Joint Mathematics Meetings AMS Special Sessions
Current as of Saturday, January 16, 2016 03:30:12
Joint Mathematics Meetings
Washington State Convention Center and the Sheraton Seattle Hotel, Seattle, WA
January 6-9, 2016 (Wednesday - Saturday)
Meeting #1116
Associate secretaries:
Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu
Gerard A. Venema, MAA venema@calvin.edu
If you are volunteering to speak in a Special Session, you should send your abstract as early as possible via the abstract submission form found at http://jointmathematicsmeetings.org/meetings/abstracts/abstract.pl?type=jmm.
Links to abstracts will be available approximately one week (for sectional meetings) to four weeks (for national meetings) after the abstracts deadline.
AMS Special Sessions
- AMS Special Session on Advances in Free Analysis: the Theory and Applications of Noncommutative Functions, Inequalities, and Domains
- Joseph A. Ball, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
- Paul S. Muhly, University of Iowa, Iowa City paul-muhly@uiowa.edu
- AMS Special Session on Advances in the Theory and Application of Reaction Diffusion Models
- Jerome Goddard, II, Auburn University, Montgomery jgoddard@aum.edu
- Ratnasingham Shivaji, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
- AMS Special Session on Algebraic Theory of Differential and Functional Equations
- Taylor Dupuy, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and University of Vermont taylor.dupuy@gmail.com
- Alexey Ovchinnikov, CUNY Queens College, New York
- AMS Special Session on Algebraic and Topological Methods in Combinatorics
- Andrew Berget, Western Washington University
- Steven Klee, Seattle University klees@seattleu.edu
- Isabella Novik, University of Washington, Seattle
- AMS Special Session on Analysis and Geometry in Nonsmooth Metric Measure Spaces
- Luca Capogna, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
- Jeremy Tyson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign tyson@math.uiuc.edu
- AMS Special Session on Analysis, Geometry, and Data
- Kevin R. Vixie, Washington State University, Pullman vixie@speakeasy.net
- Bala Krishnamoorthy, Washington State University, Vancouver
- AMS Special Session on Analytic Function Spaces and Operators on Them
- Tim Ferguson, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa tjferguson1@ua.edu
- Hyun Kwon, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
- AMS Special Session on Analytic Methods in Geometry
- Eric Bahuaud, Seattle University bahuaude@seattleu.edu
- Dylan Helliwell, Seattle University
- AMS-ASL Special Session on Applications of Logic, Model Theory, and Theoretical Computer Science to Systems Biology
- James Lynch, Clarkson University
- Leo Marcus, Santa Monica, CA leomarcus2@gmail.com
- AMS Special Session on Applied and Computational Topology
- Pawel Dlotko, INRIA Saclay, France
- Nicholas Scoville, Ursinus College nscoville@ursinus.edu
- Matthew Wright, IMA University of Minnesota
- AMS Special Session on Arithmetic Dynamics
- Matthew Baker, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Joseph Silverman, Brown University jhs@math.brown.edu
- AMS Special Session on Big Demand for Big Data: How Do We Create the Big Supply?
- Rick Cleary, Babson College rcleary@babson.edu
- Xiao-Li Meng, Harvard University
- AMS Special Session on Classification Problems in Operator Algebras
- Marcel Bischoff, Vanderbilt University
- Ben Hayes, Vanderbilt University benjamin.r.hayes@vanderbilt.edu
- AMS Special Session on Combinatorial Design Theory
- Esther R. Lamken, San Francisco lamken@caltech.edu
- AMS-AWM Special Session on Commutative Algebra and Its Interactions with Algebraic Geometry
- Daniel Hernández, University of Utah dhernan@math.utah.edu
- Jack Jeffries, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- Karl Schwede, University of Utah
- AMS-AWM Special Session on Commutative Algebra
- Karen Smith, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- Emily Witt, University of Utah
- Irena Swanson, Reed College iswanson@reed.edu
- AMS Special Session on Commutative Algebra, I (a Mathematics Research Communities Session)
- Linquan Ma, University of Utah lquanma1019@gmail.com
- Sarah Mayes-Tang, Quest University sarah.mayes-tang/quest.edu
- Jonathan Montaño, University of Kansas jmontano@ku.edu
- AMS Special Session on Current Areas of Interest in the Mathematical Sciences of Medieval Islam
- Mohammad K. Azarian, University of Evansville
- Mohammad Javaheri, Siena College
- Emelie A. Kenney, Siena College kenney@siena.edu
- AMS Special Session on Data-Intensive Modeling in Ecology
- Nikolay Strigul, Washington State University, Vancouver nick.strigul@wsu.edu
- Bala Krishnamoorthy, Washington State Unviersity, Vancouver
- AMS Special Session on Difference Equations and Applications
- Michael A. Radin, Rochester Institute of Technology michael.radin@rit.edu
- AMS Special Session on Differential Equations, Probability and Sea Ice, I (a Mathematics Research Communities Session)
- B.Cael Barry, MIT and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
- Kaitlin Hill, Northwestern University
- Ross Lieb-Lappen, Dartmouth College
- Christian Sampson, University of Utah SeaIceMRC@gmail.com
- Alexandria Volkening, Brown University
- AMS Special Session on Distribution of Zeros of Entire Functions
- Matthew Chasse, Rochester Institute of Technology
- Tamás Forgács, California State University, Fresno
- Andrzej Piotrowski, University of Alaska Southeast, Juneau apiotrowski@uas.alaska.edu
- AMS Special Session on Early Career Female Mathematicians in Algebra and Topology
- Jocelyn Bell, United States Military Academy, West Point bell.jocelyn@gmail.com
- Bethany Kubik, University of Minnesota, Duluth
- Candice Price, Sam Houston State University
- AMS Special Session on Equations of Fluid Motion
- Elaine Cozzi, Oregon State University cozzie@math.oregonstate.edu
- Radu Dascaliuc, Oregon State University
- James P. Kelliher, University of California Riverside
- AMS Special Session on Essential Mathematical Structures and Practices in K--12 Mathematics
- William McCallum, University of Arizona, Tucson
- Kristin Umland, University of New Mexico umland@math.unm.edu
- Ellen Whitsides, University of Arizona, Tucson
- AMS Special Session on Financial Mathematics, I (a Mathematics Research Communities Session)
- Triet Pham, Rutgers University tmp140@math.rutgers.edu
- Wilber A Ventura, University of Texas at Arlington wilber.ventura@mavs.uta.edu
- Kim Weston, Carnegie Mellon University kimberly.weston@gmail.com
- AMS Special Session on Fractal Geometry and Dynamical Systems
- John Rock, Cal Poly Pomona jarock@cpp.edu
- Machiel van Frankenhuijesen, Utah Valley University
- Michel L. Lapidus, University of California, Riverside
- AMS Special Session on Geometric and Categorical Methods in Representation Theory
- Anthony Licata, Australian National University
- Julia Pevtsova, Universityof Washington, Seattle julia@math.washington.edu
- AMS Special Session on Global Harmonic Analysis
- Steven Zelditch, Northwestern University s-zelditch@northwestern.edu
- Hart Smith, University of Washington, Seattle
- Chris Sogge, Johns Hopkins University
- AMS Special Session on Graduate Mathematics Courses and Programs for Secondary Mathematics Teachers
- James J. Madden, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge madden@math.lsu.edu
- James A. Mendoza Epperson, University of Texas, Arlington
- AMS Special Session on Graph Products
- Richard Hammack, Virginia Commonwealth University rhammack@vcu.edu
- Dewey Taylor, Virginia Commonwealth University
- AMS Special Session on Higher Genus Curves and Fibrations of Higher Genus Curves in Mathematical Physics and Arithmetic Geometry
- Andreas Malmendier, Utah State University, Logan andreas.malmendier@usu.edu
- Tony Shaska, Oakland University, Rochester
- AMS-MAA Special Session on The History of Mathematics
- Patti Hunter, Westmont College phunter@westmont.edu
- Adrian Rice, Randolph-Macon College
- Sloan Despeaux, Western Carolina University
- Deborah Kent, Drake University
- AMS-MAA Special Session on Innovative Ideas in Enhancing Success in Mathematics Classes
- Natali Hritonenko, Prairie View A&M University
- Ellina Grigorieva, Texas Woman's University egrigorieva@twu.edu
- Michael A. Radin, Rochester Institute of Technology
- AMS Special Session on Integrable Systems, Painlevé Equations, and Random Matrices
- Anton Dzhamay, University of Northern Colorado adzham@unco.edu
- Christopher M. Ormerod, California Institute of Technology
- Virgil U. Pierce, University of Texas-Pan American
- AMS Special Session on Interactions between Noncommutative Algebra, Algebraic Geometry, and Representation Theory
- Ellen Kirkman, Wake Forest University kirkman@wfu.edu
- James Zhang, University of Washington
- AMS Special Session on Knots in Washington (State)
- Allison Henrich, Seattle University henricha@seattleu.edu
- Sam Nelson, Claremont McKenna College
- Jozef Przytycki, George Washington University
- Radmila Sazdanovic, North Carolina State University, Raleigh
- AMS Special Session on Mathematical Information in the Digital Age of Science
- Patrick Ion, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor pion@umich.edu
- Olaf Teschke, zbMATH, Berlin
- Stephen Watt, University of Western Ontario
- AMS Special Session on Mathematical Programming on Integral Invexity
- Ram Verma, Texas State University, San Marcos verma99@msn.com
- Alexander Zaslavski, Israel Institute of Technology
- AMS Special Session on Mathematics and Public Policy
- Paul Dreyer, RAND Corporation dreyer@rand.org
- AMS Special Session on Mathematics in Natural Resource Modeling
- Catherine A. Roberts, College of the Holy Cross croberts@holycross.edu
- Shandelle M. Henson, Andrews University
- AMS Special Session on The Mathematics of Computation
- Susanne C. Brenner, Louisiana State University brenner@math.lsu.edu
- AMS Special Session on Metrical and Topological Fixed Point Theory with Applications
- Clement Boateng Ampadu, Boston, MA drampadu@hotmail.com
- Talat Nazir, Mälardalen University, Sweden
- Hudson Akewe, University of Lagos, Nigeria
- AMS Special Session on Modular Forms, q-Series, and Mathematics Inspired by Ramanujan
- Chris Jennings-Shaffer, University of Florida, Gainesville, and Oregon State University, Corvallis cjenningsshaffer@ufl.edu
- Holly Swisher, Oregon State University, Corvallis
- AMS Special Session on Moduli Spaces in Algebraic Geometry
- Yaim Cooper, Harvard University yaim@math.harvard.edu
- Anand Patel, Boston College
- AMS Special Session on Moduli Spaces in Symplectic Geometry
- Nathaniel Bottman, MIT bottman@math.mit.edu
- Joel Fish, IAS, Princeton, and the University of Massachusetts, Boston
- Sheel Ganatra, Stanford University
- Katrin Wehrheim, University of California Berkeley
- AMS Special Session on Nonlinear Algebra
- Bernd Sturmfels, University of California Berkeley bernd@berkeley.edu
- Rekha Thomas, University of Washington, Seattle
- AMS Special Session on Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures
- Natalie Sheils, University of Washington, Seattle
- Chris Swierczewski, University of Washington, Seattle cswiercz@uw.edu
- AMS Special Session on Number Theory and Cryptography
- Matilde Lalin, University of Montreal
- Michelle Manes, University of Hawaii, Honolulu mmanes@math.hawaii.edu
- Christelle Vincent, University of Vermont
- AMS Special Session on Operators, Function Spaces, and Models
- Alberto Condori, Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers
- William Ross, University of Richmond wross@richmond.edu
- AMS Special Session on Origami Methods and Applications
- Erik Demaine, MIT
- Thomas C. Hull, Western New England University thull@wne.edu
- Robert J. Lang, Lang Origami
- AMS Special Session on Parabolic Geometries, Twistor Theory, and the AdS/CFT Correspondence
- Jonathan Holland, University of Pittsburgh jonathan.e.holland@gmail.com
- George Sparling, University of Pittsburgh
- Daniela Mihai, Carnegie Mellon University
- AMS Special Session on Partial Differential Equations in Complex Analysis
- Debraj Chakrabarti, Central Michigan University chakr2d@cmich.edu
- Yunus Zeytuncu, University of Michigan, Dearborn
- AMS Special Session on Problems and Challenges in Financial Engineering and Risk Management
- Matthew Lorig, University of Washington, Seattle
- Haijun Li, Washington State University, Pullman
- Hong-Ming Yin, Washington State University, Pullman hyin@wsu.edu
- AMS Special Session on Problems in Geometry and Design of Materials
- Marta Lewicka, University of Pittsburgh lewicka@pitt.edu
- Petronela Radu, University of Nebraska
- AMS Special Session on Pseudorandomness and Its Applications
- Timothy Gowers, University of Cambridge
- Jozsef Solymosi, University of British Columbia solymosi@math.ubc.ca
- AMS Special Session on Quantum Walks, Quantum Markov Chains, Quantum Computation and Related Topics
- Chaobin Liu, Bowie State University cliu@bowiestate.edu
- Takyua Machida, Japan Sociey for the Promotion of Science
- Salvador E. Venegas-Andraca, Technológico de Monterrey, Mexico
- Nelson Petulante, Bowie State University
- AMS Special Session on Random and Complex Dynamics of Reaction-Diffusion Systems
- Michael Anton Hoegele, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia
- Yuncheng You, University of South Florida, Tampa you@mail.usf.edu
- AMS Special Session on Recent Advances in Dynamical Systems and Mathematical Biology
- Guihong Fan, Columbus State University fan_guihong@columbusstate.edu
- Jing Li, Califorrnia State University Northridge
- Hongying Shu, Tongji University, China
- AMS Special Session on Recent Advances in Orthogonal Polynomials and Special Functions
- Xiang-Sheng Wang, Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau xswang@semo.edu
- AMS Special Session on Recent Developments in Dispersive Partial Differential Equations and Harmonic Analysis
- William Green, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute green@rose-hulman.edu
- Jennifer Beichman, University of Wisconsin, Madison beichman@math.wisc.edu
- AMS Special Session on Representation Theory of Algebraic Groups
- Daniel K. Nakano, University of Georgia nakano@math.uga.edu
- Cornelius Pillen, University of South Alabama
- AMS Special Session on Research by Postdocs of the Alliance for Diversity in Mathematics
- Aloysius Helminck, North Carolina State University, Raleigh
- Michael Young, Iowa State University, Ames myoung@iastate.edu
- AMS Special Session on Research from the 2014 and 2015 Rocky Mountain-Great Plains Graduate Research Workshop in Combinatorics
- Michael Ferrera, University of Colorado, Denver michael.ferrara@ucdenver.edu
- Leslie Hogben, Iowa State University, Ames
- Paul Horn, University of Denver
- Derrick Stolee, Iowa State University, Ames
- AMS-MAA-SIAM Special Session on Research in Mathematics by Undergraduates and Students in Post-Baccalaureate Programs
- Darren A. Narayan, Rochester Institute of Technology dansma@rit.edu
- Jobby Jacob, Rochester Institute of Technology
- Tamas Forgacs, California State University, Fresno
- Ugur Abdulla, Florida Institute of Technology
- AMS Special Session on Set-Valued Optimization and Variational Problems with Applications
- Baasansuren Jadamba, Rochester Institute of Technology
- Akhtar A. Kahn, Rochester Institute of Technology aaksma@rit.edu
- Mau Nam Nguyen, Portland State University
- Miguel Sama, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia, Spain
- Christiane Tammer, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg
- AMS Special Session on Special Functions and q-Series
- Richard Askey, University of Wisconsin, Madison
- Mourad E. H. Ismail, University of Central Florida and King Saud University, Riyadh mourad.eh.ismail@gmail.com
- Erik Koelink, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- AMS Special Session on Stochastic Effects in Models for Mathematical Biology and Ecology
- Olcay Akman, Illinois State University oakman@ilstu.edu
- Timothy D. Comar, Benedictine University
- Daniel Hrozencik, Chicago State University
- AMS Special Session on Stochastic Models in Population Biology
- Brian Dennis, University of Idaho, Moscow brian@uidaho.edu
- Eddy Kwessi, Trinity University
- AMS-ASL Special Session on Surreal Numbers
- Philip Ehrlich, Ohio University, Athens ehrlich@ohio.edu
- Ovidiu Costin, Ohio State University, Columbus
- AMS Special Session on Tensor Decompositions and Secant Varieties
- Zach Teitler, Boise State University zteitler@boisestate.edu
- AMS Special Session on Topological Graph Theory: Structure and Symmetry
- Jonathan L. Gross, Columbia University
- Thomas W. Tucker, Colgate University ttucker@colgate.edu
- AMS Special Session on Topological Representation Theory
- Charles Frohman, University of Iowa, Iowa City
- Helen Wong, Carelton College hwong@carleton.edu
- AMS Special Session on Water Waves
- John Carter, Seattle University
- Bernard Deconinck, University of Washington, Seattle
- Katie Oliveras, Seattle University oliveras@seattleu.edu
- AMS Special Session on What's New in Group Theory?
- Arturo Magidin, University of Louisiana at Lafayette magidin@member.ams.org
- Elizabeth Wilcox, Oswego State University of New York