AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Day

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

Saturday October 9, 1999

• Saturday October 9, 1999, 8:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  RLM, Robert Lee Moore Hall
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 8:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  RLM, Robert Lee Moore Hall
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Banach and Operator Spaces:Isomorphic and Geometric Structure, II
  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
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Non reflexive subspaces of duals of $C^*$-algebras.
    Narcisse J Randrianantoanina*, Miami University
    (948-46-296)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Uniform duality of the weak essential norm.
    Hans-Olav J Tylli*, University of Helsinki
    (948-46-200)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A separable space with no Schauder decomposition.
    Denka Kutzarova*, Bulgarian Academny of Sciences and University of South Carolina
    G. Alexandrov, University of Sofia, Bulgaria
    A. Plichko, Pedagogical University, Kirovograd, Ukraine
    (948-46-156)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Dual Banach spaces which contain an isometric copy of $L_1$.
    S. J Dilworth, University of South Carolina
    Maria Girardi*, University of South Carolina
    James N Hagler, University of Denver
    (948-46-276)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Daugavet property of Banach spaces.
    Roman Shvidkoy*, University of Missouri
    (948-46-138)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    On the size of approximately convex sets in normed spaces.
    Stephen J Dilworth*, University of South Carolina
    Ralph Howard, University of South Carolina
    James W Roberts, University of South Carolina
    (948-46-155)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Topology of Continua, II
  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
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Irreducible Whitney levels.
    Wlodzimierz J Charatonik*, University of Missouri-Rolla
    (948-54-292)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Joinable Continua-An Application of Inverse Limits.
    William S Mahavier*, Department of Mathematics and C.S., Emory University
    (948-54-205)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Applications of Topology to Medicine.
    Beverly L Brechner*, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
    (948-54-147)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Expansive Homeomorphisms and Plane Continua.
    Christopher G Mouron*, University of Delaware
    (948-54-265)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Indecomposable continua having hyperspaces as cones.
    Maria de Jesus Lopez*, Instituto de Matematicas, UNAM.
    (948-54-275)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Open maps on Knaster Continua.
    Carl Eberhart, University of Kentucky
    Brauch Fugate*, University of Kentucky
    Shannon Schumann, Centre College
    (948-54-169)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Dynamical Systems, II
  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
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Discussion.
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Integral means of derivative of conformal mappings.
    Alexander Volberg*, Michigan State University
    (948-37-352)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Growing trees, laminations and the dynamics on the Julia set.
    Alexander Blokh*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
    Genadi Levin, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
    (948-37-175)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Dimension of quasicircles.
    Stanislav K Smirnov*, KTH (Stockholm)
    (948-30-262)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Phasetransitions for equilibrium states on subshifts.
    Nicolai T A Haydn*, Department of Mathematics, University of Southern California
    (948-60-224)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Attractors for graph critical rational functions.
    Alexander Blokh, University of Alabama in Birmingham
    Michal Misiurewicz*, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis
    (948-58-114)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on The Development of Topology in the Americas, I
  Room 7.124, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  Cameron Gordon, University of Texas, Austin gordon@math.utexas.edu
  Ioan Mackenzie James, University of Oxford imj@maths.ox.ac.uk
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Golden Age of Princeton Topology.
    I. M. James*, University of Oxford
    (948-01-06)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Steenrod and his students.
    Franklin P Peterson*, M.I.T.
    (948-01-52)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Topological groups vis-\`a-vis Lie groups.
    Robert D. Edwards*, UCLA
    (948-22-280)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Little and Haseman -- early American tabulators of knots.
    Jozef H Przytycki*, GWU
    (948-01-24)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Wavelets and Approximation Theory, II
  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
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Algorithm for optimal triangulations in scattered data representation and implementation in MatLab.
    Brad Dyer*, East Tennessee State University
    Don Hong, East Tennessee State University
    (948-41-129)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On Optimal Triangulation and Local Basis of Bivariate Spline Spaces.
    Don Hong*, East Tennessee State University
    (948-41-228)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Cardinal interpolation by Gaussian radial-basis functions.
    N Sivakumar*, Texas A&M University
    (948-41-42)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Interpolants with bounded derivatives.
    Tom Kunkle*, College of Charleston
    (948-41-218)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Bivariate Polynomial Natural Spline Interpolation Algorithm with Local Basis for Scattered Data.
    Lutai Guan*, Zhongshan University
    (948-41-152)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Analysis and PDEs, II
  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
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Rank sets of harmonic mappings.
    Qing Han*, University of Notre Dame
    Fanghua Lin, Courant intitute
    (948-35-206)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    An application of corner comparison theorems.
    John McCuan*, Georgia Tech
    (948-39-176)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Break.
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Crystals in a Cone: Equilibrium Shapes in the Plane.
    Robert J McCann*, University of Toronto
    Felix Otto, University of California at Santa Barbara
    (948-73-236)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Gamma limits of Ginzburg-Landau functionals.
    R L Jerrard*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    H M Soner, Applied Mathematics, Princeton University
    (948-49-270)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Dynamics, II
  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
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Time-dependent solutions of the Benjamin Equation.
    Juan Mario Restrepo*, Mathematics Deparment, University of Arizona
    James Hyman, T-7 Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    (948-35-223)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Time-Evolving Interfaces in Viscous Flows.
    Mary Catherine A Kropinski*, Simon Fraser University
    (948-76-269)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A New Approach to Analytic Continuation of Dirichlet-Neumann Operators Upon Boundary Variations.
    David P Nicholls*, University of Minnesota
    (948-35-283)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Discussion.
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical and Computational Finance, II
  Room 7.104, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  Stathis Tompaidis, University of Texas, Austin stathis@athena.bus.utexas.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Hybrid Calibration of Interest Rate Models: Implied and Statistical.
    Raphael Douady*, CIBC New York
    (948-91-324)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Comparing Stochastic Discount Factors Through Their Implied Measures.
    Yan Jin*, Goldman, Sachs NY
    (948-91-325)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Stochastic Volatility Modeling, Asymptotics & Parameter Estimation.
    Jean-Pierre Fouque, North Carolina State University
    George Papanicolaou, Stanford University
    Ronnie Sircar*, University of Michigan
    (948-91-335)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Calibration of Financial Models.
    David Saunders*, University of Toronto
    (948-91-332)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on DNA Topology, II
  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
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Chirality of knots and links.
    Corinne Cerf*, Universit\'e Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
    (948-57-50)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Topological Symmetry Groups of Embedded Graphs.
    Erica L Flapan*, Pomona College
    David L Li, Stanford University
    (948-92-167)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Self-Assembling Graphs with DNA molecules.
    Nata\v sa Jonoska*, University of South Florida
    (948-68-143)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Characterizing DNA knots from bacteriophage P4.
    Francisco J Arsuaga*, Mathematics Department, Florida State University
    Carles Rojals, Department of Molecular Biology, I.B.M.B. - C.S.I.C.
    Maria E Vazquez, Mathematics Department, Florida State University
    Sonia Trigueros, Department of Molecular Biology,I.B.M.B. - C.S.I.C.
    Joaquim Roca, Department of Molecular Biology, I.B.M.B. - C.S.I.C.
    De Witt L Sumners, Mathematics Department, Florida State University
    (948-92-95)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Knotting under Spatial Constraints.
    Kenneth C Millett*, University of California
    (948-57-235)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Free Surface Interfaces and PDEs, I
  Room 7.112, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  Kirk Lancaster, Wichita State University lancaste@twsuvm.uc.twsu.edu
  Thomas Vogel, Texas A & M University tvogel@math.tamu.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Phragmen-Lindelof theorems for quasilinear elliptic partial differential equations.
    Kirk E Lancaster*, Wichita State University
    (948-35-110)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Asymptotic Behavior of Minimal Surfaces Over Strips and Sectors.
    David Siegel*, University of Waterloo
    (948-35-226)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Equilibrium Configurations for a Floating Drop.
    Alan R Elcrat*, Wichita State University
    (948-35-78)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Bubble Development of Known Radius from Capillary Surfaces.
    Kevin M Hemphill*, Wichita State University
    (948-35-213)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Wetting barriers and local minimizers in the calculus of variations.
    Erich Miersemann*, Department of Mathematics, Leipzig University, Germany
    (948-49-84)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Dehn Surgery and Kleinian Groups, II
  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
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Foliations and group actions on $S^1$ and $\mathbb{R}$.
    Danny Calegari*, UC Berkeley
    (948-57-146)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Volumes of Haken hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
    Ian Agol*, U. C. Davis
    (948-57-342)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Supercrossing Number for Knots and Links.
    Colin C Adams*, Williams College
    Sang Pahk, University of California-Davis
    (948-57-145)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Abelian Subgroup Separability of Kleinian Groups and Fundamental Groups of Haken Manifolds.
    Emily Hamilton*, Emory University
    (948-57-71)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Pseudomodular surfaces.
    Darren Long*, UC Santa Barbara
    Alan W Reid, UT, Austin
    (948-57-116)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Problems in Transport Phenomena, II
  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
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    High frequency behavior of the focusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation wtih random inhomogeneities.
    Shi Jin*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    George Papanicolaou, Stanford University
    Albert Fannjiang, University of California, Davis
    (948-65-07)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A High Order Discontinuous Galerkin Method for 2D Incompressible Flows.
    Jian-Guo Liu, University of Maryland
    Chi-Wang Shu*, Brown University
    (948-65-14)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Maximum Entropy Closure for Nonparabolic Band Transport in Semiconductors .
    Angelo M Anile*, University of Catania
    Vittorio Romano, Politecnico di bari
    (948-76-15)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Entropy Based Numerical Methods For Kinetic And Fluid Dynamic Semiconductor Models.
    Christian Ringhofer*, Arizona State University
    (948-65-21)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Relaxation, Stability and Oscillation in a Reactive Transport Model of Bioremediation.
    Jack Xin*, UT Texas,Austin
    (948-35-81)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on The Diverse Mathematical Legacy of Jean Leray, II (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
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Jean Leray and Algebraic Analysis.
    Pierre B Schapira*, University of Paris 6
    (948-32-30)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Space time decay of solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations.
    Cherif E Amrouche, Univ. de Tecnologie de Compiegne
    Vivette Giraud, Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie
    Maria E Schonbek*, University of California
    Tomas P Schonbek, Florida Atlantic University
    (948-35-123)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On the connection between the Camassa-Holm equations and turbulence theory.
    Edriss Titi*, U of California, Irvine
    (948-35-177)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Regularity of solutions of Navier-Stokes equations for rotating fluids .
    Anatoli V Babin*, UC at Irvine
    (948-35-39)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on The Diverse Mathematical Legacy of Jean Leray, II (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
  

  • 10:00 a.m.
    A DeRham/Federer approach to the Cheeger/Simons theory of differential characters.
    Reese Harvey*, Rice University
    (948-53-128)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    CR-characteristic classes and residues.
    Daniel M. Burns, Jr.*, University of Michigan
    (948-32-215)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    The Spectral Sequence Relating Algebraic $K$-theory to Motivic Cohomology.
    Eric M Friedlander, Northwestern University
    Andrei A Suslin*, Northwestern University
    (948-19-73)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Theoretical, Computational and Experimental Aspects of Mechanics, II
  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
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    On similarity solutions in theories of curvature driven motion of planar curves.
    Bernard D Coleman*, Rugters University
    (948-76-55)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Stability and symmetry of solitary-wave solutions to model systems for long waves.
    John P. Albert*, University of Oklahoma
    Felipe Linares, IMPA
    (948-35-31)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Stability of solitary waves for a complex modified KdV system.
    Judith R. Miller*, Georgetown University
    (948-35-28)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Strong instability of solitary-wave solution of Boussinesq equations.
    Yue Liu*, Univ. of Texas, Arlington
    (948-35-56)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    The Boussinesq Limit of the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam Equation.
    John F Bukowski*, Juniata College
    (948-35-168)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Advances in the Mathematics and Applications of Finite Elements, II
  Room 5.124, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  J. Tinsley Oden, University of Texas, Austin oden@ticam.utexas.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Some recent results on "shift" theorems for elliptic problems on plane polygonal domains.
    James Bramble*, Texas A&M University
    (948-65-131)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Approximation theory of the p-version finite element method and spectral method in the framework of Jacobi-weighted Besov spaces.
    Benqi Guo*, university of Manitoba
    (948-65-258)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Nonlinear subgrid upscaling of two-phase flow in porous media.
    Todd Arbogast*, Texas Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics, The University of Texas at Austin
    (948-65-120)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 9:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Aperiodic Tiling, II
  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
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    Diffraction of Stochastic Structures.
    Michael Baake*, Unversity of T\"ubingen
    (948-37-162)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Energy spectra and eigenstates of discrete quasiperiodic Schr\"{o}dinger operators.
    Uwe Grimm*, Institut f\"{u}r Physik, Technische Universit\"{a}t Chemnitz, Germany
    (948-81-166)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Crystallography of Quasiperiodic Tilings.
    Ted Janssen*, University of Nijmegen
    (948-20-238)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Crystallography and Riemann surfaces.
    Veit Elser*, Cornell University
    (948-06-203)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 9:30 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
  Special Session on Recent Developments in Index Theory, II
  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
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    The Schwartz algebra, Chern characters and the Baum-Connes conjecture.
    Jacek Brodzki*, University of Exeter, UK
    Roger J Plymen, Manchester University
    (948-46-90)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    An index theorem for families of elliptic operators invariant with respect to the action of a bundle of Lie groups.
    Victor Nistor*, Penn State
    (948-58-126)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 9:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Interconnections Among Diophantine Geometry, Algebraic Geometry, and Value Distribution Theory, I
  Room 5.126, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  William Cherry, University of North Texas wcherry@unt.edu
  Min Ru, University of Houston minru@math.uh.edu
  Felipe Voloch, University of Texas, Austin voloch@fireant.ma.utexas.edu
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    Big Picard and trichotomy.
    Alexandru Buium*, University of New Mexico
    (948-32-19)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Contribution of the Infinite Valuations to the Radical.
    Machiel van Frankenhuysen*, University of California, Riverside
    (948-11-96)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Transcendental B\"ezout Estimates.
    Bao Qin Li*, Florida International University
    (948-32-242)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    A geometric version of the ``lemma on the logarithmic derivative''.
    Paul Vojta*, University of California, Berkeley
    (948-32-222)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 11:30 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Derived deformation theory.
  Room 106, Burdine Hall
  Mikhail M Kapranov*, Northwestern University Evanston IL
  (948-14-308)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Invited Address
  The Nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation: Self-focusing and Wave Collapse.
  Room 106, Burdine Hall
  Catherine Sulem*, University of Toronto
  (948-35-353)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
  Special Session on The Development of Topology in the Americas, II
  Room 7.124, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  Cameron Gordon, University of Texas, Austin gordon@math.utexas.edu
  Ioan Mackenzie James, University of Oxford imj@maths.ox.ac.uk
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    $3$-manifolds in Princeton in the 50's and 60's.
    John R Stallings*, University of California, Berkeley
    (948-01-127)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The Harvard-Princeton connection: The development of the exact sciences in Latin America, 1942-1950.
    Eduardo L Ortiz*, Imperial College, London (UK)
    (948-01-117)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Algebraic Topology in Brazil.
    Duane Randall*, Loyola University New Orleans
    (948-55-29)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Discussion.
  • 5:30 p.m.
    The development of infinite-dimensional topology in the United States.
    James E. West*, Cornell Univ.
    (948-01-354)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Wavelets and Approximation Theory, III
  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
  

  • 3:30 p.m.
    On the Hahn-Banach Operators.
    Boris Shekhtman*, University of South Florida
    (948-41-244)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Constrained Optimal Location.
    Robert Huotari, California State Automobile Association
    Michael P Prophet*, University of Northern Iowa
    (948-41-172)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    An $n$-Dimensional Hahn-Banach Extension Theorem and Minimal Projections.
    Bruce L Chalmers*, University of California
    (948-41-161)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Bounding nonharmonic, nonnegative, trigonometric sums.
    John N McDonald, Arizona State University
    Andrew J Siefker*, Murray State University
    (948-42-45)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    M.I.N.D.Y BASIC as a Data Collection.
    Franc Dominica S Mueller*, C.F.C.T.E., Inc.
    (948-53-12)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Analysis and PDEs, III
  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
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    A Priori Estimates for Solutions of Fully Nonlinear Equations with Convex Level Set.
    Luis A Caffarelli, Uinversity of Texas at Austin
    Yu Yuan*, University of Texas at Austin
    (948-35-268)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Legendrian energy minimizers.
    Luca Capogna*, University of Arkansas
    (948-49-214)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Break.
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Existence and uniqueness in the Monge's transport problem.
    Mikhail Feldman*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (948-49-199)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The Gauss Curvature Flow on Rotationally Symmetric Surfaces with with Flat Sides.
    Ki-ahm Lee*, UC-Irvine
    Panagiota Daskalopoulos, UC-Irvine
    (948-35-230)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Aperiodic Tiling, III
  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
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Construction of dual substitution on the stepped surface tiling.
    Maki Furukado*, Tsuda College
    (948-37-83)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Tilings from stepped surfaces and dual substitutions.
    Shunji Ito*, Tsuda College
    (948-37-82)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A dynamical systems approach to the symmetry properties of aperiodic tilings.
    Arthur Robinson*, George Washington University
    (948-37-158)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Optimal Circle Packing in the Hyperbolic Plane.
    Lewis P Bowen*, University of Texas
    (948-51-188)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Non-repetitive tilings.
    James Currie*, University of Winnipeg
    (948-52-189)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Old Open Questions: Whither the Einstein?
    Chaim Goodman-Strauss*, University of Arkansas
    (948-52-191)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Banach and Operator Spaces:Isomorphic and Geometric Structure, III
  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
  

  • 3:30 p.m.
    A geometric inequality concerning the average Banach Mazur diameter of proportional sections symmetric convex bodies in $R^n$.
    Piotr Mankiewicz*, Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences
    Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann, University of Alberta, Edmonton
    (948-46-151)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A functional analytic approach to intersection bodies.
    Alexander Koldobsky*, University of Missouri - Columbia
    (948-46-17)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Asymptotic uniform smoothness.
    William B Johnson*, Texas A&M University
    Joram Lindenstrauss, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    David Preiss, University College London
    Gideon Schechtman, Weizmann Institute of Science
    (948-46-98)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The maximal regularity problem.
    Nigel Kalton*, University of Missouri
    Gilles Lancien, University of Missouri
    (948-46-93)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    One-complemented subspaces in $H_p$, $1
    Beata Randrianantoanina*, Miami University
    (948-46-297)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
  Special Session on Recent Developments in Index Theory, III
  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
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Finite energy Seiberg-Witten monopoles.
    Liviu I Nicolaescu*, University of Notre Dame
    (948-58-240)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Combinatorial Morse Theory.
    Robin Forman*, Rice University
    (948-58-159)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Exact triangle in Seiberg--Witten Floer theory.
    Matilde Marcolli*, MIT
    Bai-Ling Wang, University of Adelaide
    (948-57-122)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Dynamics, III
  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
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Soliton perturbations and the random Kepler problem.
    Jared C Bronski*, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    Fatkhulla Kh Abdullaev, Physical/Technical Institute, Tashkent
    George Papanicolaou, Stanford University
    (948-34-314)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Optimal Transportation on Manifolds with Obstacles.
    Mikhail Feldman, University of Wisconsin
    Robert J McCann*, University of Toronto
    (948-49-241)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Stability and Instability of Ginzburg-Landau Vortices.
    Stephen J Gustafson*, University of Toronto
    (948-35-251)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On a nonlinear heat equation.
    Changfeng Gui*, University of Connecticut and University of British Columbia
    (948-35-46)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    On a p-Laplacian Type of Evolution System Arising from Bean's Superconductivity Theory.
    Hong-Ming Yin*, Washongton State University
    (948-35-35)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical and Computational Financem, III
  Room 7.104, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  Stathis Tompaidis, University of Texas, Austin stathis@athena.bus.utexas.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    New Ways to Price Options: Unleashing the Power of PDEs.
    Curt Randall*, SciComp, Inc.
    (948-91-331)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A new integral representation of the early exercise boundary for American Put Options.
    Chunli Hou, PriceWaterhouseCoopers
    Thomas D Little*, PriceWaterHouseCoopers
    Vijay Pant, PriceWaterHouseCoopers
    (948-91-329)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A PDE method for Computing Moments.
    Thomas D Little, PriceWaterHouseCoopers
    Vijay Pant*, PriceWaterHouseCoopers
    (948-91-330)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On the Robustness of Option Pricing.
    Thomas Schlumprecht*, Texas A&M University
    (948-60-256)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Options on a Traded Account.
    Steven E. Shreve*, Carnegie Mellon University
    Jan Vecer, Carnegie Mellon University
    (948-60-38)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
  Special Session on DNA Topology, III
  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
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Introduction to DNA Recombination.
    De Witt Sumners*, Florida State University
    (948-92-349)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Topology of Xer recombination at {\it psi}.
    Sean D Colloms*, Biochemistry, University of Oxford
    (948-92-284)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Tangle Analysis of Xer Site-Specific Recombination.
    Maria Elena Vazquez*, Mathematics Department, Florida State University
    De Witt Sumners, Mathematics Department, Florida State University
    (948-92-88)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    DNA Structure and Topology in FLP Site-specific Recombination.
    Stephen D Levene*, University of Texas at Dallas
    Kenneth E Huffman, University of Texas at Dallas
    (948-92-273)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Topological investigations of Flp site-specific recombination.
    Ian Grainge*, University of Texas at Austin
    Dorothy Buck, University of Texas at Austin
    Makkuni Jayaram, University of Texas at Austin
    (948-92-164)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Coordination of bilateral cleavage of DNA four-way junctions by resolving enzymes.
    David MJ Lilley*, University of Dundee
    Jon M Fogg, University of Dundee
    Mark Schofield, University of Dundee
    (948-92-130)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    The Double Helix Knot.
    Louis H Kauffman*, Univ of Illinois at Chicago
    (948-57-97)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Free Surface Interfaces and PDEs, II
  Room 7.112, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  Kirk Lancaster, Wichita State University lancaste@twsuvm.uc.twsu.edu
  Thomas Vogel, Texas A & M University tvogel@math.tamu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    C-singular solutions of the capillary problem.
    Robert Finn*, Stanford University
    Robert W Neel, Universität Leipzig
    (948-35-150)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Uniqueness of the singular solution to the capillary equation.
    Radoslav P Nickolov*, Stanford University
    (948-35-183)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Instability of non-spherical liquid bridges.
    Paul Concus, Lawrence Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley
    Robert Finn, Stanford University
    John McCuan*, Georgia Tech
    (948-53-181)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Behaviour of singularities for the rotationally symmetric, volume-preserving mean curvature flow.
    Maria Athanassenas*, Monash University
    (948-35-234)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Sufficient Conditions for Capillary Surfaces to be Energy Minima.
    Thomas I Vogel*, Texas A&M University
    (948-53-163)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Constant mean curvature surfaces of annular type.
    Henry C Wente*, University of Toledo
    (948-49-27)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    A general variational method for crystalline triple junction motion.
    Jean Taylor*, Rutgers University
    (948-49-355)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Dehn Surgery and Kleinian Groups, III
  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
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    On the Weak Lopez Conjecture.
    Marc E Culler, U. of I. at Chicago
    Nathan M Dunfield, Harvard University
    Peter B Shalen*, U. of I. at Chicago
    (948-57-184)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    More on the Weak Lopez Conjecture.
    Marc E Culler*, U. of I. at Chicago
    Nathan M Dunfield, Harvard University
    Peter B Shalen, U. of I. at Chicago
    (948-57-186)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Levelling a knot's tunnel.
    Hiroshi Goda, Kobe University
    Martin Scharlemann*, U. C. Santa Barbara
    Abigail Thompson, U. C. Davis
    (948-57-187)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Some local properties of the $SL_2(\mathbb C)$-character variety of $3$-manifolds.
    Steven P Boyer*, UQAM
    (948-57-281)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Boundary slopes of immersed surfaces in 3-manifolds.
    Joel Hass*, U. C. Davis
    Hyam Rubinstein, University of Melbourne
    Shicheng Wang, Bejing University
    (948-57-307)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    The shape of hyperbolic Dehn surgery space.
    Steve Kerckhoff*, Stanford University
    Craig Hodgson, University of Melbourne
    (948-53-303)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Problems in Transport Phenomena, III
  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
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Novel results in the kinetic thoery of vehicular traffic.
    Paul Nelson*, Texas A\&M University
    Alexandros Sopaskis, Texas A\&M University
    (948-76-13)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Kinetic formulation for system of two conservation laws.
    Benoit Perthame, ENS-Ulm
    Athanasios Tzavaras*, Univ. of Wisconsin
    (948-35-16)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Inviscid limits of the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation.
    Ansgar Jungel*, TU Berlin
    (948-35-25)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Strong uncertainty principle and stability of fronts.
    Eric A. Carlen, Georgia Tech
    Maria C. Carvalho*, Lisbon University and Georgia Tech
    E. Orlandi, Universita degli Studi di Roma Tre
    (948-35-180)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Asymptotic Analysis of some Nonlinear Schroedinger Equations for charged particle transport.
    Norbert J. Mauser*, Univ. of Vienna and Courant Institute
    (948-81-60)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Derivation of Fokker-Planck type equations from coupled quantum oscillators.
    Francois Castella, University of Rennes, France
    Laszlo Erdos*, Georgiatech, Atlanta
    Florian Frommlet, Technical Univesity of Berlin, Germany
    Peter Markowich, University of Vienna,Austria
    (948-81-18)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Self-consistent quantum-diffusion models.
    Anton Arnold*, TU-Berlin, MA 6-2
    (948-35-09)
  • 6:30 p.m.
    Magnetically created instability in a collisionless plasma.
    Walter Strauss*, Brown University
    (948-35-356)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on The Diverse Mathematical Legacy of Jean Leray, III (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.
    The damping of fluid motion.
    Jerry Bona*, U of Texas, Austin
    (948-35-178)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On Leray's self-similar solution to the Navier-Stokes equations in three dimensions.
    Jindrich Necas*, Northern Illinois U.
    (948-35-75)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Approximation dynamics for the Navier-Stokes equations.
    Victor A Pliss, St Petersburg University, St Petersburg, Russia
    George R Sell*, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
    (948-35-165)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    On the minimal scale for the Navier-Stokes equation.
    Igor Kukavica*, University of Southern California
    (948-35-113)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on The Diverse Mathematical Legacy of Jean Leray, III (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
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    Jean Leray's work on spectral sequences.
    Douglas C Ravenel*, University of Rochester
    (948-01-99)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Weight filtrations in K-theory.
    Daniel R Grayson*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (948-19-142)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Theoretical, Computational and Experimental Aspects of Mechanics, III
  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
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Flows of an ideal incompressible fluid with unbounded vorticity.
    Misha Vishik*, University of Texas at Austin
    (948-35-306)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Numerical simulation of circulation and transport in shallow water systems.
    Clint Dawson*, University of Texas at Austin
    (948-65-51)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Mixed Finite Element Methods on Non-Matching Multiblock Grids.
    Todd Arbogast*, The University of Texas
    Lawrence C Cowsar, Lucent Technologies Bell Labs
    Mary F Wheeler, The Unicversity of Texas at Austin
    Ivan Yotov, University of Pittsburgh
    (948-65-346)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On Temporal Asymptotics in One-Dimensional Nonlinear Thermoviscoelasticity with Phase Transitions.
    Stephen J Watson*, Professor
    (948-35-22)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Discussion.
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Interconnections Among Diophantine Geometry, Algebraic Geometry, and Value Distribution Theory, II
  Room 5.126, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  William Cherry, University of North Texas wcherry@unt.edu
  Min Ru, University of Houston minru@math.uh.edu
  Felipe Voloch, University of Texas, Austin voloch@fireant.ma.utexas.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    A sharp form of the Nevanlinna's error term.
    Yuefei Wang*, Institute of Mathematics, Academia Sinica, PRC
    (948-30-66)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On Cartan's Conjecture and the moving target problem.
    Pit-Mann Wong*, University of Notre Dame
    (948-32-290)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The Radon transform and holomorphic curves in Abelian varieties.
    Ryoichi Kobayashi*, Nagoya University
    (948-32-132)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Break.
  • 5:00 p.m.
    p-coverings and geometric height inequalities.
    Minhyong Kim*, university of arizona
    (948-11-225)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    "The truncated second main theorem over higher dimensional function fields of arbitrary characteristic".
    Julie Tzu-Yueh Wang*, Institute of Mathematics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan & Department of Mathematics, University of Notre Dame
    (948-11-101)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Topology of Continua, III
  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
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Preservation of properties of continua by refinable maps.
    Eldon J Vought*, California State University, Chico
    (948-54-282)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Higher-dimensional hereditarily indecomposable continua.
    James T Rogers, Jr.*, Tulane University
    (948-54-217)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Non-hereditarily indecomposable local Siegel disk boundaries.
    Andrew O Maner*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
    (948-54-252)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Circle-like continua with small rotations.
    Andrew O Maner, University of Alabama at Birmingham
    John C Mayer*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
    Lex G Oversteegen, University of Alabama at Birmingham
    (948-54-274)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    On fixed points and prime-ends.
    Lex G Oversteegen*, UAB
    Robbert Fokkink, TuDelft
    John C Mayer, UAB
    (948-54-310)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Locally Connected Continua and Images of Arcs.
    Murat Tuncali*, Nipissing University, North Bay, Ontario, Canada
    (948-54-185)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
  Special Session on Dynamical Systems, III
  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
  

  • 3:30 p.m.
    Numerical calculation of the decay of correlations in particle systems.
    Marek R Rychlik*, University of Arizona
    (948-37-350)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Gaussian Thermostats, Lorentz Gas and Differential Geometry .
    Maciej P. Wojtkowski*, University of Arizona
    (948-58-41)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A Dani Theorem for the Teichmuller Horocycle Flow.
    William A Veech*, Rice University
    (948-37-198)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Periodic billiard orbits for a simple family of polygons.
    Eugene Gutkin*, University of Southern California
    (948-37-197)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Perturbations of piecewise rotations.
    Arek Goetz*, San Francisco State University
    (948-58-327)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Discussion.
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Advances in the Mathematics and Applications of Finite Elements, III
  Room 5.124, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  Organizers:
  J. Tinsley Oden, University of Texas, Austin oden@ticam.utexas.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Local discontinuous Galerkin methods for contaminant transport.
    Clint Dawson*, Texas Institute for Computational & Applied Mathematics, The University of Texas at Austin
    (948-65-119)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Locally Conservative Discretizations on Non-matching Grids.
    Raytcho Lazarov*, Texas A&M University
    Joseph Pasciak, Texas A & M University
    P. Vassilevski, Texas A & M University
    (948-65-121)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A Fully Automatic hp-Adaptivity for Maxwell Equations. Is it Possible?
    Leszek Demkowicz*, TICAM, The University of Texas at Austin
    (948-65-243)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Finite Element Approximation of a Linearized Buckling Model.
    Manil Suri*, University of Maryland Baltimore County
    (948-65-288)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 3:00 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
  Session for Contributed Papers
  Room 5.112, Robert Lee Moore Hall
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Global solutions for a class of nonlinear dispersive and dissipative equations via semigroups.
    Radu C Cascaval*, University of Memphis
    (948-35-317)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    On the geometry of the free boundary of the one-phase Stefan problem.
    Marianne K Korten*, University of Louisville
    (948-35-54)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Regularity of solutions to the perturbed conservation laws.
    Yudi Soeharyadi*, The University of Memphis
    Jerome A Goldstein, The University of Memphis
    (948-35-300)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    A time dependent model for the transport of heavy pollutants from ground-level aerial sources.
    Ismail Taqi Ali*, Kuwait University
    (948-35-01)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    General Formulas for Solving Solvable Sextic Equations.
    Thomas R Hagedorn*, Centre de Recherche Mathematique
    (948-12-34)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Braid representatives of links in $3$-manifolds.
    Gretchen Wright*, Bronx Community College, CUNY
    (948-57-301)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The Asymptotic Expansion and Numerical Verification of Van der Pol's Equation.
    Deeba Elias, University of Houston-Downtown
    Shishen S Xie*, University of Houston-Downtown
    (948-41-316)
• Saturday October 9, 1999, 8:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
  Special Session on Aperiodic Tiling, IV
  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
  

  • 8:30 p.m.
    Roundtable discussion.