Invited Speaker Beverly H. West Professor Cornell University Ithaca, New York

Email:	bwest@math.cornell.edu
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Paper:	A New Look at the Airy Equation with Fences and Funnels
Talk:	Differential Equations: Quantitative Information from Qualitative Analysis (QuickTime movie - 1.5M)
Abstract:	Airy's equation x'' + xt = 0 has solutions that traditionally are found just as infinite series, giving no good information on the behavior of solutions as t approaches infinity, or minus infinity. Guided by PICTURES of the solutions, we can (rigorously) answer these questions, WITHOUT any analytic solving.