Joint Mathematics Meetings Invited Addresses

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Joint Mathematics Meetings
Baltimore, MD, January 15-18, 2003
Meeting #983

AMS-MAA Joint Invited Addresses

• Noam D. Elkies, Harvard University, Some novel uses of lattice reduction.
• Edward R. Scheinerman, Johns Hopkins University, Discrete mathematics and mechanical engineering.

AMS Invited Addresses

• Weinan E, Princeton University, Problems with multiple scales: Analysis, modeling and computations.
• David B. Mumford, Brown University, The shape of objects in two and three dimensions: Mathematics meets computer vision.
• Andrei Okounkov, University of California Berkeley, Dimers and amoebas.
• Charles C. Pugh, University of California Berkeley, Partial hyperbolicity.
• Dana Randall, Georgia Institute of Technology, Efficient algorithms for finding a random needle in a combinatorial haystack.
• Peter Sarnak, Courant Institute and Princeton University, Spectra of hyperbolic surfaces and applications, III.
• Peter Sarnak, Courant Institute and Princeton University, Spectra of hyperbolic surfaces and applications, II.
• Peter Sarnak, Courant Institute and Princeton University, Spectra of hyperbolic surfaces and applications, I.
• Vladimir Voevodsky, Institute for Advanced Study, Motivic homotopy theory.

MAA Invited Addresses

• Donna L. Beers, Simmons College, What drives mathematics and where is mathematics driving innovation?
• Ivor Grattan-Guinness, Middlesex University, History or heritage? Historians and mathematicians on the history of mathematics.
• Paul J. Sally, Jr., University of Chicago, Is teaching about mathematics the same as teaching mathematics?
• Joseph H. Silverman, Brown University, The Ubiquity of Elliptic Curves.
• Richard A. Tapia, Rice University, Some Mathematical Insights Related to Automobile Drag Racing.
• Robin J Wilson, Open University, UK, Four colors suffice: a history and proof of the four-color problem.