1998 SIAM Annual Meeting
Ninth SIAM Conference on Discrete Mathematics

Jointly held for the first time

Program-at-a-Glance

See the DM98 program and the AN98 program for links to individual sessions.

AN98 = Annual Meeting
DM98 = Discrete Mathematics Conference
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
AN98 DM98
Time Session/Room Session/Room
5:00 PM-7:00 PMRegistration
2nd Floor New College, Wilson Hall
Sunday, Morning, July 12
AN98 DM98
Time Session/Room Session/Room
8:00 AM-7:00 PM Registration
2nd Floor New College, Wilson Hall
8:30 AM-5:30 PMShort Course on The Mathematics of Financial Risk Management
1016 Wilson Hall
8:50 AM Welcoming Remarks
Derek Corneil, University of Toronto, Canada
Earth Science Center Auditorium
9:00 AM-5:00 PMShort Course on Introduction to Computational Genomics
1017 Wilson Hall
9:00 AM-10:00 AMIP1Frameproof Codes, Key Distribution Patterns, Group Testing Algorithms and Related Structures
Douglas Stinson, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Earth Science Center Auditorium
10:00 AM-10:30 AM Coffee for Short Course
Wilson Hall Cafeteria
Coffee
Wilson Hall Cafeteria
10:30 AM-12:30 PM Concurrent Sessions
(Sidney Smith Building)
MS1 Perfect Graphs
Room 2118
MS2 Logic and Random Structures
Room 2110
CP1 Algebraic Combinatorics
Room 1072
CP2 Scheduling
Room 1074
Sunday Afternoon, July 12
AN98 DM98
Time Session/Room Session/Room
12:30 PM-2:00 PM Lunch (Attendees will be on their own)
Poster Setup Begins Sidney Smith Hall, Ground Floor
1:00 PM-5:00 PMExhibit Hall opens
Wetmore Hall, New College
2:00 PM-3:00 PM IP2 Visibility Representations for Graphs
Sue Whitesides, School of Computer Science, McGill University, Canada
Earth Science Center Auditorium
3:00 PM-3:30 PM Coffee
Exhibit Hall
3:30 PM-5:30 PM Concurrent Sessions
(Sidney Smith Building)
MS3 Perfect Graphs (Part II of II)
Room 2118
MS4 Recent Developments on the Regularity Lemma
Room 2110
MS5 Enumerative Combinatorics and Related Applications
Room 1072
CP3 Ordered Sets
Room 1074
Sunday Evening, July 12
AN98 DM98
Time Session/Room Session/Room
5:30 PM-6:30 PM SIAG/DM "Meet & Greet Hour"
Wetmore Hall Lobby
6:00 PM-8:00 PM Welcoming Reception
Hart House Quadrangle
Monday Morning, July 13
AN98 DM98
Time Session/Room Session/Room
8:00 AM-4:00 PM Registration
2nd Floor New College, Wilson Hall
8:00-8:15 AM Welcoming Remarks
Max Gunzburger, Ken Jackson, and Roy Nicolaides
Convocation Hall
8:15 AM-9:00 AMIP1 The Pricing and Hedging of Derivatives
John C. Hull, Joseph L. Rotman School of Management,
University of Toronto, Canada
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
Convocation Hall
10:00 AM-10:30 AM Coffee
Exhibit Hall
10:30 AM-12:30 PM
Concurrent Sessions
(Sidney Smith Building)
MS1 Computational Finance
Room 1069
MS2 Validated Numerics
Room 1073
MS3 Computational Mixed Integer Programming
Room 1085
MS4 Fisheries
Room 1087
MS5 Inverse Problems at GE
Room 2102
MS6 Vortex Flow Computations
(Part I of II)

Room 2106
MS7 Parabolic Wave Equation Techniques (Part I of II)
Room 2108
MS8 High Resolution and Robust Interface Methods and Applications
Room 2117
MS9 Career Planning and Career Experiences
Room 2130
CP1 PDEs I
Room 1070
CP2 Applied Mathematics I
Room 1084
MS6 Parameterized Complexity
Room 2135
MS7 Efficient Scheduling Algorithms
(Part I of II)

Room 2110
MS8 Concentration of Measure and Isoperimetric Inequalities
Room 1072
CP4 Computational Biology
Room 1074
CP5 Graph Coloring
Room 2111
Monday Afternoon, July 13
AN98 DM98
Time Session/Room Session/Room
12:30 PM-2:00 PM Lunch
(Attendees will be on their own.)
2:00 PM-3:00 PMIP3 The Traveling Salesman Problem
William Cook, Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University
Earth Science Center Auditorium
2:00 PM-4:00 PM
Concurrent Sessions
(Sidney Smith Building)
MS10 Computational Methods for Option Pricing
Room 1069
MS11 Applications of Large-Scale Optimization
Room 1073
MS12 DNA Computing: Arrival of Biological Mathematics
Room 2127
MS13 Applications of Interval Computations
Room 1087
MS14 Vortex Flow Computations
(Part II of II)

Room 2106
MS15 Computational Methods and Applications to Physical Systems
Room 2102
MS16 Parabolic Wave Equation Techniques (Part II of II)
Room 2108
MS17 Mathematical Biology
Room 2130
MS18 Discrete Math/Modeling
Room 2128
MS22 Some Recent Developments in Matrix Methods in Computational Electromagnetics
Room 1088
CP3 PDEs II
Room 1070
CP4 Applied Mathematics II
Room 1084
CP5 Electromagnetics
Room 1086
3:00 PM-3:30 PM Coffee
Exhibit Hall
3:30 PM-5:30 PM
Concurrent Sessions
(Sidney Smith Building)
MS9 The Probabilistic Method
Room 2118
MS10 Efficient Scheduling Algorithms (Part II of II)
Room 2110
CP6 Networks
Room 1072
CP7 Combinatorial Designs
Room 1078
4:00 PM-4:30 PM Coffee
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
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
Convocation Hall
Monday Evening, July 13
AN98 DM98
Time Session/Room Session/Room
6:00 PM-6:30 PM SIAM Annual Business Meeting
Chair: John Guckenheimer
Convocation Hall
6:30 PM-7:30 PM SIAG/DM Business Meeting
Chair: Joel H. Spencer
Lash Miller Chemical Labs 159
6:30 PM-8:30 PM Poster Session/Pizza Party
Sidney Smith, Hangar Pub
Tuesday Morning, July 14
AN98 DM98
Time Session/Room Session/Room
8:00 AM-4:00 PM Registration
2nd Floor New College, Wilson Hall
8:15 AM-9:00 AMIP4 Models for the Evolution of the Term Structure of Interest Rates
David Heath, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University
Convocation Hall
9:00 AM-10:00 AMJP2 Discrete Mathematics as a Tool for Molecular Biology
Richard M. Karp, Department of Computer Science, University of Washington
Convocation Hall
9:30 AM-4:00 PMExhibit Hall opens
Wetmore Hall, New College
10:00 AM-10:30 PM Coffee
Exhibit Hall
10:30 AM-12:30 PM
Concurrent Sessions
(Sidney Smith Building)
MS19 PDEs and Applications
Room 2130
MS20 Mathematical Problems Arising in Financial Risk Management
Room 1088
MS21 Employment Opportunities for Applied Mathematicians in Biotechnology
Room 1073
MS22 Some Recent Developments in Matrix Methods in Computational Electromagnetics
This minisymposium has been moved from Tuesday to Monday, 2:00 PM-4:00 PM.
MS23 Analysis, Computation, and Control of MHD Flows (Part I of V)
Room 1087
MS24 Numerical Methods for Structured Matrices and Applications (Part I of II)
Room 2102
MS25 Honoring the 60th Birthday of Professor Richard A. Tapia (Part I of II)
Room 2106
MS26 Computational Differentiation and Verified Methods
Room 2108
MS27 Problems and Solutions in Special Functions
Room 2117
CP6 Numerical Analysis I
Room 1070
CP7 Applied Mathematics III
Room 1086
MS11 Well Structured Graphs and Algorithms
Room 2118
MS12 Random and Asymptotic Methods for Combinatorial Structures
Room 2110
MS13 Matroid Representation
Room 1072
CP8 Diverse Topics
Room 2111
CP9 Graph Theory I
Room 1078
Tuesday Afternoon, July 14
AN98 DM98
Time Session/Room Session/Room
12:30 PM-2:00 PM Lunch
(Attendees will be on their own.)
2:00 PM-3:00 PMIP4 Permanents, Pfaffian Orientations, and Even-Directed Circuits
Robin Thomas, School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology
Sidney Smith Building 2118
2:00 PM-4:00 PM
Concurrent Sessions
(Sidney Smith Building)
MS28 Analysis, Computation, and Control of MHD Flows (Part II of V)
Room 1087
MS29 Numerical Methods for Structured Matrices and Applications (Part II of II)
Room 2102
MS30 Mimetic Finite-Difference Methods for Partial Differential Equations
Room 1069
MS31 The 1998 Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM)
Room 1073
MS32 Honoring the 60th Birthday of Professor Richard A. Tapia (Part II of II)
Room 2106
MS33 Interactive Mathematical Biology's Role in Curriculum Reform
Room 1085
MS34 Applied Inverse Problems in PDE
Room 2108
CP8 Numerical Analysis II
Room 1070
CP9 Applied Mathematics IV
Room 1086
CP10 Education
Room 1088
3:00 PM-3:30 PM Coffee
Exhibit Hall
3:30 PM-5:30 PM
Concurrent Sessions
(Sidney Smith Building)
MS14 Computational Molecular Biology
Room 2118
MS15 Randomized Algorithms
Room 2110
MS16 Topological Graph Theory
Room 1072
CP10 Polyhedral Combinatorics
Room 1074
CP11 Trees and Enumeration
Room 2111
4:00 PM-4:30 PM Coffee
Exhibit Hall
4:30 PM-5:15 PMIP5 Statistical Aspects of Genetic Mapping in Human Families
Jurg Ott, Laboratory of Statistical Genetics, Rockefeller University; and Department of Genetics and Development, Columbia University
Convocation Hall
5:15 PM-6:00 PMIP6 Macroscopic Models of Superconductivity
S. Jonathan Chapman, Mathematical Institute, Oxford University, United Kingdom
Convocation Hall
Tuesday Evening, July 14
AN98 DM98
Time Session/Room Session/Room
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
Convocation Hall
7:15 PM-8:30 PM Community Reception
Medical Science Building Terrace
Wednesday Morning, July 15
AN98 DM98
Time Session/Room Session/Room
8:00 AM-4:00 PM Registration
2nd Floor New College, Wilson Hall
8:15 AM-9:00 AMIP7 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
Convocation Hall
9:00 AM-9:45 AMIP8 Fluid Dynamos: An Ongoing Challenge to Applied Mathematicians
Paul H. Roberts, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles
Convocation Hall
9:00 AM-10:00 AMIP5 Semidefinite Programming in Combinatorial Optimization
Michel X. Goemans, University of Louvain, Belgium and Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Earth Science Center Auditorium
9:30 AM-4:00 PM Exhibit Hall opens
Wetmore Hall, New College
9:45 AM-10:30 AM Coffee
Exhibit Hall
10:00 AM-10:30 AMCoffee
Exhibit Hall
10:30 AM-12:30 PM
Concurrent Sessions
(Sidney Smith Building)
MS35 Inhomogeneous Superconducting Materials: Dynamic and Static Problems
Room 2130
MS36 Computation of High Reynolds Number Flow Problems
Room 1073
MS37 Dynamo Theory (Part I of II)
Room 1085
MS38 Modeling Complex Systems with Lattice Boltzmann Methods and Lattice Gas Automata
Room 1087
MS39 Validated Solution of ODEs and DAEs (Part I of II)
Room 2102
MS40 Computational Science and Engineering (Part I of II)
Room 2106
MS41 Theoretical Population Biology: Examples at Multiple Scales
Room 2108
CP11 Numerical Analysis III
Room 1070
CP12 Finance
Room 1084
CP13 Optimization I
Room 1086
MS17 Discharging Methods
Room 2135
MS18 Approximation Algorithms
(Part I of II)

Room 2110
MS19 Number Theory and Formal Languages
Room 1072
CP12 Perfect Graphs and Intersection Families
Room 2125
CP13 Probabilistic Combinatorics
Room 2111
Wednesday Afternoon, July 15
AN98 DM98
Time Session/Room Session/Room
12:30 PM-2:00 PMLunch
(Attendees will be on their own.)
2:00 PM-3:00 PMIP6 Interaction Between Number Theory and Combinatorics
Vera T. Sós, Mathematical Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
Earth Science Center Auditorium
2:00 PM-4:00 PM Concurrent Sessions (Sidney Smith Building) MS42 Electromagnetic and Semiconductor Device Simulation for Microelectronic and Photonic Systems
Room 1069
MS43 Dynamo Theory (Part II of II)
Room 2127
MS44 Bifurcation Theory and Applications
Room 1073
MS45 Validated Solution of ODEs and DAEs (Part II of II)
Room 2102
MS46 Time Delays in Physiological and Neural Systems
Room 1087
MS47 Computational Science and Engineering (Part II of II)
Room 2106
MS48 The Integration of High-Performance Libraries with Applications
Room 2108
MS48a Quantifying Uncertainty and Predictability in Mathematical Models
Room 1084
CP14 Numerical Analysis IV
Room 1070
CP15 Optimization II
Room 1086
CP16 Computational Fluid Dynamics I
Room 1088
3:00 PM-4:30 PM Coffee
Exhibit Hall
3:30 PM-6:00 PM
Concurrent Sessions
(Sidney Smith Building)
MS20 Recent Advances in Radio Channel Assignment
Room 2118
MS21 Approximation Algorithms
(Part II of II)

Room 2110
CP14 Hamiltonicity
Room 1072
CP15 Graph Theory II
Room 2130
4:30 PM Exhibit Hall closes
4:30 PM-5:30 PM SS2 The von Neumann Lecture
On Some Descriptions of the Dynamics of Viscous Fluids
Olga A. Ladyzhenskaya, Steklov Mathematics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Convocation Hall
6:00 PM DM Conference adjourns
6:00 PM-7:00 PM Panel on Federal Programs in Applied Mathematics and Computing
Room: Koffler Pharmacy 108
Thursday Morning, July 16
AN98 DM98
Time Session/Room Session/Room
8:00 AM-4:00 PM Registration
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
Convocation Hall
9:00 AM-9:45 AM IP10 The Deconstruction of Calculus Reform
George E. Andrews, Department of Mathematics, Pennsylvania State University
Convocation Hall
9:45 AM-10:30 AM Coffee
Sidney Smith Terrace
10:30 AM-12:30 PM
Concurrent Sessions
(Sidney Smith Building)
MS49 Analysis, Computation, and Control of MHD Flows (Part III of V)
Room 2108
MS50 Least-Squares Finite, Element Methods: Theory and Applications (Part I of II)
Room 2118
MS51 Symbolic-Numeric Algorithms for Polynomials (Part I of II)
Room 1073
MS52 Graph Partitioning and Dynamic Load Balancing (Part I of II)
Room 1085
MS53 Verified Global Optimization
Room 2102
MS54 Student Paper Prize: Award and Presentation
Room 2117
MS55 Unstable Periodic Orbits in Biology: Identification and Control
Room 2106
CP17 Chaos
Room 1070
CP18 Approximation Theory
Room 2110
Thursday Afternoon, July 16
AN98 DM98
Time Session/Room Session/Room
12:30 PM-2:00 PMNetworking Picnic/Box Lunch
(SIAM members only. Others will be on their own.)
Quadrangle between Wilson & Wetmore Halls
2:00 PM-4:00 PM
Concurrent Sessions
(Sidney Smith Building)
MS56 Least-Squares Finite, Element Methods: Theory and Applications (Part II of II)
Room 2118
MS57 Constraint Processing Over Intervals
Room 2106
MS58 Where Mathematics Education Must Go and How It Can Get There
Room 1085
MS59 Mathematical Modeling in Physiology
Room 1087
MS60 Symbolic-Numeric Algorithms for Polynomials (Part II of II)
Room 1073
MS61 Accuracy and Stability in Numerical Linear Algebra
Room 2108
MS62 Scientific Sonification
CP19 Computational Fluid Dynamics II
Room 1088
CP20 Economics
Room 1070
CP21 Environment
Room 2110
4:00 PM-4:30 PM Coffee
Sidney Smith Terrace
4:30 PM-4:45 PM SS3 The Richard C. DiPrima Prize
Award and Presentation

The awardee is Bart De Schutter, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Convocation Hall
4:45 PM-5:45 PM SS4 The George Polya Prize
Award and Presentation

Percy Deift, Xin Zhou, and Peter Sarnak
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
Convocation Hall
Thursday Evening, July 16
AN98 DM98
Time Session/Room Session/Room
6:30 PM-8:30 PM SIAM Barbeque Party
Medical Science Building Terrace
Friday Morning, July 17
AN98 DM98
Time Session/Room Session/Room
8:00 AM-12:00 PM Registration
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
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
Convocation Hall
9:45 AM-10:30 AM Coffee
Sidney Smith Terrace
10:30 AM-12:30 PM Concurrent Sessions (Sidney Smith Building) MS63 Numerical Algorithms in Air Quality Modeling
Room 2127
MS64 Inverse Problems in Nondestructive Testing
Room 2106
MS65 Analysis, Computation, and Control of MHD Flows (Part IV of V)
Room 1087
MS66 Graph Partitioning and Dynamic Load Balancing (Part II of II)
Room 1085
MS67 Interior-Point Methods and Convex Programming (Part I of II)
Room 1069
MS68 Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications Throughout the Curriculum: Models of Innovation (Part I of II)
Room 2110
MS69 Frank and Brennie Morgan AMS-MAA-SIAM Prize for Outstanding Research in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Student
Room 2117
MS70 Waveform Relaxation Method for ODEs and PDEs
Room 2135
CP22 Numerical Linear Algebra
Room 1074
CP23 Biology I
Room 1084
Friday Afternoon, July 17
AN98 DM98
Time Session/Room Session/Room
12:30 PM-2:00 PM Lunch
(Attendees will be on their own.)
2:00 PM-4:00 PM
Concurrent Sessions
(Sidney Smith Building)
MS71 Running Large-Scale Environmental Models on High-Speed Computers
Room 1073
MS72 Inverse Problems in Nondestructive Evaluation
Room 1085
MS73 Analysis, Computation, and Control of MHD Flows (Part V of V)
Room 1087
MS74 Fictitious Domain Methods
Room 2102
MS75 Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations
Room 2106
MS76 Interior-Point Methods and General Nonlinear Programming (Part II of II)
Room 1069
MS77 Computation of Normal Forms and Analysis of Nonlinear Vibrations
Room 2108
MS78 Performance Analysis and Visualization Tools for Scientific Computation
Room 2117
CP24 Discrete Mathematics
Room 1070
CP25 Biology II
Room 1084
4:30 PM Meeting adjourns

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