Kauffman*, University of Alabama, Birmingham
(911-35-171) -
9:00 a.m.
Non-quenching, quenching and beyond quenching for degenerate semilinear parabolic equations.
Chiu Yeung Chan*, University of Southwestern Louisiana
Pui Kan Catherine Kong, Carson-Newman College
(911-35-56) -
9:30 a.m.
Regular and singular solutions of a nonlinear Keldysh equation.
Suncica Canic, Iowa State University
Barbara L. Keyfitz*, University of Houston
(911-35-16) -
10:00 a.m.
Sobolev gradients and boundary conditions for systems of nonlinear partial differential equations.
J. W. Neuberger*, University of North Texas
(911-35-74) -
10:30 a.m.
Recent results for semipositone problems.
Ratnasingham Shivaji*, Mississippi State University
(911-35-149)
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8:00 a.m.
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Sunday April 21, 1996, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Number Theory and Quadratic Forms, IV
Room 203, A. P. Tureaud Building
Organizers:
Jurgen Hurrelbrink, Louisiana State University
Jorge F. Morales, Louisiana State University
Robert V. Perlis, Louisiana State University
Paul B. Van Wamelen, Louisiana State University
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8:00 a.m.
The Galois number.
Patricia Wright Beaulieu, University of Southwestern Louisiana
Thomas Palfrey*, Xavier University
(911-11-237) -
8:30 a.m.
Annihilators of scaled trace forms.
Patricia Wright Beaulieu*, University of Southwestern Louisiana
Robert V. Perlis, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
(911-11-49) -
9:00 a.m.
A partial generalized of Kaplan's theorem.
Stella Roberson Ashford*, Southern University
(911-11-235) -
9:30 a.m.
On the preservation of root numbers and behavior of Weil characters under reciprocity equivalence.
Jenna Price Carpenter*, Louisiana Tech University
(911-11-47) -
10:00 a.m.
Splitting numbers and multiplicity.
Donna J. Stuart*, Southern University
(911-11-236) -
10:30 a.m.
A relationship between twin primes and their indices.
Ali R. Fazely*, Southern University
(911-11-238)
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8:00 a.m.
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Sunday April 21, 1996, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Asymptotic Behavior of Difference Equations with Applications, IV
Room 109, A. P. Tureaud Building
Organizers:
Saber N. Elaydi, Trinity University, San Antonio
Vlajko Lj Kocic, Xavier University of Louisiana
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8:00 a.m.
A periodically - forced system with application to population dynamics.
Shandelle M. Henson*, University of Arizona
(911-39-167) -
8:30 a.m.
WKB and turning point theory for $2$nd order difference equations with applications.
Jeffrey S. Geronimo*, Georgia Institute of Technology
(911-30-264) -
9:00 a.m.
Dynamic systems on time scales and superlinear convergence.
A. S. Vatsala*, University of Southwestern Louisiana
(911-34-147) -
9:30 a.m.
On the boundedness of the orbit of the gingerbreadman map.
Elias Camouzis*, University of Rhode Island
Richard C. DeVault, University of Rhode Island
Gerasimos Ladas, University of Rhode Island
(911-39-134) -
10:00 a.m.
On difference equations with nonhyperbolic equilibria.
George K. Tzanetopoulos*, University of Rhode Island
(911-39-62) -
10:30 a.m.
Stability and summability of the zero solution of Volterra systems of difference equations.
Youssef N. Raffoul*, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
(911-39-183)
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8:00 a.m.
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Sunday April 21, 1996, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Real Algebraic Geometry and Ordered Algebraic Structures, VI
Room 120, A. P. Tureaud Building
Organizers:
Charles N. Delzell, Louisiana State University
James Joseph Madden, Louisiana State University
Scott Woodward, Southern University
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8:30 a.m.
Elliptic curves and level of quartics.
Louis Mahe*, University of Rennes I, France
(911-14-136) -
9:00 a.m.
About the image of the signature map in the two dimensional case.
Jean-Philippe Monnier*, University of Rennes 1, France
(911-14-121) -
9:30 a.m.
Exponentiation in power series fields.
Salma Kuhlmann*, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Franz Viktor Kuhlmann, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Saharon Shelah, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
(911-12-124) -
10:00 a.m.
Old and new constructions of Hilbert identities.
Bruce A. Reznick*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
(911-11-114) -
10:30 a.m.
A complex version of the Baer-Krull theorems.
Gregory W. Brumfiel, Stanford University
Maria Jesus de la Puente*, Universidad Complutense, Spain
(911-12-13)
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8:30 a.m.
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Sunday April 21, 1996, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Low-Dimensional Topology, IV
Room 124, A. P. Tureaud Building
Organizers:
Patrick M. Gilmer, Louisiana State University
Rick Litherland, Louisiana State University
Neal W. Stoltzfus, Louisiana State University
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8:30 a.m.
Lower central series of finitely-presented $3$-manifold groups.
Tim D. Cochran*, Rice University
Kent Orr, Indiana University, Bloomington
(911-57-101) -
9:00 a.m.
Genus two positive Heegaard diagrams.
John P. Hempel*, Rice University
(911-57-90) -
9:30 a.m.
Bounding the number of boundary components of an essential surface in a knot exterior.
John Edwin Luecke*, University of Texas, Austin
(911-57-207) -
10:00 a.m.
A combinatorial Cartan theorem.
Jon M. Corson, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
Bruce S. Trace*, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
(911-57-100) -
10:30 a.m.
Tangle analysis of DNA Int recombination.
De Witt L Sumners*, Florida State University
(911-57-106)
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8:30 a.m.
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Sunday April 21, 1996, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Group Theory, IV
Room 125, A. P. Tureaud Building
Organizers:
Stephen G. Brick, University of South Alabama
Jon M. Corson, University of Alabama
Barry S. Spieler, Birmingham-Southern College
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8:30 a.m.
Artin groups, rewriting systems, and three manifolds.
Susan M. Hermiller*, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces
John E. Meier, Lafayette College
(911-20-196) -
9:00 a.m.
Finiteness conditions and abelian quotients of graph groups.
John E. Meier*, Lafayette College
Leonard A. VanWyk, Hope College
(911-20-231) -
9:30 a.m.
Boundaries of $G\times H$ CAT $(0)$ groups.
Kim E. Ruane*, Florida State University
(911-20-247) -
10:00 a.m.
Generating functions for finite group actions on surfaces.
Colin Maclachlan, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Andy Miller*, University of Oklahoma
(911-20-248) -
10:30 a.m.
Higher order Dehn functions of groups.
Juan M. Alonso, Stockholm University, Sweden
William Aubrey Bogley*, Oregon State University
Robert M. Burton, Jr., Oregon State University
Stephen J. Pride, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
X. Wang, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
(911-20-163)
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8:30 a.m.
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Sunday April 21, 1996, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Representations of Finite Groups, Algebraic Groups, and Lie Algebras, IV
Room 205, A. P. Tureaud Building
Organizers:
Cornelius Pillen, University of South Alabama
Randall R. Holmes, Auburn University, Auburn
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8:30 a.m.
Cells of Harish-Chandra modules for real classical groups.
William M. McGovern*, University of Washington
(911-17-21) -
9:00 a.m.
Orbits, invariants and representations associated with a pair of commuting involutions.
Aloysius G. Helminck*, North Carolina State University
Gerald W. Schwarz, Brandeis University
(911-20-130) -
9:30 a.m.
Modules for the dual nil Hecke ring.
Matthew J. Dyer*, University of Notre Dame
(911-20-107) -
10:00 a.m.
Stratifying endomorphism algebras, {\rm I}.
Edward T. Cline*, University of Oklahoma
Brian J. Parshall, University of Virginia
Leonard L. Scott, Jr., University of Virginia
(911-16-256) -
10:30 a.m.
Representations of finite and algebraic groups.
Leonard L. Scott, Jr.*, University of Virginia
(911-20-208)
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8:30 a.m.
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Sunday April 21, 1996, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Rings and Modules, IV
Room 206, A. P. Tureaud Building
Organizers:
Ellen E. Kirkman, Wake Forest University
Dan Zacharia, Syracuse University
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9:00 a.m.
The Yoneda algebra of a self-injective Koszul algebra.
Roberto Martinez Villa*, University Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico
(911-16-187) -
9:30 a.m.
A tiled order having large global dimension.
Willem G. Jansen, Compuware Corporation, Farmington Hills, Michigan
Charles J. Odenthal*, University of Toledo
(911-16-186) -
10:00 a.m.
Affine semigroups rings that are complete intersections.
Klaus G. Fischer, George Mason University
Walter D. Morris, George Mason University
Jay A. Shapiro*, George Mason University
(911-13-112) -
10:30 a.m.
Finitistic projective dimension for some algebras.
Birge Zimmermann, University of California, Santa Barbara
Sverre O. Smalo*, University of California, Santa Barbara and The Norwegian University for Science and Technology, Norway
(911-19-160)
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9:00 a.m.
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Sunday April 21, 1996, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Fixed Point Theory and Dynamical Systems, IV
Room 127, A. P. Tureaud Building
Organizers:
Michael R. Kelly, Loyola University
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9:00 a.m.
The $G$-sequence of a map and its applications.
Moo Ha Woo*, Korea University, Korea
(911-55-180) -
9:30 a.m.
Relating relative, fibred and absolute Nielsen numbers of fixed and periodic points.
Philip R. Heath*, Memorial University of Newfoundland
(911-55-128) -
10:00 a.m.
Computation of Nielsen numbers for maps of closed surfaces.
Owen Davey, State University of New York, Binghamton
Evelyn L. Hart*, Colgate University
Kathryn A. Trapp, Dartmouth College
(911-55-141) -
10:30 a.m.
Minimal entropy of transitive tree maps.
Stewart Baldwin*, Auburn University, Auburn
(911-55-150)
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9:00 a.m.
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Sunday April 21, 1996, 11:10 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Invited Address
Variations on a theme of Picard.
Room E130, Howe-Russell Geoscience Complex Building
Fritz Gesztesy*, University of Missouri, Columbia
(911-35-02)