Joint Mathematics Meetings Program by Day

Current as of Saturday, January 13, 2007 12:54:11

Joint Mathematics Meetings
New Orleans, LA, January 5-8, 2007 (Friday - Monday)
Meeting #1023

Wednesday January 3, 2007

• Wednesday January 3, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-4:45 p.m.
  AMS Short Course on Aspects of Statistical Learning, I
  Organizers:
  Cynthia Rudin, Courant Institute, New York University
  Miroslav Dud\'ik, Princeton University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Registration.
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Opening remarks by Cynthia Rudin and Miroslav Dud\'ik.
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Machine Learning Algorithms for Classification.
    Robert E. Schapire*, Princeton University
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Break.
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Occam's Razor and Generalization Bounds.
    Cynthia Rudin*, Center for Neural Science and Courant Institute, New York University
    Miroslav Dud\'ik*, Princeton University
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Exact Learning of Boolean Functions and Finite Automata with Queries.
    Lisa Hellerstein*, Polytechnic University
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Break.
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Panel Discussion.
• Wednesday January 3, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-4:45 p.m.
  MAA Short Course on Leonhard Euler: Looking Back after 300 Years, I
  Organizers:
  Ed Sandifer, Western Connecticut State University
  Robert E. Bradley, Adelphi University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Registration.
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Introductions.
  • 9:15 a.m.
    A mathematical life in the enlightenment.
    Ronald S. Calinger*, Catholic University of America
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Break.
  • 10:45 a.m.
    Euler and number theory: A study in mathematical invention.
    Jeff Suzuki*, Brooklyn College
  • 2:00 p.m.
    DAlembert, Clairaut and Lagrange: Euler and the French mathematical community.
    Robert E. Bradley*, Adelphi University
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Break.
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Enter, stage center: The early drama of hyperbolic functions in the age of Euler.
    Janet Barnett*, Colorado State University-Pueblo