Joint Mathematics Meetings Invited Addresses

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:40

Program | Deadlines | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

Associate secretaries:
John L Bryant, AMS bryant@math.fsu.edu
James J Tattersall, MAA tat@providence.edu

Dennis DeTurck, University of Pennsylvania, Helicity of vector fields in geometry, biology, and plasma physics.
Hendrik W. Lenstra, Jr., University of California Berkeley, Harmonic numbers and the ABC-conjecture.
James R. Schatz, National Security Agency, Mathematics at the National Security Agency.

Michael V. Berry, Bristol University, Making light of mathematics.
Felix E. Browder, Rutgers University, Reflections on the future of mathematics.
Lawrence Craig Evans, University of California Berkeley, Entropy Methods for Partial Differential Equations: Entropy and entropy flux pairs.
Lawrence Craig Evans, University of California Berkeley, Entropy Methods for Partial Differential Equations: Entropy, equilibrium, and irreversibility.
Lawrence Craig Evans, University of California Berkeley, Entropy Methods for Partial Differential Equations: Maximum principle methods.
John M. Franks, Northwestern University, The role of rotation numbers in dynamical systems.
Jeffrey C. Lagarias, AT\&T Laboratories Research, Computational problems in topology: The complexity of unknotting.
Fanghua Lin, Courant Institute, New York University, Analytical and topological issues concerning Sobolev mappings.
John Preskill, California Institute of Technology, Putting weirdness to work: Quantum information and quantum computation.
Richard Lawrence Taylor, Harvard University, Meromorphic continuation of L-functions.

Thomas F. Banchoff, Brown University, The down side of the trapezoid: An Immediate Past President surveys the Internet.
Manuel P. Berrioz\'abal, University of Texas at San Antonio, Reforms in mathematics education: Best practices and malpractices.
Persi W. Diaconis, Stanford University, From shuffling cards to the roots of randomness.
Andrew J. Granville, University of Georgia, Probability, combinatorics, and physics in analytic number theory.
Susan Landau, Sun Microsystems, Inc., Old math, new math: Using polynomials to gain insight into the design of cryptosystems.
M. Elisabeth Pate-Cornell, Stanford University, Finding and fixing systems' weaknesses: The art and science of engineering risk analysis.
David J. Pengelley, New Mexico State University, Sophie Germain's grand plan for proving Fermat's Last Theorem.