AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Day

1999 Fall Central Sectional Meeting
Austin, TX, October 8-10, 1999
Meeting #948

Friday October 8, 1999

• Friday October 8, 1999, 1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  RLM, Robert Lee Moore Hall
• Friday October 8, 1999, 1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  RLM, Robert Lee Moore Hall
• Friday October 8, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Characterization of non-smooth domains via potential theory.
  Room 106, Burdine Hall
  Carlos E. Kenig, University of Chicago
  Tatiana Toro*, University of Washington
  (948-28-260)
• Friday October 8, 1999, 4:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Wavelets and Approximation Theory, I
  Room 5.122, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  Don Hong, Eastern Tennessee State University hong@access.etsu.edu
  Michael Prophet, Murray State University mike@banach.mursuky.edu
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    Orthogonal lifting: constructing nonseparable orthogonal wavelets.
    Eugene Belogay*, Purdue University
    (948-42-291)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Integer-to-Integer Transformations Using Scaling Vectors.
    Patrick J Van Fleet*, University of St. Thomas
    (948-41-311)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Conjugate Wavelets.
    Tian-Xiao He*, Illinois Wesleyan University
    (948-42-67)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Multiwavelets on the interval and divergence-free wavelets on a rectangle.
    Maria C Pereyra*, University of New Mexico
    Joseph Lakey, New Mexico State University
    (948-41-250)
• Friday October 8, 1999, 4:00 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Analysis and PDEs, I
  Room 6.104, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  William Beckner, University of Texas at Austin beckner@math.utexas.edu
  Luis A. Caffarelli, University of Texas at Austin caffarel@math.utexas.edu
  Toti Daskalopoulos, University of California, Irvine pdaskalo@math.uci.edu
  Tatiana Toro, University of Washington toro@math.washington.edu
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    Regularity of Zakharov System Evolutions.
    James E Colliander*, University of California, Berkeley
    (948-35-298)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Small Solutions of the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili Equation.
    Jim Colliander, University of California Berkeley
    Carlos E Kenig, University of Chicago
    Gigliola Staffilani*, Stanford University
    (948-35-278)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Multilinear singular integrals.
    Christoph M Thiele*, UC Los Angeles
    (948-42-231)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Boundary unique continuation: doubling property and nodal domains.
    Paul MacManus, N.U.I. Maynooth, Ireland
    Andrea Nahmod*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    (948-42-208)
  • 6:30 p.m.
    Recent Regularity Results for Nonlinear Wave Equations.
    Hart Smith, University of Washington, Seattle
    Christopher D Sogge, Johns Hopkins University
    Terence Tao, University of California, Los Angeles
    Markus A Keel*, Cal Tech
    (948-35-277)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Break.
• Friday October 8, 1999, 4:00 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Aperiodic Tiling, I
  Room 6.122, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  Charles Radin, University of Texas, Austin radin@math.utexas.edu
  Lorenzo Sadun, University of Texas, Austin sadun@math.utexas.edu
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    Self-similarity and Invariant Measures in Model Sets.
    Robert V Moody*, University of Alberta
    (948-52-100)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Substitution Delone sets.
    Jeffrey C. Lagarias*, AT&T
    (948-52-192)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    When are two tilings the same?
    Charles Radin*, University of Texas at Austin
    Lorenzo Sadun, University of Texas at Austin
    (948-52-70)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Cohomology and K-theory of spaces of tilings.
    Ian F Putnam*, University of Victoria
    (948-37-80)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Rotations and the topology of substitution spaces.
    Nicholas Ormes*, University of Texas at Austin
    (948-52-193)
  • 6:30 p.m.
    Pseudo-self-similar tilings are MLD from self-similar tilings.
    Natalie M. Priebe*, Rensellaer Polytechnic Institute
    Boris Solomyak, University of Washington
    (948-52-194)
• Friday October 8, 1999, 4:00 p.m.-7:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Banach and Operator Spaces:Isomorphic and Geometric Structure, I
  Room 5.118, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  Edward Odell, University of Texas, Austin odell@math.utexas.edu
  Haskell P. Rosenthal, University of Texas, Austin rosenthl@math.utexas.edu
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    Homogeneous Hilbertian subspaces of $L_p$.
    Timur Oikhberg*, The University of Texas at Austin
    (948-46-271)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Approximate units and complete M-ideals.
    Alvaro Arias*, The University of Texas at San Antonio
    Haskell Rosenthal, The University of Texas at Austin
    (948-46-328)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Non-commutative Lp-spaces and their operator space structures.
    Marius Junge*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (948-46-139)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    On Injectivity and Nuclearity for Operator Spaces.
    Edward G Effros, UCLA
    Narutaka Ozawa, Texas A&M University
    Zhong-Jin Ruan*, University of Illinois
    (948-46-111)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Exactness of Cuntz-Pimsner algebras.
    Ken Dykema*, Texas A&M University
    Dimitri Shlyakhtenko, UCLA
    (948-46-255)
  • 6:30 p.m.
    Norming $C^*$-algebras by subalgebras.
    Allan M Sinclair, University of Edinburgh
    Roger R Smith*, Texas A&M University
    (948-46-57)
  • 7:00 p.m.
    The measure of non-compactness, the essential spectrum, and the essential spectral radius of a positive operator.
    Vladimir G Troitsky*, University of Texas, Austin
    (948-47-63)
• Friday October 8, 1999, 4:00 p.m.-6:45 p.m.
  Special Session on Recent Developments in Index Theory, I
  Room 6.126, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  Daniel S. Freed, University of Texas, Austin dafr@math.utexas.edu
  John Roe, Pennsylvania State University roe@math.psu.edu
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    Transverse index theory and cyclic cohomology of Hopf algebras.
    Henri Moscovici*, Ohio State University
    (948-58-219)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Family Index Theorems for Manifolds with Boundary and Adiabatic limit.
    Xianzhe Dai*, UCSB
    Weiping Zhang, Nankai Institute of Mathematics
    (948-58-319)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Positive scalar curvature metrics and K-theory of $C^*$-algebras.
    Stephan A Stolz*, Notre Dame
    (948-47-220)
• Friday October 8, 1999, 4:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Dynamics, I
  Room 7.122, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  Robert J. McCann, University of Toronto mccann@math.toronto.edu
  Catherine Sulem, University of Toronto sulem@math.toronto.edu
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    Discussion.
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Formation of singularities in solutions of the derivative nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation on the half line.
    Hayato Nawa*, Nagoya University
    (948-35-202)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Nonlinear stability and bifurcation in Optical Parametric Oscillators.
    Keith S. Promislow*, Simon Fraser University
    J. Nathan Kutz, University of Washington
    (948-47-237)
• Friday October 8, 1999, 4:00 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical and Computational Finance, I
  Room 7.104, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  Stathis Tompaidis, University of Texas, Austin stathis@athena.bus.utexas.edu
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    Modeling Credit Risk.
    Alain Belanger*, Bank of Nova Scotia
    Steven E Shreve, Carnegie Mellon
    Dennis Wong, Scotia Capital Markets
    (948-91-322)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Modeling of Liquidity Risk.
    Robert Almgren*, University of Chicago
    (948-91-321)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Problems in Real Options.
    Murray Carlson*, University of Texas at Austin
    (948-91-323)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Pricing Lease Options in Dynamic Markets.
    Chris M Kenyon*, Schlumberger
    Stathis Tompaidis, University of Texas at Austin
    (948-90-144)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Agency Costs, Credit Constraints and Default Costs: the case of Commercial Mortgages.
    Sheridan Titman, University of Texas at Austin
    Stathis Tompaidis, University of Texas at Austin
    Sergey Tsyplakov*, University of Texas at Austin
    (948-91-336)
  • 6:30 p.m.
    The Impact of Large Changes in Asset Prices on Intra-Market Correlations in the Stock, Bond, and International Markets.
    Ehud I Ronn, University of Texas at Austin
    Akin Sayrak*, University of Pittsburgh
    Stathis Tompaidis, University of Texas at Austin
    (948-91-333)
• Friday October 8, 1999, 4:00 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
  Special Session on DNA Topology, I
  Room 4.102, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  Isabel K. Darcy, University of Texas, Austin darcy@math.utexas.edu
  Makkuni Jayaram, Univeristy of Texas, Austin jayaram@intron.icmb.utexas.edu
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    On the elastic stability of configurations of knotted and unknotted miniplasmids.
    Bernard D Coleman*, Rutgers University
    David Swigon, Rutgers University
    (948-74-140)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On minimum elastic energy configurations of torus knots.
    David Swigon*, Rutgers University
    Bernard D Coleman, Rutgers University
    (948-74-141)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Biology and Physics of DNA Knots.
    Andrzej Stasiak*, Universite de Lausanne
    (948-92-264)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Moving knots with obstacles.
    Kenneth Hunt, Dept. Computer Science, UW-La Crosse
    Jonathan Simon*, University of Iowa
    (948-92-266)
  • 6:30 p.m.
    Notions of writhing and linking density for closed, circular DNA.
    David C Miller*, William Paterson University
    Craig J Benham, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
    (948-92-182)
• Friday October 8, 1999, 4:00 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Dehn Surgery and Kleinian Groups, I
  Room 6.116, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  John Luecke, University of Texas, Austin luecke@math.utexas.edu
  Alan Reid, University of Texas, Austin areid@math.utexas.edu
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    Incompressible surfaces and Dehn surgery on knots.
    Hugh N Howards*, Wake Forest University/ UT Austin
    (948-57-294)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Virtual Betti numbers of bundles.
    Joseph D Masters*, Rice University
    (948-57-286)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Immersed essential surfaces without triple points in 3-manifolds.
    Joachim Hyam Rubinstein*, University of Melbourne
    (948-57-76)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Knots and links in $S^3$ without parallel tangent lines.
    Ying-Qing Wu*, University of Iowa
    (948-57-204)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Surgery when degeneracy is $\pm 2$.
    Rachel D Roberts*, Washington University in St Louis
    (948-57-195)
  • 6:30 p.m.
    On Algebraic Components Of SL(2,C)-Character Varieties Of Knot Exteriors.
    Steven Boyer, University of Quebec at Montreal
    Erhard Luft, University of British Columbia
    Xingru Zhang*, SUNY at Buffalo
    (948-57-58)
• Friday October 8, 1999, 4:00 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Problems in Transport Phenomena, I
  Room 5.116, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  Jose Antonio Carrillo, University of Texas, Austin carri@math.utexas.edu
  Irene M. Gamba, University of Texas, Austin gamba@math.utexas.edu
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    Structure of an infinitely strong shock waves.
    Carlo Cercignani*, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy
    Aldo Frezzotti, Milano, Italy
    P Grosfils, Milano,Italy
    (948-82-59)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Approximate Summation of the Chapman-Enskog Expansion.
    Marshall Slemrod*, Univ. of Wisconsin
    (948-76-08)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Unsteady Continuum/Rarefied Gasdynamics Simulations with a Hybrid Euler/Monte Carlo Approach.
    David Goldstein*, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, University of Texas at Austin
    Roberto Roveda, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, University of Texas at Austin
    Philip Varghese, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, University of Texas at Austin
    (948-82-61)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Transport eauations and their diffusion approximations.
    Moulay D Tidriri*, Iowa State University
    (948-65-315)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Some properties of kinetic and macroscopic equations in granular media.
    Alexander V Bobylev, Keldysh Institute, Moscow, Russia
    Jose A Carrillo*, Department of Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin
    Irene M Gamba, Department of Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin
    (948-82-69)
  • 6:30 p.m.
    Vibrated Granular Media and Kinetic Theory.
    Mark D. Shattuck*, University of Texas at Austin
    Chris Bizon, Colorado Research Associates
    Jack B. Swift, University of Texas at Austin
    Harry L. Swinney, University of Texas at Austin
    (948-76-267)
• Friday October 8, 1999, 4:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
  Special Session on The Diverse Mathematical Legacy of Jean Leray, I (A)
  Room 7.116, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  Eric M. Friedlander, Northwestern University eric@math.nwu.edu
  Susan J. Friedlander, University of Illinois, Chicago susan@math.uic.edu
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    Navier-Stokes Equations.
    Roger M Temam*, Indiana University
    (948-35-85)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Beyond Sobolev norms in the study of the Navier-Stokes equations.
    Ciprian Foias*, Indiana University
    (948-35-36)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    An Eulerian-Lagrangian Approach to Incompressible Fluids.
    Peter Constantin*, The University of Chicago
    (948-35-53)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Some remarks on the post War contributions of Jean Leray.
    Pierre Cartier*, IHES
    (948-01-196)
• Friday October 8, 1999, 4:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on The Diverse Mathematical Legacy of Jean Leray, I (B)
  Room 7.118, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  Eric M. Friedlander, Northwestern University eric@math.nwu.edu
  Susan J. Friedlander, University of Illinois, Chicago susan@math.uic.edu
  

  • 5:00 p.m.
    Spectral Sequence.
    Haynes R Miller*, MIT
    (948-55-103)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    The Cohomological Dimension of Function Fields.
    John Tate*, University of Texas at Austin
    (948-14-136)
• Friday October 8, 1999, 4:00 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Theoretical, Computational and Experimental Aspects of Mechanics, I
  Room 7.120, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  Jerry Bona, University of Texas, Austin bona@math.utexas.edu
  Steven Levandosky, University of Texas, Austin slevan@math.utexas.edu
  Jiahong Wu, University of Texas, Austin jiahong@math.utexas.edu
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    Stability of the Solution with Respect to the Boundary.
    Ivo M Babuska*, Texas Institute of Computational and Applied Mathematics, The University of Texas at Austin
    Jan Chleboun, Mathematical Institute, Academy of Science, Czech Republic
    (948-35-105)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Modelling of crack propagation.
    Michael P Marder*, University of Texas at Austin
    (948-76-341)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Stability of instability for the two dimensional Euler equations.
    Susan Friedlander*, U of Illinois-Chicago
    (948-35-72)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    The renormalization group method. Application to a slightly compressible fluid model.
    Ioana Moise*, University of Texas at Austin
    Mohammed Ziane, Texas A&M University
    (948-35-33)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    The geometric structure of the super-level sets and global regularity for 3D Navier-Stokes equations.
    Zoran Grujic*, University of Texas
    (948-76-26)
  • 6:30 p.m.
    Zero-dissipation limits of nonlinear waves.
    Jerry L Bona, University of Texas at Austin
    Jiahong Wu*, University of Texas at Austin
    (948-76-115)
• Friday October 8, 1999, 4:00 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Topology of Continua, I
  Room 6.124, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  Wayne Lewis, Texas Tech University wlewis@math.ttu.edu
  Carl Seaquist, Texas Tech University seaqucr@math.ttu.edu
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    Minimal trees.
    Krystyna M. Kuperberg*, Auburn University
    Wlodzimierz Kuperberg, Auburn University
    (948-54-68)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The Hahn-Mazurkiewicz Theorem: A characterization.
    Dale B Daniel, Lamar University
    Jacek Nikiel, American University of Beirut
    L Bruce Treybig*, Texas A\&M University
    H Murat Tuncali, Nipissing University
    (948-54-295)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    On strongly monotone mappings.
    Janusz J Charatonik*, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico and University of Wroclaw
    (948-54-118)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Concerning the Role of Local Separating Points of Decomposition Spaces in the Hahn-Mazurkiewicz Theorem.
    Dale Daniel*, Lamar University
    (948-54-216)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    A Tale of Six Atriodic Tree-like Continua.
    W. T. Ingram*, University of Missouri -- Rolla
    (948-54-133)
  • 6:30 p.m.
    A problem concerning topological properties which are inheredited.
    Raul Escobedo*, Instituto de Matematicas, UNAM
    (948-54-305)
• Friday October 8, 1999, 4:00 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Dynamical Systems, I
  Room 6.120, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  David Delatte, University of North Texas delatte@sol.acs.unt.edu
  R. Daniel Mauldin, University of North Texas mauldin@unt.edu
  Mariusz Urbanski, University of North Texas urbanski@unt.edu
  Luca Quardo Zamboni, University of North Texas lqz0001@jove.acs.unt.edu
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    Safe states of subshifts of finite type are not so powerful.
    Robert M Burton*, Oregon State University
    Arthur Robinson, George Washington University
    (948-37-179)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Expansive homeomorphisms of solenoids and generalizations thereof.
    Alex D Clark*, University of North Texas
    (948-58-112)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Minimal sets.
    Krystyna M Kuperberg*, Auburn University
    (948-58-107)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Uniformly perfect analytic and conformal attractor sets.
    Rich L Stankewitz*, Texas A&M University
    (948-30-91)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    On Besicovitch's 1/2-Conjecture.
    Hany M Farag*, Caltech
    (948-28-40)
  • 6:30 p.m.
    Discussion.
• Friday October 8, 1999, 4:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
  Special Session on Advances in the Mathematics and Applications of Finite Elements, I
  Room 5.124, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  J. Tinsley Oden, University of Texas, Austin oden@ticam.utexas.edu
  

  • 5:00 p.m.
    Approximation Problems and Generalized Finite Element Method.
    Ivo M Babuska*, Texas Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics, The University of Texas at Austin
    (948-65-106)
• Friday October 8, 1999, 7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.
  Reception
  Texas Union Building, Texas Union Building

 
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