Bruce Ebanks, Organizer
Melissa Kuhl, Symposium Secretary
Scientific Committee:
Functional Equations Week in Huntington, West Virginia!
Division of Mathematics and Applied Sciences
Janos Aczél (Honorary Chairman)
Walter Benz
Roman Ger
Ludwig Reich
Abe Sklar
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
Monday Schedule (May 17)
9:00 - 9:15 Opening
First Morning Session Chairman: John Baker
9:20 - 9:45 Thomas Riedel: A lattice theoretic inequality, iterations and fixed points (Preliminary Report)
9:45 - 10:10 Jürg Rätz: On a problem of J. Sikorska
10:10 - 10:45 Coffee break
Second Morning Session
10:45 - 11:10 Roman Ger: Addition formulae with singularities
11:10 - 11:35 Henrik Stetkaer: d'Alembert functional equation on metabelian groups
11:35 - 12:00 Problems and Remarks
First Afternoon Session Chairman: Zoltan Daroczy
13:45 - 14:10 Abe Sklar: A note on the generalized translation equation
14:10 - 14:35 Hans-Heinrich Kairies: On Knopp, Behrend and Micolas type series
14:35 - 15:00 Problems and Remarks
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break
Second Afternoon Session
15:30 - 15:55 Janos Aczél: On a functional equation arising from a characterization of rank dependent expected utility I
15:55 - 16:20 Gyula Maksa: On a functional equation arising from a characterization of rank dependent expected utility II
16:20 - 16:45 Problems and Remarks
Tuesday Schedule (May 18)
9:00 - 9:15 Official greeting and proclamation by Jean Dean, Mayor of Huntington
First Morning Session Chairwoman: Jolan Targonski
9:20 - 10:10 Maciej Sablik: On a functional equation of Abel
10:10 - 10:45 Coffee break
Second Morning Session Chairman: Frantisek Neuman
10:45 - 11:15 John Baker: Distributions, functional and differential equations
11:15 - 11:45 Rick Mabry: Shades of the Cauchy functional equation and Segre functions
11:45 - 12:00 Problems and Remarks
First Afternoon Session Chairman: Hans-Heinrich Kairies
13:45 - 14:15 Jaroslav Smital: Distributional chaos almost everywhere
14:15 - 14:45 Kiko Kawamura: On the classification of self-similar sets
14:45 - 15:00 Problems and Remarks
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break
Second Afternoon Session Chairman: Jaroslav Smital
15:30 - 16:00 Marek Cezary Zdun: On iterative roots of homeomorphisms of the circle
16:00 - 16:30 Zbigniew Lesniak: On continuous flows of diffeomorphisms of the plane
16:30 - 16:45 Problems and Remarks
Wednesday Schedule (May 19)
7:30 - 9:00 Breakfast in the Memorial Student Center Cafeteria
9:30 Load bus in front of Memorial Student Center Cafeteria
10:00 Depart for Excursion to Beckley
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch at New River Park in Beckley
13:00 Arrive at Exhibition Coal Mine in Beckley
13:15 First Tour Group visits Coal Mine, Second Tour Group visits Museum and other facilities
14:00 Second Tour Group visits Coal Mine, First Tour Group visits Museum and other facilities
15:00 Depart Beckley for the New River Gorge
15:45 Arrive at New River Gorge Visitor Center
16:45 Depart New River Gorge Visitor Center
17:00 Arrive at Hawk's Nest State Park
18:00 - 19:00 Dinner at Hawk's Nest Conference Room
21:00 Return to Huntington
Thursday Schedule (May 20)
First Morning Session Chairman: Mark Taylor
9:00 - 9:30 Thomas Davison: On the equation
f(xy) +f(x+y) =f(xy+x) +f(y)
9:30 - 10:00 Jaime-Luis Garcia-Roig: On a conditional Cauchy functional equation involving cubes of finite fields: the case of characteristic 2
10:00 - 10:15 Problems and Remarks
10:15 - 10:45 Coffee Break
Second Morning Session Chairman: Thomas Davison
10:45 - 11:15 Che Tat Ng: The Jensen equation on groups
f(xy) + f(y-1x) = 2f(x)
11:15 - 11:45 Bruce Ebanks: On a functional equation of Heuvers for the logarithm
11:45 - 12:00 Problems and Remarks
First Afternoon Session Chairman: Jens Schwaiger
13:45 - 14:15 Ludwig Reich: Aczél-Jabotinsky differential equations and Scheinberg's normal forms of formal series
14:15 - 14:45 Konrad Heuvers: One-to-one analytic straight line and circle preserving mappings of C to itself
14:45 - 15:00 Problems and Remarks
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break
Second Afternoon Session Chairman: Marek Zdun
15:30 - 16:00 Witold Jarczyk: On a linear iterative equation of infinite order
16:00 - 16:30 Janusz Morawiec: On the existence of irregular solutions
of the two-coefficient dilation equation
16:30 - 17:00 Weinian Zhang: Nonlinear invariant curves for a functional differential equation
Friday Schedule (May 21)
Special Session
Chairman: Detlef Gronau
9:00 - 10:15 Detlef Gronau: Let's do history of functional equations
10:15 - 10:45 Coffee Break
Second Morning Session Chairman: Janusz Matkowski
10:45 - 11:15 Nicole Brillouet-Belluot: On a functional equation of B. Ebanks - II
11:15 - 11:45 Zoltán Boros: Characterization of composite linearity by a system of translation type equations
11:45 - 12:00 Problems and Remarks
First Afternoon Session Chairwoman: Nicole Brillouet-Belluot
13:45 - 14:15 PL. Kannappan: On quadratic functional equation
14:15 - 14:45 Prasanna Sahoo: A property of quadratic polynomials
14:45 -- 15:00 Problems and Remarks
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break
Second Afternoon Session Chairman: PL. Kannappan
15:30 - 16:00 Walter Benz: On a functional equation of distance preservance in Hilbert spaces
16:00 - 16:30 Jens Schwaiger: Some applications of functional equations in astronomy
16:30 - 16:45 Problems and Remarks
Saturday Schedule (May 22)
First Morning Session Chairman: Che Tat Ng
9:00 - 9:30 Zoltán Daróczy: On a class of mean values
9:30 - 10:00 Laszlo Szekelyhidi: Remark on mean-value type functional equations
10:00 - 10:15 Problems and Remarks
10:15 - 10:45 Coffee Break
Second Morning Session Chairman: Gyula Maksa
10:45 - 11:15 Janusz Matkowski: On invariant means
11:15 - 11:45 Kazimierz Nikodem: Mazur's criterion for continuity of convex set-valued functions
11:45 - 12:00 Problems and Remarks
First Afternoon Session Chairman: Henrik Stetkaer
13:45 - 14:15 Frantisek Neuman: Decomposition of functions and matrices
14:15 - 14:45 Antal Járai: Measurability implies continuity for solutions of functional equations - even with few variables
14:45 - 15:00 Problems and Remarks
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break
Second Afternoon Session Chairman: Antal Járai
15:30 - 16:00 Mark Taylor: GEB derived equations
16:00 - 16:30 Peter Friis: d'Alembert's and Wilson's functional equations on nilpotent Lie groups
16:30 - 16:45 Problems and Remarks
17:00 Closing
