Joint Mathematics Meetings Program by Special Session

Current as of Thursday, January 15, 2009 00:44:11

Joint Mathematics Meetings
Washington, DC, January 5-8, 2009 (Monday - Thursday)
Meeting #1046

• Monday January 5, 2009, 9:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on The Mathematics of Information and Knowledge, I
  Delaware Suite A, Lobby Level, Marriott
  Organizers:
  Ronald R. Coifman, Yale University
  James G. Glimm, SUNY at Stony Brook
  Peter W. Jones, Yale University jones@math.yale.edu
  Stephen Smale, Toyota Institute
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Scales and Geometry in Data Sets.
    Peter W Jones*, Yale University
    (1046-65-1292)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Homological Methods for the study of Data Sets.
    Shmuel Weinberger*, University of Chicago
    (1046-55-2129)
• Monday January 5, 2009, 2:15 p.m.-6:15 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on The Mathematics of Information and Knowledge, II
  Delaware Suite A, Lobby Level, Marriott
  Organizers:
  Ronald R. Coifman, Yale University
  James G. Glimm, SUNY at Stony Brook
  Peter W. Jones, Yale University jones@math.yale.edu
  Stephen Smale, Toyota Institute
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    Phase transition phenomenon in sparse approximation.
    Jared Tanner*, University of Edinburgh
    David L. Donoho, Stanford University
    (1046-52-2082)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Accelerated Computational Methods for Fluid and Plasma Dynamics.
    Russel E Caflisch*, IPAM, UCLA
    (1046-76-1789)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Structure Determination through Eigenvectors of Sparse Operators.
    Amit Singer*, Princeton University
    (1046-92-2130)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Discussion
• Tuesday January 6, 2009, 9:00 a.m.-11:45 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on The Mathematics of Information and Knowledge, III
  Delaware Suite A, Lobby Level, Marriott
  Organizers:
  Ronald R. Coifman, Yale University
  James G. Glimm, SUNY at Stony Brook
  Peter W. Jones, Yale University jones@math.yale.edu
  Stephen Smale, Toyota Institute
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Topological sensing: doing more with less in sensor networks via topological data.
    Robert Ghrist*, University of Pennsylvania
    Yuliy Baryshnikov, Bell Labs
    (1046-94-1796)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Google and the Vapnik-Chervonenkis Dimension.
    Stuart Geman*, Brown University
    (1046-60-2126)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Internet Topology Inference.
    Paul Barford*, University of Wisconson-Madison
    (1046-68-2132)
• Tuesday January 6, 2009, 1:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on The Mathematics of Information and Knowledge, IV
  Delaware Suite A, Lobby Level, Marriott
  Organizers:
  Ronald R. Coifman, Yale University
  James G. Glimm, SUNY at Stony Brook
  Peter W. Jones, Yale University jones@math.yale.edu
  Stephen Smale, Toyota Institute
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Hodge Theory for Singular Spaces.
    Steve Smale*, Toyoto Technological Institute
    Nat Smale, University of Utah
    (1046-60-1222)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Harmonic and Multiscale Analysis on low-dimensional data sets in high-dimensions.
    Mauro Maggioni*, Duke University
    (1046-60-1685)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Fast Matrix Computations via Randomized Sampling.
    Gunnar Martinsson*, University of Colorado at Boulder
    (1046-60-2131)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Discussion