AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Day
Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:47
1998 Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting
Louisville, KY, March 20-21, 1998
Meeting #931
Associate secretaries: Robert J Daverman, AMS daverman@math.utk.edu
Friday March 20, 1998
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Friday March 20, 1998, 7:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Meeting Registration
Lobby, Founder's Union Building -
Friday March 20, 1998, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Combinatorics and Graph Theory, I
Room 157, Burhans Hall
Organizers:
Andre E. Kezdy, University of Louisville aekezd01@homer.louisville.edu
Grzegorz Kubicki, University of Louisville gmkubi01@homer.louisville.edu
Jenoe Lehel, University of Louisville j0lehe01@homer.louisville.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Orienting ternary matroids.
Jon Lee*, University of Kentucky
(931-05-125) -
8:30 a.m.
On the number of elements in matroids with fixed circuit and cocircuit sizes.
Talmage J Reid*, University of Mississippi
Tristan M.J. Denley, University of Mississippi
(931-05-65) -
9:00 a.m.
On a class of algebraically defined graphs.
Felix Lazebnik*, University of Delaware
(931-05-52) -
9:30 a.m.
Eigenvalues and the existence of small regular graphs of specified girth.
Allen J. Schwenk*, Western Michigan University
(931-05-285) -
10:00 a.m.
Covering a graph with cuts of minimum total size.
Andre Kundgen*, University of Illinois
(931-05-184) -
10:30 a.m.
Connectivity interpolation for 2-cell embeddings.
Michael D. Plummer*, Vanderbilt University
Xiaoya Zha, Middle Tennessee State University
(931-05-248)
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8:00 a.m.
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Friday March 20, 1998, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Fractal Geometry and Related Topics, I
Room 160, Burhans Hall
Organizers:
Ka-Sing Lau, University of Pittsburgh lauks+@pitt.edu
Weibin Zeng, University of Louisville wbzeng01@ulkyvx.louisville.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Genralized Self-Similar Functions.
Carlos A Cabrelli, University of Buenos Aires
Falsetti C Marcela, Univ. de Gral. Sarmiento
Ursula M Molter*, University of Buenos Aires
(931-26-158) -
8:30 a.m.
Cantor sets of bounded rates.
Carlos Cabrelli*, University of Buenos Aires
Kathryn E Hare, University of Waterloo
Ursula M Molter, University of Buenos Aires
(931-28-157) -
9:00 a.m.
Second-order self-similar identities.
Sze-Man Ngai*, Cornell University
(931-28-131) -
9:30 a.m.
The Multifractal Structure of Convolution of Cantor Measures.
Tian-Yau Hu, Univ. of Wisconsin, Green Bay, WI 54311
Ka-Sing Lau*, Univ. of Pittburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa 15260/ The Chinese University of Hong Kong, H.K.
(931-28-177) -
10:00 a.m.
Exact Hausdorff dimensions of overlapping self-similar sets.
Yang Wang*, Georgia Institute of Technology
Robert Strichartz, Cornell University
(931-42-209) -
10:30 a.m.
Orthonormal Bases of Exponentials for the n-Cube.
Jeffrey C Lagarias*, AT&T Labs, Florham Park NJ
James A Reeds, AT&T Labs, Florham Park, NJ
Yang Wang, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
(931-46-220)
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8:00 a.m.
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Friday March 20, 1998, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Semigroups, Algorithms, and Universal Algebra, I
Room 158, Burhans Hall
Organizers:
Ralph N. McKenzie, Vanderbilt University mckenzie@math.vanderbilt.edu
Steven Seif, University of Louisville swseif01@ulkyvx.louisville.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Globals of groupless groupoids.
Kevin Blount*, Vanderbilt University
Ralph McKenzie, Vanderbilt University
(931-20-331) -
8:30 a.m.
Injective Completeness of Certain Categories of Commutative Regular Semigroups.
Yefim Katsov*, Hanover College
(931-20-115) -
9:00 a.m.
Varieties with few fintely generated algebras.
Joel Berman*, University of Illinois at Chicago
Pawe\l M. Idziak, Jagiellonian University
(931-08-107) -
9:30 a.m.
Second Centralizers of Transformations.
Janusz Konieczny*, Mary Washington College
(931-20-42) -
10:00 a.m.
The residual character of minimal varieties of type 5 .
Agnes Szendrei*, J\'ozsef Attila University
(931-08-251) -
10:30 a.m.
Bad three-element algebras.
George F. McNulty*, University of South Carolina
Ross Willard, University of Waterloo
(931-08-301)
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8:00 a.m.
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Friday March 20, 1998, 8:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
Special Session on The Use of the History of Mathematics and Science in the University and School Classroom, I
Room 15, Founder's Union Building
Organizers:
Richard M. Davitt, University of Louisville rmdavi01@ulkyvm.louisville.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Compiling and Updating an Annotated Bibliography Concerning Things Mathematical.
Richard M Davitt*, Univ of Louisville
(931-01-119) -
8:40 a.m.
Problems and Projects from the History of Mathematics in Regular Mathematics Courses.
Daniel J. Curtin*, Northern Kentucky University
(931-01-31) -
9:20 a.m.
Pleasures and perils of using original sources in the history of mathematics course.
Daniel E. Otero*, Xavier University
(931-98-269) -
10:00 a.m.
Using History to Introduce Fractals.
John E Sasser*, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
(931-01-327)
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8:00 a.m.
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Friday March 20, 1998, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Boundary Value Problems for Differential Equations, I
Room 159, Burhans Hall
Organizers:
Paul W. Eloe, University of Dayton eloe@saber.udayton.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Multiple Positive Solutions of Singular Right Focal Boundary Value Problems.
Paul Eloe, University of Dayton
Johnny Henderson, Auburn University
William K.C. Yin*, LaGrange College
(931-34-108) -
8:30 a.m.
Uniqueness Implies Existence for Fourth Order Lidstone Boundary Value Problems.
John M. Davis*, Auburn University
Johnny Henderson, Auburn University
(931-34-121) -
9:00 a.m.
Boundary value problems for functional-difference equations.
Anjali G Datta*, Tuskegee University
(931-34-149) -
9:30 a.m.
Positive Solutions for $n^{th}$ Order Functional Differential Equations.
Eric R Kaufmann*, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
(931-34-145) -
10:00 a.m.
Summation of functional series.
Andriy Mikolaevich Blazhievskiy*, Technological University of Podillia, Khmelnitsky, Ukraine
(931-35-12) -
10:30 a.m.
Extremal Properties of Eigenvalues.
Charlotte A. Knotts*, University of Tennessee at Knoxville
(931-34-203)
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8:00 a.m.
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Friday March 20, 1998, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Spectral Theory, Mathematical Physics, and Disordered Media, I
Room 1, Burhans Hall
Organizers:
Peter David Hislop, University of Kentucky hislop@ms.uky.edu
Gunter H. Stolz, University of Alabama at Birmingham stolz@vorteb.math.uab.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Solutions, spectrum and dynamics of Schr\"odinger operators on infinite domains.
Alexander A Kiselev*, University of Chicago
Yoram Last, Caltech
(931-81-252) -
8:30 a.m.
Measurable enumeration of eigenelements of self-adjoint operators .
Alexander Y Gordon*, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
(931-47-30) -
9:00 a.m.
The essential spectrum of the Nuemann Laplacian on a tree imbedded in a domain.
W. D. Evans, University of School College of Cardiff
Yoshimi Sait\B o*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
(931-35-214) -
9:30 a.m.
Mourre Theory for a Schroedinger Operator on a Binary Tree Graph.
Christine S. Allard*, UBC, Vancouver
(931-47-130) -
10:00 a.m.
On the absolutely continuous spectrum of Jacobi matrices with power-like weights.
Jan Janas*, Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences
Serguei Naboko, Dept. of Math. Phys., Inst. of Physics, S-Petersburg Univ.
(931-47-169) -
10:30 a.m.
The analyticity of semigroups generated by degenerate elliptic operators.
Jerome A. Goldstein*, University of Memphis
(931-47-320)
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8:00 a.m.
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Friday March 20, 1998, 8:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
Special Session on Geometry of Affine Space, I
Room 162, Burhans Hall
Organizers:
Gene Freudenburg, University of Southern Indiana freudenb.ucs@smtp.usi.edu
David Wright, Washington University wright@einstein.wustl.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Nonlinearizable actions of reductive groups.
Gerald W. Schwarz*, Brandeis University
(931-14-237) -
8:40 a.m.
Moduli of $G$-equivariant vector bundles over representations with two-dimensional quotient: First Examples.
Kurt Mederer*, Mercersburg Academy
(931-14-280) -
9:10 a.m.
Non-linearizable holomorphic group actions.
Harm Derksen*, Northeastern University
Frank Kutzschebauch, University of Basel
(931-14-290) -
9:50 a.m.
Reductive subgroups of $\hbox{Aut}\Bbb {A}^3$ and $\hbox{Aut}\Bbb {A}^4$.
Vladimir L. Popov*, MGIEM, B. Trekhsvyatitel'sk\v i per., 3/12, Moscow, 109028, Russia.
(931-14-68) -
10:30 a.m.
Equivariant cancellation problem.
Kayo Masuda*, Department of Mathematics, Himeji Institute of Technology
(931-14-132)
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8:00 a.m.
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Friday March 20, 1998, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Combinatorics, I
Room 218A, Founder's Union Building
Organizers:
Anders Bjorner, Royal Institute of Technology bjorner@math.kth.se
Michelle L. Wachs, University of Miami wachs@math.miami.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Counting faces of cubical spheres.
Eric K Babson*, Intitute for Advanced Study
(931-05-335) -
8:30 a.m.
Fiber polytopes for the projections between cyclic polytopes.
Christos A Athanasiadis*, University of Pennsylvania
Jesu's A De Loera, The Geometry Center and University of Minnesota
Victor Reiner, University of Minnesota
Francisco Santos, University of Cantabria
(931-05-126) -
9:00 a.m.
A type B associahedron.
Rodica Simion*, The George Washington University
(931-05-340) -
9:30 a.m.
Weights on Almost-Simple Polytopes.
Susan Foege, University of Kentucky
Carl W. Lee*, University of Kentucky
(931-52-271) -
10:00 a.m.
An Upper Bound Theorem for Rational Polytopes.
Margaret M Bayer*, University of Kansas
(931-52-297) -
10:30 a.m.
Rational function identities for posets and integer polyhedra.
Curtis Greene*, Haverford College, Haverford PA
(931-05-350)
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8:00 a.m.
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Friday March 20, 1998, 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Book Exhibit and Electronic Products Display
Lobby, Founder's Union Building -
Friday March 20, 1998, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Real Analysis, I
Room 163, Burhans Hall
Organizers:
Udayan B. Darji, University of Louisville ubdarj01@homer.louisville.edu
Lee Larson, University of Louisville lmlars01@homer.louisville.edu
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8:30 a.m.
The Laplace Derivative.
Ralph E Svetic*, University of Wisconsin -- Milwaukee
(931-26-19) -
9:00 a.m.
The Non-coincidence of Ordinary and Peano Derivatives.
Zolt\'an Buczolich, E\"otv\"os Lor\'and University
Clifford E. Weil*, Michigan State University
(931-26-26) -
9:30 a.m.
Making Borel functions seem continuous.
Slawomir J Solecki*, Indiana University
(931-26-183) -
10:00 a.m.
Homeomorphy of semi-continuous functions.
Jan J. Dijkstra*, The University of Alabama
Jan van Mill, Vrije Universiteit
(931-26-61) -
10:30 a.m.
Universally Polygonally Approximable functions (Preliminary report).
Michael J. Evans*, AMS
Richard J. O'Malley, UWM
(931-26-57)
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8:30 a.m.
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Friday March 20, 1998, 8:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
Special Session on Applied Probability and Actuarial Science, I
Room 14, Founder's Union Building
Organizers:
Grzegorz Rempala, University of Louisville garemp01@homer.louisville.edu
Krzysztof Ostraszewski, University of Louisville kmosta01@homer.louisville.edu
Ewa M. Kubicka, University of Louisville
Bogdan Gapinski, University of Louisville
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8:30 a.m.
Evaluating the Optimal Solution of Investment/Consumption Models in the Presence of Transaction Costs.
Richard H Stockbridge*, Department of Statistics,University of Kentucky. Lexington, KY 40506--0027
(931-60-74) -
9:10 a.m.
Actuarial aspects of the pension system reform in Poland.
Leslaw Gajek*, Technical University of {\L}\'od\'z
(931-60-76) -
9:50 a.m.
Stochastic Simulation Model for Social Security.
Michael Sze*, Hewitt Associates (retired)
(931-60-77) -
10:30 a.m.
Generalized CIR model. Martingale Approach.
Wojciech Szatzschneider*, School of Actuarial Sciences An\'ahuac University. M\'exico
Jose Garrido, Concordia University
(931-60-78)
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8:30 a.m.
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Friday March 20, 1998, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Modern Function Theory, I
Room 164, Burhans Hall
Organizers:
David Minda, University of Cincinnati david.minda@math.uc.edu
David A. Herron, University of Cincinnati david.herron@math.uc.edu
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8:30 a.m.
Fusion and separation of singularities of analytic functions.
Victor Petrovich Havin, McGill University
Ashot H. Nersessian*, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
(931-30-265) -
9:00 a.m.
Two-point comparisons between hyperbolic and euclidean geometry on plane regions.
William Ma*, Pennsylvania College of Technology
Fumio Maitani, Kyoto Institute of Technology
David Minda, University of Cincinnati
(931-30-143) -
9:30 a.m.
Real analogs of univalence criteria involving the preschwarzian.
Martin S Chuaqui*, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile
(931-30-217) -
10:00 a.m.
Finding complete conformal metrics to extend conformal mappings.
Martin Chuaqui, Universidad Catolica
Brad Osgood*, Stanford University
(931-30-333) -
10:30 a.m.
Biholomorphic mappings in several variables.
John A Pfaltzgraff*, University of North Carolina
Ted J Suffridge, University of Kentucky
(931-32-205)
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8:30 a.m.
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Friday March 20, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Functional Equations and Inequalities, I
Room 156, Burhans Hall
Organizers:
Thomas Riedel, University of Louisville t0ried01@homer.louisville.edu
Prasanna Sahoo, University of Louisville pksaho01@homer.louisville.edu
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9:00 a.m.
Some Cauchy-like functional equations on the natural numbers.
Tom M.K. Davison*, McMaster University
(931-39-128) -
9:30 a.m.
The Cocycle Equation on Periodic Semigroups.
Thomas M Davison, McMaster University
Bruce R Ebanks*, Marshall University
(931-39-188) -
10:00 a.m.
Mixing vs. chaotic behavior for automorphisms of the n-torus.
A. Sklar*, 5044 Marine Drive, Chicago, IL 60640
(931-39-215) -
10:30 a.m.
Rational t-norms and copulas.
M J Frank, Illinois Institute of Technology
B Schweizer*, University of Massachusetts
(931-39-160)
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9:00 a.m.
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Friday March 20, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Banach Space Theory, I
Room 8, Burhans Hall
Organizers:
Patrick N. Dowling, Miami University, Ohio pndowling@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu
Beata Randrianantoanina, Miami University, Ohio randrib@muohio.edu
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9:00 a.m.
The $w^*$-topology on $\ell_1$ induced by the Bourgain-Delbaen space.
Dale E. Alspach*, Oklahoma State University
(931-46-264) -
9:30 a.m.
Indices, convexity and concavity in some nonsymmetric spaces.
Anna H. Kami\'nska*, The University of Memphis
(931-46-334) -
10:00 a.m.
$MM^*$ estimate for the sections of non--symmetric convex bodies.
Mark Rudelson*, Texas A \& M University
(931-46-129) -
10:30 a.m.
Bijective disjointness preserving operators.
Yuri A Abramovich*, IUPUI
Arkady K Kitover, CCP
(931-47-159)
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9:00 a.m.
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Friday March 20, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Spectral Geometry, I
Room 3, Burhans Hall
Organizers:
Ruth Gornet, Texas Tech University gornet@math.ttu.edu
Peter Anton Perry, University of Kentucky perry@ms.uky.edu
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9:00 a.m.
The dispersionless Toda equation and Toeplitz operators.
Alejandro Uribe*, University of Michigan
(931-58-216) -
9:30 a.m.
Vibrating Strings and Cylinders with Variable Mass Density.
Richard Snyder Laugesen*, University of Illinois, Urbana--Champaign
(931-35-91) -
10:00 a.m.
The spectrum of the Hodge Laplacian for three manifolds with pinched negative curvature.
Jeffrey K McGowan*, Central Connecticut State University
Ruth Gornet, Texas Tech/University of Kentucky
(931-58-174) -
10:30 a.m.
Heat kernel and Green function estimates on noncompact symmetric spaces.
Lizhen Ji*, University of Michigan
(931-58-111)
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9:00 a.m.
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Friday March 20, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Low-Dimensional Topology, I
Room 161, Burhans Hall
Organizers:
Abigail A. Thompson, University of California, Davis thompson@math.ucdavis.edu
Martin Scharlemann, University of Califronia, Santa Barbara mgscharl@math.ucsb.edu
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9:00 a.m.
Arnold-type invariants of curves on surfaces and homotopy groups of the space of curves.
Vladimir V Tchernov*, Uppsala University, Sweden
(931-57-87) -
9:30 a.m.
Infinite Coxeter groups are virtually indicable.
D Cooper, UC Santa Barbara
D D Long*, UC Santa Barbara
A W Reid, UT Austin
(931-57-13) -
10:00 a.m.
Invariants of Heegaard Splittings.
Doug Bullock, Boise State University
Charles Frohman*, The University of Iowa
Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska, Boise State University
(931-57-84) -
10:30 a.m.
Almost Normal Surfaces with Boundary in 3-Manifolds .
Michelle M Stocking*, University of Texas, Austin
(931-57-40)
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9:00 a.m.
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Friday March 20, 1998, 11:10 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Invited Address
The combinatorial topology of graph properties.
Room 218, Founder's Union Building
Anders Bj\"orner*, Dept. of Mathematics, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
(931-05-322) -
Friday March 20, 1998, 1:40 p.m.-2:30 p.m.
Invited Address
The X, Y, Z's in the characterization problem for derivatives.
Room 218, Founder's Union Building
Andrew Bruckner*, University of California at Santa Barbara -
Friday March 20, 1998, 2:45 p.m.-6:35 p.m.
Special Session on Combinatorics and Graph Theory, II
Room 157, Burhans Hall
Organizers:
Andre E. Kezdy, University of Louisville aekezd01@homer.louisville.edu
Grzegorz Kubicki, University of Louisville gmkubi01@homer.louisville.edu
Jenoe Lehel, University of Louisville j0lehe01@homer.louisville.edu
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2:45 p.m.
the maxi,um number of cyclic triples in oriented planar graphs.
Sheng Bau, Inner Mongolia Finance and Economics College
Lowell W. Beineke*, Indiana University-Purdue University
(931-05-295) -
3:15 p.m.
Bicliques in Graphs.
Erich Prisner*, Mathematisches Seminar, Universit\"at Hamburg
(931-05-207) -
3:45 p.m.
Decomposition of even-hole-free graphs.
Michele Conforti, Universita di Padova
Gerard Cornuejols, Carnegie Mellon University
Ajai Kapoor, Carnegie Mellon University
Kristina Vuskovic*, University of Kentucky
(931-05-70) -
4:15 p.m.
Crossings in drawings of complete graphs.
Heiko Harborth*, Diskrete Mathematik
(931-05-170) -
4:45 p.m.
Hamiltonian graphs and arithmetic progressions of cycles.
Tristan MJ Denley*, University of Mississippi
Alex D Scott, University College London
(931-05-213) -
5:15 p.m.
Small vertex-double-covered graphs.
Zolt\'an F\"uredi, University of Illinois
Dhruv Mubayi, University of Illinois
Douglas B West*, University of Illinois
(931-05-300) -
5:45 p.m.
Nonrevisiting Cycles On Surfaces.
Hari Pulapaka*, Valdosta State University
(931-05-18) -
6:15 p.m.
Tutte cycles in circuit graphs.
Jason Gao, Carleton University
Xingxing Yu*, Georgia Tech
(931-05-347)
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2:45 p.m.
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Friday March 20, 1998, 2:45 p.m.-6:35 p.m.
Special Session on Fractal Geometry and Related Topics, II
Room 160, Burhans Hall
Organizers:
Ka-Sing Lau, University of Pittsburgh lauks+@pitt.edu
Weibin Zeng, University of Louisville wbzeng01@ulkyvx.louisville.edu
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2:45 p.m.
Let's do analysis on fractals!
Robert S Strichartz*, Cornell University
(931-35-266) -
3:15 p.m.
Dense analytic subspaces in fractal $L^{2}$-spaces.
Palle E.T. Jorgensen*, University of Iowa
(931-42-06) -
3:45 p.m.
Harmonic Analysis of Fractal Measures.
Steen Pedersen*, Wright State University
(931-42-232) -
4:15 p.m.
heat kernel estimates for Laplacians on p. c. f. self-similar sets.
Jun Kigami*, Kyoto University
(931-60-181) -
4:45 p.m.
Complex Dimensions of Fractals.
Michel L. Lapidus*, University of California-Riverside
(931-28-281) -
5:15 p.m.
Fourier asymptotic of statistically self-similar measures.
Christian E. Bluhm*, Cornell University
(931-28-153) -
5:45 p.m.
Spectral Analysis on Infinite Sierpinski Gaskets.
Alexander Teplyaev*, Cornell University
(931-35-287) -
6:15 p.m.
Sierpi\'{n}ski gasket as a Martin boundary.
Manfred Denker, University of G\"ottingen
Hiroshi Sato*, Kyushu University
(931-60-103)
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2:45 p.m.
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Friday March 20, 1998, 2:45 p.m.-5:05 p.m.
Special Session on Functional Equations and Inequalities, II
Room 156, Burhans Hall
Organizers:
Thomas Riedel, University of Louisville t0ried01@homer.louisville.edu
Prasanna Sahoo, University of Louisville pksaho01@homer.louisville.edu
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2:45 p.m.
Surprising Results on a Functional Equation Arising from Utility Theory.
J\'{a}nos D. Acz'{e}l*, University of Waterloo
Roman Ger, Silesian University
Antal J\'{a}rai, E\"{o}tv\"{o}s University
(931-39-23) -
3:15 p.m.
Some Functional Equations Arising From Problems in Physics.
Michael D. Taylor*, University of Central Florida
(931-39-48) -
3:45 p.m.
A Wirtinger type Inequality, Pontryagin Optimality Principle and a Three-Point Boundary Value Problem.
Chaitan P Gupta*, Univ of Nevada, Reno
Sergej I Trofimchuk, Nat. Acad of Sciences
(931-34-43) -
4:15 p.m.
On inner product spaces and Jordan derivation.
PL Kannappan*, University of Waterloo
(931-39-41) -
4:45 p.m.
The Aggregation Equation: Solutions on Cancellative Monoids.
Mark A Taylor*, Acadia University
(931-39-37)
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2:45 p.m.
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Friday March 20, 1998, 2:45 p.m.-6:05 p.m.
Special Session on Banach Space Theory, II
Room 8, Burhans Hall
Organizers:
Patrick N. Dowling, Miami University, Ohio pndowling@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu
Beata Randrianantoanina, Miami University, Ohio randrib@muohio.edu
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2:45 p.m.
a theorem of littlewood, a la grothendieck.
Joe Diestel*, kent state uni
(931-46-348) -
3:15 p.m.
Hereditarily Hypercyclic Operators and the Hypercyclicity Criterion.
Juan P Bes*, Kent State University
(931-47-69) -
3:45 p.m.
On some properties of the quasi-convex bodies.
Alexander Eugeniy Litvak*, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, T6G 2G1.
(931-46-293) -
4:15 p.m.
Blocking of FDD's.
Edward Odell*, University of Texas at Austin
Helmut Knaust, University of Texas at El Paso
Thomas Schlumprecht, Texas A\&M University
(931-46-123) -
4:45 p.m.
Higher order asymptotic structure.
Robert P Judd*, Oklahoma State University
Edward Odell, The University of Texas at Austin
(931-46-259) -
5:15 p.m.
Weak-* closure ordinals of convex subsets of duals of separable Banach spaces.
Douglas Mupasiri*, University of Northern Iowa
(931-46-336) -
5:45 p.m.
Signal Reconstruction via Alternating Projections.
Charles Kicey, Valdosta State University
Chris Lennard*, University of Pittsburgh
(931-46-315)
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2:45 p.m.
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Friday March 20, 1998, 2:45 p.m.-4:35 p.m.
Special Session on Real Analysis, II
Room 163, Burhans Hall
Organizers:
Udayan B. Darji, University of Louisville ubdarj01@homer.louisville.edu
Lee Larson, University of Louisville lmlars01@homer.louisville.edu
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2:45 p.m.
Some cardinal invariants related to adding functions in Baire class 1.
Francis Edmund Jordan*, West Virginia University
(931-26-53) -
3:15 p.m.
Darboux Quasicontinuous Functions.
Harvey Rosen*, University of Alabama
(931-26-261) -
3:45 p.m.
Extending connectivity functions.
Jerzy Wojciechowski*, West Virginia University
(931-26-58) -
4:15 p.m.
$\kappa - to - 1$ \ Darboux Like Functions.
Richard G. Gibson*, Columbus State University, Columbus, Georgia
Krzysztof Ciesielski, West Virginia University
Tomasz Natkaniec, Gdansk University
(931-26-22)
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2:45 p.m.
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Friday March 20, 1998, 2:45 p.m.-6:35 p.m.
Special Session on Semigroups, Algorithms, and Universal Algebra, II
Room 158, Burhans Hall
Organizers:
Ralph N. McKenzie, Vanderbilt University mckenzie@math.vanderbilt.edu
Steven Seif, University of Louisville swseif01@ulkyvx.louisville.edu
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2:45 p.m.
The variety generated by tournaments.
Jaroslav Jezek, Charles University
Petar Markovic, Vanderbilt University
Miklos Maroti*, Vanderbilt University
Ralph McKenzie, Vanderbilt University
(931-08-323) -
3:15 p.m.
Residually Small Equational Classes.
Matt Valeriote*, Mathematics Department
(931-08-226) -
3:45 p.m.
A new construction for free inverse semigroups.
Olga V. Poliakova, University of Arkansas
Boris M. Schein*, University of Arkansas
(931-20-179) -
4:15 p.m.
An Equational Characterization of Residuated Lattices that are Subdirect Products of Chains.
Constantine Tsinakis*, Vanderbilt University
(931-06-254) -
4:45 p.m.
The Classification of Commutative Minimal Clones.
Keith A. Kearnes*, University of Louisville
Agnes Szendrei, Bolyai Institute
(931-08-284) -
5:15 p.m.
Complexity problems for matrix rings, matrix semigroups and Rees matrix semigroups.
Steve Seif, University of Louisville
Csaba Szab\'o*, McMaster University
(931-08-223) -
5:45 p.m.
Fregean Logics and Fregean Quasivarieties.
Don L. Pigozzi*, Iowa State University
Janusz Czelakowski, Opole University
(931-08-206) -
6:15 p.m.
Decidability Results for Finite Semigroups.
Mark Sapir*, Vanderbilt University
(931-20-250)
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2:45 p.m.
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Friday March 20, 1998, 2:45 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
Special Session on The Use of the History of Mathematics and Science in the University and School Classroom, II
Room 15, Founder's Union Building
Organizers:
Richard M. Davitt, University of Louisville rmdavi01@ulkyvm.louisville.edu
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2:45 p.m.
Equation Solving - Pleminary Report.
Bill R Austin*, U. Tennessee-Martin
(931-01-161) -
3:25 p.m.
Teaching Euler's Introductio in Analysin Infinitorium a Quarter of a Millenium After.
Lin Tan*, West Chester University
(931-01-268) -
4:05 p.m.
Newton's Arithmetica Universalis.
Rebecca A Berg*, Bowie State University, Bowie, Maryland
(931-01-192) -
4:45 p.m.
Learning From The Masters: Using Original Sources in the Classroom.
Herbert E. Kasube*, Bradley University
(931-01-62)
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2:45 p.m.
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Friday March 20, 1998, 2:45 p.m.-6:05 p.m.
Special Session on Boundary Value Problems for Differential Equations, II
Room 159, Burhans Hall
Organizers:
Paul W. Eloe, University of Dayton eloe@saber.udayton.edu
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2:45 p.m.
Asymptotic Boundary Value Problems in a Time Almost Periodic Bistable Nonlinear Equation.
Wenxian Shen*, Auburn University
(931-35-98) -
3:15 p.m.
On global bifurcation at infinity of variational inequalities.
Vy K Le*, University of Missouri
Klaus Schmitt, University of Utah
(931-35-96) -
3:45 p.m.
New Developments on the Sturm-Liouville Theory: ODE's and PDE's .
Xue-Feng Yang*, GA Tech
(931-35-168) -
4:15 p.m.
Dynamics of Traveling Wave Solutions of Differential-Difference Equations.
Erik S Van Vleck*, Colorado School of Mines
(931-39-191) -
4:45 p.m.
Theta Functions on Degenerate Hyperelliptic Surfaces.
D David McRae*, The Woodberry Forest School
Rudi Weikard, University of Alabama at Birmingham
(931-33-175) -
5:15 p.m.
Quenching for Degenerate Semilinear Parabolic Problems.
Chiu Yeung Chan*, University of Southwestern Louisiana
(931-35-106) -
5:45 p.m.
Effects of Heat Input and Output on Quenching.
S. I. Yuen*, Lakeland Community College
(931-35-105)
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2:45 p.m.
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Friday March 20, 1998, 2:45 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
Special Session on Spectral Geometry, II
Room 3, Burhans Hall
Organizers:
Ruth Gornet, Texas Tech University gornet@math.ttu.edu
Peter Anton Perry, University of Kentucky perry@ms.uky.edu
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2:45 p.m.
Locally nonisometric yet super isospectral spaces;The full exploration.
Zoltan I Szabo*, Lehman College of The City University of New York
(931-58-309) -
3:15 p.m.
Continuous families of isospectral Riemannian metrics which are not locally isometric.
Carolyn S. Gordon, Dartmouth College
Edward N. Wilson*, Washington University
(931-53-313) -
3:45 p.m.
The Length Spectrum of Riemannian Two-Step Nilmanifolds.
Maura B Mast*, University of Northern Iowa
(931-58-236) -
4:15 p.m.
Riemannian foliations and eigenvalue comparison.
Jeffrey M. Lee*, Texas Tech University
Ken Richardson, Texas Christian University
(931-53-224) -
4:45 p.m.
Isoperimetric Problem for the curl operator.
Jason Cantarella, University of Pennsylvania
Dennis DeTurck, University of Pennsylvania
Herman Gluck, University of Pennsylvania
Mikhail Teytel*, University of Pennsylvania
(931-46-95) -
5:15 p.m.
Scattering theory and hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
David Borthwick*, Emory University
(931-58-190)
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2:45 p.m.
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Friday March 20, 1998, 2:45 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
Special Session on Spectral Theory, Mathematical Physics, and Disordered Media, II
Room 1, Burhans Hall
Organizers:
Peter David Hislop, University of Kentucky hislop@ms.uky.edu
Gunter H. Stolz, University of Alabama at Birmingham stolz@vorteb.math.uab.edu
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2:45 p.m.
On the essential spectrum of some singular systems of matrix- differential operator related to the MHD problems.
Sergeui Naboko*, Dept. of Math. Physics, Institute of Physics, S-Petersburg University
(931-47-148) -
3:15 p.m.
New models in the localization theory.
Stanislav A. Molchanov*, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
(931-81-219) -
3:45 p.m.
On the Density of States for a Periodic Schr\"{o}dinger Operator.
Yulia Karpeshina*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
(931-81-241) -
4:15 p.m.
Quantum Stability of Hamiltonians with decreasing gaps.
James S. Howland*, Univ. of Virginia
(931-81-274) -
4:45 p.m.
Complex measures in random Schroedinger operators.
Wei-Min Wang*, Institute for Advanced Study
(931-47-317) -
5:15 p.m.
On spectral properties of photonic crystals.
Peter Kuchment*, Wichita State University
Leonid Kunyansky, Wichita State University
(931-35-270)
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2:45 p.m.
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Friday March 20, 1998, 2:45 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
Special Session on Geometry of Affine Space, II
Room 162, Burhans Hall
Organizers:
Gene Freudenburg, University of Southern Indiana freudenb.ucs@smtp.usi.edu
David Wright, Washington University wright@einstein.wustl.edu
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2:45 p.m.
Affine rulings of rational surfaces: a reduction theorem.
Daniel Daigle*, University of Ottawa
(931-14-257) -
3:25 p.m.
Affine rulings of weighted projective planes.
Peter Russell*, McGill University
(931-14-258) -
4:05 p.m.
A Public-Key Scheme With Signature and Master Key Functions.
Tzuong-Tsieng Moh*, Purdue University
(931-14-141) -
4:45 p.m.
\'{E}tale endomorphisms of smooth affine surfaces.
Masayoshi Miyanishi*, Department of Mathematics, School of Science, Osaka University
(931-14-102) -
5:25 p.m.
Homology planes with pencils of rational curves.
Toru Sugie*, Faculty of Education, Shiga University
(931-14-104)
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2:45 p.m.
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Friday March 20, 1998, 2:45 p.m.-6:05 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Combinatorics, II
Room 218A, Founder's Union Building
Organizers:
Anders Bjorner, Royal Institute of Technology bjorner@math.kth.se
Michelle L. Wachs, University of Miami wachs@math.miami.edu
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2:45 p.m.
Algebraic shifting increases relative homology.
Art Duval*, University of Texas at El Paso
(931-05-239) -
3:15 p.m.
Group actions on posets.
Dmitry Kozlov*, MIT
(931-05-346) -
3:45 p.m.
EL-shellability of rank-selected posets.
Larry Liu, Michigan State University
Bruce E Sagan*, Michigan State University
(931-06-311) -
4:15 p.m.
Homology of monomial ideals and order dimension of lattices.
Irena Peeva, MIT
Vic Reiner, University of Minnesota
Volkmar Welker*, Universitaet Essen
(931-05-109) -
4:45 p.m.
Combinatorial Laplacians of matroid complexes .
Woong Kook, Univ. of Minnesota
Victor Reiner*, Univ. of Minnesota
Dennis Stanton, Univ. of Minnesota
(931-05-33) -
5:15 p.m.
A convolution formula for the Tutte polynomial.
Woong Kook, Univ. of Minnesota
Victor Reiner, Univ. of Minnesota
Dennis Stanton*, Univ. of Minnesota
(931-05-34) -
5:45 p.m.
Flag Matroids.
Alexandre V. Borovik, UMIST
Israel M. Gelfand, Rutgers University
Neil L. White*, University of Florida
(931-05-50)
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2:45 p.m.
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Friday March 20, 1998, 2:45 p.m.-4:35 p.m.
Special Session on Applied Probability and Actuarial Science, II
Room 14, Founder's Union Building
Organizers:
Grzegorz Rempala, University of Louisville garemp01@homer.louisville.edu
Krzysztof Ostraszewski, University of Louisville kmosta01@homer.louisville.edu
Ewa M. Kubicka, University of Louisville
Bogdan Gapinski, University of Louisville
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2:45 p.m.
Random Walks on special graphs and Cryptography.
Vasiliy A Ustimenko*, University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kyiv 254070, Ukraine and Delaware University, Newark, DE 19716
(931-60-79) -
3:25 p.m.
N person sequential selection of optimal contract.
Krzysztof Szajowski*, Institute of Mathematics, Wroclaw University of Technology
(931-90-99) -
4:05 p.m.
Probability of Ruin with Variable Premium Rate in a Markovian Environment.
Helena Jasiulewicz*, Institute of Mathematics, Wroc{\l}aw University of Technology
(931-90-93)
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2:45 p.m.
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Friday March 20, 1998, 2:45 p.m.-6:05 p.m.
Special Session on Modern Function Theory, II
Room 164, Burhans Hall
Organizers:
David Minda, University of Cincinnati david.minda@math.uc.edu
David A. Herron, University of Cincinnati david.herron@math.uc.edu
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2:45 p.m.
Conjectures about integral means of formal complex derivatives in the plane.
Albert Baernstein, II*, Washington University, St.Louis, MO 63130
Stephen John Montgomery-Smith, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, 65211-0001
(931-30-201) -
3:15 p.m.
Global holomorphic dependence of quasiconformal mappings on Beltrami differentials.
Hiroshi Yanagihara*, Yamaguchi University
(931-30-243) -
3:45 p.m.
On pseudospheres that are quasispheres.
John L Lewis*, University of Kentucky
Andrew L Vogel, Syracuse University
(931-30-120) -
4:15 p.m.
Lusin's Condition (N) for Locally Quasisymmetric Mappings from Euclidean Domains.
Jeremy T. Tyson*, University of Michigan
(931-30-221) -
4:45 p.m.
Growth of Analytic Functions in John Disks.
Navah Langmeyer*, Department of Defense
(931-30-136) -
5:15 p.m.
Quasisymmetrically Thick Sets.
Susan G Staples*, Texas Christian University
Lesley A Ward, Harvey Mudd College
(931-30-152) -
5:45 p.m.
Some domain constants related to quasiconformal mappings.
Shanshuang YANG*, Emory University, Atlanta GA 30322
(931-30-163)
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2:45 p.m.
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Friday March 20, 1998, 2:45 p.m.-5:05 p.m.
Special Session on Low-Dimensional Topology, II
Room 161, Burhans Hall
Organizers:
Abigail A. Thompson, University of California, Davis thompson@math.ucdavis.edu
Martin Scharlemann, University of Califronia, Santa Barbara mgscharl@math.ucsb.edu
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2:45 p.m.
Alternating Graphs.
Colin Adams*, Williams College
(931-57-198) -
3:15 p.m.
A survey of symmetric knots.
Morwen B Thistlethwaite*, University of Tennessee
(931-57-86) -
3:45 p.m.
Two-Generator Satellite Links.
Steven A Bleiler, Portland State University
Amelia C Jones*, Vassar College
(931-57-67) -
4:15 p.m.
Crossing number of thick knots.
Jonathan K Simon*, University of Iowa
Gregory R Buck, St. Anselm College
(931-57-17) -
4:45 p.m.
Pseudofree group actions on $S^2 x S^2$.
Michael P McCooey*, Indiana University, Bloomington
(931-57-344)
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2:45 p.m.