University of North Texas

Mathematics Conference in Honor of

John Neuberger's 70th Birthday

Welcome to the home page for the University of North Texas mathematics conference in honor of the 70th birthday of John Neuberger. The conference will be held October 30-31, 2004. on the campus of the University of North Texas. All talks will be held in the Environmental Education, Science and Technology (ENV/EESAT) building, room 130. Talks will be held throughout the day on Saturday and on Sunday morning. A banquet is planned for Saturday night.

Those wishing to present a 20 minute talk should submit a title and abstract by October 1, 2004 (preferably by email) to Joseph Iaia at iaia@unt.edu. Otherwise, titles and abstracts can be sent to:

Department of Mathematics
University of North Texas
Denton, Texas 76203-1430

Phone: 940-565-2155.

Schedule

All talks will take place in the Environmental Education, Science and Technology (ENV/EESAT) building, room 130, on the campus of the University of North Texas. See the Directions section.

(Tentative) SCHEDULE OF SPEAKERS AND EVENTS

Saturday October 30

10:00-10:20 - Robert Renka - University of North Texas - Computational Differential Geometry and the Sobolev Gradient Method.

10:25-10:45 - Goong Chen - Texas A&M University - Rapid Fluctuations of Chaotic Maps on R^N.

10:50-11:10 - Sze-Bi Hsu - Tsing Hua University,Taiwan - A Diffusive Predator-Prey Model in Heterogeneous Environment.

11:15-11:35 - Jianxin Zhou - Texas A&M University - Gradient Methods in Banach Spaces.

11:40-12:00 - Nicholas Alikakos - University of North Texas - Triple Junctions in the Plane.

12:00-1:00 - LUNCH

1:00-1:20 - Alfonso Castro - Harvey Mudd College - Nonradial Solutions to Radial Problems.

1:25-1:45 - Jerry Goldstein - University of Memphis - Neuberger's Theorem and Higher Order Wentzell problems.

1:50-2:10 - Larry Harris - University of Kentucky - Markov's Polynomial Inequality for Banach Spaces.

2:15-2:35 - R.C. Brown - University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa - Continuous Invertibility of Minimal Sturm-Liouville Operators in Lebesgue Spaces.

2:40-3:00 - Homer Ellis - University of Colorado at Boulder - The Finslerian Geometry of Spinning Spheres.

3:05-3:25 - Walter Richardson - University of Texas at San Antonio - Sobolev Gradient Preconditioning and Stabilization for Convection-Diffusion Problems.

3:30-3:50 - Gordon Johnson - University of Houston - Addressing Regions.

3:55-4:15 - Ian Knowles - University of Alabama - Inverse Problems and Neuberger Gradients.

4:20-4:40 - Turab Lookman - Los Alamos National Laboratory - Sobolev Gradients: Application to Phase Separation and Ordering.

4:45-5:05 - Glenn Webb - Vanderbilt University - Evolution Equations with Logistic Nonlinearities.

5:10-5:30 - Tony Zettl - Northern Illinois University - Left-Definite Sturm-Liousville Problems.

5:35-5:55 - Zhaosheng Feng - University of Texas, Pan-American - Lie Symmetry Method for a Generalized Fisher Equation.

6:30-9:30 - Dinner Banquet at the Gateway Center, Ballroom 35, $15.

Sunday October 31 (Daylight Savings Time ends so we get an extra hour of sleep!)

7:30-7:50 - Victor Padron - University of Minnesota - An Evolutionary Stable Migration Strategy Under Logistic Growth.

7:55-8:15 - G. Edgar Parker - James Madison University - Pathology in Nonlinear Semigroups and the Edges of Tractability.

8:20-8:40 - Bartosz Protas - McMaster University, Ontario, Canada - Regularization of Adjoint Analysis of Multiscale PDE Systems.

8:45-9:05 - Coke Reed - Princeton University - Flows of Data.

9:10-9:30 - Mayumi Sakata - Generalized Eigenfunction Expansions for Spectral Multiplicity One and an Application in Analytic Number Theory.

9:35-9:55 - James Sochacki - James Madison University - A Modified Newton Method.

10:00-10:20 - John M. Neuberger - Northern Arizona University - Newton's Method for Semilinear Elliptic PDE.

10:25-10:45 - J.P. Holmes - Auburn University - Self adjoint Idempotents in C-star Algebras.

10:50-11:10 - Robert Kallman - University of North Texas - The Topology of the Group of Invertible, Measurable, Non-Singular Transformations of a Lebesgue Space.

10:50-11:10 - John Taylor - University of Colorado at Boulder - Chaos in Topological Spaces.

11:15-11:35 - George Soules - CCR West - Permanental Bounds

11:40-12:00 - Santiago Betelu - University of North Texas - Electrically Charged Droplets and Flexible Digital Displays.

12:00-?? Brunch at the Neubergers' home.

Directions

The University of North Texas is located in Denton, Texas which is approximately 35 miles north of Dallas and Fort Worth and is easily accessible from I-35. Included here are maps of Dallas-Fort Worth-Denton , and the University of North Texas campus .

From Dallas:

Take I-35E northbound and take exit 466B - North Texas Boulevard. Turn right onto North Texas Boulevard and proceed approximately one mile to Hickory Street. Turn right onto Hickory and proceed for two blocks on Hickory to Ave C. The ENV/EESAT building is located at the southwestern corner of Ave C and Hickory. Due to the fact that the conference is on a weekend, any of the several nearby parking lots may be used without a parking tag.

From Fort Worth:

Take I-35W northbound and take exit 85A - I-35E southbound. Take exit 466B - North Texas Boulevard. Turn left onto North Texas Boulevard and proceed approximately one mile to Hickory Street. Then follow the directions listed above in the "from Dallas" section.

From Oklahoma:

Take I-35 southbound. Near Denton the road forks into I-35E and I-35W. Proceed on I-35E southbound and take exit 466B - North Texas Boulevard. Turn left onto North Texas Boulevard and proceed approximately one mile to Hickory St. Then follow the directions listed above in the "from Dallas" section.

By Air:

Denton is approximately 30 miles north of Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) International Airport and about 40 miles north of Dallas Love Field Airport (served by Southwest Airlines).

For other information contact:
Joseph Iaia iaia@unt.edu

Last Update : September 16, 2004.