Joint Mathematics Meetings Program by Day

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:26

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

Monday January 13, 2003

• Monday January 13, 2003, 8:45 a.m.-4:45 p.m.
  MAA Short Course on Mathematics in the Ancient World
  Organizers:
  V. Frederick Rickey, U. S. Military Academy
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Registration.
  • 8:45 a.m.
    Introduction, {\bf V. Frederick Rickey}, U. S. Military Academy
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Mesopotamian mathematics.
    Eleanor Robson*, The Oriental Institute, All Souls College, Oxford University
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Break.
  • 10:45 a.m.
    Archimedes.
    Reviel Netz*, Department of Classics, Stanford University
  • 1:45 p.m.
    Mathematics in India.
    Kim Plofker*, Department of the History of Mathematics, Brown University
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Break.
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Mathematics in China.
    Joseph W. Dauben*, Herbert H. Lehman College (CUNY)
• Monday January 13, 2003, 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
  AMS Short Course on Public-Key Cryptography
  Organizers:
  Daniel B. Lieman, University of Georgia
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Registration.
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Public-Key and symmetric-key cryptography.
    Paul Garrett*, University of Minnesota
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Cryptography in the real world today.
    Daniel Lieman*, University of Georgia and NTRU Cryptosystems
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Towards faster cryptosystems, I.
    William Whyte*, NTRU Cryptosystems, Inc.