Joint Mathematics Meetings AMS Special Session
Current as of Saturday, January 17, 2015 03:30:12
Joint Mathematics Meetings
Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center and Grand Hyatt San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
January 10-13, 2015 (Saturday - Tuesday)
Meeting #1106
Associate secretaries:
Steven H Weintraub, AMS shw2@lehigh.edu
Gerard A. Venema, MAA venema@calvin.edu
AMS Special Session on Mathematics in Poland: Interbellum, World War II, and Immediate Post-War Developments
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Monday January 12, 2015, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
AMS Special Session on Mathematics in Poland: Interbellum, World War II, and Immediate Post-War Developments, I
Room 005, Convention Center
Organizers:
Mohammad Javaheri, Siena College
Emelie A. Kenney, Siena College kenney@siena.edu
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8:00 a.m.
The Polish Cipher Bureau's Attack on the German Enigma Cipher Machine.
Chris Christensen*, Northern Kentucky University
(1106-01-89) -
8:30 a.m.
PhD recipients and distinguished graduates in mathematics at the Jagiellonian University (Kraków) in the years 1918-1939.
Stanisław Domoradzki, University of Rzeszów, Poland
Małgorzata Stawiska-Friedland*, Mathematical Reviews
(1106-01-478) -
9:00 a.m.
Fifty Years Later---Reflections from the Classroom of the First Year Study of Mathematics at Warsaw University.
Bozenna Pasik-Duncan*, University of Kansas
(1106-01-2817) -
9:30 a.m.
The Legacy of Jerzy Neyman.
Dominique Duncan*, University of California, Davis
(1106-01-2850) -
10:00 a.m.
Alfred Rosenblatt (1880-1947). A first Polish algebraic geometer.
Danuta Ciesielska*, Institute of Mathematics, Pedagogical University of Cracow
(1106-01-2627)
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8:00 a.m.
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Monday January 12, 2015, 1:00 p.m.-4:45 p.m.
AMS Special Session on Mathematics in Poland: Interbellum, World War II, and Immediate Post-War Developments, II
Room 005, Convention Center
Organizers:
Mohammad Javaheri, Siena College
Emelie A. Kenney, Siena College kenney@siena.edu
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1:00 p.m.
Polish Mathematical School and the Foundations of Mathematics.
Jan Woleński*, University of Management, Information and Technology, Rzeszow, Poland
(1106-01-1180) -
2:00 p.m.
Mathematicians and the 1920 Polish-Soviet War.
James T Smith*, San Francisco State University
(1106-01-928) -
2:30 p.m.
The Life and Logic of Stanisław Leśniewski.
V. Frederick Rickey*, West Point
(1106-01-1432) -
3:00 p.m.
Journeys of a Mathematician -- Mieczyslaw Altman's life story during and after World War II -- and his quest to discover the methods that will find the optimal solution.
Tom Altman*, University of Colorado Denver, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering
(1106-01-1012) -
3:30 p.m.
Logic, Language and the Polish School.
Michael B Kac*, Department of Philosophy and Program in Linguistics, University of Minnesota
(1106-01-1760) -
4:00 p.m.
Recollections of a mathematician's daughter: a history of 20th century Polish intelligentsia in a nutshell.
Zofia Golab-Meyer*, Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University
(1106-01-2689)
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1:00 p.m.