Joint Mathematics Meetings Invited Addresses

Current as of Saturday, January 16, 2016 03:30:12

Joint Mathematics Meetings
Washington State Convention Center and the Sheraton Seattle Hotel, Seattle, WA
January 6-9, 2016 (Wednesday - Saturday)
Meeting #1116

Associate secretaries:

Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.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

• Jennifer Chayes, Microsoft Research, Network Science: From the Online World to Cancer Genomics. (MAA-AMS-SIAM Gerald and Judith Porter Public Lecture)
• Kristin Estella Lauter, Microsoft Research, How to Keep your Genome Secret. (AMS-MAA)
• Xiao-Li Meng, Harvard University, Statistical paradises and paradoxes in big data. (AMS-MAA)
• Karen E Smith, University of Michigan, The Power of Noether's Ring Theory in Understanding Singularities of Complex Algebraic Varieties. (AWM-AMS Noether Lecture)

AMS Invited Addresses

• Panagiota Daskalopoulos, Columbia University, Ancient solutions to parabolic partial differential equations.
• Alex Eskin, University of Chicago, The $SL(2,\mathbb{R})$ action on moduli space.
• W Timothy Gowers, University of Cambridge, UK, Quasirandom sets, quasirandom graphs, and applications. (AMS Colloquium Lectures: Lecture I)
• W Timothy Gowers, University of Cambridge, UK, Arithmetic progressions of length 4, quadratic Fourier analysis, and 3-uniform hypergraphs. (AMS Colloquium Lectures: Lecture II)
• W Timothy Gowers, University of Cambridge, UK, Fourier analysis on general finite groups. (AMS Colloquium Lectures: Lecture III)
• Marta Lewicka, University of Pittsburgh, Prestrained elasticity: curvature constraints and differential geometry with low regularity.
• Daniel Alan Spielman, Yale University, Graphs, vectors, and matrices. (AMS Josiah Willard Gibbs Lecture)
• David Vogan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Conjugacy classes and group representations. (AMS Retiring Presidential Address)
• Steve Zelditch, Northwestern University, Chaotic billiards and vibrations of drums.

MAA Invited Addresses

• Steven Brams, New York University, Fair division.
• Katherine D. Crowley,, Mathematics and policy: Strategies for effective advocacy.
• Robert Devaney, Boston University, The fractal geometry of the Mandelbrot Set. (MAA Lecture for Students)
• Charles R. Hadlock, Bentley University, A mathematical tour through a collapsing world.
• Alan Schoenfeld, University of California, Berkeley, What makes for powerful classrooms---and what can we do, now that we know?
• T. Christine Stevens, American Mathematical Society, Singing along with math: The mathematical work of the opera singer Jerome Hines.

Invited Addresses of Other Organizations

• Dana Bartosova, Instituto de Matematica e Estatistica, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Ramsey properties in topological dynamics. (ASL)
• Natasha Dobrinen, University of Denver, Inner topological Ramsey spaces. (ASL)
• Lou van den Dries, University of Illinois, Transseries: algebra and model theory. (ASL)
• James Freitag, University of California Los Angeles, Differential algebra and special points conjectures. (ASL)
• Carl G. Jockusch, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Imperfect algorithms, asymptotic density, and Turing degrees. (ASL)
• Bakh Khoussainov, The University of Auckland, Algorithmically random infinite structures. (ASL)
• Rachel Kuske, Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia, Stochastic facilitation and sensitivities in discontinuous dynamics. (SIAM)
• Tanya A Moore, Building Diversity in Science/Presidio Graduate School, Why mathematicians and statisticians are needed to create lasting social impact. (NAM)
• Tatiana Toro, University of Washington, Analysis on non-smooth domains. (NAM)
• Jindrich Zapletal, University of Florida, Interpretations of topological spaces. (ASL)