Joint Mathematics Meetings Invited Addresses

Current as of Tuesday, January 24, 2006 12:01:44

Joint Mathematics Meetings
San Antonio, TX, January 12-15, 2006
Meeting #1014

AMS-MAA Joint Invited Addresses

• Svetlana Y. Jitomirskaya, University of California Irvine, Spectral properties of quasiperiodic operators: The competition between order and chaos.
• L\'aszlo Lov\'asz, Microsoft Research, Graph limits and graph homomorphisms.

AMS Invited Addresses

• Herbert Edelsbrunner, Duke University, Persistent homology, diagrams, and vineyards.
• David Eisenbud, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Threads from My Life: Linear (good) Resolutions and Small (seductive) Varieties.
• Charles L. Fefferman, Princeton University, Whitney's extension problems.
• Mikhail Kapranov, Yale University, Riemann-Roch for determinantal gerbes and infinite-dimensional bundles.
• Hendrik W. Lenstra Jr., Universiteit Leiden, Entangled radicals, Part II.
• Hendrik W. Lenstra Jr., Universiteit Leiden, Entangled radicals, Part III.
• Hendrik W. Lenstra Jr., Universiteit Leiden, Entangled radicals, Part I.
• Dusa McDuff, SUNY at Stony Brook, Homotopy properties of Hamiltonian group actions.
• Michael A. Savageau, University of California Davis, Function, design, and evolution of gene circuitry.

MAA Invited Addresses

• Marc Chamberland, Grinnell College, The many faces of pi.
• Keith J. Devlin, Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University, The mathematics of everyday language.
• Naomi Fisher, University of Illinois at Chicago, Mathematicians and education reform: A cautionary tale.
• Ben Green, University of Bristol, Patterns of primes.
• Robert E. Megginson, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Participation in mathematics by American Indians: A case study in underrepresentation.
• Francis Edward Su, Harvey Mudd College, Preference Sets, Graphs, and Voting in Agreeable Societies.