Joint Mathematics Meetings Program by Day

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:21:36

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Associate secretaries:
Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu
James J Tattersall, MAA tat@providence.edu

Tuesday January 6, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
AMS Short Course on Trends in Optimization
Organizers:
Serkan Hosten, San Francisco State University
Jon Lee, IBM, T. J. Watson Research Center
Rekha Thomas, University of Washington
- 9:00 a.m.
  Nonlinear and semidefinite programming.
  Steve Wright*, University of Wisconsin
- 10:45 a.m.
  Approximation algorithms.
  David Shmoys*, Cornell University
- 2:00 p.m.
  Lattice basis reduction in optimization.
  Karen Aardal*, Georgia Institute of Technology
- 3:45 p.m.
  Algebraic methods in optimization.
  Bernd Sturmfels*, University of California at Berkeley

Tuesday January 6, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
MAA Short Course on the History of Mathematical Technologies: Exploring the Material Culture of Mathematics
Organizers:
Amy Shell-Gellasch, SIAM-Germany
Glenn Van Brummelen, Bennington College
- 9:00 a.m.
  What linkages have to do with mathematics.
  Daina Tainima*, Cornell University
- 10:15 a.m.
  Hands on demonstration with models.
- 11:00 a.m.
  Early computing devices.
  David Weil*, Computer Museum of America
- 12:30 p.m.
  Hands on demonstration with models.
- 2:30 p.m.
  Mathematical instruments at the fairs.
  Peggy Aldrich Kidwell*, National Museum of American History
- 4:15 p.m.
  Panel Discussion/Question and Answer period.
- 4:45 p.m.
  Closing statements.