Joint Mathematics Meetings Invited Addresses
Current as of Saturday, January 14, 2012 00:29:11
Joint Mathematics Meetings
John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center, Boston Marriott Hotel, and Boston Sheraton Hotel, Boston, MA
January 4-7, 2012 (Wednesday - Saturday)
Meeting #1077
Associate secretaries:
Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu
Gerard A Venema, MAA venema@calvin.edu
Links to abstracts will be available approximately one week (for sectional meetings) to four weeks (for national meetings) after the abstracts deadline.
Joint Invited Addresses
- Erik D. Demaine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Geometric puzzles: Algorithms and complexity. (AMS-MAA-SIAM Gerald and Judith Porter Public Lecture)
- Allen Knutson, Cornell University, A stratification of the space of all $k$-planes in ${\mathbb C}^n$. (AMS-MAA)
- Hee Oh, Brown University, Apollonian packings, fractal geometry, and dynamics on hyperbolic manifolds. (AMS-MAA)
AMS Invited Addresses
- George E. Andrews, Penn State University, Our challenges. (AMS Retiring Presidential Address)
- Bradley Efron, Stanford University, A 250-year argument: Belief, behavior, and the bootstrap. (AMS Josiah Willard Gibbs Lecture)
- Edward Frenkel, University of California Berkeley, Langlands program, trace formulas, and their geometrization, I. (AMS Colloquium Lectures: Lecture I)
- Edward Frenkel, University of California Berkeley, Langlands program, trace formulas, and their geometrization, II. (AMS Colloquium Lectures: Lecture II)
- Edward Frenkel, University of California Berkeley, Langlands program, trace formulas, and their geometrization, III. (AMS Colloquium Lectures: Lecture III)
- Larry Guth, University of Toronto, The polynomial method in combinatorial geometry.
- Assaf Naor, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, The Ribe program.
- Eric Rains, California Institute of Technology, Beyond $q$: Special functions on elliptic curves.
- Wilhelm Schlag, University of Chicago, Invariant manifolds and dispersive Hamiltonian evolution equations.
MAA Invited Addresses
- Steve Abbott, Middlebury College, Turning theorems into plays. (MAA Lecture for Students)
- Carolyn Gordon, Dartmouth College, The sound of geometry.
- Jennifer Quinn, University of Washington, Tacoma, Mathematics to DIE for: The battle between counting and matching.
- Seth M. Sullivant, North Carolina State University, Phylogenetic algebraic geometry.
- Rekha R. Thomas, University of Washington, Sum of squares polynomials in optimization.
- Mary Lou Zeeman, Bowdoin College, Mathematical challenges in climate and sustainability.