Schedule for Mini-Symposia, Special Sessions, and Contributed Sessions

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Friday, May 24, 2002, Afternoon

Invited Plenary Speakers

Chair: Jerry Bona

10:00 a.m. -- 12:00 noon    Room: Cameron Auditorium

Paul Rabinowitz, University of Wisconsin, USA

Hans Othmer, University of Minnesota, USA

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Invited Plenary Speakers

Chair: Amadeu Delshams

1:45 -- 2:45 p.m.    Room: Cameron Auditorium

Antonio Giorgilli, Italy

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(7) Mini Symposia on Hamiltonian Systems

Organized by Amadeu Delshams & Antonio Giorgilli

3:00 -- 6:00 p.m.    Room: LH 139

Sergey V. Bolotin, University of Wisconsin, USA

Turgay Uzer, Georgia Tech, USA

George Haller, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Gianni Arioli, Universit?del Piemonte Orientale, Italy

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(4) Special Session on Nonlinear Boundary Value Problems

Organized by Anna Capietto

3:00 -- 4:45 p.m.    Room: LH 107

Ratnasingham Shivaji, Mississippi State University, USA

Maya Chhetri, UNC Greensboro, USA

Jesus Rodriguez, North Carolina State University, USA

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(5) Special Session on Stabilization and Optimal Control of Dynamical Systems

Organized by Yacine Chitour

3:00 -- 6:15 p.m.    Room: LH 143

Ugo Boscain, University of Bourgogne, France

J.B. Pomet, Universite Paris-Sud XI, France

Wijesuriya P. Dayawansa, Texas Tech University, USA

Mauro Garavello, SISSA, Trieste, Italy

Manuel C. Guerra, ISEG/UTL, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal

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(9) Special Session on Hyperbolic Systems of Conservation Laws and Related Problems

Organized by Haitao Fan & Tong Yang

3:00 -- 5:15 p.m.    Room: LH 108

Hans Engler, Georgetown University, USA

Judith Miller, Georgetown Univ., USA

Seung-Yeal Ha, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

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(17) Special Session on Optimal Control and Applications

Organized by Urszula Ledzewicz & Heinz Schaettler

3:00 -- 6:15 p.m.    Room: LH 103

Michael Basin, Autonomous University of Nuevo Leon, Mexico

Fabiana Cardetti, Louisiana State University, USA

Urszula Ledzewicz, Southern Illinois University, USA

Nikolas Papageorgiou, National Tech. University, Greece

Andrey Sarychev, University of Aveiro, Portugal

Heinz Schaettler, Washington University in St. Louis, USA

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(19) Special Session on Traveling Waves and Shock Waves

Organized by Xiao-biao Lin & Stephen Schecter

3:00 -- 5:15 p.m.    Room: LH 111

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(21) Special Session on Ginzburg-Landau Equation in Superconductivity and Related Topics

Organized by Yoshihisa Morita

3:00 -- 5:45 p.m.    Room: LH 110

Xingbin Pan, National Singapore University, Singapore

Yaniv Almog, Technion, Israel

Masahiko Machida, Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute, Japan

Jian Zhai, Zhejiang University, China

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(22) Special Session on Learning Theory, Dynamic System and Neural Networks

Organized by Kayvan Najarian

3:00 -- 5:45 p.m.    Room: LH 138

Marco Campi, University of Brescia, Italy

Dean S. Warren, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA

Kayvan Najarian, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA

Dean S. Warren, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA

Manouchehr Misaghian, J.C. Smith University, USA

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(28) Special Session on Difference Equations and Its Applications

Organized by Youssef N. Raffoul

3:00 -- 6:15 p.m.    Room: LH 132

John R. Graef, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA

Joan Hoffacker, University of Georgia, USA

Denise Reid, Valdosta State University, USA

Touhid Khandaker, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, USA

Rigoberto Medina, Universidad de Los Lagos, Chile

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(31) Special Session on Computational and Theoretical Issues in Fluid Dynamics

Organized by Jie Shen & John Lopez

3:00 -- 6:15 p.m.    Room: LH 104

Basil Nicolaenko, Arizona State University, USA

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(34) Special Session on Delay Differential Equations

Organized by Hans-Otto Walther

3:00 - 6:15 p.m.    Room: LH 134

Bernhard Lani-Wayda, Universitat Giessen, Germany

Piotr Zgliczynski, Jagiellonian University, Poland

Roger D. Nussbaum, Hill Center Rutgers University, USA

Eugenii Shustin, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Tibor Krisztin, University of Szeged, Hungary

Hans-Otto Walther, Mathematisches Institut der Universitat Gieben, Germany

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(2) Contributed Session on General Differential Equations

3:00 - 5:35p.m.    Room: LH 141                                                                           Chair: Pavel E. Sobolevskii

Daniel Franco, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia. Madrid, Spain

Dumitru Motreanu, Universite de Perpignan, France

Pavel E. Sobolevskii, Institute of Mathematics, Israel

Antonio J. Urena, Universidad de Granada, Spain

Wen-Qing Xu, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA

Roderick V.N. Melnik, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

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(3) Contributed Session on Stability and Global Analysis

3:00 - 5:35p.m.    Room: LH 130                                                                           Chair: Maoan Han

Maoan Han, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Shinya Nishibata, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

Chun-Gil ParkChungnam National University, South Korea

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(4) Contributed Session on Fluid Dynamics

3:00 -- 5:15p.m.    Room: LH 131                                                                           Chair: Chunqing Lu


Saturday, May 25, 2002, Morning

Invited Plenary Speakers

Chair: Peter Constantin

8:00 -- 10:00 a.m.    Room: Cameron Auditorium

Wei-Ming Ni, University of Minnesota, USA

Thomas Y. Hou, Applied and Comp. Math, Caltech, USA

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(7) Mini Symposia on Hamiltonian Systems

Organized by Amadeu Delshams & Antonio Giorgilli

10:15 a.m. -- 12:30 p.m.    Room: LH 139

Ernesto A. Lacomba, University Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico

Amadeu Delshams, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

James Meiss, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA

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(4) Special Session on Nonlinear Boundary Value Problems

Organized by Anna Capietto

10:15 a.m. -- 11:45 a.m.    Room: LH 107

James R. Ward, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA

Raul Manásevich,  Universidad de Chile, Chile

Marco Squassina, Universita' Cattolica del S.C. - Brescia, Italy

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(5) Special Session on Stabilization and Optimal Control of Dynamical Systems

Organized by Yacine Chitour

10:15 -- 11:45 a.m.    Room: LH 143

Emmanuel Trelat, University of Paris Sud XI, France

Viswanath Ramakrishna, University of Dallas, USA

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(14) Special Session on Chaos in Classic and Quantum Systems

Organized by Helmut Kroger

10:15 a.m. -- 12:15 p.m.    Room: LH 131

J. Bird, Arizona State Univ., USA

Kevin Mitchell, College of William and Mary, USA

H. Friedrich, Tech. Univ. Munich, Germany

Fritz Haake, Essen University, Germany

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(15) Special Session on Mathematical Fluid Dynamics

Organized by Igor Kukavica & James Robinson

10:15 a.m. -- 12:15 p.m.    Room: LH 138

Alexey Cheskidov, Indiana University, USA

Peter Constantin, University of Chicago, USA

Zoran Grujic, University of Virginia, USA

Eric Olson, University of Nevada, Reno, University of California, Irvine, USA

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(16) Special Session on Topological Methods for Boundary Value Problems

Organized by Kunquan Lan & J. R. L. Webb

10:35 a.m. -- 12:15 p.m.    Room: LH 103

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(19) Special Session on Traveling Waves and Shock Waves

Organized by Xiao-biao Lin & Stephen Schecter

10:15 a.m. -- 12:15 p.m.    Room: LH 111

Peter B. Howard, Texas A&M University, USA

Kevin Zumbrun, Indiana University, USA

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(21) Special Session on Ginzburg-Landau Equation in Superconductivity and Related Topics

Organized by Yoshihisa Morita

10:15 a.m. -- 12:15 p.m.    Room: LH 110

Peter Takac,  Universitaet Rostock, Germany

David Gao, Virginia Tech & Louisiana Tech, USA

Shuichi Jimbo, Hokkaido University, Japan

Yoshihisa Morita, Ryukoku University, Japan

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(23) Special Session on Symmetries and Differential Equations in Physics and Other Applications

Organized by M. Nakashima & W. Xie

10:15 a.m. -- 12:15 p.m.    Room: LH 108

Lennard Bakker, Franklin and Marshall College, USA

Martin Nakashima, Cal Poly Pomona, USA

Cristian Toma, Politehnica University, Romania

Weiqing Xie, Cal Poly Pomona, USA

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(25) Special Session on Continuous Media and Optimal Design

Organized by Pablo Pedregal

10:15 a.m. -- 12:15 p.m.    Room: MO 207

Yves C. Capdeboscq, Rutgers University, USA

A. Cherkaev, University of Utah, USA

Carlos J. Garcia-Cervera, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

Guillermo H. Goldsztein, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

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(26) Special Session on Mathematical Neuroscience

Organized by Mary Pugh

10:15 a.m. -- 11:45 a.m.    Room: LH 141

Alice C. Yew, Ohio State University, USA

Jonathan Rubin, University of Pittsburgh, USA

Carlo R. Laing, University of Ottawa, Canada

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(28) Special Session on Difference Equations and its Applications

Organized by Youssef N. Raffoul

10:15 a.m. -- 12:15 p.m.    Room: LH 132

Kirsten R. Messer, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA

Muhammad Islam, University of Dayton, USA

Allan C. Peterson, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA

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(29) Special Session on Representation of Dynamical Systems

Organized by Marc Rouff

10:15 a.m. -- 12:15 p.m.    Room: LH 134

Michel Cotsaftis, LTME/ECE, France

Zakaria Lakhdari, Universitaire of Caen Basse Normandie, France

Philippe Makany, Universitaire of Caen Basse Normandie, France

Marc Rouff, Universitaire of Caen Basse Normandie, France

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(32) Special Session on A New Kind of Zeta Function: When Number Theory Meets Graph Theory

Organized by Audrey Terras

10:15 a.m. -- 12:15 p.m.    Room: MO 208

Sam Northshield, State University of New York at Plattsburgh, USA

Dorothy Wallace, Dartmouth College, USA

Gregory T. Quenell, Mt. Holyoke College, USA

Wen-Ching W. Li, Penn State University, USA

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(2) Contributed Session on General Differential Equations

10:15 -- 12:15 p.m.    Room: LH 104                                                            Chair: Keng DengChair: Keng Deng

Mufid A. Abudiab,  Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, USA

Dmitri L. Vainchtein,  University of California Santa Barbara

Meir Shillor, Oakland University, USA 

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(8) Contributed Session on Control Theory

10:15 a.m. -- 12:15 p.m.    Room: MO 206                                                            Chair: Dusan StipanovicChair: Dusan Stipanovic


Saturday, May 25, 2002, Afternoon

(3) Mini Symposia on Singular Perturbations and Propagation of Waves

Organized by Didier Bresch

2:00 -- 6:00 p.m.      Room: LH 110

Peter Constantin, University of Chicago, USA

Leonid Ryzhik, Chicago University, USA

Eduard Feireisl, Czech Republic

Benoit Desjardins , CEA, Bruyères, France

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(7) Mini Symposia on Hamiltonian Systems

Organized by Amadeu Delshams & Antonio Giorgilli

2:00 -- 6:00 p.m.     Room: LH 139

Marian Gidea, Northeastern Illinois University, USA

Angel Jorba, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain

Luigi Galgani, Universit?di Milano, Italy

David Gao, Virginia Tech & Louisiana Tech, USA

Vadim Kaloshin, MIT, USA

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(10) Mini Symposia on Mathematical Issues of Geophysical Fluid Dynamics

Organized by Michael Ghil & Shouhong Wang

2:00 -- 6:00 p.m.    Room: LH 143

Steve Shkoller, University of California, Davis, USA

Xiaoming Wang, Iowa State University and New York University, USA

Thierry Colin, MAB, Bordeaux, France

Daniel Guo, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, USA

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(4) Special Session on Nonlinear Boundary Value Problems

Organized by Anna Capietto

2:00 -- 4:00 p.m.    Room: LH 107

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(9) Special Session on Hyperbolic Systems of Conservation Laws and Related Problems

Organized by Haitao Fan & Tong Yang

2:00 -- 5:45 p.m.    Room: LH 108

Xiao-Biao Lin, North Carolina State University, USA

Konstantina Trivisa, Univ. of Maryland - College Park, USA

Karsten Matthies, University of Warwick, United Kingdom

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(14) Special Session on Chaos in Classic and Quantum Systems

Organized by Helmut Kroger

2:00 -- 5:15 p.m.    Room: LH 131

Yuri Dabaghian, Weslyan University, USA

Helmut Kroger, Laval University, Canada

Harald Markum, Technische Universität Wien, Austria

Linda E. Reichl, Univ. of Texas, USA

S. Sridhar, Northeastern Univ., USA

Howard S. Taylor, University of Southern California, USA

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(15) Special Session on Mathematical Fluid Dynamics

Organized by Igor Kukavica & James Robinson

2:00 -- 6:15 p.m.    Room: LH 138

James C. Robinson, University of Warwick, United Kingdom

Mohammed Ziane, University of Southern California, USA

Yeo-Jin Chung, University of California, Irvine, USA

Michael Jolly, Indiana University, USA

Alain Schenkel, University of Helsinki, Finland

Steve Shkoller, University of California Davis, USA

Piotr Zgliczynski, Jagiellonian University, Poland

Misha Vishik, University of Texas, USA

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(16) Special Session on Topological Methods for Boundary Value Problems

Organized by Kunquan Lan & J. R. L. Webb

2:00 -- 4:00 p.m.    Room: LH 103

J. R. L. Webb, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom

Gheorghe Isac, Royal Military College of Canada, Canada

Wenying Feng, Trent University, Canada

Joshua Du, Kennesaw State University, USA

Ken Dye, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company

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(19) Special Session on Traveling Waves and Shock Waves

Organized by Xiao-biao Lin & Stephen Schecter

2:00 -- 6:15 p.m.    Room: LH 111

Alexander Tovbis, University of Central Florida, USA

Arnd Scheel, University of Minnesota, USA

Peter Szmolyan, Technical University of Vienna, Austria

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(25) Special Session on Continuous Media and Optimal Design

Organized by Pablo Pedregal

2:00 -- 5:15 p.m.    Room: MO 207

Y. Grabovsky, Temple University, USA

R. Lipton, Louisiana State University , USA

Irene Livshits, University of Central Arkansas, USA

Pablo. Pedregal, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain

Annie Raoult, Universit?Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France

Liya A. Zhornitskaya, University of Utah, USA

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(26) Special Session on Mathematical Neuroscience

Organized by Mary Pugh

2:00 -- 5:15 p.m.    Room: LH 141

Frances K. Skinner, Toronto Western Research Institute, Canada

Alla R. Borisyuk, Courant Institute, NYU, USA

Sharon M. Crook, University of Maine, USA

Andrew T. Sornborger, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, USA

Louis Tao, New York University, USA

David J. Pinto, Brown University, USA

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(28) Special Session on Difference Equations and its Applications

Organized by Youssef N. Raffoul

2:00 -- 4:00 p.m.    Room: LH 132

Ronald Mickens, Clark Atlanta University, USA

Jesus Rodriguez, North Carolina State University, USA

Hristo D. Voulov, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA

Cristian Toma, Politehnica University, Romania

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(30) Special Session on Stochastic Analysis and Applications

Organized by S. Sathananthan

2:00 -- 5:45 p.m.    Room: MO 206

D. Kannan, Univ. of Georgia, USA

Mahmoud Anabtawi, Tennessee State University, USA

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(31) Special Session on Computational and Theoretical Issues in Fluid Dynamics

Organized by Jie Shen & John Lopez

2:00 -- 5:45 p.m.    Room: LH 104

Robert Krasny, University of Michigan, USA

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(32) Special Session on A New Kind of Zeta Function: When Number Theory Meets Graph Theory

Organized by Audrey Terras

2:00 -- 5:15 p.m.    Room: MO 208

Bryan F. Clair, Saint Louis University, USA

Cristina M. Ballantine, Dartmouth College, USA

Jerome W. Hoffman, Louisiana State University, USA

Xiao-Song Lin, University of California, Riverside, USA

Iwao Sato & Hirobumi Mizuno, Oyama National College of Technology, Japan

Audrey Terras, University of California, San Diego, USA

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(34) Special Session on Delay Differential Equations

Organized by Hans-Otto Walther

2:00 -- 5:45 p.m.    Room: LH 134

Jianhong Wu, York University, Canada

Eduardo Liz, Universidad de Vigo, Spain

Ovide Arino, Universit?de Pau et des pays de l'Adour, France

Richard H. Fabiano, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA

Wei Feng, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, USA

Mih\'aly Pituk, University of Veszpr/'em, Hungary

Sjoerd M. Verduyn Lunel, Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands


Sunday, May 26, 2002, Morning

Invited Plenary Speakers

Chair: Peter Bates

8:00 -- 10:00 a.m.    Room: Cameron Auditorium

Marcelo Viana, IMPA, Brazil

Hiroshi Matano, University of Tokyo, Japan University of Tokyo, Japan

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(3) Mini Symposia on Singular Perturbations and Propagation of Waves

Organized by Didier Bresch

10:15 a.m. -- 12:30 p.m.    Room: LH 110

C.E. Wayne, Boston University, USA

Francois Castella, IRMAR, France

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 (7) Mini Symposia on Hamiltonian Systems

Organized by Amadeu Delshams & Antonio Giorgilli

10:15 a.m. -- 12:30 p.m.    Room: LH 139

Vladimir Rasvan, University of Craiova, Romania

Hans A. Koch, University of Texas, USA

Patricia Yanguas, Universidad Publica de Navarra, Spain

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(10) Mini Symposia on Mathematical Issues of Geophysical Fluid Dynamics

Organized by Michael Ghil & Shouhong Wang

10:15 a.m. -- 12:30 p.m.    Room: LH 143

Mohammed Ziane, University of Southern California, USA

Didier Bresch, LMA-UBP, Clermont-Ferrand, France

Chongsheng Cao, Los Alamos National Laboratry, USA

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(27) Mini Symposia on Recent Trends in Nonlinear Analysis

Organized by Paul Rabinowitz & Hiroshi Matano

10:15 a.m. -- 12:30 p.m.    Room: LH 111

Steve Cantrell, Miami University, USA

Monica Lazzo, University of Bari, Italy

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(1) Special Session on Mathematical Aspects of Wave Propagation

Organized by Boris Belinskiy

10:15 -- 11:15 a.m.    Room: LH 108

Min He, Kent State University Trumbull Campus, USA

Sergei A. Avdonin, University of Alaska at Fairbanks, USA

Boris Belinskiy, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA

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(8) Special Session on Analysis and Computation of Nonlinear Elliptic PDEs

Organized by Zhonghai Ding & Hossein Tehrani

10:15 a.m. -- 12:15 p.m.    Room: LH 134

David Costa, Univ of Nevada at Las Vegas, USA

Junping Shi, College of William and Mary, USA

Hussein Tehrani, University of Nevada Las Vegas, USA

Xudong Yao, Texas A&M University, USA

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(11) Special Session on Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Related Topics

Organized by Alain Haraux & Mitsuharu Otani

10:15 a.m. -- 12:15 p.m.    Room: LH 132

Goro Akagi, Waseda University, Japan

Jorge A. Esquivel-Avila, UAM-Azcapotzalco, Mexico

Isamu Fukuda, Kokushikan University, Japan

Takahiro Hashimoto, Ehime University, Japan

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(16) Special Session on Topological Methods for Boundary Value Problems

Organized by Kunquan Lan & J. R. L. Webb

10:15 a.m. -- 12:15 p.m.    Room: LH 103

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(26) Special Session on Mathematical Neuroscience

Organized by Mary Pugh

10:15 a.m. -- 12:15 p.m.    Room: LH 141

Steve Kunec, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

Timothy J. Lewis, New York University, USA

Duane Q. Nykamp, UCLA, USA

Kresimir Josic, Boston University, USA

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(35) Special Session on Transport Phenomena

Organized by L.Q. Wang

10:15 a.m. -- 11:45 p.m.    Room: LH 138

Liqiu Wang, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

C.B. Lee, Peking University, China

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(37) Special Session on Geometric Methods in Dynamical Systems

Organized by Dmitry V. Zenkov

10:15 a.m. -- 12:15 p.m.    Room: LH 104

Gregory M. Forest, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

Stephen Schecter, North Carolina State University, USA

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(1) Contributed Session on Mathematical Biology and Other Models

10:15 a.m. -- 11:55 a.m.    Room: LH 107                                                            Chair: Hongwei Chen

Hongwei Chen, Christopher Newport University, USA

John A. Leach, The University of Reading, United Kingdom

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(6) Contributed Session on General Dynamic Systems

10:15 a.m. -- 12:15 p.m.    Room: LH 131                                                            Chair: Mariusz MichtaChair: Mariusz Michta


Sunday, May 26, 2002, Afternoon

(3) Mini Symposia on Singular Perturbations and Propagation of Waves

Organized by Didier Bresch

2:00 -- 6:00 p.m.    Room: LH 110

Guy Métivier, IRMAR, France

Steve Schochet, Tel-Aviv University, Israel

Thierry Colin, MAB, Bordeaux, France

Mark Williams, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

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(10) Mini Symposia on Mathematical Issues of Geophysical Fluid Dynamics

Organized by Michael Ghil & Shouhong Wang

2:00 -- 5:15 p.m.    Room: LH 143

Eric R. Simonnet, University of California LA, USA

Balasubramanya Nadiga, Los Alamos National Lab, USA

Cheng Wang, Indiana University, USA

Changbin Hu, Indiana University, USA

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(27) Mini Symposia on Recent Trends in Nonlinear Analysis

Organized by Paul Rabinowitz & Hiroshi Matano

2:00 -- 5:15 p.m.    Room: LH 111

Liliane Maia, University of Brasilia, Brazil

Peter Polacik, University of Minnesota, USA

David Gao, Virginia Tech & Louisiana Tech, USA

Greg Spradlin, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, USA

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(1) Special Session on Mathematical Aspects of Wave Propagation

Organized by Boris Belinskiy

2:00 -- 4:00 p.m.    Room: LH 108

Scott W. Hansen, Iowa State University, USA

Sikimeti Ma'u, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Pedro M. Jordan, Naval Research Laboratory, USA

David L. Russell, Virginia Tech, USA

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(8) Special Session on Analysis and Computation of Nonlinear Elliptic PDEs

Organized by Zhonghai Ding & Hossein Tehrani

2:00 -- 5:15 p.m.    Room: LH 134

Jianxin Zhou, Texas A&M University, USA

Carolus J. Reinecke, Potchefstroom University, South Africa

Zhonghai Ding, University of Nevada Las Vegas, USA

Francois V. Heerden, Uath State University, USA

Anna Maria Candela, University of Bari, Italy

Addolorata Salvatore, University of Bari, Italy

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(11) Special Session on Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Related Topics

Organized by Alain Haraux & Mitsuharu Otani

2:00 -- 5:45 p.m.    Room: LH 132

Kei Matsuura, Waseda University, Japan

Frank Jochmann, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

Shirakawa Ken, Tokyo Denki University, Japan

Akitatsu Kubo, Fujita Health University, Japan

Yoshio Yamada, Waseda University, Japan

Noriaki Yamazaki, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan

Jun Kobayashi, Waseda University, Japan

Sergiu Aizicovici, Ohio University, USA

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(12) Special Session on Invariant Manifolds and Applications

Organized by Kresimir Josic

2:00 -- 6:15 p.m.    Room: LH 103

Lora Billings, Montclair State University, USA

R. E. Lee DeVille, Rensellaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

Kresimir Josic, Boston University, USA

Igor Kukavica, University of Southern California, USA

Weishi Liu, The University of Kansas, USA

C. Eugene Wayne, Boston University, USA

Chongchun Zeng, University of virginia, USA

Brian Hunt, University of Maryland, USA

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(13) Special Session on Smooth Dynamical Systems

Organized by Vadim Y. Kaloshin

2:00 -- 4:45 p.m.    Room: LH 131

Brian Hunt, University of Maryland, USA

Miaohua Jiang, Wake Forest University, USA

Waclaw Marzantowicz, A. Mickiewicz University of Poznan, Poland

Vadim Y. Kaloshin, MIT, USA

Leonid Koralov, Princeton University, USA

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(18) Special Session on Numerical Solutions of Evolution Equations

Organized by Yanping Lin & Tong Sun

2:00 -- 5:15 p.m.    Room: LH 141

Weizhang Huang, The University of Kansas, USA

Shuqing Ma, University of Alberta, Canada

Michael W. Smiley, Iowa State University, USA

Tong Sun, Bowling Green State University, USA

HongTao Yang, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA

Janos Turi, University of Texas, Dallas, USA

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(35) Special Session on Transport Phenomena

Organized by L.Q. Wang

2:00 -- 4:00 p.m.    Room: LH 138

Valery R. Nosov, National Polytechnical Institute of Mexico, Mexico

Mingtian Xu, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Tianliang Yang, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA

Liancun Zheng, Beijing University of Science and Technology, China

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(36) Special Session on Quasilinear Elliptic and Parabolic Differential Equations and their Applications

Organized by James Ward & Raul Manasevich

2:00 -- 5:15 p.m.    Room: LH 139

Peter W. Bates, Michigan State University, USA

A. Capietto, University of Torino, Italy

George C. Cosner, University of Miami, USA

Gieri Simonett, Vanderbilt University, USA

Tetsutaro Shibata, Hiroshima University, Japan

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(37) Special Session on Geometric Methods in Dynamical Systems

Organized by Dmitry V. Zenkov

2:00 -- 5:15 p.m.    Room: LH 104

Robert W. Ghrist, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Douglas S. Shafer, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA

Dmitry Zenkov, North Carolina State University, USA

Melinda E. Koelling, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

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(2) Contributed Session on General Differential Equations

2:00 -- 6:15p.m.    Room: LH 107                                                                           Chair: Russell L. Herman

Ruediger Landes, University of Oklahoma, USA


Monday, May 27, 2002, Morning

Invited Plenary Speakers

Chair: Wei Feng

8:00 -- 10:00 a.m.    Room: Cameron Auditorium

C.V. Pao, North Carolina State University, USA

Nikolas Papageorgiou, National Tech. University, Greece

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(3) Mini Symposia on Singular Perturbations and Propagation of Waves

Organized by Didier Bresch

10:15 a.m. -- 12:30 p.m.    Room: LH 110

Roger Temam, Orsay, France

Basil Nicolaenko, Arizona State University, USA

Alex Mahalov, Arizona State University, USA

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(10) Mini Symposia on Mathematical Issues of Geophysical Fluid Dynamics

Organized by Michael Ghil & Shouhong Wang

10:15 a.m. -- 11:45 a.m.    Room: LH 143              (Session Cancelled)

Shida Liu, Peking University, China

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(27) Mini Symposia on Recent Trends in Nonlinear Analysis

Organized by Paul Rabinowitz & Hiroshi Matano

10:15 a.m. -- 12:30 p.m.    Room: LH 111

Eiji Yanagida, Tohoku University, Japan

           Elves Silva, Universidade de Brasilia ,Brazil

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(1) Special Session on Mathematical Aspects of Wave Propagation

Organized by Boris Belinskiy

10:15 a.m. -- 11:45 a.m.    Room: LH 108

Peter Caithamer, US Military Academy, West Point, USA

C. Maeve McCarthy, Murray State University, USA

Eduard Tsekanovskii, Niagara University, USA

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(6) Special Session on Recent Developments in Mechanical Systems and Control

Organized by Manuel de Leon and Alberto Ibort

10:15 a.m. -- 12:15 p.m.    Room: LH 134

Jedrzej Sniatycki, University of Calgary, Canada

Kurt M. Ehlers, TMCC, Reno Nevada, USA

Jorge Cortés, University of Twente, USA

Ernesto A. Lacomba, University Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico

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(20) Special Session on Recent Progress in the Theory of Exponential Attractors

Organized by Alain Miranville

10:15 a.m. -- 12:15 p.m.    Room: LH 104

Jerry Chen, University of Delaware, USA

Le Dung, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA

Cedric Galusinski, MAB, Universite Bordeaux I, France

Qingfeng Ma, Indiana University, USA

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(33) Special Session on Statistical Description of the Dynamics of Large and Disordered Systems

Organized by Ilya Timofeyev & Peter R. Kramer

10:15 a.m. -- 12:15 p.m.    Room: LH 107

Joseph Biello, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

Peter Kramer, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

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(36) Special Session on Quasilinear Elliptic and Parabolic Differential Equations and their Applications

Organized by James Ward & Raul Manasevich

10:15 a.m. -- 12:15 p.m.    Room: LH 139

Guido Sweers, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

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(1) Contributed Session on Mathematical Biology and Other Models

10:15 a.m. -- 11:35 a.m.    Room: LH 138                                                            Chair: Guangwei FanChair: Guangwei Fan

Yuanwei Qi,   Dept. of Math., HKUST, Hong Kong

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(2) Contributed Session on General Differential Equations

10:15 a.m. -- 12:15 p.m.    Room: LH 141                                                            Chair: Dominic P. Clemence

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(5) Contributed Session on Delay Equations

10:15 -- 11:35 a.m.    Room: LH 131                                                            Chair: Guihua Fei

Xilin Fu, Shandong Normal University, China

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(6) Contributed Session on General Dynamic Systems

10:15 a.m. -- 12:15 p.m.    Room: LH 103                                                                Chair: Michael L. Frankel


Monday, May 27, 2002, Afternoon

(3) Mini Symposia on Singular Perturbations and Propagation of Waves

Organized by Didier Bresch

2:00 -- 3:30 p.m.    Room: LH 110

Eric Lombardi, INLN, Nice, France

          David Lannes, Universite Bordeaux I, France

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(6) Special Session on Recent Developments in Mechanical Systems and Control

Organized by Manuel de Leon and Alberto Ibort

2:00 --  3:30 p.m.    Room: LH 134

Alberto Ibort, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

Bavo Langerock, Ghent University, Belgium

Andrew D. Lewis, Queen's University, Canada

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(20) Special Session on Recent Progress in the Theory of Exponential Attractors

Organized by Alain Miranville

2:00 -- 5:15 p.m.    Room: LH 104

Alain Miranville, Universite de Poitiers, France

Basil Nicolaenko, Arizona State University, USA

V. Pata, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Dalibor Prazak, Charles University, Czech

Sergey Zelik, Universite de Poitiers, France

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(33) Special Session on Statistical Description of the Dynamics of Large and Disordered Systems

Organized by Ilya Timofeyev & Peter R. Kramer

2:00 -- 3:30 p.m.    Room: LH 107

Gregor Kovacic, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

David Cai, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, USA

Eric Vanden-Eijnden, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, USA

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(1) Contributed Session on Mathematical Biology and Other Models

2:00 -- 4:35 p.m.    Room: LH 138                                                            Chair: Mark E. Oxley

Mariano R. Arias, Universidad de Extremadura, Spain

Janet A. Best, Cornell University, USA

Torsten A. Lindström, University of Kalmar, Sweden

Debasis Mukherjee, Vivekananda College , Thakurpukur, India

Mark E. Oxley, Air Force Institute of Technology, USA

Jonathan T. Rowell, Cornell University, USA

Rafael Benitez, Universidad de Extremadura, Spain  

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(2) Contributed Session on General Differential Equations

2:00 -- 4:55 p.m.    Room: LH 141                                                                           Chair: Dariusz Bugajewski

Dominic P. Clemence, North Carolina A&T State University, USA

Valentino A. Simpao, Mathematical Consultant Services, USA

Daria Bugajewska, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland

Dariusz Bugajewski, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland  

Jerry Donato, Minnesota, USA

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(4) Contributed Session on Fluid Dynamics

2:00 -- 4:00 p.m.    Room: LH 143                                                            Chair: Tatsuyuki Nakaki

Zhaosheng Feng, Texas A&M University, USA

Tatsuyuki Nakaki, Kyushu University, Japan

G. S. Pai, University of North West, South Africa

Diego L. Rapoport, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina

Radu Dascaliuc, Indiana University, USA  

Naoaki Bekki, Nihon University, Japan

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(6) Contributed Session on General Dynamics Systems

2:00 -- 4:35 p.m.    Room: LH 103                                                                           Chair: Thad G. Dankel

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(7) Contributed Session on Periodic Solutions and Related Analysis

2:00 -- 3:20 p.m.    Room: LH 108                                                                           Chair: Pawel  Pilarczyk

Gaston N'Guerekata, Morgan State University, USA

Simone Paleari, Universita` di Milano Bicocca, Italy