Joint Mathematics Meetings Invited Addresses

Current as of Friday, January 18, 2013 00:31:57

Joint Mathematics Meetings
San Diego Convention Center and San Diego Marriott Hotel and Marina, San Diego, CA
January 9-12, 2013 (Wednesday - Saturday)
Meeting #1086

Associate secretaries:

Georgia Benkart, AMS benkart@math.wisc.edu
Gerard A Venema, MAA venema@calvin.edu

Links to abstracts will be available approximately one week (for sectional meetings) to four weeks (for national meetings) after the abstracts deadline.

Joint Invited Addresses

• Kenneth M. Golden, University of Utah, Mathematics and the melting polar ice caps. (MAA-AMS-SIAM Gerald and Judith Porter Public Lecture)
• Robin Pemantle, David Rittenhouse Laboratories, Zeros of polynomials and their importance in combinatorics and probability. (AMS-MAA)
• Emily F. Shuckburgh, British Antarctic Survey, Using mathematics to better understand the Earth's climate. (AMS-MAA)

AMS Invited Addresses

• Gerard Ben Arous, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, Complexity of random functions of many variables.
• Jean Bourgain, Institute for Advanced Study, Diophantine applications of the theory of expansion and spectral gaps in thin groups.
• Laura De Marco, University of Illinois at Chicago, Combining complex and arithmetic dynamics: A study of critically-finite maps.
• Jordan S. Ellenberg, University of Wisconsin-Madison, How to count with topology.
• Alice Guionnet, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Free probability, Random matrices, and map enumeration, I. (AMS Colloquium Lectures: Lecture I)
• Alice Guionnet, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Free probability, Random matrices, and map enumeration, II. (AMS Colloquium Lectures: Lecture II)
• Alice Guionnet, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Free probability, Random matrices, and map enumeration, III. (AMS Colloquium Lectures: Lecture III)
• Robert M. Guralnick, University of Southern California, Generators and Relations for Finite Groups.
• Cedric Villani, Institut Henri Poincaré, On disorder, mixing, and equilibration. (AMS Josiah Willard Gibbs Lecture)

MAA Invited Addresses

• Timothy Chartier, Davidson College, Thinking linearly about data.
• Judith Covington, Louisiana State University Shreveport, The game of SET and geometry. (MAA Lecture for Students)
• Tony DeRose, Pixar Studios, How mathematics has changed Hollywood.
• Chris Rasmussen, San Diego State University, Who chooses not to persist in calculus and why?
• Suzanne Weekes, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Industrial strength mathematics in academia.
• Paul Zorn, St. Olaf College, Communicating Mathematics. (MAA Retiring Presidential Address)