Current as of Wednesday, January 16, 2008 00:26:59
Friday January 4, 2008 |
Saturday January 5, 2008 |
Sunday January 6, 2008 |
Monday January 7, 2008 |
Tuesday January 8, 2008 |
Wednesday January 9, 2008 |
Friday January 4, 2008 | |
8:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m. | AMS Short Course on Applications of Knot Theory (Part I) |
8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. | MAA Short Course on Combinatorics: Past, Present, and Future (Part I) |
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Saturday January 5, 2008 | |
8:00 a.m.-6:30 p.m. | AMS Department Chairs Workshop
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8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. | Employment Register
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8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m. | SIGMAA on Statistics Education and the consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education Workshop
Introducing concepts of statistical inference. |
8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m. | SIGMAA on Statistics Education and the Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education
Building (UP) an undergraduate statistics program. |
9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. | MAA Short Course on Combinatorics: Past, Present, and Future (Part II) |
9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. | MAA Board of Governors
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9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. | AMS Short Course on Applications of Knot Theory (Part II) |
1:30 p.m.-10:00 p.m. | AMS Council
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3:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. | Joint Meetings Registration
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Sunday January 6, 2008 | |
7:00 a.m.-7:50 a.m. | Association for Christians in the Mathematical Sciences Nondenominational Worship Service
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7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m. | Joint Meetings Registration
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7:30 a.m.-10:55 a.m. | MAA Session on Assessment of Student Learning in Undergraduate Mathematics, I |
7:30 a.m.-6:00 p.m. | Employment Register
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8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m. | AMS-MAA Special Session on The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Mathematics, I |
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. | AMS-SIAM Special Session on Asymptotic Methods in Analysis with Applications, I |
8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m. | AMS-SIAM Special Session on Environmental Mathematics: Some Mathematical Problems on Climate Change and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, I |
8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m. | AMS-ASL Special Session on Set Theory and Banach Spaces, I |
8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m. | AMS-AWM Special Session on Zeta Functions of Graphs, Ramanujan Graphs, and Related Topics, I |
8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m. | AMS Special Session on Automorphic Forms and Related Topics, 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.-10:50 a.m. | AMS Special Session on Progress in Commutative Algebra, I |
8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m. | AMS Special Session on Hyperbolic Dynamical Systems, I |
8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m. | AMS Special Session on Interactions Between Noncommutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, I |
8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m. | AMS Special Session on Algebraic Topology, I |
8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m. | AMS Special Session on Groups, Representations, and Character Theory, 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 Group Theory, I |
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. | AMS Session on Algebra and Number Theory, I |
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. | AMS Session on History of Mathematics |
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. | MAA Session on Crossing the ``Bridge to Higher Mathematics": What Works and Why, I |
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. | MAA Session on Ethnomathematics and Its Uses in Teaching |
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. | MAA Session on Great Activities for an Introductory Statistics Class, I |
8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m. | MAA Session on Preparing Faculty for Success in a Problem-Solving and Technology-Rich Curriculum |
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. | MAA Session on Research and Professional Development Activities for Math Majors, I |
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 Education and Applied Mathematics |
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. | AMS Workshop: Part I
Grant writing in the mathematical sciences. |
9:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m. | AMS Special Session on The Mathematics of Information and Knowledge, I |
9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. | MAA Minicourse \#12: Part A
Developing department self-studies. |
9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. | MAA Minicourse \#1: Part A
Teaching a Galois theory course for undergraduates. |
9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. | MAA Minicourse \#7: Part A
Directing undergraduate research. |
9:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m. | MAA-Project NExT and Young Mathematicians Network Joint Panel Discussion
Tenure (and promotion)---You know you want it. |
9:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m. | MAA Special Presentation
National Science Foundation programs supporting learning and teaching in the mathematical sciences. |
9:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m. | SIGMAA on Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education Panel Discussion
Making the connection between research and teaching in undergraduate mathematics education. |
9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. | Student Hospitality Center
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9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m. | MAA Department Liaisons Meeting
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9:40 a.m.-10:55 a.m. | MAA Session on Using Ideas from Asian Mathematics in the Classroom, I |
10:05 a.m.-10:55 a.m. | AMS Invited Address
Wen-Ching Winnie Li Combinatorics and Number Theory. |
11:10 a.m.-12:00 p.m. | AMS-MAA Invited Address
Terence Tao Structure and randomness in the prime numbers. |
12:15 p.m.-5:30 p.m. | Exhibits and Book Sales
Come to the Grand Opening at 12:15! |
1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m. | AMS Colloquium Lecture: Lecture I
Wendelin Werner Random conformally invariant pictures (Part I). |
2:15 p.m.-3:05 p.m. | MAA Invited Address
John H. Conway Three-dimensional crystallographic groups: The thirty-five prime space groups. |
2:15 p.m.-6:05 p.m. | AMS-MAA Special Session on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Mathematics, II |
2:15 p.m.-6:10 p.m. | AMS-SIAM Special Session on Asymptotic Methods in Analysis with Applications, II |
2:15 p.m.-6:05 p.m. | AMS-SIAM Special Session on Environmental Mathematics: Some Mathematical Problems on Climate Change and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, II |
2:15 p.m.-5:55 p.m. | AMS-ASL Special Session on Set Theory and Banach Spaces, II |
2:15 p.m.-6:05 p.m. | AMS-AWM Special Session on Zeta Functions of Graphs, Ramanujan Graphs, and Related Topics, II |
2:15 p.m.-6:05 p.m. | AMS Special Session on Automorphic Forms and Related Topics, II |
2:15 p.m.-6:10 p.m. | AMS Special Session on Recent Advances in Mathematical Biology, Ecology, and Epidemiology, II |
2:15 p.m.-5:15 p.m. | AMS Special Session on The Mathematics of Information and Knowledge, II |
2:15 p.m.-5:55 p.m. | AMS Special Session on Hyperbolic Dynamical Systems, II |
2:15 p.m.-6:05 p.m. | AMS Special Session on Interactions Between Noncommutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, II |
2:15 p.m.-5:55 p.m. | AMS Special Session on Algebraic Topology, II |
2:15 p.m.-6:05 p.m. | AMS Special Session on Groups, Representations, and Character Theory, II |
2:15 p.m.-4:15 p.m. | MAA Minicourse \#13: Part A
Teaching and the philosophy 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 \#9: Part A
Classroom response systems: Teaching with clickers. |
2:15 p.m.-6:10 p.m. | AMS Session on Combinatorics, I |
2:15 p.m.-6:10 p.m. | AMS Session on Algebra and Group Theory, II |
2:15 p.m.-4:55 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.-3:40 p.m. | MAA Session on College Algebra: Concepts, Data, and Models, I |
2:15 p.m.-4:50 p.m. | MAA Session on Curriculum Materials for Preservice Middle School Mathematics Teachers, I |
2:15 p.m.-5:10 p.m. | MAA Session on the Power of Inductive and Recursive Thinking |
2:15 p.m.-6:30 p.m. | MAA Session on Serving Students Who Have Taken Calculus in High School |
2:15 p.m.-5:00 p.m. | MAA Session on Topics and Techniques for Real Analysis, I |
2:15 p.m.-5:50 p.m. | MAA Session on Using Ideas from Asian Mathematics in the Classroom, II |
2:15 p.m.-5:55 p.m. | MAA General Contributed Paper Session, II |
2:15 p.m.-6:40 p.m. | SIAM Minisymposium on Analysis and Computation of Stochastic Equations |
2:15 p.m.-4:30 p.m. | Math on the Web, I |
2:15 p.m.-4:15 p.m. | MAA-Project NExT and Young Mathematicians Network Joint Poster Session |
2:15 p.m.-5:30 p.m. | AMS Workshop: Part II
Grant writing in the mathematical sciences. |
2:15 p.m.-3:35 p.m. | SIGMAA on Mathematics and the Arts Panel Discussion
Mathematics and Hollywood: A conversation with mathematical Hollywood writers and mathematics faculty. |
2:15 p.m.-3:35 p.m. | MAA Committee on Graduate Students-Young Mathematicians Network Joint Panel Discussion
How to interview for a job in the mathematical sciences. |
2:15 p.m.-3:35 p.m. | MAA Session for Chairs
What every chair should know about NSF funding. |
2:15 p.m.-3:40 p.m. | AWM Panel Discussion
The unseen AWM opportunities |
2:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. | MAA Section Officers
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3:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m. | Session for Math Club Advisors
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3:20 p.m.-4:10 p.m. | MAA Invited Address
Paul H. Edelman Mathematics and the law: The apportionment of the House of Representatives. |
3:45 p.m.-4:15 p.m. | AWM Business Meeting
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3:50 p.m.-5:50 p.m. | MAA Committee on Curriculum Renewal Across the First Two Years Panel Discussion
Tracking our students from college algebra to calculus: Where they come from, where they go, and where they don't. |
3:50 p.m.-5:10 p.m. | MAA Panel Discussion
Engaging students in college mathematics courses. |
4:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m. | MAA Session on Research on the Teaching and Learning of Undergraduate Mathematics, I |
4:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. | Reception for Undergraduate Students and Math Club Advisors
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4:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m. | SIGMAA on Environmental Mathematics Guest Lecture and Business Meeting |
4:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m. | AMS Special Presentation on Congressional Fellowships
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4:45 p.m.-6:45 p.m. | MAA Minicourse \#14: Part A
Beyond formulas and algorithms: Teaching a conceptual/thematics single variable calculus course. |
4:45 p.m.-6:45 p.m. | MAA Minicourse \#3: Part A
Introduction to the mathematics of modern cryptography. |
4:45 p.m.-6:45 p.m. | MAA Minicourse \#8: Part A
Mathematics and geometry of voting. |
5:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. | MAA Special Film Presentation
Flatland: The Movie. |
5:00 p.m.-6:30 p.m. | MAA Special Presentation
Help for undergraduates: Negotiating the Joint Meetings. |
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 organization. |
5:30 p.m.-8:00 p.m. | Mathematical Institutes Open House Reception
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5:30 p.m.-8:00 p.m. | Wolfram Research, Inc. Presentation/Reception
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6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. | SIGMAA on the History of Mathematics Guest Lecture, Business Meeting, and Reception |
7:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. | MAA Special Presentation
Dancing mathematics and the mathematics of dance. |
8:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m. | AMS Josiah Willard Gibbs Lecture
Avi Wigderson Randomness---A computational complexity view. |
9:30 p.m.-11:00 p.m. | AWM Reception
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Monday January 7, 2008 | |
7:00 a.m.-7:30 p.m. | Employment Register
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7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m. | Joint Meetings Registration
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7:45 a.m.-11:55 a.m. | AMS Session on Geometry and Topology, I |
8:00 a.m.-11:40 a.m. | AMS-ASL Special Session on Set Theory and Banach Spaces, III |
8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m. | AMS Special Session on Structure, Geometry, and Symbolic Computation of Algebraic Groups and Symmetric Spaces, I |
8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m. | AMS Special Session on Stochastic, Large-Scale, and Hybrid Systems with Applications, I |
8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m. | AMS Special Session on Time-Frequency Analysis: Hilbert Huang Transform and Wavelet Analysis, I |
8:00 a.m.-11:55 a.m. | AMS Special Session on Recent Advances in Mathematical Biology, Ecology, and Epidemiology, III |
8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m. | AMS Special Session on Progress in Commutative Algebra, II |
8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m. | AMS Special Session on Monotone Discrete Dynamical Systems with Applications, I |
8:00 a.m.-11:45 a.m. | AMS Special Session on The Mathematics of Information and Knowledge, III |
8:00 a.m.-11:55 a.m. | AMS Special Session on Mathematics for Teaching: Educating Elementary and Middle School Teachers for Success, I |
8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m. | AMS Special Session on Conformally Flat Lorentzian Manifolds, I |
8:00 a.m.-11:40 a.m. | AMS Special Session on Voting Theory, I |
8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m. | AMS Special Session on Graph Theory, I |
8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m. | AMS Special Session on Modular Forms and Modularity, I |
8:00 a.m.-11:40 a.m. | AMS Special Session on Algebraic Topology, III |
8:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m. | MAA Minicourse \#4: Part A
Wavelets and applications: A multidisciplinary undergraduate course with an emphasis on scientific computing. |
8:00 a.m.-11:55 a.m. | AMS Session on Analysis and Ordinary Differential Equations, I |
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. | AMS Session on Applications of Mathematics, I |
8:00 a.m.-9:10 a.m. | AMS Session on Abstract Harmonic Analysis and Operator Theory, I |
8:00 a.m.-11:55 a.m. | MAA Session on College Algebra: Concepts, Data, and Models, II |
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. | MAA Session on Crossing the ``Bridge to Higher Mathematics": What Works and Why, II |
8:00 a.m.-11:55 a.m. | MAA Session on Demos and Strategies with Technology that Enhance Teaching and Learning Mathematics, I |
8:00 a.m.-11:35 a.m. | MAA Session on Topics and Techniques for Real Analysis, II |
8:00 a.m.-11:55 a.m. | MAA General Contributed Paper Session, III |
8:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. | SIAM Minisymposium on From Global Predictions to Local Action, I: Dynamical Systems Challenges in Climate Change |
8:30 a.m.-11:55 a.m. | MAA Session on Philosophy of Mathematics |
8:40 a.m.-11:55 a.m. | MAA Session on Innovative and Effective Ways to Teach Linear Algebra, I |
9:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m. | MAA Invited Address
Karen H. Parshall 4000 years of algebra: An historic tour from BM 13901 to \em{Moderne Algebra}. |
9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. | MAA Minicourse \#10: Part A
The Fibonacci and Catalan numbers. |
9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. | MAA Minicourse \#15: Part A
Evaluating student presentations in mathematics. |
9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. | MAA Invited Paper Session on Using the New Technologies in Teaching Mathematics |
9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. | MAA Poster Session on Outreach Programs for Underrepresented Populations in Mathematics |
9:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m. | MAA Special Presentation
Proposal writing workshop for grant applications to the NSF Division of Undergraduate Education. |
9:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m. | MAA Panel Discussion
Exciting, surprising, and satisfying: Why and how to teach proof. |
9:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m. | MAA Panel Discussion
Research and outreach focusing on the mathematics education of K--8 Latino/a students. |
9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. | Student Hospitality Center
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9:15 a.m.-12:10 p.m. | AMS Session on Dynamical Systems |
9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. | Exhibits and Book Sales
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10:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m. | Math on the Web, II |
10:05 a.m.-10:55 a.m. | AWM Emmy Noether Lecture
Audrey A. Terras Fun with zeta functions of graphs. |
10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | MAA Minicourse \#5: Part A
Visualizing abstract mathematics with cellular automata. |
10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. | SIGMAA Officers Meeting
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10:45 a.m.-12:05 p.m. | MAA Special Presentation
Undergraduate career paths in math: What can you do with a math degree? |
10:45 a.m.-12:05 p.m. | MAA Committee on the Teaching of Undergraduate Mathematics Panel Discussion
Classroom voting comes to the mathematics classroom. |
11:10 a.m.-12:00 p.m. | SIAM Invited Address
Inez Fung From global predictions to local action: Mathematical challenges in global warming. |
1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m. | AMS Colloquium Lecture: Lecture II
Wendelin Werner Random conformally invariant pictures (Part II). |
1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m. | AMS-MAA-SIAM Special Session on Research in Mathematics by Undergraduates, I |
1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m. | AMS Special Session on Structure, Geometry, and Symbolic Computation of Algebraic Groups and Symmetric Spaces, II |
1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m. | AMS Special Session on Stochastic, Large-Scale, and Hybrid Systems with Applications, II |
1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m. | AMS Special Session on Time-Frequency Analysis: Hilbert Huang Transform and Wavelet Analysis, II |
1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m. | AMS Special Session on Progress in Commutative Algebra, III |
1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m. | AMS Special Session on Monotone Discrete Dynamical Systems with Applications, II |
1:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. | AMS Special Session on The Mathematics of Information and Knowledge, IV |
1:00 p.m.-3:55 p.m. | AMS Special Session on Mathematics for Teaching: Educating Elementary and Middle School Teachers for Success, II |
1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m. | AMS Special Session on Low Genus Curves and Applications, I |
1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m. | AMS Special Session on Conformally Flat Lorentzian Manifolds, II |
1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m. | AMS Special Session on Voting Theory, II |
1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m. | AMS Special Session on Graph Theory, II |
1:00 p.m.-3:20 p.m. | AMS Special Session on Modular Forms and Modularity, II |
1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. | MAA Minicourse \#11: Part A
More music and mathematics. |
1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. | MAA Minicourse \#16: Part A
A beginner's guide to the scholarship of teaching and learning in mathematics. |
1:00 p.m.-4:10 p.m. | AMS Session on Analysis and Ordinary Differential Equations, II |
1:00 p.m.-4:25 p.m. | AMS Session on Geometry and Topology, II |
1:00 p.m.-4:25 p.m. | AMS Session on Algebra and Number Theory, III |
1:00 p.m.-4:25 p.m. | AMS Session on Applications of Mathematics, II |
1:00 p.m.-4:10 p.m. | MAA Session on Assessment of Student Learning in Undergraduate Mathematics, II |
1:00 p.m.-3:55 p.m. | MAA Session on Curriculum Materials for Preservice Middle School Mathematics Teachers, II |
1:00 p.m.-2:55 p.m. | MAA Session on Demos and Strategies with Technology that Enhance Teaching and Learning Mathematics, II |
1:00 p.m.-4:15 p.m. | MAA Session on Great Activities for an Introductory Statistics Class, II |
1:00 p.m.-3:55 p.m. | MAA Session on Mathematics and the Arts, I |
1:00 p.m.-4:15 p.m. | MAA Session on Research and Professional Development Activities for Math Majors, II |
1:00 p.m.-2:45 p.m. | MAA Session on Research on the Teaching and Learning of Undergraduate Mathematics, II |
1:00 p.m.-4:10 p.m. | MAA General Contributed Paper Session, IV |
1:00 p.m.-4:15 p.m. | SIAM Minisymposium on From Global Predictions to Local Action, II: Mathematics of Social and Economic Feedback in Climate Change |
1:00 p.m.-2:20 p.m. | MAA Panel Discussion
Creating and implementing a capstone course in mathematics for preservice secondary teachers. |
1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. | SIGMAA on the History of Mathematics Panel Discussion
The political dimension of ethnomathematics. |
1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. | MAA-AMS Special Presentation
Putting math on the Web the correct way. |
1:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. | Summer Program for Women in Mathematics (SPWM) Reunion
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2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. | MAA Poster Session on Projects Supported by the NSF Division of Undergraduate Education |
2:15 p.m.-3:05 p.m. | AMS Invited Address
Peter Teichner Quantum field theory and generalized cohomology. |
2:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m. | Project NExT Panel Discussion
Making the math major work for the under-prepared student. |
2:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m. | MAA Panel Discussion
Dueling platforms: Java vs. Flash. |
3:00 p.m.-3:45 p.m. | SIGMAA on Business, Industry, and Government Guest Lecture |
3:20 p.m.-4:10 p.m. | AMS Retiring Presidential Address
James G. Arthur Semisimple groups as universal examples. |
4:25 p.m.-5:25 p.m. | Joint Prize Session
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5:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m. | Joint Prize Session Reception
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5:45 p.m.-7:15 p.m. | SIGMAA on the Philosophy of Mathematics Business Meeting, Guest Lecture, and Reception |
5:45 p.m.-7:45 p.m. | MAA Special Presentation
Sharing residues from College Algebra Workshops. |
5:45 p.m.-6:45 p.m. | SIGMAA on Quantitative Literacy Business Meeting and Reception
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5:45 p.m.-7:15 p.m. | SIGMAA on Statistics Education Business Meeting
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5:45 p.m.-6:45 p.m. | BIGSIGMAA Reception for Mathematicians in Business, Industry, and Government
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5:45 p.m.-7:00 p.m. | University of Iowa Mathematics Department Reception
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5:45 p.m.-7:00 p.m. | Lehigh University Reception for Friends and Graduates
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5:45 p.m.-7:00 p.m. | Association of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered Math Caucus Reception
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5:45 p.m.-7:00 p.m. | North Carolina State University Department of Mathematics Alumni Reception
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5:45 p.m.-7:15 p.m. | Reception for Friends of the New Mexico State University Department of Mathematical Sciences
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5:45 p.m.-7:00 p.m. | MAA Two-Year College Reception
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5:45 p.m.-7:30 p.m. | University of Wisconsin Reception
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6:00 p.m.-7:30 p.m. | MAA Special Presentation
The proof is in the pudding: Humorous theater of the mathematical variety. |
6:00 p.m.-7:30 p.m. | Brigham Young University
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6:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. | University of Chicago Mathematics Alumni Reception
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6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. | Reception for Alumni and Friends of the Claremont Colleges
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6:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. | SIGMAA-ARTS Business Meeting
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6:30 p.m.-8:00 p.m. | MAA Committee on Minority Participation-North American Institutes Informal Gathering
Conversations with minority scientists. |
6:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m. | MER Banquet
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6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m. | NSA Women in Mathematics Society Networking Session
The location of this session is available at the NSA booth in the exhibit area. |
7:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. | MAA Music Presentation
Tones are real functions, rhythms are sequences. |
7:00 p.m.-8:30 p.m. | Clay Mathematics Institute Film Presentation
Julia Robinson and Hilbert's Tenth Problem. |
8:15 p.m.-9:45 p.m. | Knitting Circle
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Tuesday January 8, 2008 | |
7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m. | Joint Meetings Registration
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7:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m. | AMS Special Session on Modular Forms and Modularity, III |
7:30 a.m.-7:30 p.m. | Employment Register
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7:45 a.m.-10:55 a.m. | AMS Session on Combinatorics, II |
7:45 a.m.-10:55 a.m. | AMS Session on Geometry and Topology, III |
7:45 a.m.-10:55 a.m. | AMS General Session |
8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m. | AMS-MAA-SIAM Special Session on Research in Mathematics by Undergraduates, II |
8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m. | AMS-MAA Special Session on History of Mathematics, I |
8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m. | AMS Special Session on Structure, Geometry, and Symbolic Computation of Algebraic Groups and Symmetric Spaces, III |
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. | AMS Special Session on Financial Mathematics, I |
8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m. | AMS Special Session on Secant Varieties and Related Topics, I |
8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m. | AMS Special Session on Wavelet Sets and Tilings of $R^n$, I |
8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m. | AMS Special Session on Low Genus Curves and Applications, II |
8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m. | AMS Special Session on Algebraic Dynamics, I |
8:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. | AMS Special Session on Biomathematical Modeling, I |
8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m. | AMS Special Session on Dynamics and Stability of Coherent Structures, I |
8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m. | AMS Special Session on Graph Theory, III |
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. | AMS Session on Probability, Statistics, and Applications, I |
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. | AMS Session on Applications of Mathematics, III |
8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m. | MAA Session on Building Diversity in Advanced Mathematics: Models that Work |
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 Interested in Business and the Sciences |
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. | MAA Session on Innovative and Effective Ways to Teach Linear Algebra, II |
8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m. | MAA Session on Mathematics Experiences in Business, Industry, and Government |
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. | MAA General Contributed Paper Session, V |
8:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. | SIAM Minisymposium on From Global Predictions to Local Action, III: Working Groups and Round Table Discussion
We will summarize the outstanding problems from Monday's sessions and define steps toward the development of integrated economic and climate models. |
8:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. | PME Council
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8:15 a.m.-10:40 a.m. | AMS Session on Numerical Analysis, I |
8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m. | AMS Special Session on Inverse Problems in Geometry, I |
9:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m. | MAA Invited Address
Carl Pomerance The covering congruences of Paul Erdös. |
9:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m. | ASL Invited Address
Gregory L. Cherlin Model Theory and algebraic groups. |
9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. | MAA Minicourse \#12: Part B
Developing department self-studies. |
9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. | MAA Minicourse \#1: Part B
Teaching a Galois theory course for undergraduates. |
9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. | MAA Minicourse \#7: Part B
Directing undergraduate research. |
9:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. | MAA Session on Biomathematics in the Undergraduate Curriculum, I |
9:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m. | AMS-MAA Committee on Teaching Assistants and Part-Time Instructors Panel Discussion
Becoming a teacher of college mathematics: Research on mathematics graduate students' professional development. |
9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. | Student Hospitality Center
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9:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m. | AMS-MAA Grad School Fair
Undergrads! Take this opportunity to meet representatives from mathematical sciences graduate programs. |
9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. | Exhibits and Book Sales
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10:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m. | ASL Invited Address
Victor Marek Answer Set Programming. |
10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. | Math on the Web, III |
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
Donald G. Saari A new mathematical frontier: The social and behavioral sciences. |
11:10 a.m.-12:00 p.m. | AMS-MAA Invited Address
Fan Chung The mathematics of PageRank. |
1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m. | AMS Colloquium Lecture: Lecture III
Wendelin Werner Random conformally invariant pictures (Part III). |
1:00 p.m.-1:50 p.m. | ASL Invited Address
Pavel R. Hrubes Proof complexity after NP $\not=$ coNP. |
1:00 p.m.-1:50 p.m. | MAA Lecture for Students
J. Brian Conrey The Riemann Hypothesis. |
1:00 p.m.-4:45 p.m. | AMS Current Events Bulletin |
1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m. | AMS-MAA-SIAM Special Session on Research in Mathematics by Undergraduates, III |
1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m. | AMS-MAA Special Session on History of Mathematics, II |
1:00 p.m.-5:55 p.m. | AMS Special Session on Financial Mathematics, II |
1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m. | AMS Special Session on Representation Theory and Nonassociative Algebras |
1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m. | AMS Special Session on Secant Varieties and Related Topics, II |
1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m. | AMS Special Session on Wavelet Sets and Tilings of $R^n$, II |
1:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m. | AMS Special Session on Low Genus Curves and Applications, III |
1:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. | AMS Special Session on Learning and Math Graduate Students in K--12 Classroom |
1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m. | AMS Special Session on Algebraic Dynamics, II |
1:00 p.m.-5:55 p.m. | AMS Special Session on Applications of Computer Algebra in Enumerative and Algebraic Combinatorics |
1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m. | AMS Special Session on Biomathematical Modeling, II |
1:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m. | AMS Special Session on Expanders and Ramanujan Graphs: Construction and Applications, I |
1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m. | AMS Special Session on Dynamics and Stability of Coherent Structures, II |
1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m. | AMS Special Session on Inverse Problems in Geometry, II |
1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. | MAA Minicourse \#13: Part B
Teaching and the philosophy of mathematics. |
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 \#9: Part B
Classroom response systems: Teaching with clickers. |
1:00 p.m.-4:55 p.m. | AMS Session on Algebra and Group Theory, III |
1:00 p.m.-5:10 p.m. | AMS Session on Abstract Harmonic Analysis and Operator Theory, II |
1:00 p.m.-3:55 p.m. | AMS Session on Numerical Analysis, II |
1:00 p.m.-5:25 p.m. | AMS Session on Analysis and Functional Analysis, I |
1:00 p.m.-4:35 p.m. | MAA Session on Cryptology for Undergraduates, I |
1:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. | MAA Session on Guided Discovery in Mathematics Education |
1:00 p.m.-5:55 p.m. | MAA General Contributed Paper Session, VI |
1:00 p.m.-5:55 p.m. | MAA General Contributed Paper Session, VII |
1:00 p.m.-5:55 p.m. | MAA General Contributed Paper Session, VIII |
1:00 p.m.-3:15 p.m. | NAM Granville-Brown-Haynes Session of Presentations by Recent Doctoral Recipients in the Mathematical Sciences |
1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m. | AMS Committee on Education Panel Discussion
Making teacher preparation our business |
1:00 p.m.-2:20 p.m. | MAA Special Presentation
A quick introduction to \em{WebWork}, a web-based interactive homework system. |
1:00 p.m.-2:20 p.m. | Project NeXT Panel Discussion
Capstone and one-semester research projects for a variety of students. |
1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. | SIAM Minisymposium on From Global Predictions to Local Action, IV: Working Groups and Panel Discussion
This session includes a panel discussion on how to develop the training required to tackle the mathematical challenges in modeling climate change. |
2:00 p.m.-5:10 p.m. | ASL Session for Contributed Papers, I |
2:15 p.m.-4:15 p.m. | AMS Special Presentation
Wiki math. |
2:15 p.m.-4:10 p.m. | RMMC Board of Directors
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2:30 p.m.-4:25 p.m. | MAA Presentations by Teaching Award Recipients |
2:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m. | SUMMA Special Presentation
Summer research programs. |
3:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m. | AMS Committee on Science Policy Panel Discussion
Advocating for mathematics: Influencing policymakers through congressional visits in districts and states. |
3:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m. | MAA Poster Session for Undergraduates
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3:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m. | MAA Minicourse \#14: Part B
Beyond formulas and algorithms: Teaching a conceptual/thematics single variable calculus course. |
3:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m. | MAA Minicourse \#3: Part B
Introduction to the mathematics of modern cryptography. |
3:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m. | MAA Minicourse \#8: Part B
Mathematics and geometry of voting. |
3:45 p.m.-4:40 p.m. | AMS Session on Applications of Mathematics, IV |
5:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. | MAA Information Session
Current issues in actuarial science education. |
5:30 p.m.-7:00 p.m. | Reception for Alumni and Friends of the University of Oregon Mathematics Department
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5:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m. | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Mathematics Alumni Reception
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5:30 p.m.-7:00 p.m. | University of Michigan Alumni and Friends Get-Together
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6:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. | SIGMAA on Mathematics and Computational Biology Business Meeting and Reception
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6:00 p.m.-8:30 p.m. | MAA Film Presentation and Reception
{\rm Hard Problems}: A documentary about the USA team's participation in the 2006 International Mathematical Olympiad. |
6:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m. | Association of Christians in the Mathematical Sciences Banquet
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6:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. | Association of Symbolic Logic Reception
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6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. | Budapest Semesters in Mathematics Reunion
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6:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. | Hawkes Learning Systems Presentation
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6:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. | AMS {\bit Mathematical Reviews} Reception
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6:00 p.m.-9:30 p.m. | NAM Reception, Banquet, and Cox-Talbot Address
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6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. | Reception for University of Maryland Alumni and Friends
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6:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m. | SIGMAA on Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Business Meeting
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7:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. | MAA Dramatic Presentation
So you want to teach environmental math, do you? |
7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m. | National Math Circle Organizational Meeting and Reception
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7:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m. | Informal Evening of Wine and Jazz
Join your colleagues at the San Diego Wine \& Culinary Center, 200 Harbor Drive, across from the Convention Center for a relaxing time. |
7:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. | Young Mathematicians Network Town Meeting
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8:30 p.m.-10:30 p.m. | MAA-Project NExT Reception
All Project NExT Fellows, consultants, and other friends of Project NExT are invited. |
8:45 p.m.-9:30 p.m. | NAM Cox-Talbot Address
Earl R. Barnes Title to be announced. |
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Wednesday January 9, 2008 | |
7:00 a.m.-8:45 a.m. | MAA Minority Chairs Breakfast Meeting
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7:30 a.m.-2:00 p.m. | Joint Meetings Registration
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7:45 a.m.-10:40 a.m. | AMS Session on Combinatorics, III |
7:45 a.m.-10:55 a.m. | AMS Session on Statistics, Game Theory, and Social Sciences |
8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m. | AMS-MAA-SIAM Special Session on Research in Mathematics by Undergraduates, IV |
8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m. | AMS-MAA-MER Special Session on Mathematics and Education Reform, I |
8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m. | AMS-MAA Special Session on History of Mathematics, III |
8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m. | AMS-SIAM Special Session on Environmental Mathematics: Some Mathematical Problems on Climate Change and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, III |
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. | AMS Special Session on Financial Mathematics, III |
8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m. | AMS Special Session on Heegaard Splittings, Bridge Positions, and Low Dimensional Topology, I |
8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m. | AMS Special Session on E-Theory, Extensions, and Elliptic Operators, I |
8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m. | AMS Special Session on Algebraic and Geometric Aspects of Integrable Systems, I |
8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m. | AMS Special Session on Expanders and Ramanujan Graphs: Construction and Applications, II |
8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m. | AMS Special Session on Probability Theory and Statistical Mechanics, I |
8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m. | AMS Special Session on Global Optimization and Operations Research Applications, I |
8:00 a.m.-10:35 a.m. | MAA Session on Biomathematics in the Undergraduate Curriculum, II |
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. | MAA Session on Cryptology for Undergraduates, II |
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. | MAA Session on Mathematics and the Arts, II |
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. | MAA Session on Mathlets and Web Resources for Mathematics and Statistics Education, I |
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. | MAA Session on Using Innovative Technologies to Implement Active Learning in Mathematics (and in other STEM disciplines) |
8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m. | MAA General Contributed Paper Session, IX |
8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m. | SIAM Minisymposium on Graph Coloring and Partitioning, I |
8:00 a.m.-8:45 a.m. | ASL Session for Contributed Papers, II |
8:20 a.m.-4:20 p.m. | AWM Workshop
This session has several parts that will be listed separately by time in the program. All presentations are open to all JMM participants. |
8:30 a.m.-10:10 a.m. | AMS Session on Analysis and Ordinary Differential Equations, III |
8:30 a.m.-10:25 a.m. | AMS Session on Algebra and Group Theory, IV |
8:30 a.m.-10:20 a.m. | AWM Workshop: Research Presentations by Recent Ph.D.'s, I |
9:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m. | AMS Invited Address
Constantine M. Dafermos Progress in Hyperbolic Conservation Laws. |
9:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m. | ASL Invited Address
Ilijas Farah Applications of set theory to operator algebras. |
9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. | AMS Special Session on The Feynman Integral in Mathematics and Physics, I |
9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. | MAA Minicourse \#10: Part B
The Fibonacci and Catalan numbers. |
9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. | MAA Minicourse \#15: Part B
Evaluating student presentations in mathematics. |
9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. | MAA Minicourse \#4: Part B
Wavelets and applications: A multidisciplinary undergraduate course with an emphasis on scientific computing. |
9:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m. | NAM Panel Discussion
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9:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. | Student Hospitality Center
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9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. | Exhibits and Book Sales
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9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. | Employment Register
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9:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m. | Project NExT Panel Discussion
New technologies for faculty: Wikis, discussion boards, and clickers. |
10:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m. | ASL Invited Address
Jan Reimann Measures and their random reals. |
10:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m. | NAM Business Meeting
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10:05 a.m.-10:55 a.m. | MAA Retiring Presidential Address
Carl C. Cowen The teaching-technology linkage in mathematics. |
10:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m. | AWM Workshop: Poster Session with Presentations from Women Graduate Students |
11:10 a.m.-11:40 a.m. | MAA Business Meeting
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11:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m. | AMS Business Meeting
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1:00 p.m.-1:50 p.m. | NAM Claytor-Woodard Lecture
Scott W. Williams Box Products 25 Years Later. |
1:00 p.m.-1:50 p.m. | ASL Invited Address
Simon R. Thomas A Descriptive View of Geometric Group Theory. |
1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m. | AMS-MAA-SIAM Special Session on Research in Mathematics by Undergraduates, V |
1:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m. | AMS-MAA-MER Special Session on Mathematics and Education Reform, II |
1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m. | AMS-MAA Special Session on History of Mathematics, IV |
1:00 p.m.-5:55 p.m. | AMS Special Session on Financial Mathematics, IV |
1:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m. | AMS Special Session on the Feynman Integral in Mathematics and Physics, II |
1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m. | AMS Special Session on Heegaard Splittings, Bridge Positions, and Low Dimensional Topology, II |
1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m. | AMS Special Session on The Linear Diophantine Problem of Frobenius |
1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m. | AMS Special Session on E-Theory, Extensions, and Elliptic Operators, II |
1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m. | AMS Special Session on Algebraic and Geometric Aspects of Integrable Systems, II |
1:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m. | AMS Special Session on Expanders and Ramanujan Graphs: Construction and Applications, III |
1:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m. | AMS Special Session on Probability Theory and Statistical Mechanics, II |
1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m. | AMS Special Session on Global Optimization and Operations Research Applications, II |
1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m. | AMS Special Session on Mathematical Problems in Biological Formations |
1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. | MAA Minicourse \#11: Part B
More music and mathematics. |
1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. | MAA Minicourse \#16: Part B
A beginner's guide to the scholarship of teaching and learning in mathematics. |
1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. | MAA Minicourse \#5: Part B
Visualizing abstract mathematics with cellular automata. |
1:00 p.m.-4:40 p.m. | AMS Session on Combinatorics, IV |
1:00 p.m.-6:10 p.m. | AMS Session on Mathematics Education |
1:00 p.m.-5:10 p.m. | AMS Session on Probability, Statistics, and Applications, II |
1:00 p.m.-5:10 p.m. | AMS Session on Analysis and Functional Analysis, II |
1:00 p.m.-3:55 p.m. | MAA Session on Biomathematics in the Undergraduate Curriculum, III |
1:00 p.m.-3:35 p.m. | MAA Session on Mathematics and the Arts, III |
1:00 p.m.-2:15 p.m. | MAA Session on Mathlets and Web Resources for Mathematics and Statistics Education, II |
1:00 p.m.-5:15 p.m. | MAA Session on Research on the Teaching and Learning of Undergraduate Mathematics, III |
1:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m. | MAA General Contributed Paper Session, X |
1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m. | SIAM Minisymposium on Graph Coloring and Partitioning, II |
1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m. | AWM Workshop Panel Discussion
Establishing a career in mathematics. |
2:00 p.m.-5:35 p.m. | ASL Session for Contributed Papers, III |
2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m. | AWM Workshop: Research Presentations by Recent Ph.D.'s, II |
2:45 p.m.-5:10 p.m. | MAA General Contributed Paper Session, XI |
4:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m. | MAA General Contributed Paper Session, XII |
6:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m. | AMS Banquet Reception
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7:30 p.m.-10:00 p.m. | AMS Banquet
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