Joint Mathematics Meetings Timetable

Current as of Saturday, January 13, 2007 12:54:16


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Joint Mathematics Meetings
New Orleans, LA, January 5-8, 2007 (Friday - Monday)
Meeting #1023

Associate secretaries:
Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu
James J Tattersall, MAA tat@providence.edu
Unscheduled
Wednesday January 3, 2007
Thursday January 4, 2007
Friday January 5, 2007
Saturday January 6, 2007
Sunday January 7, 2007
Monday January 8, 2007

Unscheduled
Unscheduled AMS Invited Address
Unscheduled AMS Invited Address
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Wednesday January 3, 2007
8:00 a.m.-4:45 p.m. AMS Short Course on Aspects of Statistical Learning, I
8:00 a.m.-4:45 p.m. MAA Short Course on Leonhard Euler: Looking Back after 300 Years, I
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Thursday January 4, 2007
8:00 a.m.-6:30 p.m. AMS Department Chairs Workshop
8:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. MAA Board of Governors
9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. AMS Short Course on Aspects of Statistical Learning, II
9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. MAA Short Course on Leonhard Euler: Looking Back after 300 Years, II
1:30 p.m.-10:00 p.m. AMS Council
3:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. Joint Meetings Registration
Full registration will be conducted from 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Badge/program pickup for those registered in advance will be open until 8:00 p.m.
5:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. College Board-Committee on Mutual Concerns
5:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. College Board-MAA Committee on Mutual Concerns
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Friday January 5, 2007
7:30 a.m.-6:00 p.m. Joint Meetings Registration
Full registration will be conducted from 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Badge/program pickup for those registered in advance will be open until 6:00 p.m.
7:30 a.m.-6:00 p.m. Employment Center
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. AMS-MAA Special Session on Math Circles and Similar Programs for Students and Teachers, I
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. AMS-ASL Special Session on Logical Methods in Computational Mathematics, I
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. AMS-AWM Special Session on Geometric Group Theory, I
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. AMS Special Session on Fixed Point Theory, Dynamics, and Group Theory, I
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. AMS Special Session on Knots, 3-Manifolds, and Their Invariants, I
8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m. AMS Special Session on Arrangements and Related Topics, I
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. AMS Special Session on Coding Theory and Its Applications, I
8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m. AMS Special Session on Cohomology and Representation Theory, I
8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m. AMS Special Session on Experimental Mathematics in Action, I
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. AMS Special Session on Financial Mathematics, I
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. AMS Session on Partial Differential Equations, I
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. AMS Session on Algebra and Number Theory, I
8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m. AMS Session on Algebra and Group Theory, I
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. MAA Session on College Algebra: Concepts, Data, and Models, I
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. MAA Session on Content Courses for the Mathematical Education of Middle School Teachers, I
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. MAA Session on Euler in the Classroom
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. MAA Session on Integrating Mathematics and Biology in Undergraduate Education, I
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. MAA Session on Teaching Mathematics Courses Online
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. MAA Session on Use of Technology in Abstract Algebra and Number Theory
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. MAA General Contributed Paper Session, I
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. SIAM Minisymposium on Phyllotaxis
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. SIAM Minisymposium on Mathematics and Materials Science
8:30 a.m.-10:55 a.m. AMS Special Session on Recent Developments in Analysis and Numerics of Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Problems, I
8:40 a.m.-10:55 a.m. MAA Session on Innovative and Effective Ways to Teach Linear Algebra, I
9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. MAA Minicourse \#12: Part A
Combinatorially thinking.
9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. MAA Minicourse \#1: Part A
Introduction to the mathematics of modern cryptography.
9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. MAA Minicourse \#7: Part A
Directing undergraduate research.
9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Student Hospitality Center
9:30 a.m.-10:55 a.m. AMS Special Presentation
Report on the findings of the 2005 CBMS survey of undergraduate mathematical and statistical sciences in the U.S.
9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m. MAA-Project NExT-YMN Panel Discussion
Keeping your research alive.
9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m. MAA Special Presentation
National Science Foundation programs supporting learning and teaching in the mathematical sciences.
9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m. SIGMAA on the Teaching of Advanced High School Mathematics Panel Discussion
What mathematical content should future mathematics majors learn while in high school?
10:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. AMS Special Presentation
Who wants to be a mathematician.
10:05 a.m.-10:55 a.m. AMS Invited Address
Andras Vasy
Diffraction by edges.
11:10 a.m.-12:00 p.m. AMS-MAA Invited Address
Bryna R. Kra
Dynamics of integer sets.
12:15 p.m.-5:30 p.m. Exhibits and Book Sales
1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m. AMS Colloquium Lecture: Lecture I
Andrei Okounkov
Limit shapes, real and imagined, I: Random surfaces around us.
2:15 p.m.-3:05 p.m. MAA Invited Address
Penny Haxell
Forming committees.
2:15 p.m.-7:00 p.m. AMS-MAA Special Session on Math Circles and Similar Programs for Students and Teachers, II
2:15 p.m.-4:40 p.m. AMS-ASL Special Session on Logical Methods in Computational Mathematics, II
2:15 p.m.-6:10 p.m. AMS-AWM Special Session on Geometric Group Theory, II
2:15 p.m.-6:10 p.m. AMS Special Session on Fixed Point Theory, Dynamics, and Group Theory, II
2:15 p.m.-6:10 p.m. AMS Special Session on Knots, 3-Manifolds, and Their Invariants, II
2:15 p.m.-6:05 p.m. AMS Special Session on Arrangements and Related Topics, II
2:15 p.m.-5:40 p.m. AMS Special Session on Recent Developments in Analysis and Numerics of Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Problems, II
2:15 p.m.-6:10 p.m. AMS Special Session on Coding Theory and Its Applications, II
2:15 p.m.-6:05 p.m. AMS Special Session on Cohomology and Representation Theory, II
2:15 p.m.-6:05 p.m. AMS Special Session on Experimental Mathematics in Action, II
2:15 p.m.-5:10 p.m. AMS Special Session on Financial Mathematics, II
2:15 p.m.-4:15 p.m. MAA Minicourse \#13: Part A
Teaching a course in the history of mathematics.
2:15 p.m.-4:15 p.m. MAA Minicourse \#2: Part A
Some deterministic models in mathematical biology and their simulations.
2:15 p.m.-4:15 p.m. MAA Minicourse \#8: Part A
Mathematics and geometry of voting.
2:15 p.m.-6:10 p.m. AMS Session on Algebra and Group Theory, II
2:15 p.m.-5:55 p.m. AMS Session on Partial Differential Equations, II
2:15 p.m.-5:55 p.m. AMS Session on Algebra and Number Theory, II
2:15 p.m.-6:10 p.m. MAA Session on Chaos and Fractals
2:15 p.m.-5:10 p.m. MAA Session on Content Courses for the Mathematical Education of Middle School Teachers, II
2:15 p.m.-3:40 p.m. MAA Session on Getting Students to Discuss and to Write about Mathematics, I
2:15 p.m.-5:50 p.m. MAA Session on Entertaining with Math
2:15 p.m.-6:00 p.m. MAA Session on Research and Other Mathematical Experiences for Students Outside the Classroom
2:15 p.m.-5:55 p.m. MAA General Contributed Paper Session, II
2:15 p.m.-5:40 p.m. SIAM Minisymposium on Recent Advances in Computational Scattering
2:15 p.m.-5:55 p.m. SIAM Minisymposium on Environmental Modeling: Challenges in Practical Applications and in Teaching
2:15 p.m.-4:50 p.m. Math on the Web, I
2:15 p.m.-4:15 p.m. Project NExT-YMN Poster Session
2:15 p.m.-3:35 p.m. MAA Committee on the Profession Panel Discussion
Ethics in the mathematical sciences.
2:15 p.m.-3:35 p.m. MAA Committee on the Undergraduate Program in Mathematics and the SIGMAA on Statistics Education Panel Discussion
Preparing majors for the nonacademic workforce: Projects and internships in applied mathematics and statistics.
2:15 p.m.-3:35 p.m. MAA Panel Discussion
The role of assessment in helping students learn.
2:15 p.m.-3:40 p.m. AWM Panel Discussion
Women advancing to leadership: When and how.
2:20 p.m.-5:35 p.m. MAA Session on Mathlets for Teaching and Learning Mathematics
2:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. MAA Section Officers
3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Project NExT Panel Discussion
Becoming a leader in your department.
3:40 p.m.-4:30 p.m. MAA Invited Address
Bradley Efron
Baseball, Shakespeare, and modern statistical theory.
3:45 p.m.-4:15 p.m. AWM Business Meeting
3:50 p.m.-5:40 p.m. SIGMAA on the History of Mathematics Panel Discussion
The practice of math history.
3:50 p.m.-5:40 p.m. MAA Study Abroad Tours Subcommittee Panel Discussion
Mathematics and mathematicians in emerging nations.
3:50 p.m.-5:10 p.m. MAA Committee on Graduate Students-YMN Panel Discussion
How to interview for a job in the mathematical sciences.
4:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m. SIGMAA on Environmental Mathematics Annual Meeting and Guest Lecture
4:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Welcome Reception for Undergraduate Students
4:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m. AMS Committee on the Profession Presentation
Katrina and its aftermath: Institutional survival in New Orelans since the storm.
4:45 p.m.-6:45 p.m. MAA Minicourse \#14: Part A
Contemporary college algebra: A refocused college algebra course.
4:45 p.m.-6:45 p.m. MAA Minicourse \#3: Part A
A tool to implement quantitative literacy (QL): Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum.
4:45 p.m.-6:45 p.m. MAA Minicourse \#9: Part A
Evaluating student presentations in mathematics.
5:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. MAA Information Session
Current issues in actuarial science education.
5:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m. Reception for Graduate Students and First-Time Participants
The AMS and MAA warmly invite these special groups to meet the leadership of your sponsoring organizations.
5:30 p.m.-8:00 p.m. Mathematical Institutes Open House
6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. SIGMAA on the History of Mathematics Annual Meeting and Guest Lecture
6:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women Open House Reunion
6:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m. Tulane University Department of Mathematics Reception
7:00 p.m.-11:00 p.m. Carleton Summer Mathematics Program for Women Reunion
8:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m. AMS Josiah Willard Gibbs Lecture
Peter D. Lax
Mathematics and physics.
9:30 p.m.-11:00 p.m. AWM Reception
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Saturday January 6, 2007
7:00 a.m.-8:30 a.m. MAA Department Liaisons Breakfast Meeting
7:00 a.m.-7:30 p.m. Employment Center
7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Joint Meetings Registration
8:00 a.m.-11:55 a.m. AMS-MAA-SIAM Special Session on Research in Mathematics by Undergraduates, I
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. AMS Special Session on Initial- and Boundary-Value Problems, Solvability, and Stability for some Nonlinear PDEs: Theorem, Computation, and Application, I
8:00 a.m.-11:55 a.m. AMS Special Session on Invariant Theory, I
8:00 a.m.-11:55 a.m. AMS Special Session on Mathematical Techniques in Musical Analysis, I
8:00 a.m.-11:55 a.m. AMS Special Session on Radon Transforms, Convex Geometry, and Geometric Analysis, I
8:00 a.m.-11:45 a.m. AMS Special Session on Calculus of Variations and Nonlinear PDEs: Theory and Applications, I
8:00 a.m.-11:40 a.m. AMS Special Session on Microlocal Analysis and Singular Spaces, I
8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m. AMS Special Session on Cohomology and Representation Theory, III
8:00 a.m.-11:45 a.m. AMS Special Session on Dynamic Programming, I
8:00 a.m.-11:55 a.m. AMS Special Session on Financial Mathematics, III
8:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m. MAA Minicourse \#4: Part A
Creating visual mathematics applets using flash programming.
8:00 a.m.-11:55 a.m. AMS Session on Analysis and Ordinary Differential Equations, I
8:00 a.m.-11:55 a.m. AMS Session on Dynamical Systems
8:00 a.m.-11:40 a.m. AMS Session on Geometry and Topology, I
8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m. AMS Session on Applications of Mathematics, I
8:00 a.m.-11:55 a.m. AMS Session on Algebra and Number Theory, III
8:00 a.m.-11:55 a.m. MAA Session on Mathematics and Biology 2010: Building Connections
8:00 a.m.-11:55 a.m. MAA Session on Getting Students to Discuss and to Write about Mathematics, II
8:00 a.m.-11:55 a.m. MAA Session on Philosophy of Mathematics, I
8:00 a.m.-11:55 a.m. MAA Session on Innovative and Effective Ways to Teach Linear Algebra, II
8:00 a.m.-11:55 a.m. MAA Session on Research on the Teaching and Learning of Undergraduate Mathematics
8:00 a.m.-11:55 a.m. MAA General Contributed Paper Session, III
8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m. SIAM Minisymposium on Mathematical Modeling of Complex Systems in Biology, I
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. SIAM Minisymposium on Structure and Topology in Graph Theory, I
8:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m. SIGMAA Officers Meeting
8:30 a.m.-11:55 a.m. AMS Special Session on Free Discontinuity Problems: From Image Processing to Materials Science
8:30 a.m.-9:50 a.m. MAA Panel Discussion
Euler's continuing influence.
8:30 a.m.-9:50 a.m. Project NExT Panel Discussion
Getting your first book published.
9:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m. AWM Emmy Noether Lecture
Karen Vogtmann
Automorphisms of free groups, outer space, and beyond.
9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. MAA Minicourse \#10: Part A
A beginner's guide to the scholarship of teaching and learning in mathematics.
9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. MAA Minicourse \#16: Part A
More music and mathematics.
9:00 a.m.-11:55 a.m. MAA Session on Reconceptualizing Content Courses for Prospective High School Mathematics Teachers, I
9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. MAA Poster Session on MAA/Tensor Foundation Projects which Increase the Participation of Women in Mathematics
9:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m. Joint AMS-MAA Committee on Teaching Assistants and Part-Time Instructors Panel Discussion
Strategic thinking about nonladder faculty.
9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Student Hospitality Center
9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Exhibits and Book Sales
10:00 a.m.-3:35 p.m. Math on the Web, II
10:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m. MAA Panel Discussion
Using student portfolios for assessment.
10:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m. MAA Committee on Technologies in Mathematics Education and WEBSIGMAA Panel Discussion
Best practices for expository mathematics in the digital age.
10:05 a.m.-10:55 a.m. MAA Invited Address
Jan van Maanen
The Bernoulli brothers in the arena of the early calculus.
10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. MAA Minicourse \#5: Part A
Wavelets and applications: A multidisciplinary undergraduate course with emphasis on scientific computing.
10:30 a.m.-11:50 a.m. MAA Special Presentation
Proposal writing workshop for grant applications to the NSF Division of Undergraduate Education.
11:10 a.m.-12:00 p.m. SIAM Invited Address
Tony DeRose
Geometry in the movies.
11:15 a.m.-11:55 a.m. AMS Session on Logic
1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m. AMS Colloquium Lecture: Lecture II
Andrei Okounkov
Limit shapes, real and imagined, II: Algebraic geometry of random surfaces.
1:00 p.m.-4:25 p.m. AMS-MAA-SIAM Special Session on Research in Mathematics by Undergraduates, II
1:00 p.m.-3:55 p.m. AMS-AWM Special Session on Geometric Group Theory, III
1:00 p.m.-3:55 p.m. AMS Special Session on Initial- and Boundary-Value Problems, Solvability, and Stability for some Nonlinear PDEs: Theorem, Computation, and Application, II
1:00 p.m.-3:55 p.m. AMS Special Session on Invariant Theory, II
1:00 p.m.-3:55 p.m. AMS Special Session on Knots, 3-Manifolds, and Their Invariants, III
1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m. AMS Special Session on Arrangements and Related Topics, III
1:00 p.m.-3:55 p.m. AMS Special Session on Mathematical Techniques in Musical Analysis, II
1:00 p.m.-3:55 p.m. AMS Special Session on Radon Transforms, Convex Geometry, and Geometric Analysis, II
1:00 p.m.-3:45 p.m. AMS Special Session on Calculus of Variations and Nonlinear PDEs: Theory and Applications, II
1:00 p.m.-3:45 p.m. AMS Special Session on Dynamic Programming, II
1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. MAA Minicourse \#11: Part A
Origami in undergraduate mathematics courses.
1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. MAA Minicourse \#13: Part B
Teaching a course in the history of mathematics.
1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. MAA Minicourse \#6: Part A
WeBWorK 2: An Internet-based system for generating and delivering homework.
1:00 p.m.-3:55 p.m. AMS Session on Analysis and Ordinary Differential Equations, II
1:00 p.m.-4:10 p.m. AMS Session on Geometry and Topology, II
1:00 p.m.-4:10 p.m. AMS Session on Applications of Mathematics, II
1:00 p.m.-3:55 p.m. AMS Session on Algebra and Number Theory, IV
1:00 p.m.-3:55 p.m. MAA Session on Teaching Innovations in Real Analysis, I
1:00 p.m.-3:35 p.m. MAA Session on Communication Theory in Undergraduate Courses
1:00 p.m.-3:55 p.m. MAA Session on Getting Students to Discuss and to Write about Mathematics, III
1:00 p.m.-3:45 p.m. MAA Session on Philosophy of Mathematics, II
1:00 p.m.-3:55 p.m. MAA Session on Reconceptualizing Content Courses for Prospective High School Mathematics Teachers, II
1:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. MAA Session on The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Mathematics
1:00 p.m.-3:40 p.m. MAA General Contributed Paper Session, IV
1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m. SIAM Minisymposium on Mathematical Modeling of Complex Systems in Biology, II
1:00 p.m.-4:15 p.m. SIAM Minisymposium on Structure and Topology in Graph Theory, II
1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m. AMS-ASL-MAA Panel Discussion
Contemporary perspectives on Hilbert's Second Problem and the G\"odel Incompleteness Theorems.
1:00 p.m.-2:20 p.m. MAA CUPM Subcommittee on Curriculum Renewal Across the First Two Years Panel Discussion
Reshaping undergraduate mathematics for biology-related disciplines: Ideas and innovations.
1:00 p.m.-2:20 p.m. MAA Committee on Two-Year Colleges and Committee on Articulation and Placement Panel Discussion
Placement: Friend or foe?
1:00 p.m.-2:20 p.m. MAA Committee on Undergraduate Student Activities and Chapters Panel Discussion
Engaging students in research, clubs, student chapters, and internships.
1:15 p.m.-3:25 p.m. AMS Session on Analysis and Functional Analysis, I
2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. MAA Poster Session on Projects Supported by the NSF Division of Undergraduate Education
2:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m. Project NExT Panel Discussion
Updating the undergraduate mathematics major.
2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. Summer Program for Women in Mathematics (SPWM) Reunion
Participants will describe their experiences from past programs.
2:15 p.m.-3:05 p.m. AMS Invited Address
Manjul Bhargava
Gauss composition and generalizations.
2:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m. MAA Committee on Technologies in Mathematics Education Panel Discussion
Electronic student assessment systems.
2:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m. SIGMAA on Quantitative Literacy Panel Discussion
Current practices in quantitative literacy: An interdisciplinary perspective.
2:30 p.m.-4:10 p.m. SIGMAA on Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education Panel Discussion
Featured presentations from the Ninth Conference on Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education.
3:00 p.m.-3:45 p.m. AMS Session on History
3:20 p.m.-4:10 p.m. AMS Invited Address
Margaret H. Wright
A Tale of Three Complexities: the Worst of Times, the Best of Times, the Spring of Hope.
4:25 p.m.-5:25 p.m. Joint Prize Session
5:25 p.m.-6:25 p.m. Joint Prize Session Reception
5:30 p.m.-7:00 p.m. Michigan Mathematics Alumni and Friends Reception
5:45 p.m.-6:30 p.m. SIGMAA on the History of Mathematics Guest Lecture
5:45 p.m.-7:15 p.m. SIGMAA on the Philosophy of Mathematics Annual Meeting and Guest Lecture
5:45 p.m.-6:45 p.m. SIGMAA on Business, Industry, and Government Reception
5:45 p.m.-6:30 p.m. SIGMAA on Quantitative Literacy Annual Business Meeting and Reception
5:45 p.m.-8:15 p.m. SIGMAA on Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education Business Meeting and Presentation of the 2006 RUME Best Paper Award
5:45 p.m.-7:00 p.m. SIGMAA on Mathematical and Computational Biology Business Meeting and Reception
5:45 p.m.-7:00 p.m. SIGMAA on Statistics Education Business Meeting
5:45 p.m.-7:00 p.m. MAA Two-Year College Reception
5:45 p.m.-7:00 p.m. University of Maryland Department of Mathematics and Friends Reception
5:45 p.m.-7:00 p.m. University of Iowa Reception
5:45 p.m.-7:00 p.m. Lehigh University Reception
5:45 p.m.-7:00 p.m. Association of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered Mathematicians Reception
5:45 p.m.-7:45 p.m. New Mexico State University Reception
5:45 p.m.-7:15 p.m. University of Illinois Reception
5:45 p.m.-7:30 p.m. University of Wisconsin-Madison, Reception for Alumni and Friends
6:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. Brigham Young University Mathematics Department Reception
6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. Budapest Semesters in Mathematics Reunion
6:00 p.m.-6:45 p.m. Mathematics in Art Presentation
Tetrahedral variations.
6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. NSA Women in Mathematics Society Networking Session
6:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m. Association of Christians in the Mathematical Sciences Banquet
6:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. University of Chicago Department of Mathematics Alumni Reception
6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. Claremont Colleges Reception
6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m. The Institute in the History of Mathematics and Its Use in Teaching (IHMT) Reunion
All former participants of this MAA project (including those from the Historical Modules Project) are invited.
6:30 p.m.-9:00 p.m. MER Banquet
7:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. SIGMAA on Mathematics and the Arts Business Meeting and the Arts
7:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m. Young Mathematicians Network Town Meeting
8:15 p.m.-9:45 p.m. Knitting Circle
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Sunday January 7, 2007
7:00 a.m.-8:00 a.m. MAA Student Chapter Advisors' Breakfast
7:00 a.m.-7:50 a.m. Association for Christians in the Mathematical Sciences Nondenominational Worship Service
7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Joint Meetings Registration
7:30 a.m.-7:30 p.m. Employment Center
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. AMS-MAA-SIAM Special Session on Research in Mathematics by Undergraduates, III
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. AMS-MAA Special Session on History of Mathematics, I
8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m. AMS Special Session on Frames and Wavelets in Harmonic Analysis, Geometry, and Applications, I
8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m. AMS Special Session on Group Representations, Ergodic Theory, and Mathematical Physics: Honoring the Memory of George W. Mackey, I
8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m. AMS Special Session on Infinite Dimensional Analysis Honoring H.-H. Kuo, I
8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m. AMS Special Session on Nonlinear Variational Inclusion Problems and Optimization Theory, I
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. AMS Special Session on Numerical Relativity, I
8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m. AMS Special Session on Arithmetic of Function Fields, I
8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m. AMS Special Session on Universal Algebra and Order, I
8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m. AMS Special Session on Microlocal Analysis and Singular Spaces, II
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. AMS Special Session on Continuous and Discrete Integrable Systems and Their Applications, I
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. AMS Session on Combinatorics, I
8:00 a.m.-8:40 a.m. AMS Session on Analysis and Ordinary Differential Equations, III
8:00 a.m.-8:55 a.m. AMS General Session
8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m. AMS Session on Geometry and Topology, III
8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m. AMS Session on Applications of Mathematics, III
8:00 a.m.-10:25 a.m. AMS Session on Education
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. MAA Session on Building Diversity in Advanced Mathematics: Models that Work, I
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. MAA Session on Countering "I Can't Do Math": Strategies For Teaching Under-Prepared, Math-Anxious Students, I
8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m. MAA Session on Teaching Operations Research in the Undergraduate Classroom
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. MAA Session on The Mathematics of Sudoku and Other Puzzles, I
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. MAA General Contributed Paper Session, V
8:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. PME Council
9:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m. MAA Invited Address
Jeffrey F. Brock
The Genome Project for Three-Manifolds.
9:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m. ASL Invited Address
Carol S. Wood
Reducts of Omega-Categorical Theories.
9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. MAA Minicourse \#12: Part B
Combinatorially thinking.
9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. MAA Minicourse \#1: Part B
Introduction to the mathematics of modern cryptography.
9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. MAA Minicourse \#8: Part B
Mathematics and geometry of voting.
9:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m. MAA Session on How to Start and Develop Undergraduate Level Financial Mathematics Programs
9:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m. MAA Panel Discussion
The top ten things you should know if you intend to implement the standards of {\rm Beyond Crossroads}.
9:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m. MAA Panel Discussion
Calculus, liberal arts, and quantitative literacy.
9:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m. Project NExT Panel Discussion
Publishing undergraduate research and expository articles.
9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Student Hospitality Center
9:30 a.m.-10:55 a.m. AMS Special Presentation on Congressional Fellowships
Learn about this program and speak with former Fellows.
9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Exhibits and Book Sales
10:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m. ASL Invited Address
Reed Solomon
Almost everywhere domination.
10:00 a.m.-5:05 p.m. Math on the Web, III
10:05 a.m.-10:55 a.m. AMS Invited Address
Bjorn Poonen
Extensions of Hilbert's Tenth Problem.
11:10 a.m.-12:00 p.m. AMS-MAA Invited Address
Persi W. Diaconis
Statistics for smart people who don't know anything about statistics.
1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m. AMS Colloquium Lecture: Lecture III
Andrei Okounkov
Limit shapes, real and imagined, III: Instantons, and how random surfaces count them.
1:00 p.m.-1:50 p.m. ASL Invited Address
Michael Rathjen
Independence and equiconsistency results in intuitionistic set theory.
1:00 p.m.-1:50 p.m. MAA Student Lecture
Della D. Fenster
Mathematics: A Question of History.
1:00 p.m.-4:45 p.m. AMS Current Events Bulletin
1:00 p.m.-5:55 p.m. AMS-MAA-SIAM Special Session on Research in Mathematics by Undergraduates, IV
1:00 p.m.-5:55 p.m. AMS-MAA Special Session on History of Mathematics, II
1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m. AMS Special Session on Frames and Wavelets in Harmonic Analysis, Geometry, and Applications, II
1:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m. AMS Special Session on Group Representations, Ergodic Theory, and Mathematical Physics: Honoring the Memory of George W. Mackey, II
1:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m. AMS Special Session on Infinite Dimensional Analysis Honoring H.-H. Kuo, II
1:00 p.m.-3:45 p.m. AMS Special Session on Nonlinear Variational Inclusion Problems and Optimization Theory, II
1:00 p.m.-6:25 p.m. AMS Special Session on Nonsmooth Analysis in Inverse and Variational Problems, I
1:00 p.m.-5:55 p.m. AMS Special Session on Numerical Relativity, II
1:00 p.m.-5:55 p.m. AMS Special Session on Arithmetic of Function Fields, II
1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m. AMS Special Session on Universal Algebra and Order, II
1:00 p.m.-4:40 p.m. AMS Special Session on Microlocal Analysis and Singular Spaces, III
1:00 p.m.-6:15 p.m. AMS Special Session on Continuous and Discrete Integrable Systems and Their Applications, II
1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. MAA Minicourse \#15: Part A
Geometry with history for teaching teachers.
1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. MAA Minicourse \#2: Part B
Some deterministic models in mathematical biology and their simulations.
1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. MAA Minicourse \#7: Part B
Directing undergraduate research.
1:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m. AMS Session on Algebra and Group Theory, III
1:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m. AMS Session on Combinatorics, II
1:00 p.m.-5:25 p.m. AMS Session on Analysis and Functional Analysis, II
1:00 p.m.-5:55 p.m. AMS Session on Geometry and Topology, IV
1:00 p.m.-3:35 p.m. MAA Session on Teaching Innovations in Real Analysis, II
1:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m. MAA Session on Mathematics Experiences in Business, Industry and Government
1:00 p.m.-3:55 p.m. MAA Session on Building Diversity in Advanced Mathematics: Models that Work, II
1:00 p.m.-5:15 p.m. MAA Session on Countering "I Can't Do Math": Strategies For Teaching Under-Prepared, Math-Anxious Students, II
1:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m. MAA Session on Innovative Examples of Using Graphs in Statistics
1:00 p.m.-3:35 p.m. MAA Session on The Mathematics of Sudoku and Other Puzzles, II
1:00 p.m.-4:55 p.m. MAA General Contributed Paper Session, VI
1:00 p.m.-3:35 p.m. NAM Granville-Brown-Haynes Session of Presentations by Recent Doctoral Recipients in the Mathematical Sciences
1:00 p.m.-2:20 p.m. MAA Committee on the Undergraduate Program in Mathematics Panel Discussion
The ``bridge'' course.
2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m. ASL Contributed Papers
2:15 p.m.-4:10 p.m. RMMC Board of Directors
2:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m. MAA Presentations by Teaching Award Recipients
2:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m. AMS Committee on Science Policy Panel Discussion
NSF funding for mathematics.
2:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m. MAA Panel Discussion
Attracting underrepresented students to graduate study through research.
3:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m. MAA Minicourse \#14: Part B
Contemporary college algebra: A refocused college algebra course.
3:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m. MAA Minicourse \#3: Part B
A tool to implement quantitative literacy (QL): Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum.
3:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m. MAA Minicourse \#9: Part B
Evaluating student presentations in mathematics.
3:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m. MAA Undergraduate Poster Session
4:15 p.m.-6:10 p.m. MAA Session on Integrating Mathematics and Biology in Undergraduate Education, II
5:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. Association of Symbolic Logic Reception
6:00 p.m.-9:30 p.m. NAM Reception and Banquet
6:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. AMS {\bit Mathematical Reviews} Reception
6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. The Ohio State University Friends and Alumni Reception
8:15 p.m.-9:45 p.m. Early Music Sing
8:30 p.m.-9:15 p.m. NAM Cox-Talbot Address
Scott Williams
Why ``Mathematicians of the African Dispora"?
8:30 p.m.-10:30 p.m. MAA-Project NExT Reception
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Monday January 8, 2007
7:00 a.m.-8:45 a.m. MAA Minority Chairs Breakfast Meeting
7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Joint Meetings Registration
8:00 a.m.-8:50 a.m. ASL Invited Address
Su Gao
Countable group actions and hyperfinite equivalence relations.
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. AMS-MAA-MER Special Session on Mathematics and Education Reform, I
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. AMS-MAA Special Session on History of Mathematics, III
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. AMS Special Session on Group Representations, Ergodic Theory, and Mathematical Physics: Honoring the Memory of George W. Mackey, III
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. AMS Special Session on Mapping Class Groups and Handlebodies, I
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. AMS Special Session on Recent Advances in Mathematical Biology, Ecology, and Epidemiology, I
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. AMS Special Session on Recent Developments in Floer Homology, I
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. AMS Special Session on Representation Theory and the Theta Correspondence, I
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. AMS Special Session on Structure Theory for Matroids and Graphs, I
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. AMS Special Session on Time Scales: Dynamic Equations with Applications, I
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. AMS Special Session on Arithmetic Geometry, I
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. AMS Special Session on Computational Algebraic and Analytic Geometry for Low-Dimensional Varieties, I
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. AMS Special Session on Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, I
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. AMS Session on Probability and Statistics, I
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. AMS Session on Numerical Analysis and Computer Science, I
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. MAA Session on Applications of Discrete Mathematics, I
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. MAA Session on College Algebra: Concepts, Data, and Models, II
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. MAA General Contributed Paper Session, VII
8:15 a.m.-10:25 a.m. AMS Session on Operator Theory and Optimal Control, I
8:15 a.m.-10:40 a.m. AMS Session on Combinatorics, III
8:15 a.m.-10:55 a.m. MAA Session on Assessment of Student Learning in Undergraduate Mathematics, I
8:20 a.m.-4:30 p.m. AWM Workshop
This session has several parts listed separately by time in the program. Listed Workshop presentations are open to all JMM participants.
8:30 a.m.-10:20 a.m. AWM Workshop: Research Presentations by Recent Ph.D.'s, I
8:30 a.m.-10:00 a.m. AMS Committee on Education Panel Discussion
A panel on the National Math Panel.
8:40 a.m.-10:35 a.m. MAA Session on Integrating Mathematics and Biology in Undergraduate Education, III
9:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m. AMS Invited Address
Victor S. Reiner
New combinatorics from the invariant theory of reflection groups.
9:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m. ASL Invited Address
Ulrich Kohlenbach
Recent Uses of Proof Theory in Nonlinear Analysis and Geodesic Geometry.
9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. MAA Minicourse \#10: Part B
A beginner's guide to the scholarship of teaching and learning in mathematics.
9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. MAA Minicourse \#16: Part B
More music and mathematics.
9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. MAA Minicourse \#4: Part B
Creating visual mathematics applets using flash programming.
9:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. MAA Session on Mathematics of Chemistry
9:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m. MAA-YMN Panel Discussion
Undergraduate career paths in mathematics.
9:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m. MAA Panel Discussion
Teaching and learning mathematics in a Computer Algebra Systems (CAS) enriched environment: College algebra to real analysis.
9:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m. NAM Panel Discussion
HBCUs prepare to reform college algebra courses.
9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. Student Hospitality Center
9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Exhibits and Book Sales
9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Employment Center
9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m. MAA Special Report
Algebra: Gateway to a technological future.
10:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m. ASL Invited Address
Valentina S. Harizanov
Back and forth through computable model theory.
10:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m. NAM Business Meeting
10:05 a.m.-10:55 a.m. MAA Invited Address
Jerry L. Bona
Big waves on deep water.
10:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m. AWM Workshop: Poster Session with Presentations from Women Recent Ph.D.s and Graduate Students
11:10 a.m.-11:40 a.m. MAA Business Meeting
11:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m. AMS Business Meeting
1:00 p.m.-1:50 p.m. NAM Claytor-Woodard Lecture
Nathaniel Whitaker
Some mathematical models for modeling blood flow in the kidney.
1:00 p.m.-1:50 p.m. ASL Invited Address
Matthew D. Foreman
Classifying Measure Preserving Transformations.
1:00 p.m.-5:55 p.m. AMS-MAA-MER Special Session on Mathematics and Education Reform, II
1:00 p.m.-5:55 p.m. AMS-MAA Special Session on History of Mathematics, IV
1:00 p.m.-3:45 p.m. AMS Special Session on Group Representations, Ergodic Theory, and Mathematical Physics: Honoring the Memory of George W. Mackey, IV
1:00 p.m.-5:55 p.m. AMS Special Session on Mapping Class Groups and Handlebodies, II
1:00 p.m.-5:55 p.m. AMS Special Session on Nonsmooth Analysis in Inverse and Variational Problems, II
1:00 p.m.-5:55 p.m. AMS Special Session on Recent Advances in Mathematical Biology, Ecology, and Epidemiology, II
1:00 p.m.-5:55 p.m. AMS Special Session on Recent Developments in Floer Homology, II
1:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. AMS Special Session on Representation Theory and the Theta Correspondence, II
1:00 p.m.-5:55 p.m. AMS Special Session on Structure Theory for Matroids and Graphs, II
1:00 p.m.-5:55 p.m. AMS Special Session on Time Scales: Dynamic Equations with Applications, II
1:00 p.m.-5:55 p.m. AMS Special Session on Arithmetic Geometry, II
1:00 p.m.-5:55 p.m. AMS Special Session on Computational Algebraic and Analytic Geometry for Low-Dimensional Varieties, II
1:00 p.m.-5:55 p.m. AMS Special Session on Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, II
1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. MAA Minicourse \#11: Part B
Origami in undergraduate mathematics courses.
1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. MAA Minicourse \#15: Part B
Geometry with history for teaching teachers.
1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. MAA Minicourse \#5: Part B
Wavelets and applications: A multidisciplinary undergraduate course with emphasis on scientific computing.
1:00 p.m.-5:25 p.m. AMS Session on Operator Theory and Optimal Control, II
1:00 p.m.-5:25 p.m. AMS Session on Applications of Mathematics, IV
1:00 p.m.-3:25 p.m. AMS Session on Combinatorics, IV
1:00 p.m.-4:55 p.m. MAA Session on Applications of Discrete Mathematics, II
1:00 p.m.-2:40 p.m. MAA Session on Assessment of Student Learning in Undergraduate Mathematics, II
1:00 p.m.-4:25 p.m. MAA General Contributed Paper Session, VIII
1:00 p.m.-4:25 p.m. MAA General Contributed Paper Session, IX
1:00 p.m.-2:20 p.m. MAA Panel Discussion
Knowing mathematics for teaching: Issues in assessment and teacher preparation.
1:00 p.m.-2:20 p.m. MAA Panel Discussion
MathNerds, Moore Method, and mathematics education: What do they have in common?
1:00 p.m.-2:15 p.m. AWM Workshop Panel Discussion
Critical career decision stages: Research and funding opportunities.
1:15 p.m.-4:10 p.m. AMS Session on Numerical Analysis and Computer Science, II
1:30 p.m.-4:55 p.m. AMS Session on Probability and Statistics, II
2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. ASL Contributed Papers
2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m. AWM Workshop: Research Presentations by Recent Ph.D.'s, II
3:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m. MAA Minicourse \#6: Part B
WeBWorK 2: An Internet-based system for generating and delivering homework.
6:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m. AMS Banquet Reception
7:30 p.m.-10:30 p.m. AMS Banquet
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