Several organizations or special groups are having receptions or other social events. Please see the "Social Events" section for details.

Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL)

This two-day program on Saturday and Sunday will include sessions of contributed papers and Invited Addresses by Douglas Cenzer, University of Florida; C. Ward Henson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Michael C. Laskowski, University of Maryland; Alain Louveau, CNRS and Université de Paris 6; Russell Miller, Queens College (CUNY); Itay Neeman, University of California Los Angeles; and Sergei Starchenko, University of Notre Dame.

See also the Special Session jointly sponsored by the ASL on Interdisciplinary Research Involving Analysis and Logic in the "AMS Special Sessions" section.

Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM)

Twenty-Seventh Annual Emmy Noether Lecture, Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 9:50 a.m., will be given by Ingrid Daubechies, Princeton University, Mathematical results and challenges in learning theory. Also see the Special Session of the same title jointly sponsored by the AWM and organized by Cynthia Rudin, Courant Institute, New York University, under "AMS Special Sessions" .

A luncheon in honor of the lecturer will be held on Friday. See the "Social Events" section for details on how to participate.

Lawrence H. Summers: One Year Later, Thursday, 3:20 p.m. to 4:35 p.m., organized by Barbara Lee Keyfitz, Fields Institute and University of Houston. Speakers include Richard M. Dudley, M.I.T.; Mary W. Gray, American University; Ellen E. Kirkman, Wake Forest University; M. Beth Ruskai, Tufts University; Alice Silverberg, University of California Irvine; Karen Uhlenbeck, University of Texas at Austin; and others. Widely quoted remarks by the President of Harvard University in January 2004 initiated a public discussion of the status of women scientists in research universities; speakers consider aspects of the controversy that are important to the future of women in mathematics

Just before the panel discussion, AWM will recognize the Alice T. Schafer award honorees. Note that formal prizewinner announcements are made at the Joint Prize Session on Friday afternoon (see the AWM inclusion in the "Joint Sessions" section ).

Business Meeting, Thursday, 4:40 p.m. to 5:10 p.m.

Workshop, Sunday, 8:20 a.m. to 4:20 p.m. With funding from the Office of Naval Research and the National Security Agency, AWM will conduct its workshop for women graduate students and women who have received the Ph.D. within the last five years. Twenty women mathematicians are selected in advance of this workshop to present their research; graduate students will present posters, and the recent Ph.D.'s will give 20-minute talks. The workshop opens with a dinner on a previous evening to introduce workshoppers and mentors, and includes a panel discussion on career issues. All mathematicians (female and male) are invited to attend the entire program. Departments are urged to help graduate students and recent Ph.D.'s who do not receive funding to obtain some institutional support to attend the workshop and other meeting sessions. The deadline for applications for presenting and funding has expired. Updated information about the Workshop is available at www.awm-math.org/workshops.html. AWM seeks volunteers to lead discussion groups and to act as mentors for workshop participants. If you are interested, please contact the AWM office; inquiries regarding future workshops may be made to the office at awm@awm-math.edu.

Reception, Thursday, 9:30 p.m.to11:00 p.m. See the listing in the "Social Events" section..

National Association of Mathematicians (NAM)

Granville-Brown-Haynes Session of Presentations by
Recent Doctoral Recipients in the Mathematical Sciences, Saturday, 2:15 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Cox-Talbot Address, to be given Saturday after the banquet; speaker and title to be announced.

Panel Discussion, The National Association of Mathematicians: Perspectives for the Future from Younger Mathematicians, Sunday, 9:00 a.m. to 9:50 a.m., moderated by Dawn A. Lott, Delaware State University.

Business Meeting, Sunday, 10:00 a.m. to 10:50 a.m.

Claytor-Woodard Lecture: Sunday, 1:00 p.m., Gaston M. N'Guerekata, Morgan State University to speak on A Rebirth of Bochner's theory of almost automorphy of solutions to evolution equations

See details about the banquet on Saturday in the "Social Events" section.

National Science Foundation (NSF)

The NSF will be represented at a booth in the exhibit area. NSF staff members will be available to provide counsel and information on NSF programs of interest to mathematicians. The booth is open the same days and hours as the exhibits. Times that staff will be available will be posted at the booth.

Pi Mu Epsilon (PME)

Council Meeting, Saturday, 8:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.

Rocky Mountain Mathematics Consortium (RMMC)

Board of Directors Meeting, Saturday, 2:15 p.m. to 4:10 p.m.

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)

This two-day program on Thursday and Friday will include an Invited Address and six minisymposia. The Invited Address will be given by Thanasis Fokas, Cambridge University, Integrability, imaging of the brain, and the Dirichlet to Newmann map, at 11:10 a.m. on Friday.

Minisymposia and their organizers include:

Geometric Representations of Graphs, Alice M. Dean, Skidmore College; Ellen Gethner, University of Colorado at Denver, and Joshua D. Laison, Colorado College (Thursday afternoon);

Education: Preparing Mathematics Students for Interdisciplinary Research, William L. Briggs, University of Colorado at Denver (Thursday afternoon);

New Transform Methods for Differential Equations, Beatrice Pelloni, University of Reading, UK, and Li-yeng Sung, University of South Carolina ((Friday afternoon);

Inverse Problems: Theory and Numerics for Novel Applications, Heniz W. Engl, Johannes Kepler University, and Lothar Reichel, Kent State University (Friday morning and afternoon);

Mathematical Neuroscience: From Experiment to Theory, Kresimir Josic, University of Houston (Thursday and Friday mornings); and

Numerical Solution of Partial Differential Equations and Applications to Flow in Porous Media, Todd J. Arbogast, University of Texas at Austin (Thursday morning).

See also the Special Sessions jointly sponsored by SIAM in the "AMS Special Sessions" section.

Young Mathematicians Network (YMN)

Concerns of Young Mathematicians: A Town Meeting, Friday, 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., organized by David Kung, St. Mary's College of Maryland. This panel discussion will focus on the current primary concerns of young mathematicians, from undergraduates to newly-tenured professors, with emphasis on audience participation.

Also see details about the poster session (Friday at 2:00 p.m.) and panel discussions (Thursday at 3:50 p.m., Friday at 9:00 a.m., and Saturday at 9:00 a.m.) cosponsored by YMN under the "Other MAA Sessions" section.

Others

Math on the Web, Wednesday to Saturday, various times. The problem of communicating math on the Web is really no different than communicating math via other media. Namely, authoring and displaying mathematical notation is difficult. On top of that, the Web is a dynamic medium, where users can interact with rich media documents in sophisticated ways. This introduces a whole new layer of challenges and possibilities for engaging, interactive communication between authors and readers. There will be several presentations on the exhibit hall floor throughout the meeting.

Mathematical Art Exhibit, organized by Robert Fathauer, Tesselations Company; Nathaniel A. Freidman, ISAMA and SUNY Albany; and Reza Sarhangi, Bridges Conference, Towson University. A popular feature at the last Joint Mathematics Meetings in Atlanta, this exhibit provides a break in your day. On display are works in various media by artists who are inspired by mathematics and by mathematicians who use visual art to express their findings. Fractals, symmetry, and tiling are some of the ideas at play here. Don't miss this unique opportunity for a different perspective on mathematics. The exhibit will be open during the regular exhibit hours.

Summer Program for Women in Mathematics (SPWM), Friday, 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., organized by Murli M. Gupta, George Washington University. SPWM participants will describe their experiences from past programs.