Joint Mathematics Meetings AMS Special Sessions
Current as of Saturday, January 20, 2018 03:30:08
Joint Mathematics Meetings
San Diego Convention Center and Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina, San Diego, CA
January 10-13, 2018 (Wednesday - Saturday)
Meeting #1135
Associate secretaries:
Georgia Benkart, AMS benkart@math.wisc.edu
Gerard A Venema, MAA venema@calvin.edu
If you are volunteering to speak in a Special Session, you should send your abstract as early as possible via the abstract submission form found at http://jointmathematicsmeetings.org/meetings/abstracts/abstract.pl?type=jmm.
Links to abstracts will be available approximately one week (for sectional meetings) to four weeks (for national meetings) after the abstracts deadline.
AMS Special Sessions
- AMS Special Session on A Showcase of Number Theory at Liberal Arts Colleges
- Adriana Salerno, Bates College
- Lola Thompson, Oberlin College lola.thompson@oberlin.edu
- AMS Special Session on Accelerated Advances in Mathematical Fractional Programming
- Ram Verma, International Publications USA verma99@msn.com
- Alexander Zaslavski, Israel Institute of Technology
- AMS Special Session on Advances in Applications of Differential Equations to Disease Modeling
- Libin Rong, Oakland University
- Elissa Schwartz, Washington State University
- Naveen K. Vaidya, San Diego State University nvaidya.anyol@gmail.com
- AMS Special Session on Advances in Difference, Differential, and Dynamic Equations with Applications
- Elvan Akin, Missouri University S&T akine@mst.edu
- John Davis, Baylor University
- AMS Special Session on Advances in Operator Algebras
- Marcel Bischoff, Vanderbilt University
- Ian Charlesworth, University of California, Los Angeles
- Brent Nelson, University of California, Berkeley brent@math.berkeley.edu
- Sarah Reznikoff, Kansas State University
- AMS Special Session on Advances in Operator Theory, Operator Algebras, and Operator Semigroups
- Asuman G. Aksoy, Claremont McKenna College
- Zair Ibragimov, California State University, Fullerton
- Marat Markin, California State University, Fresno mmarkin@csufresno.edu
- Ilya Spitkovsky, New York University, Abu Dhabi
- AMS Special Session on Algebraic, Analytic, and Geometric Aspects of Integrable Systems, Painlevé Equations, and Random Matrices
- Vladimir Dragovic, University of Texas at Dallas
- Anton Dzhamay, University of Northern Colorado adzham@unco.edu
- Sevak Mkrtchyan, University of Rochester
- AMS Special Session on Algebraic, Discrete, Topological and Stochastic Approaches to Modeling in Mathematical Biology
- Olcay Akman, Illinois State University
- Timothy D. Comar, Benedictine University tcomar@ben.edu
- Daniel Hrozencik, Chicago State University
- Raina Robeva, Sweet Briar College
- AMS Special Session on Alternative Proofs in Mathematical Practice
- John W. Dawson, Jr., Pennsylvania State University, York jwd7too@comcast.net
- AMS Special Session on Analysis of Fractional, Stochastic, and Hybrid Dynamic Systems
- John R. Graef, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
- Gangaram S. Ladde, University of South Florida
- Aghalaya S. Vatsala, University of Louisiana at Lafayette vatsala@louisiana.edu
- AMS Special Session on Analysis of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Applications
- Tarek M. Elgindi, University of California, San Diego tme2@princeton.edu
- Edriss S. Titi, Texas A&M University and Weizmann Institute of Science
- AMS Special Session on Applied and Computational Combinatorics
- Torin Greenwood, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Jay Pantone, Dartmouth College jaypantone@dartmouth.edu
- AMS Special Session on Arithmetic Dynamics
- Robert L. Benedetto, Amherst College
- Benjamin Hutz, Saint Louis University
- Jamie Juul, Amherst College jjuul@amherst.edu
- Bianca Thompson, Harvey Mudd College
- AMS Special Session on Beyond Planarity: Crossing Numbers of Graphs (a Mathematics Research Communities Session)
- Axel Brandt, Davidson College
- Garner Cochran, University of South Carolina gcochran@math.sc.edu
- Sarah Loeb, College of William and Mary
- AMS Special Session on Bifurcations of Difference Equations and Discrete Dynamical Systems
- Arzu Bilgin, University of Rhode Island
- Toufik Khyat, University of Rhode Island toufik17@my.uri.edu
- AMS Special Session on Boundaries for Groups and Spaces
- Joseph Maher, CUNY College of Staten Island joseph.maher@csi.cuny.edu
- Genevieve Walsh, Tufts University
- AMS Special Session on Combinatorial Commutative Algebra and Polytopes
- Robert Davis, Michigan State University davisr@math.msu.edu
- Liam Solus, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
- AMS Special Session on Combinatorics and Geometry
- Federico Ardila, San Francisco State University
- Anastasia Chavez, MSRI and University of California, Davis
- Laura Escobar, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign lescobar@illinois.edu
- AMS Special Session on Commutative Algebra in All Characteristics
- Neil Epstein, George Mason University nepstei2@gmu.edu
- Karl Schwede, University of Utah
- Janet Vassilev, University of New Mexico
- AMS Special Session on Computational Combinatorics and Number Theory
- Jeremy F. Alm, Lamar University alm.academic@gmail.com
- David Andrews, University of Dallas
- Rob Hochberg, University of Dallas
- AMS Special Session on Connections in Discrete Mathematics: Graphs, Hypergraphs, and Designs
- Amin Bahmanian, Illinois State University mbahman@ilstu.edu
- Theodore Molla, University Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- AMS Special Session on Differential Geometry
- Vincent B. Bonini, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo vbonini@calpoly.edu
- Joseph E. Borzellino, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
- Bogdan D. Suceava, California State University, Fullerton
- Guofang Wei, University of California, Santa Barbara
- AMS Special Session on Diophantine Approximation and Analytic Number Theory in Honor of Jeffrey Vaaler
- Shabnam Akhtari, University of Oregon
- Lenny Fukshansky, Claremont McKenna College lenny@cmc.edu
- Clayton Petsche, Oregon State University
- AMS Special Session on Discrete Dynamical Systems and Applications
- E. Cabral Balreira, Trinity University
- Saber Elaydi, Trinity University
- Eddy Kwessi, Trinity University ekwessi@trinity.edu
- AMS Special Session on Discrete Neural Networking and Applications
- Murat Adivar, Fayetteville State University
- Michael A. Radin, Rochester Institute of Technology michael.radin@rit.edu
- Youssef Raffoul, University of Dayton
- AMS Special Session on Dynamical Algebraic Combinatorics
- James Propp, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
- Tom Roby, University of Connecticut
- Jessica Striker, North Dakota State University jessica.striker@ndsu.edu
- Nathan Williams, University of California Santa Barbara
- AMS Special Session on Dynamical Systems with Applications to Mathematical Biology
- Guihong Fan, Columbus State University
- Jing Li, California State University Northridge jing.li@csun.edu
- Chunhua Shan, University of Toledo
- AMS Special Session on Dynamical Systems: Smooth, Symbolic, and Measurable (a Mathematics Research Communities Session)
- Kathryn Lindsey, Boston College kathryn.a.lindsey@gmail.com
- Scott Schmieding, Northwestern University
- Kurt Vinhage, University of Chicago
- AMS Special Session on Emergent Phenomena in Discrete Models
- Dana Randall, Georgia Institute of Technology randall@cc.gatech.edu
- Andrea Richa, Arizona State University
- AMS Special Session on Emerging Topics in Graphs and Matrices
- Sudipta Mallik, Northern Arizona University sudipta.mallik@nau.edu
- Keivan Hassani Monfared, University of Calgary
- Bryan Shader, University of Wyoming
- AMS Special Session on Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems--to Celebrate the Work of Jane Hawkins
- Julia Barnes, Western Carolina University
- Rachel Bayless, Agnes Scott College
- Emily Burkhead, Duke University
- Lorelei Koss, Dickinson College koss@dickinson.edu
- AMS Special Session on Extremal Problems in Approximations and Geometric Function Theory
- Ram Mohapatra, University of Central Florida ram.mohapatra@ucf.edu
- AMS Special Session on Financial Mathematics, Actuarial Sciences, and Related Fields
- Albert Cohen, Michigan State University
- Nguyet Nguyen, Youngstown State University ntnguyen01@ysu.edu
- Oana Mocioalca, Kent State University
- Thomas Wakefield, Youngstown State University
- AMS Special Session on Fractional Difference Operators and Their Application
- Christopher S. Goodrich, Creighton Preparatory School cgood@prep.creighton.edu
- Rajendra Dahal, Coastal Carolina University
- AMS Special Session on Free Convexity and Free Analysis
- J. William Helton, University of California, San Diego
- Igor Klep, University of Auckland igor.klep@auckland.ac.nz
- AMS Special Session on Geometric Analysis and Geometric Flows
- David Glickenstein, University of Arizona glickenstein@math.arizona.edu
- Brett Kotschwar, Arizona State University
- AMS Special Session on Geometric Analysis
- Davi Maximo, University of Pennsylvania dmaxim@math.upenn.edu
- Lu Wang, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Xin Zhou, University of California Santa Barbara
- AMS Special Session on History of Mathematics
- Sloan Despeaux, Western Carolina University
- Jemma Lorenat, Pitzer College
- Clemency Montelle, University of Canterbury
- Daniel Otero, Xavier University otero@xavier.edu
- Adrian Rice, Randolph-Macon College
- AMS Special Session on Homotopy Type Theory (a Mathematics Research Communities Session)
- Simon Cho, University of Michigan seamooncho@gmail.com
- Liron Cohen, Cornell University
- Edward Morehouse, Wesleyan University
- AMS Special Session on If You Build It They Will Come: Presentations by Scholars in the National Alliance for Doctoral Studies in the Mathematical Sciences
- David Goldberg, Purdue University
- Phil Kutzko, University of Iowa philip-kutzko@uiowa.edu
- AMS Special Session on Interactions of Inverse Problems, Signal Processing, and Imaging
- M. Zuhair Nashed, University of Central Florida M.Nashed@ucf.edu
- Willi Freeden, University of Kaiserslautern
- Otmar Scherzer, University of Vienna
- AMS Special Session on Markov Chains, Markov Processes and Applications
- Alan Krinik, California State Polytechnic University ackrinik@cpp.edu
- Randall J. Swift, California State Polytechnic University
- AMS Special Session on Mathematical Analysis and Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations
- Hongjie Dong, Brown University
- Peiyong Wang, Wayne State University
- Jiuyi Zhu, Louisiana State University zhu@math.lsu.edu
- AMS Special Session on Mathematical Fluid Mechanics: Analysis and Applications
- Zachary Bradshaw, University of Virginia zb8br@virginia.edu
- Aseel Farhat, University of Virginia
- AMS Special Session on Mathematical Information in the Digital Age of Science
- Patrick Ion, University of Michigan pion@umich.edu
- Olaf Teschke, zbMath Berlin
- Stephen Watt, University of Waterloo
- AMS Special Session on Mathematical Modeling and Analysis of Infectious Diseases
- Kazuo Yamazaki, University of Rochester kyamazak@ur.rochester.edu
- AMS Special Session on Mathematical Modeling of Natural Resources
- Shandelle M. Henson, Andrews University henson@andrews.edu
- Natali Hritonenko, Prairie View A&M University
- AMS Special Session on Mathematical Modeling, Analysis and Applications in Population Biology
- Yu Jin, University of Nebraska-Lincoln yjin6@unl.edu
- Ying Zhou, Lafayette College
- AMS Special Session on Mathematical Problems in Ocean Wave Modeling and Fluid Mechanics
- Christopher W. Curtis, San Diego State University ccurtis@mail.sdsu.edu
- Katie Oliveras, Seattle University
- AMS Special Session on Mathematical Relativity and Geometric Analysis
- James Dilts, University of California, San Diego jdilts@ucsd.edu
- Michael Holst, University of California, San Diego
- AMS Special Session on Mathematics Research from the SMALL Undergraduate Research Program
- Colin Adams, Williams College
- Frank Morgan, Williams College
- Cesar E. Silva, Williams College csilva@williams.edu
- AMS Special Session on Mathematics of Gravitational Wave Science
- Andrew Gillette, University of Arizona agillette@math.arizona.edu
- Nikki Holtzer, University of Arizona
- AMS Special Session on Mathematics of Quantum Computing and Topological Phases of Matter
- Paul Bruillard, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- David Meyer, University of California San Diego
- Julia Plavnik, Texas A&M University julia@math.tamu.edu
- AMS Special Session on Metric Geometry and Topology
- Christine Escher, Oregon State University
- Catherine Searle, Wichita State University searle@math.wichita.edu
- AMS Special Session on Modeling in Differential Equations - High School, Two-Year College, Four-Year Institution
- Corban Harwood, George Fox University
- William Skerbitz, Wayzata High School
- Brian Winkel, SIMIODE brianwinkel@simiode.org
- Dina Yagodich, Frederick Community College
- AMS Special Session on Multi-scale Modeling with PDEs in Computational Science and Engineering:Algorithms, Simulations, Analysis, and Applications
- Salim M. Haidar, Grand Valley State University haidars@gvsu.edu
- AMS Special Session on Network Science
- David Burstein, Swarthmore College dburste1@swarthmore.edu
- Franklin Kenter, United States Naval Academy
- Feng Shi, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- AMS Special Session on New Trends in Celestial Mechanics
- Richard Montgomery, University of California Santa Cruz
- Zhifu Xie, University of Southern Mississippi zhifu.xie@usm.edu
- AMS Special Session on Nilpotent and Solvable Geometry
- Michael Jablonski, University of Oklahoma
- Megan Kerr, Wellesley College mkerr@wellesley.edu
- Tracy Payne, Idaho State University
- AMS Special Session on Noncommutative Algebras and Noncommutative Invariant Theory
- Ellen Kirkman, Wake Forest University
- James Zhang, University of Washington zhang@math.washington.edu
- AMS Special Session on Nonlinear Evolution Equations of Quantum Physics and Their Topological Solutions
- Stephen Gustafson, University of British Columbia
- Israel Michael Sigal, University of Toronto im.sigal@utoronto.ca
- Avy Soffer, Rutgers University
- AMS Special Session on Novel Methods of Enhancing Success in Mathematics Classes
- Ellina Grigorieva, Texas Womans University egrigorieva@twu.edu
- Natali Hritonenko, Prairie View A&M University
- AMS Special Session on Open and Accessible Problems for Undergraduate Research
- Michael Dorff, Brigham Young University
- Allison Henrich, Seattle University henricha@seattleu.edu
- Nicholas Scoville, Ursinus College
- AMS Special Session on Operators on Function Spaces in One and Several Variables
- Catherine Bénéteau, University of South Florida cbenetea@usf.edu
- Matthew Fleeman, Baylor University
- Constanze Liaw, Baylor University
- AMS Special Session on Orthogonal Polynomials and Applications
- Abey Lopez-Garcia, University of South Alabama
- Xiang-Sheng Wang, University of Louisiana at Lafayette xswang@louisiana.edu
- AMS Special Session on Orthogonal Polynomials, Quantum Probability, and Stochastic Analysis
- Julius N. Esunge, University of Mary Washington
- Aurel I. Stan, Ohio State University stan.7@osu.edu
- AMS Special Session on Quantum Link Invariants, Khovanov Homology, and Low-dimensional Manifolds
- Diana Hubbard, University of Michigan
- Christine Ruey Shan Lee, University of Texas at Austin clee@math.utexas.edu
- AMS Special Session on Quaternions
- Terrence Blackman, Medgar Evers College, City University of New York
- Johannes Familton, Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York jfamilton@bmcc.cuny.edu
- Chris McCarthy, Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York
- AMS Special Session on Recent Trends in Analysis of Numerical Methods of Partial Differential Equations
- Sara Pollock, Wright State University
- Leo Rebholz, Clemson University rebholz@clemson.edu
- AMS Special Session on Research by Postdocs of the Alliance for Diversity in Mathematics
- Aloysius Helminck, University of Hawaii - Manoa
- Michael Young, Iowa State University myoung@iastate.edu
- AMS Special Session on Research from the Rocky Mountain-Great Plains Graduate Research Workshop in Combinatorics
- Michael Ferrara, University of Colorado Denver michael.ferrara@ucdenver.edu
- Leslie Hogben, Iowa State University
- Paul Horn, University of Denver
- Tyrrell McAllister, University of Wyoming
- AMS Special Session on Research in Mathematics by Early Career Graduate Students
- Michael Bishop, California State University, Fresno
- Marat Markin, California State University, Fresno
- Khang Tran, California State University, Fresno
- Oscar Vega, California State University, Fresno ovega@csufresno.edu
- AMS-MAA-SIAM Special Session on Research in Mathematics by Undergraduates and Students in Post-Baccalaureate Programs
- Tamas Forgacs, CSU Fresno
- Darren A. Narayan, Rochester Institute of Technology dansma@rit.edu
- Mark David Ward, Purdue University
- AMS-ASL Special Session on Set Theory, Logic and Ramsey Theory
- Andrés Caicedo, Mathematical Reviews
- José Mijares, University of Colorado, Denver jose.mijarespalacios@ucdenver.edu
- AMS Special Session on Set-theoretic Topology (Dedicated to Jack Porter in Honor of 50 Years of Dedicated Research)
- Nathan Carlson, California Lutheran University ncarlson@callutheran.edu
- Jila Niknejad, University of Kansas
- Lynne Yengulalp, University of Dayton
- AMS Special Session on Special Functions and Combinatorics (in honor of Dennis Stanton's 65th birthday)
- Susanna Fishel, Arizona State University sfishel1@asu.edu
- Mourad Ismail, University of Central Florida
- Vic Reiner, University of Minnesota
- AMS Special Session on Spectral Theory, Disorder and Quantum Physics
- Rajinder Mavi, Michigan State University mavi@math.msu.edu
- Jeffery Schenker, Michigan State University
- AMS Special Session on Stochastic Processes, Stochastic Optimization and Control, Numerics and Applications
- Hongwei Mei, University of Central Florida
- Zhixin Yang, Ball State University
- Quan Yuan, Ball State University
- Guangliang Zhao, GE Global Research dr.gzhao@gmail.com
- AMS Special Session on Strengthening Infrastructures to Increase Capacity Around K-20 Mathematics
- Brianna Donaldson, American Institute of Mathematics brianna@aimath.org
- William Jaco, Oklahoma State University
- Michael Oehrtman, Oklahoma State University
- Levi Patrick, Oklahoma State Department of Education
- AMS Special Session on Structure and Representations of Hopf Algebras: a Session in Honor of Susan Montgomery
- Siu-Hung Ng, Louisiana State University
- Lance Small, University of California, San Diego
- Henry Tucker, University of California, San Diego htucker@usc.edu
- AMS Special Session on Theory, Practice, and Applications of Graph Clustering
- David Gleich, Purdue University
- Jennifer Webster, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Stephen J. Young, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory stephen.young@pnnl.gov
- AMS Special Session on Topological Data Analysis
- Henry Adams, Colorado State University henry.adams@colostate.edu
- Gunnar Carlsson, Stanford University
- Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson, CUNY College of Staten Island
- AMS Special Session on Topological Graph Theory: Structure and Symmetry
- Jonathan L. Gross, Columbia University
- Thomas W. Tucker, Colgate University ttucker@colgate.edu
- AMS Special Session on Visualization in Mathematics: Perspectives of Mathematicians and Mathematics Educators
- Karen Allen Keene, North Carolina State University
- Mile Krajcevski, University of South Florida mile@mail.usf.edu
- AMS-AWM Special Session on Women in Symplectic and Contact Geometry and Topology
- Bahar Acu, Northwestern University baharacu@gmail.com
- Ziva Myer, Duke University
- Yu Pan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology