1998 SIAM Annual Meeting

Meeting Program

CP = Contributed Presentations
IP = Invited Presentations
JP = Joint Plenary Presentations
MS = Minisymposia
SS = Special Sessions
Saturday Evening
Sunday Morning
Sunday Afternoon
Sunday Evening
Monday Morning
Monday Afternoon
Monday Evening
Tuesday Morning
Tuesday Afternoon
Tuesday Evening
Wednesday Morning
Wednesday Afternoon
Thursday Morning
Thursday Afternoon
Thursday Evening
Friday Morning
Friday Afternoon

Saturday Evening, July 11

5:00 PM-7:00 PM Registration
Room: 2nd Floor New College, Wilson Hall

Sunday Morning, July 12

8:00 AM-7:00 PM Registration
Room: 2nd Floor New College, Wilson Hall

8:30 AM-5:30 PM
Short Course on The Mathematics of Financial Risk Management
Room: 1016 Wilson Hall

9:00 AM-5:00 PM
Short Course on Introduction to Computational Genomics
Room: 1017 Wilson Hall

Sunday Afternoon, July 12

1:00 PM-5:00 PM
Exhibit Hall opens
Room: Wetmore Hall, New College

Sunday Evening, July 12

6:00 PM-8:00 PM
Welcoming Reception
Room: Hart House Quadrangle

Monday Morning, July 13

8:00 AM-4:00 PM Registration
Room: 2nd Floor New College, Wilson Hall

8:00 AM-8:15 AM Welcoming Remarks
Max Gunzburger, Ken Jackson, and Roy Nicolaides
Convocation Hall

8:15 AM-9:00 AM
IP1 The Pricing and Hedging of Derivatives
John C. Hull, Joseph L. Rotman School of Management,
University of Toronto, Canada

Room: Convocation Hall

9:00 AM-10:00 AM
JP1 Graph Algorithms Via Spectral Techniques
Noga Alon, Department of Mathematics, Tel-Aviv University, Israel and
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

Room: Convocation Hall

10:00 AM-10:30 AM Coffee
Room: Exhibit Hall

10:30 AM-12:30 PM Concurrent Sessions (Sidney Smith Building)

Monday Afternoon, July 13

12:30 PM-2:00 PM Lunch (Attendees will be on their own.)

2:00 PM-4:00 PM Concurrent Sessions (Sidney Smith Building)

4:00 PM-4:30 PM Coffee
Room: Exhibit Hall

4:30 PM-5:15 PM
IP2 A Review of Some Recent Advances in the Finite Difference Time Domain Technique for Solving Maxwell's Equations in Complex Structures
Raj Mittra, Electromagnetic Communication Research Laboratory,
Pennsylvania State University

Room: Convocation Hall

5:15 PM-6:00 PM
IP3 New Trends in Partial Differential Equations and in the Calculus of Variations, and Applications to Problems in Materials Science
Irene Fonseca, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University
Room: Convocation Hall

Monday Evening, July 13

6:00 PM-6:30 PM
SIAM Annual Business Meeting
Chair: John Guckenheimer
Room: Convocation Hall

6:30 PM-8:30 PM Poster Session/Pizza Party
Room: Sidney Smith Building, Hangar Pub

Tuesday Morning, July 14

8:00 AM-4:00 PM Registration
Room: 2nd Floor New College, Wilson Hall

8:15 AM-9:00 AM
IP4 Models for the Evolution of the Term Structure of Interest Rates
David Heath, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University
Room: Convocation Hall

9:00 AM-10:00 AM
JP2 Discrete Mathematics as a Tool for Molecular Biology
Richard M. Karp, Department of Computer Science, University of Washington
Room: Convocation Hall

9:30 AM-4:00 PM
Exhibit Hall opens
Room: Wetmore Hall, New College

10:00 AM-10:30 PM Coffee
Room: Exhibit Hall

10:30 AM-12:30 PM Concurrent Sessions (Sidney Smith Building)

Tuesday Afternoon, July 14

12:30 PM-2:00 PM Lunch (Attendees will be on their own.)

2:00 PM-4:00 PM Concurrent Sessions (Sidney Smith Building)

4:00 PM-4:30 PM Coffee
Room: Exhibit Hall

4:30 PM-5:15 PM
IP5 Statistical Aspects of Genetic Mapping in Human Families
Jurg Ott, Laboratory of Statistical Genetics, Rockefeller University;
and Department of Genetics and Development, Columbia University

Room: Convocation Hall

5:15 PM-6:00 PM
IP6 Macroscopic Models of Superconductivity
S. Jonathan Chapman, Mathematical Institute, Oxford University, United Kingdom
Room: Convocation Hall

Tuesday Evening, July 14

6:15 PM-7:15 PM
SS1 The I. E. Block Community Lecture
Mathematics in Finance
Robert C. Merton, George Fisher Baker Professor of Business Administration
Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University

Room: Convocation Hall

7:15 PM-8:30 PM Community Reception
Room: Medical Science Building Terrace

Wednesday Morning, July 15

8:00 AM-4:00 PM Registration
Room: 2nd Floor New College, Wilson Hall

8:15 AM-9:00 AM
IP7 A Mixed Integer Program for Deducing Objective Models of Drug Receptor Sites from Experimental Binding Data
Gordon M. Crippen, College of Pharmacy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Room: Convocation Hall

9:00 AM-9:45 AM
IP8 Fluid Dynamos: An Ongoing Challenge to Applied Mathematicians
Paul H. Roberts, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles
Room: Convocation Hall

9:30 AM-4:00 PM
Exhibit Hall opens
Wetmore Hall, New College

9:45 AM-10:30 AM Coffee
Room: Exhibit Hall

10:30 AM-12:30 PM Concurrent Sessions (Sidney Smith Building)

Wednesday Afternoon, July 15

12:30 PM-2:00 PM Lunch (Attendees will be on their own.)

2:00 PM-4:00 PM Concurrent Sessions (Sidney Smith Building)

3:00 PM-4:30 PM Coffee
Room: Exhibit Hall

4:30 PM Exhibit Hall closes

4:30 PM-5:30 PM
SS2 The John von Neumann Lecture
On Some Descriptions of the Dynamics of Viscous Fluids
Olga A. Ladyzhenskaya, Steklov Mathematics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Room: Convocation Hall

6:00 PM-7:00 PM
Panel on Federal Programs in Applied Mathematics and Computing
Room: Koffler Pharmacy 108

Thursday Morning, July 16

8:00 AM-4:00 PM Registration
Room: 2nd Floor New College, Wilson Hall

8:15 AM-9:00 AM
IP9 Where Mathematics Education Must Go and How It Can Get There
J. Jerry Uhl, Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Room: Convocation Hall

9:00 AM-9:45 AM
IP10 The Deconstruction of Calculus Reform
George E. Andrews, Department of Mathematics, Pennsylvania State University
Room: Convocation Hall

9:45 AM-10:30 AM Coffee
Room: Sidney Smith Terrace

10:30 AM-12:30 PM Concurrent Sessions (Sidney Smith Building)

Thursday Afternoon, July 16

12:30 PM-2:00 PM Networking Picnic/Box Lunch
(SIAM members only. Others will be on their own.)
Location: Quadrangle between Wilson & Wetmore Halls

2:00 PM-4:00 PM Concurrent Sessions (Sidney Smith Building)

4:00 PM-4:30 PM Coffee
Room: Sidney Smith Terrace

4:30 PM-4:45 PM
SS3 The Richard C. DiPrima Prize
The awardee is Bart De Schutter, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.
Room: Convocation Hall

4:45 PM-5:45 PM
SS4 The George Polya Prize
Award and Presentation
Percy Deift, Xin Zhou, and Peter Sarnak
Room: Convocation Hall

5:45 PM-6:30 PM
SS5 The W.T. and Idalia Reid Prize
On the Control of Navier Stokes Equations
Jacques-Louis Lions, Collège de France, France
Room: Convocation Hall

Thursday Evening, July 16

6:30 PM-8:30 PM
SIAM Barbeque Party
Location: Medical Science Building Terrace

Friday Morning, July 17

8:00 AM-12:00 PM Registration
Room: 2nd Floor New College, Wilson Hall

8:15 AM-9:00 AM
IP11 Numerical Modeling as a Test Bed for NDT Methods
William Lord, Institute for Physical Research and Technology, Iowa State University
Room: Convocation Hall

9:00 AM-9:45 AM
IP12 Global Atmospheric Modeling for Climate Simulation and Weather Prediction
David L. Williamson, Climate Modeling Section, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Room: Convocation Hall

9:45 AM-10:30 AM Coffee
Room: Sidney Smith Terrace

10:30 AM-12:30 PM Concurrent Sessions (Sidney Smith Building)

Friday Afternoon, July 17

12:30 PM-2:00 PM Lunch (Attendees will be on their own.)

2:00 PM-4:00 PM Concurrent Sessions (Sidney Smith Building)

4:30 PM Meeting adjourns

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TJF Created: 3/17/98, MMD Updated: 5/29/98