The largest mathematics meeting in the world returned to San Diego for the 2018 Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM)! The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) and the American Mathematical Society (AMS) thank the 6400+ attendees who made this meeting a success! For your enjoyment, see
Richard D. James – University of Minnesota
Current Events Bulletin Session
LECTURE I – Materials from Mathematics
Friday, January 12, 2018, 1:00 p.m.- 5:00 p.m.
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Room 6E, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
Craig L. Huneke – University of Virginia
Current Events Bulletin Session
LECTURE II – How Complicated are Polynomials in Many Variables?
Friday, January 12, 2018, 2:00 p.m.
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Room 6E, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
Isabelle Gallagher – Université Paris Diderot
Current Events Bulletin Session
LECTURE III – From Newton to Navier-Stokes, or How to Connect Fluid Mechanics Equations from Microscopic to Macroscopic Scales
Friday, January 12, 2018, 3:00 p.m.
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Room 6E, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
Joshua A. Grochow – University of Colorado, Boulder
Current Events Bulletin Session
LECTURE IV – The Cap Set Conjecture, The Polynomial Method, and Applications (after Croot-Lev-Pach, Ellenberg-Gijswijt, and Others)
Friday, January 12, 2018, 4:00 p.m.
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Room 6E, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
Avi Wigderson – Institute for Advanced Study
AMS Colloquium Lectures
Alternate Minimization and Scaling Algorithms: Theory, Applications and Connections Across Mathematics and Computer Science
Wednesday, January 10, 2018, 1:00 p.m.- 1:50 p.m.
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Ballroom 6AB, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
Edriss S. Titi – Texas A&M University and The Weizmann Institute of Science
AMS Invited Address
The Navier-Stokes, Euler and Related Equations
Wednesday, January 10, 2018, 10:05 a.m.- 10:55 a.m.
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Ballroom 6AB, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
Jill Pipher – Brown University
AWM-AMS Noether Lecture
Nonsmooth Boundary Value Problems
Thursday, January 11, 2018, 10:05 a.m.- 10:55 a.m.
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Ballroom 6AB, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
Robert L. Bryant – Duke University
AMS Retiring Presidential Address
The Concept of Holonomy — Its History and Recent Developments
Saturday, January 13, 2018, 9:00 a.m.- 9:50 a.m.
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Ballroom 6AB, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
Cynthia Dwork – Harvard University
AMS Josiah Willard Gibbs Lecture
Privacy in the Land of Plenty
Wednesday, January 10, 2018, 8:30 p.m.- 9:30 p.m.
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Ballroom 6AB, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
László Babai – University of Chicago
MAA Invited Address
Groups, Graphs, Algorithms: The Graph Isomorphism Problem
Wednesday, January 10, 2018, 3:20 p.m.- 4:10 p.m.
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Ballroom 6AB, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
Tamara G. Kolda – Sandia National Laboratories
SIAM Invited Address
Tensor Decomposition: A Mathematical Tool for Data Analysis
Thursday, January 11, 2018, 11:10 a.m. - 12:00 p.m
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Ballroom 6AB, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
André Neves – University of Chicago
AMS-MAA Invited Address
Wow, so many minimal surfaces!
Friday, January 12, 2018, 11:10 a.m.- 12:00 p.m.
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Ballroom 6AB, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
Dana Randall – Georgia Institute of Technology
AMS Invited Address
Emergent Phenomena in Random Structures and Algorithms
Friday, January 12, 2018, 10:05 a.m.- 10:55 a.m.
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Ballroom 6AB, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
Ruth Charney – Brandeis University
AMS Invited Address
Searching for Hyperbolicity
Thursday, January 11, 2018, 3:20 p.m. - 4:10 p.m.
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Ballroom 6AB, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
Gunnar Carlsson – Stanford University
AMS-MAA Invited Address
Topological Modeling of Complex Data
Wednesday, January 10, 2018, 11:10 a.m.- 12:00 p.m.
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Ballroom 6AB, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
Alissa Crans – Loyola Marymount University
MAA Invited Address
Quintessential Quandle Queries
Wednesday, January 10, 2018, 2:15 p.m.- 3:05 p.m.
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Ballroom 6AB, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
Federico Ardila – San Francisco State University
AMS Invited Address
Algebraic Structures on Polytopes
Thursday, January 11, 2018, 2:15 p.m. - 3:05 p.m.
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Ballroom 6AB, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
William Cook – University of Waterloo
MAA Invited Address
Information, Computation, Optimization: Connecting the dots in the Traveling Salesman Problem
Thursday, January 11, 2018, 9:00 a.m.- 9:50 a.m.
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Ballroom 6AB, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
Jo Boaler – Stanford University
MAA Project NExT Lecture on Teaching and Learning
Changing Mathematical Relationships and Mindsets: How All Students Can Succeed in Mathematics Learning
Thursday, January 11, 2018, 11:00 a.m. - Noon
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Ballroom 6AB, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
Moon Duchin – Tufts University
MAA-AMS-SIAM Gerald and Judith Porter Public Lecture
Political Geometry: Voting Districts, "Compactness", and Ideas About Fairness
Saturday, January 13, 2018, 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
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Ballroom 6AB, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
Maria Klawe – Harvey Mudd College
MAA Invited Address
Transforming Learning: Building Confidence and Community to Engage Students with Rigor
Saturday, January 13, 2018, 10:05 a.m.- 10:55 a.m.
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Ballroom 6AB, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
James Tanton – MAA Mathematician at Large
MAA Lecture for Students
How many degrees are in a Martian circle? And Other Human - and Nonhuman - Questions One Should Ask About Everyday Mathematics
Friday, January 12, 2018, 1:00 p.m.- 1:50 p.m.
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Ballroom 6AB, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
Tadashi Tokieda – Stanford University
MAA Invited Address
Toy Models
Friday, January 12, 2018, 9:00 a.m.- 9:50 a.m.
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Ballroom 6AB, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
Program
A comprehensive and rich scientific program, offering something for mathematicians at all levels
Courses & Workshops
Offering opportunities for continued education
Games and Competitions
Showcasing the brilliance of some of the nation’s best high school math students
Grad School Fair and Student Poster Session
Providing career guidance to undergraduate students
Exhibits
Featuring the country's leading scientific publishers, professional organizations, companies that offer mathematics-enrichment products and services, and computer hardware and software companies
Prizes and Awards
Honoring the achievements of outstanding mathematicians
Thank You to Our Sponsors!
Sony Digital Paper
Sony invites you to stop by booth #708 to test drive the next generation of Digital Paper and enter to win our drawing. Whether you're reading theses, correcting exams, annotating scholarly or scientific articles, reviewing proofs, sketching diagrams, figures and formulas, or preparing lecture notes, Sony's Digital Paper is ideal for Mathematicians. Listen as Mike Breen, AMS Public Awareness Officer, speaks with Daniel R. Albohn about Sony Digital Paper's participation in the meeting.
Maplesoft's Online Education Summit
This one-day conference, co-located with the 2018 Joint Mathematics Meetings, will examine the ways technology can be used to provide effective and engaging online STEM courses. Hear from leading institutions who have transformed their online curriculum. The conference runs from 10:00 am - to 4:30 pm, January 9th, 2018, in the Catalina Room, 4th Floor, South Tower of the Marriott Marquis. Register at maplesoft.com/summit. Attendees can register for free! Use discount code: ISS2017-090410. Listen as Mike Breen, AMS Public Awareness Officer, speaks with Louise Krmpotic about Maplesoft's participation in the meeting.
Raffle: Join Maplesoft in the Networking Area located on the Mezzanine Level (2nd floor) bayside, and enter for a chance to win an Apple iPhone or one of 3 Gömböcs.
Overleaf
Overleaf is a free, collaborative, cloud-based LaTeX editor - making the process of writing, editing and publishing scientific documents quicker and easier. Listen as Mike Breen, AMS Public Awareness Officer, speaks with John Hammersley, CEO of Overleaf, about Overleaf's participation in the meeting.