Joint Mathematics Meetings Invited Addresses

Current as of Saturday, January 15, 2011 00:29:55

Joint Mathematics Meetings
New Orleans, LA, January 6-9, 2011 (Thursday - Sunday)
Meeting #1067

Joint Invited Addresses

• Robert J. Lang, Robert J. Lang Origami, From flapping birds to space telescopes: The mathematics of origami. (AMS-MAA-SIAM Gerald and Judith Porter Public Lecture)
• Kannan Soundararajan, Stanford University, The Riemann zeta-function and related L-functions: A progress report. (AMS-MAA)
• Chuu-Lian Terng, University of California at Irvine, Curves, surfaces, and solitons. (AMS-MAA)

AMS Invited Addresses

• Denis Auroux, University of California Berkeley, The symplectic geometry of symmetric products and invariants of 3-manifolds with boundary.
• Andrea L. Bertozzi, UCLA, Self-organization in human, biological, and artificial systems.
• Alexander Lubotzky, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Expander graphs in pure and applied mathematics, I. (AMS Colloquium Lectures: Lecture I)
• Alexander Lubotzky, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Expander graphs in pure and applied mathematics, II. (AMS Colloquium Lectures: Lecture II)
• Alexander Lubotzky, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Expander graphs in pure and applied mathematics, III. (AMS Colloquium Lectures: Lecture III)
• George C. Papanicolaou, Stanford University, Mathematical problems in systemic risk. (AMS Josiah Willard Gibbs Lecture)
• Scott R. Sheffield, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Conformal weldings in quantum gravity: Zippers, necklaces, and SLE.
• Tatiana Toro, University of Washington, Potential Theory meets Geometric Measure Theory.
• Akshay Venkatesh, Stanford University, Modular forms and the topology of certain hyperbolic 3-manifolds.

MAA Invited Addresses

• Steve Abbott, Middlebury College, Turning theorems into plays. (MAA Lecture for Students)
• Robert M. Bell, AT&T, Lessons from the Netflix Prize.
• David M. Bressoud, Macalester College, Issues of the transition to college mathematics. (MAA Retiring Presidential Address)
• Yuval Peres, Microsoft Research, Laplacian growth and the mystery of the abelian sandpile: A visual tour.
• Edward R. Scheinerman, Johns Hopkins University, On the intersection of graphs and geometry.
• Katherine Socha, Saint Mary's College of Maryland, Sea battles, Benjamin Franklin's oil lamp, and jellybellies.
• Melanie Matchett Wood, American Institute of Mathematics and Stanford University, Binary quadratic forms: From Gauss to algebraic geometry.