Joint Mathematics Meetings AMS Special Session

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Virtual Joint Mathematics Meetings (formerly in Seattle, WA)

• now meeting virtually, PT (hosted by the American Mathematical Society), Seattle, WA
• April 6-9, 2022 (Wednesday - Saturday)
• Meeting #1174

Associate Secretary for the AMS Scientific Program:

Georgia Benkart, University of Wisconsin-Madison benkart@math.wisc.edu

AMS Special Session on Mathematics Through the Informational Lens

• Saturday April 9, 2022, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Mathematics Through the Informational Lens
  Organizers:
  Chid Apte, IBM Research
  Chai Wah Wu, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
  Rachel Bellamy, IBM Research
  Charles H Bennett, IBM Research
  Kenneth Clarkson, IBM Research
  John Cohn, IBM Research
  Payel Das, IBM Research
  Lior Horesh, IBM Research
  Jon Lenchner, IBM Research
  JR Rao, IBM Research
  John Smolin, IBM Research
  Mark S Squillante, IBM Research
  Yuhai Tu, IBM Research
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The Value of Errors in Proofs: a fascinating journey from Turing's seminal 1936 R RE to the 2020 breakthrough of MIP* = RE
    Avi Wigderson*, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ
    (1174-68-6926)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Loops and windings in animal's trail
    Yuliy M Baryshnikov*, University of Illinois
    (1174-92-8241)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Computational Complexity through the Informational Lens: A Glimpse into Descriptive Complexity via a Game that Characterizes the Number of Quantifiers Needed to Express a Property in First Order Logic
    Jonathan Lenchner*, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
    (1174-03-8739)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Examples of polynomial time approximation of topological entropy and Gibbs free energy
    Brian Harry Marcus*, UBC, Vancouver
    (1174-37-5687)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    TRAJECTORIAL APPROACH TO ENTROPIC GRADIENT FLOWS FOR CONSERVATIVE DIFFUSIONS
    Ioannis Karatzas*, Columbia University
    (1174-60-6048)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Fourier methods for some problems in the theory of computing
    Gil Kalai*, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    (1174-42-11259)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Panel Discussion
• Saturday April 9, 2022, 1:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Mathematics Through the Informational Lens, II
  Organizers:
  Chid Apte, IBM Research
  Rachel Bellamy, IBM Research
  Charles H Bennett, IBM Research
  Kenneth Clarkson, IBM Research
  John Cohn, IBM Research
  Payel Das, IBM Research
  Lior Horesh, IBM Research
  Jon Lenchner, IBM Research
  JR Rao, IBM Research
  John Smolin, IBM Research
  Mark S Squillante, IBM Research
  Yuhai Tu, IBM Research
  Chai Wah Wu, IBM Research
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Optimal transport: from nature to machine learning
    Alessio Figalli*, ETH Zurich
    (1174-49-7884)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Optimal Transport and Information Geometry
    Soumik Pal*, University of Washington
    (1174-49-11004)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Optimal Transport and Stochastic Optimal Control
    Mark S Squillante*, IBM Research
    (1174-49-10524)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Extracting information about high-dimensional measures from lower-dimensional projections
    Kaviita Ramanan*, Brown University
    (1174-60-11015)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Moment-entropy inequalities for random vectors via convex geometry
    Deane Yang*, New York University
    (1174-52-10634)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Quantum advantage for computations with limited space
    Sergey Bravyi*, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
    (1174-68-8313)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Hybrid analog digital algorithms
    Chai Wah Wu*, IBM Research
    (1174-68-11086)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Panel Discussion