Joint Mathematics Meetings Timetable

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Joint Mathematics Meetings
San Diego, CA, January 6-9, 2008 (Sunday - Wednesday)
Meeting #1035

Associate secretaries:
Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu
James J Tattersall, MAA tat@providence.edu
Friday January 4, 2008
Saturday January 5, 2008
Sunday January 6, 2008
Monday January 7, 2008
Tuesday January 8, 2008
Wednesday January 9, 2008

Friday January 4, 2008
8:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m. AMS Short Course on Applications of Knot Theory (Part I)
8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. MAA Short Course on Combinatorics: Past, Present, and Future (Part I)
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Saturday January 5, 2008
8:00 a.m.-6:30 p.m. AMS Department Chairs Workshop
8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Employment Register
8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m. SIGMAA on Statistics Education and the consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education Workshop
Introducing concepts of statistical inference.
8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m. SIGMAA on Statistics Education and the Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education
Building (UP) an undergraduate statistics program.
9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. MAA Short Course on Combinatorics: Past, Present, and Future (Part II)
9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. MAA Board of Governors
9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. AMS Short Course on Applications of Knot Theory (Part II)
1:30 p.m.-10:00 p.m. AMS Council
3:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. Joint Meetings Registration
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Sunday January 6, 2008
7:00 a.m.-7:50 a.m. Association for Christians in the Mathematical Sciences Nondenominational Worship Service
7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Joint Meetings Registration
7:30 a.m.-10:55 a.m. MAA Session on Assessment of Student Learning in Undergraduate Mathematics, I
7:30 a.m.-6:00 p.m. Employment Register
8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m. AMS-MAA Special Session on The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Mathematics, I
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. AMS-SIAM Special Session on Asymptotic Methods in Analysis with Applications, I
8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m. AMS-SIAM Special Session on Environmental Mathematics: Some Mathematical Problems on Climate Change and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, I
8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m. AMS-ASL Special Session on Set Theory and Banach Spaces, I
8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m. AMS-AWM Special Session on Zeta Functions of Graphs, Ramanujan Graphs, and Related Topics, I
8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m. AMS Special Session on Automorphic Forms and Related Topics, I
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. AMS Special Session on Recent Advances in Mathematical Biology, Ecology, and Epidemiology, I
8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m. AMS Special Session on Progress in Commutative Algebra, I
8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m. AMS Special Session on Hyperbolic Dynamical Systems, I
8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m. AMS Special Session on Interactions Between Noncommutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, I
8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m. AMS Special Session on Algebraic Topology, I
8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m. AMS Special Session on Groups, Representations, and Character Theory, I
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. AMS Session on Partial Differential Equations, I
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. AMS Session on Algebra and Group Theory, I
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. AMS Session on Algebra and Number Theory, I
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. AMS Session on History of Mathematics
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. MAA Session on Crossing the ``Bridge to Higher Mathematics": What Works and Why, I
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. MAA Session on Ethnomathematics and Its Uses in Teaching
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. MAA Session on Great Activities for an Introductory Statistics Class, I
8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m. MAA Session on Preparing Faculty for Success in a Problem-Solving and Technology-Rich Curriculum
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. MAA Session on Research and Professional Development Activities for Math Majors, I
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. MAA General Contributed Paper Session, I
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. SIAM Minisymposium on Education and Applied Mathematics
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. AMS Workshop: Part I
Grant writing in the mathematical sciences.
9:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m. AMS Special Session on The Mathematics of Information and Knowledge, I
9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. MAA Minicourse \#12: Part A
Developing department self-studies.
9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. MAA Minicourse \#1: Part A
Teaching a Galois theory course for undergraduates.
9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. MAA Minicourse \#7: Part A
Directing undergraduate research.
9:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m. MAA-Project NExT and Young Mathematicians Network Joint Panel Discussion
Tenure (and promotion)---You know you want it.
9:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m. MAA Special Presentation
National Science Foundation programs supporting learning and teaching in the mathematical sciences.
9:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m. SIGMAA on Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education Panel Discussion
Making the connection between research and teaching in undergraduate mathematics education.
9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Student Hospitality Center
9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m. MAA Department Liaisons Meeting
9:40 a.m.-10:55 a.m. MAA Session on Using Ideas from Asian Mathematics in the Classroom, I
10:05 a.m.-10:55 a.m. AMS Invited Address
Wen-Ching Winnie Li
Combinatorics and Number Theory.
11:10 a.m.-12:00 p.m. AMS-MAA Invited Address
Terence Tao
Structure and randomness in the prime numbers.
12:15 p.m.-5:30 p.m. Exhibits and Book Sales
Come to the Grand Opening at 12:15!
1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m. AMS Colloquium Lecture: Lecture I
Wendelin Werner
Random conformally invariant pictures (Part I).
2:15 p.m.-3:05 p.m. MAA Invited Address
John H. Conway
Three-dimensional crystallographic groups: The thirty-five prime space groups.
2:15 p.m.-6:05 p.m. AMS-MAA Special Session on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Mathematics, II
2:15 p.m.-6:10 p.m. AMS-SIAM Special Session on Asymptotic Methods in Analysis with Applications, II
2:15 p.m.-6:05 p.m. AMS-SIAM Special Session on Environmental Mathematics: Some Mathematical Problems on Climate Change and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, II
2:15 p.m.-5:55 p.m. AMS-ASL Special Session on Set Theory and Banach Spaces, II
2:15 p.m.-6:05 p.m. AMS-AWM Special Session on Zeta Functions of Graphs, Ramanujan Graphs, and Related Topics, II
2:15 p.m.-6:05 p.m. AMS Special Session on Automorphic Forms and Related Topics, II
2:15 p.m.-6:10 p.m. AMS Special Session on Recent Advances in Mathematical Biology, Ecology, and Epidemiology, II
2:15 p.m.-5:15 p.m. AMS Special Session on The Mathematics of Information and Knowledge, II
2:15 p.m.-5:55 p.m. AMS Special Session on Hyperbolic Dynamical Systems, II
2:15 p.m.-6:05 p.m. AMS Special Session on Interactions Between Noncommutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, II
2:15 p.m.-5:55 p.m. AMS Special Session on Algebraic Topology, II
2:15 p.m.-6:05 p.m. AMS Special Session on Groups, Representations, and Character Theory, II
2:15 p.m.-4:15 p.m. MAA Minicourse \#13: Part A
Teaching and the philosophy of mathematics.
2:15 p.m.-4:15 p.m. MAA Minicourse \#2: Part A
Some deterministic models in mathematical biology and their simulations.
2:15 p.m.-4:15 p.m. MAA Minicourse \#9: Part A
Classroom response systems: Teaching with clickers.
2:15 p.m.-6:10 p.m. AMS Session on Combinatorics, I
2:15 p.m.-6:10 p.m. AMS Session on Algebra and Group Theory, II
2:15 p.m.-4:55 p.m. AMS Session on Partial Differential Equations, II
2:15 p.m.-5:55 p.m. AMS Session on Algebra and Number Theory, II
2:15 p.m.-3:40 p.m. MAA Session on College Algebra: Concepts, Data, and Models, I
2:15 p.m.-4:50 p.m. MAA Session on Curriculum Materials for Preservice Middle School Mathematics Teachers, I
2:15 p.m.-5:10 p.m. MAA Session on the Power of Inductive and Recursive Thinking
2:15 p.m.-6:30 p.m. MAA Session on Serving Students Who Have Taken Calculus in High School
2:15 p.m.-5:00 p.m. MAA Session on Topics and Techniques for Real Analysis, I
2:15 p.m.-5:50 p.m. MAA Session on Using Ideas from Asian Mathematics in the Classroom, II
2:15 p.m.-5:55 p.m. MAA General Contributed Paper Session, II
2:15 p.m.-6:40 p.m. SIAM Minisymposium on Analysis and Computation of Stochastic Equations
2:15 p.m.-4:30 p.m. Math on the Web, I
2:15 p.m.-4:15 p.m. MAA-Project NExT and Young Mathematicians Network Joint Poster Session
2:15 p.m.-5:30 p.m. AMS Workshop: Part II
Grant writing in the mathematical sciences.
2:15 p.m.-3:35 p.m. SIGMAA on Mathematics and the Arts Panel Discussion
Mathematics and Hollywood: A conversation with mathematical Hollywood writers and mathematics faculty.
2:15 p.m.-3:35 p.m. MAA Committee on Graduate Students-Young Mathematicians Network Joint Panel Discussion
How to interview for a job in the mathematical sciences.
2:15 p.m.-3:35 p.m. MAA Session for Chairs
What every chair should know about NSF funding.
2:15 p.m.-3:40 p.m. AWM Panel Discussion
The unseen AWM opportunities
2:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. MAA Section Officers
3:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m. Session for Math Club Advisors
3:20 p.m.-4:10 p.m. MAA Invited Address
Paul H. Edelman
Mathematics and the law: The apportionment of the House of Representatives.
3:45 p.m.-4:15 p.m. AWM Business Meeting
3:50 p.m.-5:50 p.m. MAA Committee on Curriculum Renewal Across the First Two Years Panel Discussion
Tracking our students from college algebra to calculus: Where they come from, where they go, and where they don't.
3:50 p.m.-5:10 p.m. MAA Panel Discussion
Engaging students in college mathematics courses.
4:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m. MAA Session on Research on the Teaching and Learning of Undergraduate Mathematics, I
4:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Reception for Undergraduate Students and Math Club Advisors
4:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m. SIGMAA on Environmental Mathematics Guest Lecture and Business Meeting
4:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m. AMS Special Presentation on Congressional Fellowships
4:45 p.m.-6:45 p.m. MAA Minicourse \#14: Part A
Beyond formulas and algorithms: Teaching a conceptual/thematics single variable calculus course.
4:45 p.m.-6:45 p.m. MAA Minicourse \#3: Part A
Introduction to the mathematics of modern cryptography.
4:45 p.m.-6:45 p.m. MAA Minicourse \#8: Part A
Mathematics and geometry of voting.
5:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. MAA Special Film Presentation
Flatland: The Movie.
5:00 p.m.-6:30 p.m. MAA Special Presentation
Help for undergraduates: Negotiating the Joint Meetings.
5:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m. Reception for Graduate Students and First-Time Participants
The AMS and MAA warmly invite these special groups to meet the leadership of your sponsoring organization.
5:30 p.m.-8:00 p.m. Mathematical Institutes Open House Reception
5:30 p.m.-8:00 p.m. Wolfram Research, Inc. Presentation/Reception
6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. SIGMAA on the History of Mathematics Guest Lecture, Business Meeting, and Reception
7:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. MAA Special Presentation
Dancing mathematics and the mathematics of dance.
8:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m. AMS Josiah Willard Gibbs Lecture
Avi Wigderson
Randomness---A computational complexity view.
9:30 p.m.-11:00 p.m. AWM Reception
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Monday January 7, 2008
7:00 a.m.-7:30 p.m. Employment Register
7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Joint Meetings Registration
7:45 a.m.-11:55 a.m. AMS Session on Geometry and Topology, I
8:00 a.m.-11:40 a.m. AMS-ASL Special Session on Set Theory and Banach Spaces, III
8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m. AMS Special Session on Structure, Geometry, and Symbolic Computation of Algebraic Groups and Symmetric Spaces, I
8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m. AMS Special Session on Stochastic, Large-Scale, and Hybrid Systems with Applications, I
8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m. AMS Special Session on Time-Frequency Analysis: Hilbert Huang Transform and Wavelet Analysis, I
8:00 a.m.-11:55 a.m. AMS Special Session on Recent Advances in Mathematical Biology, Ecology, and Epidemiology, III
8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m. AMS Special Session on Progress in Commutative Algebra, II
8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m. AMS Special Session on Monotone Discrete Dynamical Systems with Applications, I
8:00 a.m.-11:45 a.m. AMS Special Session on The Mathematics of Information and Knowledge, III
8:00 a.m.-11:55 a.m. AMS Special Session on Mathematics for Teaching: Educating Elementary and Middle School Teachers for Success, I
8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m. AMS Special Session on Conformally Flat Lorentzian Manifolds, I
8:00 a.m.-11:40 a.m. AMS Special Session on Voting Theory, I
8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m. AMS Special Session on Graph Theory, I
8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m. AMS Special Session on Modular Forms and Modularity, I
8:00 a.m.-11:40 a.m. AMS Special Session on Algebraic Topology, III
8:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m. MAA Minicourse \#4: Part A
Wavelets and applications: A multidisciplinary undergraduate course with an emphasis on scientific computing.
8:00 a.m.-11:55 a.m. AMS Session on Analysis and Ordinary Differential Equations, I
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. AMS Session on Applications of Mathematics, I
8:00 a.m.-9:10 a.m. AMS Session on Abstract Harmonic Analysis and Operator Theory, I
8:00 a.m.-11:55 a.m. MAA Session on College Algebra: Concepts, Data, and Models, II
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. MAA Session on Crossing the ``Bridge to Higher Mathematics": What Works and Why, II
8:00 a.m.-11:55 a.m. MAA Session on Demos and Strategies with Technology that Enhance Teaching and Learning Mathematics, I
8:00 a.m.-11:35 a.m. MAA Session on Topics and Techniques for Real Analysis, II
8:00 a.m.-11:55 a.m. MAA General Contributed Paper Session, III
8:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. SIAM Minisymposium on From Global Predictions to Local Action, I: Dynamical Systems Challenges in Climate Change
8:30 a.m.-11:55 a.m. MAA Session on Philosophy of Mathematics
8:40 a.m.-11:55 a.m. MAA Session on Innovative and Effective Ways to Teach Linear Algebra, I
9:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m. MAA Invited Address
Karen H. Parshall
4000 years of algebra: An historic tour from BM 13901 to \em{Moderne Algebra}.
9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. MAA Minicourse \#10: Part A
The Fibonacci and Catalan numbers.
9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. MAA Minicourse \#15: Part A
Evaluating student presentations in mathematics.
9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. MAA Invited Paper Session on Using the New Technologies in Teaching Mathematics
9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. MAA Poster Session on Outreach Programs for Underrepresented Populations in Mathematics
9:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m. MAA Special Presentation
Proposal writing workshop for grant applications to the NSF Division of Undergraduate Education.
9:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m. MAA Panel Discussion
Exciting, surprising, and satisfying: Why and how to teach proof.
9:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m. MAA Panel Discussion
Research and outreach focusing on the mathematics education of K--8 Latino/a students.
9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Student Hospitality Center
9:15 a.m.-12:10 p.m. AMS Session on Dynamical Systems
9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Exhibits and Book Sales
10:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Math on the Web, II
10:05 a.m.-10:55 a.m. AWM Emmy Noether Lecture
Audrey A. Terras
Fun with zeta functions of graphs.
10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. MAA Minicourse \#5: Part A
Visualizing abstract mathematics with cellular automata.
10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. SIGMAA Officers Meeting
10:45 a.m.-12:05 p.m. MAA Special Presentation
Undergraduate career paths in math: What can you do with a math degree?
10:45 a.m.-12:05 p.m. MAA Committee on the Teaching of Undergraduate Mathematics Panel Discussion
Classroom voting comes to the mathematics classroom.
11:10 a.m.-12:00 p.m. SIAM Invited Address
Inez Fung
From global predictions to local action: Mathematical challenges in global warming.
1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m. AMS Colloquium Lecture: Lecture II
Wendelin Werner
Random conformally invariant pictures (Part II).
1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m. AMS-MAA-SIAM Special Session on Research in Mathematics by Undergraduates, I
1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m. AMS Special Session on Structure, Geometry, and Symbolic Computation of Algebraic Groups and Symmetric Spaces, II
1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m. AMS Special Session on Stochastic, Large-Scale, and Hybrid Systems with Applications, II
1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m. AMS Special Session on Time-Frequency Analysis: Hilbert Huang Transform and Wavelet Analysis, II
1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m. AMS Special Session on Progress in Commutative Algebra, III
1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m. AMS Special Session on Monotone Discrete Dynamical Systems with Applications, II
1:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. AMS Special Session on The Mathematics of Information and Knowledge, IV
1:00 p.m.-3:55 p.m. AMS Special Session on Mathematics for Teaching: Educating Elementary and Middle School Teachers for Success, II
1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m. AMS Special Session on Low Genus Curves and Applications, I
1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m. AMS Special Session on Conformally Flat Lorentzian Manifolds, II
1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m. AMS Special Session on Voting Theory, II
1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m. AMS Special Session on Graph Theory, II
1:00 p.m.-3:20 p.m. AMS Special Session on Modular Forms and Modularity, II
1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. MAA Minicourse \#11: Part A
More music and mathematics.
1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. MAA Minicourse \#16: Part A
A beginner's guide to the scholarship of teaching and learning in mathematics.
1:00 p.m.-4:10 p.m. AMS Session on Analysis and Ordinary Differential Equations, II
1:00 p.m.-4:25 p.m. AMS Session on Geometry and Topology, II
1:00 p.m.-4:25 p.m. AMS Session on Algebra and Number Theory, III
1:00 p.m.-4:25 p.m. AMS Session on Applications of Mathematics, II
1:00 p.m.-4:10 p.m. MAA Session on Assessment of Student Learning in Undergraduate Mathematics, II
1:00 p.m.-3:55 p.m. MAA Session on Curriculum Materials for Preservice Middle School Mathematics Teachers, II
1:00 p.m.-2:55 p.m. MAA Session on Demos and Strategies with Technology that Enhance Teaching and Learning Mathematics, II
1:00 p.m.-4:15 p.m. MAA Session on Great Activities for an Introductory Statistics Class, II
1:00 p.m.-3:55 p.m. MAA Session on Mathematics and the Arts, I
1:00 p.m.-4:15 p.m. MAA Session on Research and Professional Development Activities for Math Majors, II
1:00 p.m.-2:45 p.m. MAA Session on Research on the Teaching and Learning of Undergraduate Mathematics, II
1:00 p.m.-4:10 p.m. MAA General Contributed Paper Session, IV
1:00 p.m.-4:15 p.m. SIAM Minisymposium on From Global Predictions to Local Action, II: Mathematics of Social and Economic Feedback in Climate Change
1:00 p.m.-2:20 p.m. MAA Panel Discussion
Creating and implementing a capstone course in mathematics for preservice secondary teachers.
1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. SIGMAA on the History of Mathematics Panel Discussion
The political dimension of ethnomathematics.
1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. MAA-AMS Special Presentation
Putting math on the Web the correct way.
1:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. Summer Program for Women in Mathematics (SPWM) Reunion
2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. MAA Poster Session on Projects Supported by the NSF Division of Undergraduate Education
2:15 p.m.-3:05 p.m. AMS Invited Address
Peter Teichner
Quantum field theory and generalized cohomology.
2:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m. Project NExT Panel Discussion
Making the math major work for the under-prepared student.
2:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m. MAA Panel Discussion
Dueling platforms: Java vs. Flash.
3:00 p.m.-3:45 p.m. SIGMAA on Business, Industry, and Government Guest Lecture
3:20 p.m.-4:10 p.m. AMS Retiring Presidential Address
James G. Arthur
Semisimple groups as universal examples.
4:25 p.m.-5:25 p.m. Joint Prize Session
5:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m. Joint Prize Session Reception
5:45 p.m.-7:15 p.m. SIGMAA on the Philosophy of Mathematics Business Meeting, Guest Lecture, and Reception
5:45 p.m.-7:45 p.m. MAA Special Presentation
Sharing residues from College Algebra Workshops.
5:45 p.m.-6:45 p.m. SIGMAA on Quantitative Literacy Business Meeting and Reception
5:45 p.m.-7:15 p.m. SIGMAA on Statistics Education Business Meeting
5:45 p.m.-6:45 p.m. BIGSIGMAA Reception for Mathematicians in Business, Industry, and Government
5:45 p.m.-7:00 p.m. University of Iowa Mathematics Department Reception
5:45 p.m.-7:00 p.m. Lehigh University Reception for Friends and Graduates
5:45 p.m.-7:00 p.m. Association of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered Math Caucus Reception
5:45 p.m.-7:00 p.m. North Carolina State University Department of Mathematics Alumni Reception
5:45 p.m.-7:15 p.m. Reception for Friends of the New Mexico State University Department of Mathematical Sciences
5:45 p.m.-7:00 p.m. MAA Two-Year College Reception
5:45 p.m.-7:30 p.m. University of Wisconsin Reception
6:00 p.m.-7:30 p.m. MAA Special Presentation
The proof is in the pudding: Humorous theater of the mathematical variety.
6:00 p.m.-7:30 p.m. Brigham Young University
6:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. University of Chicago Mathematics Alumni Reception
6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. Reception for Alumni and Friends of the Claremont Colleges
6:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. SIGMAA-ARTS Business Meeting
6:30 p.m.-8:00 p.m. MAA Committee on Minority Participation-North American Institutes Informal Gathering
Conversations with minority scientists.
6:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m. MER Banquet
6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m. NSA Women in Mathematics Society Networking Session
The location of this session is available at the NSA booth in the exhibit area.
7:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. MAA Music Presentation
Tones are real functions, rhythms are sequences.
7:00 p.m.-8:30 p.m. Clay Mathematics Institute Film Presentation
Julia Robinson and Hilbert's Tenth Problem.
8:15 p.m.-9:45 p.m. Knitting Circle
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Tuesday January 8, 2008
7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Joint Meetings Registration
7:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m. AMS Special Session on Modular Forms and Modularity, III
7:30 a.m.-7:30 p.m. Employment Register
7:45 a.m.-10:55 a.m. AMS Session on Combinatorics, II
7:45 a.m.-10:55 a.m. AMS Session on Geometry and Topology, III
7:45 a.m.-10:55 a.m. AMS General Session
8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m. AMS-MAA-SIAM Special Session on Research in Mathematics by Undergraduates, II
8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m. AMS-MAA Special Session on History of Mathematics, I
8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m. AMS Special Session on Structure, Geometry, and Symbolic Computation of Algebraic Groups and Symmetric Spaces, III
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. AMS Special Session on Financial Mathematics, I
8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m. AMS Special Session on Secant Varieties and Related Topics, I
8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m. AMS Special Session on Wavelet Sets and Tilings of $R^n$, I
8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m. AMS Special Session on Low Genus Curves and Applications, II
8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m. AMS Special Session on Algebraic Dynamics, I
8:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. AMS Special Session on Biomathematical Modeling, I
8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m. AMS Special Session on Dynamics and Stability of Coherent Structures, I
8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m. AMS Special Session on Graph Theory, III
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. AMS Session on Probability, Statistics, and Applications, I
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. AMS Session on Applications of Mathematics, III
8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m. MAA Session on Building Diversity in Advanced Mathematics: Models that Work
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. MAA Session on Countering ``I Can't Do Math": Strategies for Teaching Under-Prepared Math-Anxious Students Interested in Business and the Sciences
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. MAA Session on Innovative and Effective Ways to Teach Linear Algebra, II
8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m. MAA Session on Mathematics Experiences in Business, Industry, and Government
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. MAA General Contributed Paper Session, V
8:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. SIAM Minisymposium on From Global Predictions to Local Action, III: Working Groups and Round Table Discussion
We will summarize the outstanding problems from Monday's sessions and define steps toward the development of integrated economic and climate models.
8:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. PME Council
8:15 a.m.-10:40 a.m. AMS Session on Numerical Analysis, I
8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m. AMS Special Session on Inverse Problems in Geometry, I
9:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m. MAA Invited Address
Carl Pomerance
The covering congruences of Paul Erdös.
9:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m. ASL Invited Address
Gregory L. Cherlin
Model Theory and algebraic groups.
9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. MAA Minicourse \#12: Part B
Developing department self-studies.
9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. MAA Minicourse \#1: Part B
Teaching a Galois theory course for undergraduates.
9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. MAA Minicourse \#7: Part B
Directing undergraduate research.
9:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. MAA Session on Biomathematics in the Undergraduate Curriculum, I
9:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m. AMS-MAA Committee on Teaching Assistants and Part-Time Instructors Panel Discussion
Becoming a teacher of college mathematics: Research on mathematics graduate students' professional development.
9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Student Hospitality Center
9:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m. AMS-MAA Grad School Fair
Undergrads! Take this opportunity to meet representatives from mathematical sciences graduate programs.
9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Exhibits and Book Sales
10:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m. ASL Invited Address
Victor Marek
Answer Set Programming.
10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Math on the Web, III
10:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. AMS Special Presentation
Who wants to be a mathematician.
10:05 a.m.-10:55 a.m. AMS Invited Address
Donald G. Saari
A new mathematical frontier: The social and behavioral sciences.
11:10 a.m.-12:00 p.m. AMS-MAA Invited Address
Fan Chung
The mathematics of PageRank.
1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m. AMS Colloquium Lecture: Lecture III
Wendelin Werner
Random conformally invariant pictures (Part III).
1:00 p.m.-1:50 p.m. ASL Invited Address
Pavel R. Hrubes
Proof complexity after NP $\not=$ coNP.
1:00 p.m.-1:50 p.m. MAA Lecture for Students
J. Brian Conrey
The Riemann Hypothesis.
1:00 p.m.-4:45 p.m. AMS Current Events Bulletin
1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m. AMS-MAA-SIAM Special Session on Research in Mathematics by Undergraduates, III
1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m. AMS-MAA Special Session on History of Mathematics, II
1:00 p.m.-5:55 p.m. AMS Special Session on Financial Mathematics, II
1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m. AMS Special Session on Representation Theory and Nonassociative Algebras
1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m. AMS Special Session on Secant Varieties and Related Topics, II
1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m. AMS Special Session on Wavelet Sets and Tilings of $R^n$, II
1:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m. AMS Special Session on Low Genus Curves and Applications, III
1:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. AMS Special Session on Learning and Math Graduate Students in K--12 Classroom
1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m. AMS Special Session on Algebraic Dynamics, II
1:00 p.m.-5:55 p.m. AMS Special Session on Applications of Computer Algebra in Enumerative and Algebraic Combinatorics
1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m. AMS Special Session on Biomathematical Modeling, II
1:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m. AMS Special Session on Expanders and Ramanujan Graphs: Construction and Applications, I
1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m. AMS Special Session on Dynamics and Stability of Coherent Structures, II
1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m. AMS Special Session on Inverse Problems in Geometry, II
1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. MAA Minicourse \#13: Part B
Teaching and the philosophy of mathematics.
1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. MAA Minicourse \#2: Part B
Some deterministic models in mathematical biology and their simulations.
1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. MAA Minicourse \#9: Part B
Classroom response systems: Teaching with clickers.
1:00 p.m.-4:55 p.m. AMS Session on Algebra and Group Theory, III
1:00 p.m.-5:10 p.m. AMS Session on Abstract Harmonic Analysis and Operator Theory, II
1:00 p.m.-3:55 p.m. AMS Session on Numerical Analysis, II
1:00 p.m.-5:25 p.m. AMS Session on Analysis and Functional Analysis, I
1:00 p.m.-4:35 p.m. MAA Session on Cryptology for Undergraduates, I
1:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. MAA Session on Guided Discovery in Mathematics Education
1:00 p.m.-5:55 p.m. MAA General Contributed Paper Session, VI
1:00 p.m.-5:55 p.m. MAA General Contributed Paper Session, VII
1:00 p.m.-5:55 p.m. MAA General Contributed Paper Session, VIII
1:00 p.m.-3:15 p.m. NAM Granville-Brown-Haynes Session of Presentations by Recent Doctoral Recipients in the Mathematical Sciences
1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m. AMS Committee on Education Panel Discussion
Making teacher preparation our business
1:00 p.m.-2:20 p.m. MAA Special Presentation
A quick introduction to \em{WebWork}, a web-based interactive homework system.
1:00 p.m.-2:20 p.m. Project NeXT Panel Discussion
Capstone and one-semester research projects for a variety of students.
1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. SIAM Minisymposium on From Global Predictions to Local Action, IV: Working Groups and Panel Discussion
This session includes a panel discussion on how to develop the training required to tackle the mathematical challenges in modeling climate change.
2:00 p.m.-5:10 p.m. ASL Session for Contributed Papers, I
2:15 p.m.-4:15 p.m. AMS Special Presentation
Wiki math.
2:15 p.m.-4:10 p.m. RMMC Board of Directors
2:30 p.m.-4:25 p.m. MAA Presentations by Teaching Award Recipients
2:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m. SUMMA Special Presentation
Summer research programs.
3:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m. AMS Committee on Science Policy Panel Discussion
Advocating for mathematics: Influencing policymakers through congressional visits in districts and states.
3:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m. MAA Poster Session for Undergraduates
3:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m. MAA Minicourse \#14: Part B
Beyond formulas and algorithms: Teaching a conceptual/thematics single variable calculus course.
3:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m. MAA Minicourse \#3: Part B
Introduction to the mathematics of modern cryptography.
3:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m. MAA Minicourse \#8: Part B
Mathematics and geometry of voting.
3:45 p.m.-4:40 p.m. AMS Session on Applications of Mathematics, IV
5:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. MAA Information Session
Current issues in actuarial science education.
5:30 p.m.-7:00 p.m. Reception for Alumni and Friends of the University of Oregon Mathematics Department
5:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Mathematics Alumni Reception
5:30 p.m.-7:00 p.m. University of Michigan Alumni and Friends Get-Together
6:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. SIGMAA on Mathematics and Computational Biology Business Meeting and Reception
6:00 p.m.-8:30 p.m. MAA Film Presentation and Reception
{\rm Hard Problems}: A documentary about the USA team's participation in the 2006 International Mathematical Olympiad.
6:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m. Association of Christians in the Mathematical Sciences Banquet
6:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. Association of Symbolic Logic Reception
6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. Budapest Semesters in Mathematics Reunion
6:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. Hawkes Learning Systems Presentation
6:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. AMS {\bit Mathematical Reviews} Reception
6:00 p.m.-9:30 p.m. NAM Reception, Banquet, and Cox-Talbot Address
6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. Reception for University of Maryland Alumni and Friends
6:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m. SIGMAA on Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Business Meeting
7:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. MAA Dramatic Presentation
So you want to teach environmental math, do you?
7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m. National Math Circle Organizational Meeting and Reception
7:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m. Informal Evening of Wine and Jazz
Join your colleagues at the San Diego Wine \& Culinary Center, 200 Harbor Drive, across from the Convention Center for a relaxing time.
7:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. Young Mathematicians Network Town Meeting
8:30 p.m.-10:30 p.m. MAA-Project NExT Reception
All Project NExT Fellows, consultants, and other friends of Project NExT are invited.
8:45 p.m.-9:30 p.m. NAM Cox-Talbot Address
Earl R. Barnes
Title to be announced.
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Wednesday January 9, 2008
7:00 a.m.-8:45 a.m. MAA Minority Chairs Breakfast Meeting
7:30 a.m.-2:00 p.m. Joint Meetings Registration
7:45 a.m.-10:40 a.m. AMS Session on Combinatorics, III
7:45 a.m.-10:55 a.m. AMS Session on Statistics, Game Theory, and Social Sciences
8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m. AMS-MAA-SIAM Special Session on Research in Mathematics by Undergraduates, IV
8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m. AMS-MAA-MER Special Session on Mathematics and Education Reform, I
8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m. AMS-MAA Special Session on History of Mathematics, III
8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m. AMS-SIAM Special Session on Environmental Mathematics: Some Mathematical Problems on Climate Change and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, III
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. AMS Special Session on Financial Mathematics, III
8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m. AMS Special Session on Heegaard Splittings, Bridge Positions, and Low Dimensional Topology, I
8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m. AMS Special Session on E-Theory, Extensions, and Elliptic Operators, I
8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m. AMS Special Session on Algebraic and Geometric Aspects of Integrable Systems, I
8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m. AMS Special Session on Expanders and Ramanujan Graphs: Construction and Applications, II
8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m. AMS Special Session on Probability Theory and Statistical Mechanics, I
8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m. AMS Special Session on Global Optimization and Operations Research Applications, I
8:00 a.m.-10:35 a.m. MAA Session on Biomathematics in the Undergraduate Curriculum, II
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. MAA Session on Cryptology for Undergraduates, II
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. MAA Session on Mathematics and the Arts, II
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. MAA Session on Mathlets and Web Resources for Mathematics and Statistics Education, I
8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. MAA Session on Using Innovative Technologies to Implement Active Learning in Mathematics (and in other STEM disciplines)
8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m. MAA General Contributed Paper Session, IX
8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m. SIAM Minisymposium on Graph Coloring and Partitioning, I
8:00 a.m.-8:45 a.m. ASL Session for Contributed Papers, II
8:20 a.m.-4:20 p.m. AWM Workshop
This session has several parts that will be listed separately by time in the program. All presentations are open to all JMM participants.
8:30 a.m.-10:10 a.m. AMS Session on Analysis and Ordinary Differential Equations, III
8:30 a.m.-10:25 a.m. AMS Session on Algebra and Group Theory, IV
8:30 a.m.-10:20 a.m. AWM Workshop: Research Presentations by Recent Ph.D.'s, I
9:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m. AMS Invited Address
Constantine M. Dafermos
Progress in Hyperbolic Conservation Laws.
9:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m. ASL Invited Address
Ilijas Farah
Applications of set theory to operator algebras.
9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. AMS Special Session on The Feynman Integral in Mathematics and Physics, I
9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. MAA Minicourse \#10: Part B
The Fibonacci and Catalan numbers.
9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. MAA Minicourse \#15: Part B
Evaluating student presentations in mathematics.
9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. MAA Minicourse \#4: Part B
Wavelets and applications: A multidisciplinary undergraduate course with an emphasis on scientific computing.
9:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m. NAM Panel Discussion
9:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. Student Hospitality Center
9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Exhibits and Book Sales
9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Employment Register
9:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m. Project NExT Panel Discussion
New technologies for faculty: Wikis, discussion boards, and clickers.
10:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m. ASL Invited Address
Jan Reimann
Measures and their random reals.
10:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m. NAM Business Meeting
10:05 a.m.-10:55 a.m. MAA Retiring Presidential Address
Carl C. Cowen
The teaching-technology linkage in mathematics.
10:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m. AWM Workshop: Poster Session with Presentations from Women Graduate Students
11:10 a.m.-11:40 a.m. MAA Business Meeting
11:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m. AMS Business Meeting
1:00 p.m.-1:50 p.m. NAM Claytor-Woodard Lecture
Scott W. Williams
Box Products 25 Years Later.
1:00 p.m.-1:50 p.m. ASL Invited Address
Simon R. Thomas
A Descriptive View of Geometric Group Theory.
1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m. AMS-MAA-SIAM Special Session on Research in Mathematics by Undergraduates, V
1:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m. AMS-MAA-MER Special Session on Mathematics and Education Reform, II
1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m. AMS-MAA Special Session on History of Mathematics, IV
1:00 p.m.-5:55 p.m. AMS Special Session on Financial Mathematics, IV
1:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m. AMS Special Session on the Feynman Integral in Mathematics and Physics, II
1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m. AMS Special Session on Heegaard Splittings, Bridge Positions, and Low Dimensional Topology, II
1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m. AMS Special Session on The Linear Diophantine Problem of Frobenius
1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m. AMS Special Session on E-Theory, Extensions, and Elliptic Operators, II
1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m. AMS Special Session on Algebraic and Geometric Aspects of Integrable Systems, II
1:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m. AMS Special Session on Expanders and Ramanujan Graphs: Construction and Applications, III
1:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m. AMS Special Session on Probability Theory and Statistical Mechanics, II
1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m. AMS Special Session on Global Optimization and Operations Research Applications, II
1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m. AMS Special Session on Mathematical Problems in Biological Formations
1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. MAA Minicourse \#11: Part B
More music and mathematics.
1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. MAA Minicourse \#16: Part B
A beginner's guide to the scholarship of teaching and learning in mathematics.
1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. MAA Minicourse \#5: Part B
Visualizing abstract mathematics with cellular automata.
1:00 p.m.-4:40 p.m. AMS Session on Combinatorics, IV
1:00 p.m.-6:10 p.m. AMS Session on Mathematics Education
1:00 p.m.-5:10 p.m. AMS Session on Probability, Statistics, and Applications, II
1:00 p.m.-5:10 p.m. AMS Session on Analysis and Functional Analysis, II
1:00 p.m.-3:55 p.m. MAA Session on Biomathematics in the Undergraduate Curriculum, III
1:00 p.m.-3:35 p.m. MAA Session on Mathematics and the Arts, III
1:00 p.m.-2:15 p.m. MAA Session on Mathlets and Web Resources for Mathematics and Statistics Education, II
1:00 p.m.-5:15 p.m. MAA Session on Research on the Teaching and Learning of Undergraduate Mathematics, III
1:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m. MAA General Contributed Paper Session, X
1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m. SIAM Minisymposium on Graph Coloring and Partitioning, II
1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m. AWM Workshop Panel Discussion
Establishing a career in mathematics.
2:00 p.m.-5:35 p.m. ASL Session for Contributed Papers, III
2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m. AWM Workshop: Research Presentations by Recent Ph.D.'s, II
2:45 p.m.-5:10 p.m. MAA General Contributed Paper Session, XI
4:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m. MAA General Contributed Paper Session, XII
6:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m. AMS Banquet Reception
7:30 p.m.-10:00 p.m. AMS Banquet
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