18th Annual Southeastern-Atlantic Regional Conference on Differential Equations

October 16-17, 1998

List of Speakers and Titles

Mahmoud J. Anabtawi (Tennessee State University)
Convergence stability and analysis of large-scale parabolic systems under Markovian structural perturbations-I
Seth Armstrong (Arkansas State University)
A phase space approach to the numerical solution of a class of singular differential equations
John V. Baxley (Wake Forest University)
A class of singular nonlinear boundary value problems
A. M. Blazhievskiy (Technological University of Podillia)
Fourier and Bessel equations in summation of functional series
M. E. Bradley (University of Louisville)
Bilinear optimal control of a Kirchhoff plate via velocity controller
Robert Stephen Cantrell (University of Miami)
On the effects of domain size on the persistence of populations in a diffusive food-chain model with DeAngelis-Beddington functional response
Lester F. Caudill, Jr. (University of Richmond)
Stability and reconstruction for an inverse problem for the heat equation
Maya Chhetri (Mississippi State University)
An existence result for a class of sublinear semipositone systems
A. Raouf Chouikha (University of Paris-Nord)
About some monotonicity conditions for the period function
G. W. Clark (Virginia Commonwealth University)
Homogenization of a model for flow in a partially fissured medium
Chris Cosner (University of Miami)
Competitive reversals inside ecological reserves: the role of external habitat degradation
John M. Davis (Auburn University)
Existence of triple positive solutions for (k,n-k) right focal boundary value problems
Abderrahim El Attar (University Sidi Mohamed ben Abdellah)
On the first eigencurve for p-Laplacian with indefinite weight
P. W. Eloe (University of Dayton)
Comparison of Green's functions for a family of multipoint boundary value problems
K. Renee Fister (Murray State University)
Cell-cycle-specific chemotherapy and optimal control
Hang Gao (Northeast Normal University)
Optimal control of growth rate for a class of population systems
Thomas C. Gard (The University of Georgia)
Recurrent and transient properties of stochastic population models
John R. Graef (Mississippi State University)
Periodic solutions of a forced delay differential equation
George A. Hagedorn (Virginia Tech.)
Semiclassical dynamics with exponentially small errors
R. L. Herman (University of North Carolina at Wilmington)
Scattering of Rossby waves from piecewise-linear topographies using the transfer matrix method
Xianhua Huang (Concordia University)
A computer assisted approach to Hilbert's 16th problem
Masato Iida (Iwate University)
A reaction-diffusion system reduced to a Stefan-like free boundary problem
M. N. Islam (University of Dayton)
Stability properties and integrability of the resolvent in linear Volterra integrodifferential equations
Pedro M. Jordan (University of New Orleans)
Some mathematical implications for the static phi-four equation
Yu. Karpeshina (University of Alabama at Birmingham)
On the density of states for the Schrodinger operator with a periodic potential
Abdelkader Laazizi (University Sidi Mohamed ben Abdellah)
Mixed methods for elliptic problem with rough coefficients
Philippe B. Laval (Kennesaw State University)
Noise removal from images based on mean curvature flow for nonparametric surfaces
Michael Y. Li (Mississippi State University)
Stability of periodic solutions in higher dimensions
J. M.-S. Lubuma (Vista University)
On the Fourier-boundary element method for elliptic problems with edge singularities
John V. Matthews, III (North Carolina State University)
Solving a granular flow problem with a discontinuous Galerkin method
Uwe F. Mayer (Vanderbilt University)
Classical solutions for diffusion-induced grain motion
C. Maeve McCarthy (Murray State University)
A Rayleigh-Ritz method for the recovery of a density function in a two-dimensional inverse spectral problem
Joyce McLaughlin (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Using holographic images to solve inverse problems
C. A. McMillan (Virginia Tech.)
Exact controllablility of a cylinder
J. Matias Navarro S. (Ciudad Universitaria)
Bifurcations of simple umbilical points on surfaces immersed in R^4
Gaston M. N'guerekata (Morgan State University)
On almost automorphic solutions of some evolution equations
Seth F. Oppenheimer (Mississippi State University)
A river water quality model for time varying BOD discharge concentration
'Kale Oyedeji (Morehouse College)
Nonstandard, explicit discretizations of first-order ODE's
G. Edgar Parker (James Madison University)
The algebraic structure of projectively polynomial functions
Youssef Raffoul (Tougaloo College)
Periodic solutions of a difference equation with finite delay
Mohsen Razzaghi (Mississippi State University)
A spectral method for the solution of nonlinear matrix equations
James A. Reneke (Clemson University)
Communications modeled by a PDE on a discrete network
Elena V.Rossi (Auburn University)
On solvability of an elliptic BVP at resonance at the Fucik eigenvalue
David G. Schaeffer (Duke University)
Fractals in a PDE problem? Get real!
Ratnasingham Shivaji (Mississippi State University)
Recent results for semipositone problems
Bhagat Singh (University of Wisconsin-Manitowoc)
Asymptotic behavior of solutions of a class of higher order ordinary differential equations
James Sochacki (James Madison University)
Newton's method revisited
Milena Stanislavova (University of Missouri-Columbia)
Invariant manifolds for nonlinear Schrodinger equation
Atanas Stefanov (University of Missouri-Columbia)
Strichartz estimates for the Schrodinger equation with radial data
Tri Van (University of Florida)
An application of finite element methods to the singular Sturm-Liouville eigenvalue problem
Tammy Voepel (University of South Carolina Union)
Variable change for fourth order difference equations
Liancheng Wang (Mississippi State University)
A criterion for stability of matrices
Stephen J. Watson (Louisiana State University)
On temporal asymptotics in one-dimensional nonlinear thermoviscoelasticity
Rudi Weikard (University of Alabama at Birmingham)
Algebro­geometric differential operators
Xiangsheng Xu (Mississippi State University)
A local partial regularity theorem for weak solutions of degenerate elliptic PDEs and its application to the thermister problem
Yongzhi Xu (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)
A simple method for inverse scattering problem in an ocean
Eiji Yanagida (University of Tokyo and Georgia Institute of Technology)
Stable solutions in reaction-diffusion equations
Bo Yang (Mississippi State University)
Necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of a bounded nonoscillatory solution of a neutral delay differential equation
Bo Zhang (Fayetteville State University)
Asymptotic stability in linear Volterra equations


Additional Attendees

Katharine Bennett (Auburn University)
Scott Caldwell (Mississippi State University)
Maria Charina (Auburn University)
Kathleen Goeden (Auburn University)
Greg Harris (Auburn University)
Johnny Henderson (Auburn University)
Georg Hetzer (Auburn University)
Kai Huang (University of Florida)
Cheryl Hunter (Tuskegee University)
Alvina Johnson (Aburn University)
Nickolai Kosmatov (Auburn University)
Susan D. Lauer (Tuskegee University)
Roger T. Lewis (University of Alabama at Birmingham)
Amy H. Lin (Vanderbilt University)
Melinda Little (Tuskegee University)
A. J. Meir (Auburn University)
Karen O'Hara (Vanderbilt University)
Chuanxi Qian (Mississippi State University)
S. Sathananthan (Tennessee State University)
Rudolf Schmid (Emory University)
Paul Schmidt (Auburn University)
Wenxian Shen (Auburn University)
Denise Taunton Reid (Valdosta State University)
Retina Thomas (Tuskegee University)
Kevin Voepel (University of South Carolina Union)
Paul Waltman (Emory University)
William Yin (LaGrange College)



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