Joint Mathematics Meetings Invited Addresses

Current as of Saturday, January 17, 2015 03:30:13

 
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Joint Mathematics Meetings
Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center and Grand Hyatt San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
January 10-13, 2015 (Saturday - Tuesday)
Meeting #1106

Associate secretaries:

Steven H Weintraub, AMS shw2@lehigh.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

  • Jordan S. Ellenberg, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Combinatorial designs, finite geometries, and beating the lottery. (AMS-MAA)
  • Wen-Ching Winnie Li, Pennsylvania State University, Modular Forms for Congruence and Noncongruence Subgroups. (AWM-AMS Noether Lecture)
  • Donald G. Saari, University of California, Irvine, From Voting Paradoxes to the Search for "Dark Matter". (MAA-AMS-SIAM Gerald and Judith Porter Public Lecture)
  • Richard A. Tapia, Rice University, The Remarkable Journey of the Isoperimetric Problem: From Euler to Steiner to Weierstrass. (AMS-MAA)

AMS Invited Addresses

  • Ian Agol, University of California, Berkeley, Progress in 3-manifold topology and geometric group theory.
  • Henri Darmon, McGill University, Elliptic curves and explicit class field theory.
  • Susan Holmes, Stanford University, Statistically relevant metrics for complex data.
  • Michael J. Hopkins, Harvard University, Algebraic topology: new and old directions. (AMS Colloquium Lectures, Lecture I)
  • Michael J. Hopkins, Harvard University, The Kervaire invariant problem. (AMS Colloquium Lectures, Lecture II)
  • Michael J. Hopkins, Harvard University, Chern-Weil theory and abstract homotopy theory. (AMS Colloquium Lectures, Lecture III)
  • Russell Lyons, Indiana University, Bloomington, Random orderings and unique ergodicity of automorphism groups.
  • Irena Peeva, Cornell University, Matrix factorizations and complete intersection rings.
  • Daniel A. Spielman, Yale University, Graphs, vectors, and matrices. (AMS Josiah Willard Gibbs Lecture)

MAA Invited Addresses

  • Robert L. Devaney, Boston University, Cantor and Sierpinski, Julia and Fatou: Crazy topology in complex dynamics. (MAA Retiring Presidential Address)
  • George Hart, Stony Brook University, Math is cool! (MAA Lecture for Students)
  • Catherine O'Neil, Johnson Research Labs, Making the case for data journalism.
  • Ken Ono, Emory University, Golden numbers and identities: The legacy of Rogers and Ramanujan.
  • Christiane Rousseau, Université de Montréal, Divergent series and differential equations: Past, present, future $ ... $
  • Diana L. Thomas, Montclair State University, Dispelling obesity myths through mathematical modeling.
Invited Addresses of Other Organizations