Joint Mathematics Meetings AMS Special Sessions

Current as of Saturday, January 26, 2019 03:30:06

Joint Mathematics Meetings

• Baltimore Convention Center, Hilton Baltimore, and Baltimore Marriott Inner Harbor Hotel, Baltimore, MD
• January 16-19, 2019 (Wednesday - Saturday)
• Meeting #1145

Associate secretaries:

Steven H Weintraub, AMS shw2@lehigh.edu
Hortensia Soto, MAA hortensia.soto@unco.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 25 years of Conferences for African-American Researchers in the Mathematical Sciences (CAARMS times 25)
  • William A. Massey, Princeton University wmassey@princeton.edu
• AMS Special Session on A Showcase of Number Theory at Undergraduate Institutions
  • Adriana Salerno, Bates College
  • Lola Thompson, Oberlin College lola.thompson@oberlin.edu
• AMS Special Session on Advances and Applications in Integral and Differential Equations
  • Jeffrey T. Neugebauer, Eastern Kentucky University Jeffrey.neugebauer@eku.edu
  • Min Wang, Kennesaw State University
• AMS Special Session on Advances by Early Career Women in Discrete Mathematics
  • Jessalyn Bolkema, State University of New York at Oswego jessalyn.bolkema@oswego.edu
  • Jessica De Silva, California State University, Stanislaus
• AMS Special Session on Advances in Operator Theory, Operator Algebras, and Operator Semigroups
  • Joseph Ball, Virginia Tech
  • Marat Markin, California State University, Fresno mmarkin@csufresno.edu
  • Igor Nikolaev, St. John's University
  • Ilya Spitkovsky, New York University, Abu Dhabi
• AMS Special Session on Advances in Quantum Walks, Quantum Simulations, and Related Quantum Theory
  • Radhakrishnan Balu, US Army Research Lab radhakrishnan.balu.civ@mail.mil
  • Chaobin Liu, Bowie State University
  • Takuya Machida, Nihon University, Japan
• AMS Special Session on Agent-based Modeling in Biological and Social Systems (a Mathematics Research Communities Session)
  • Maryann Hohn, University of California Santa Barbara hohn@pstat.ucsb.edu
  • Angelika Manhart, Imperial College, London
  • Christopher Miles, Courant Institute, New York University
  • Cole Zmurchok, Vanderbilt University
• AMS Special Session on Algebraic Structures Motivated by Knot Theory
  • Mikhail Khovanov, Columbia University
  • Jozef H. Przytycki, George Washington University przytyck@gwu.edu
  • Alexander Shumakovitch, George Washington University
• AMS Special Session on Algebraic and Geometric Methods in Discrete Optimization
  • Amitabh Basu, Johns Hopkins University basu.amitabh@gmail.com
  • Jesus De Loera, University of California, Davis
• AMS Special Session on Algebraic, Discrete, Topological and Stochastic Approaches to Modeling in Mathematical Biology
  • Olcay Akman, Illinois State University
  • Timothy D. Comar, Benedictine University tcomar@ben.edu
  • Daniel Hrozencik, Chicago State University
  • Raina Robeva, Sweet Briar College
• AMS-ASL Special Session on Algorithmic Dimensions and Fractal Geometry
  • Jack H. Lutz, Iowa State University lutz@iastate.edu
  • Elvira Mayordomo, University of Zaragoza, Spain
• AMS Special Session on Analysis and Geometry of Nonlinear Evolution Equations
  • Marius Beceanu, University at Albany, State University of New York
  • Dan-Andrei Geba, University of Rochester dan.geba@rochester.edu
• AMS Special Session on Analysis of Fractional, Stochastic, and Hybrid Dynamic Systems with Applications
  • John R. Graef, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
  • G. S. Ladde, University of South Florida
  • A. S. Vatsala, University of Louisiana at Lafayette vatsala@Louisiana.edu
• AMS Special Session on Analytic Number Theory
  • Thomas A. Hulse, Boston College thomas.hulse@bc.edu
  • Angel V. Kumchev, Towson University
  • Nathan McNew, Towson University
  • John Miller, The Johns Hopkins University
• AMS Special Session on Arithmetic Statistics
  • Michael Chou, Tufts University michael.chou@tufts.edu
  • Robert Lemke Oliver, Tufts University
  • Ari Shnidman, Center for Communications Research-Princeton
• AMS Special Session on Bifurcations of Difference Equations and Discrete Dynamical Systems with Applications
  • Arzu Bilgin, Recep Tayyip Erdogan University, Turkey arzu.bilgin@erdogan.edu.tr
  • Toufik Khyat, Trinity College
• AMS Special Session on Commutative Ring Theory: Research for Undergraduate and Early Graduate Students
  • Nicholas Baeth, Franklin and Marshall College nbaeth@fandm.edu
  • Branden Stone, Hamilton College
• AMS Special Session on Continued Fractions
  • Geremías Polanco Encarnación, Hampshire College
  • James McLaughlin, West Chester University jmclaughlin2@wcupa.edu
  • Barry Smith, Lebanon Valley College
  • Nancy J. Wyshinski, Trinity College
• AMS Special Session on Counting Methods in Number Theory
  • Lillian Pierce, Duke University
  • Arindam Roy, Rice University aroy15@uncc.edu
  • Jiuya Wang, University of Wisconsin
• AMS-ASL Special Session on Definability and Decidability Problems in Number Theory
  • Kirsten Eisenträger, Pennsylvania State University
  • Deidre Haskell, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada
  • Jennifer Park, University of Michigan
  • Alexandra Shlapentokh, East Carolina University shlapentokha@ecu.edu
• AMS Special Session on Differential Equations on Fractals
  • Patricia Alonso-Ruiz, University of Connecticut
  • Joe Chen, Colgate University
  • Luke Rogers, University of Connecticut
  • Robert Strichartz, Cornell University
  • Alexander Teplyaev, University of Connecticut alexander.teplyaev@uconn.edu
• AMS Special Session on Enumerative Combinatorics
  • Miklos Bona, University of Florida bona@ufl.edu
  • Cheyne Homberger, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
• AMS Special Session on Financial Mathematics
  • Maxim Bichuch, Johns Hopkins University
  • Anja Richter, Baruch College, City University of New York
  • Stephan Sturm, Worcester Polytechnic Institute ssturm@wpi.edu
• AMS Special Session on Geometric and Topological Combinatorics
  • Anastasia Chavez, University of California, Davis anachavez@math.ucdavis.edu
  • Jamie Haddock, University of California, Davis
  • Annie Raymond, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• AMS Special Session on Geometric and Topological Generalization of Groups
  • Amrita Acharyya, University of Toledo
  • Bikash C. Das, University of North Georgia bikash.das@ung.edu
• AMS Special Session on Geometry Labs United: Research, Visualization, and Outreach
  • Marianne Korten, Kansas State University
  • Sean Lawton, George Mason University
  • Anton Lukyanenko, George Mason University alukyane@gmu.edu
• AMS Special Session on Geometry and Dynamics of Continued Fractions
  • Anton Lukyanenko, George Mason University
  • Joseph Vandehey, Ohio State University vandehey.1@osu.edu
• AMS Special Session on Geometry of Representation Spaces
  • Sean Lawton, George Mason University slawton3@gmu.edu
  • Chris Manon, University of Kentucky
  • Daniel Ramras, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
• AMS Special Session on Group Representation Theory and Character Theory
  • Mohammad Reza Darafsheh, University of Tehran, Iran
  • Manouchehr Misaghian, Prairie View A&M University mamisaghian@pvamu.edu
• AMS Special Session on Harmonic Analysis, Partial Differential Equations, and Applications
  • Russell Brown, University of Kentucky russell.brown@uky.edu
  • Irina Mitrea, Temple University
• AMS Special Session on Harmonic Analysis: Recent Developments on Oscillatory Integrals (a Mathematics Research Communities Session)
  • Xiumin Du, University of Maryland
  • Taryn C. Flock, University of Massachusetts Amherst flock@math.umass.edu
  • Yakun Xi, University of Rochester
• AMS-MAA-ICHM Special Session on History of Mathematics
  • Sloan Despeaux, Western Carolina University despeaux@wcu.edu
  • Jemma Lorenat, Pitzer College
  • Daniel E. Otero, Xavier University
  • Adrian Rice, Randolph-Macon College
• AMS Special Session on Hopf Algebras and Tensor Categories
  • Siu-Hung Ng, Louisiana State University
  • Julia Plavnik, Texas A&M University
  • Henry Tucker, University of California, San Diego hjtucker@ucsd.edu
• AMS Special Session on How to Guard an Art Gallery and Other Discrete Mathematical Adventures (In Memory of T. S. Michael, 1960 to 2016)
  • Joseph Bonin, The George Washington University
  • Carolyn Chun, US Naval Academy chun@usna.edu
  • Nancy Neudauer, Pacific University
• AMS Special Session on If You Build It They Will Come: Presentations by Scholars in the National Alliance for Doctoral Studies in the Mathematical Sciences
  • David Goldberg, Purdue University goldberg@purdue.edu
  • Phil Kutzko, University of Iowa
• AMS Special Session on Latinx in Math
  • Alexander Diaz-Lopez, Villanova University
  • Laura Escobar, University of Illinois
  • Juanita Pinzón-Caicedo, North Carolina State University jpinzon@ncsu.edu
• AMS Special Session on Lattice Path Combinatorics and Applications
  • Christian Krattenthaler, University of Vienna, Austria
  • Alan Krinik, California State Polytechnic University ackrinik@cpp.edu
  • Randall J. Swift, California State Polytechnic University
• AMS Special Session on Localization and Delocalization for Disordered Quantum Systems
  • Peter D. Hislop, University of Kentucky peter.hislop@uky.edu
  • Christoph A. Marx, Oberlin College
  • Jeffery Schenker, Michigan State University
• AMS Special Session on Low Complexity Models in Data Analysis and Machine Learning
  • Emily J. King, University of Bremen, Germany king@math.uni-bremen.de
  • Nate Strawn, Georgetown University
  • Soledad Villar, New York University
• AMS Special Session on Mappings on Metric and Banach Spaces with Applications to Fixed Point Theory
  • Torrey M. Gallagher, Bucknell University tmg012@bucknell.edu
  • Christopher J. Lennard, University of Pittsburgh
• AMS Special Session on Mathematical Analysis in Fluid Dynamics
  • Yanqiu Guo, Florida International University
  • Jinkai Li, South China Normal University
  • Jing Tian, Towson University jtian@towson.edu
  • Yuncheng You, University of South Florida
• AMS Special Session on Mathematical Investigations of Spatial Ecology and Epidemiology
  • Leah Shaw, College of William and Mary
  • Junping Shi, College of William and Mary
  • Zhisheng Shuai, University of Central Florida shuai@ucf.edu
• AMS Special Session on Mathematical Models in Ecology, Epidemiology, and Medicine
  • Richard Schugart, Western Kentucky University
  • Najat Ziyadi, Morgan State University najat.ziyadi@morgan.edu
• AMS Special Session on Mathematicians at Sea (in the Sky, or on Land): Defense Applications of Mathematics
  • Tegan Emerson, Naval Research Laboratory tegan.emerson@nrl.navy.mil
  • Timothy Doster, Naval Research Laboratory
  • George Stantchev, Naval Research Laboratory
• AMS Special Session on Mathematics in the Realm of Cyber Research
  • Daniel Bennett, Army Cyber Institute
  • Paul Goethals, United States Military Academy paul.goethals@usma.edu
  • Natalie Scala, Towson University
• AMS Special Session on Mathematics of Coding Theory and Applications
  • Hiram Lopez-Valdez, Clemson University
  • Felice Manganiello, Clemson University manganm@clemson.edu
  • Gretchen L. Matthews, Virginia Tech
• AMS Special Session on The Mathematics of Gravity and Light (a Mathematics Research Communities Session)
  • Sougata Dhar, University of Maine sougata.dhar@maine.edu
  • Chad R. Mangum, Niagara University
  • Nadine Stritzelberger, University of Waterloo
• AMS Special Session on The Mathematics of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in the Mid-Atlantic
  • Edray Goins, Purdue University egoins@purdue.edu
  • Janis Oldham, North Carolina A&T
  • Talithia Washington, Howard University
  • Scott Williams, University at Buffalo, State University of New York
• AMS Special Session on Multiscale Problems in the Calculus of Variations
  • Elisa Davoli, University of Vienna, Austria
  • Rita Ferreira, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia rita.ferreira@kaust.edu.sa
• AMS Special Session on Natural Resources Modeling
  • Julie Blackwood, Williams College
  • Shandelle M. Henson, Andrews University henson@andrews.edu
• AMS Special Session on Network Science
  • David Burstein, Swarthmore College
  • Franklin Kenter, United States Naval Academy
  • Feng 'Bill' Shi, University of North Carolina bill10@email.unc.edu
• AMS Special Session on New Directions in the Theory of Complex Multiplication
  • Henri Darmon, McGill University henri.darmon@mcgill.ca
  • Samit Dasgupta, Duke University
  • Benedict Gross, Harvard University
• AMS Special Session on Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Their Applications
  • Mingchao Cai, Morgan State University
  • Gisele Mophou Loudjom, University of French West Indies, Guadeloupe, France
  • Gaston N'Guerekata, Morgan State University
  • Alexander Pankov, Morgan State University
  • Xuming Xie, Morgan State University
  • Guoping Zhang, Morgan State University Guoping.Zhang@morgan.edu
• AMS Special Session on Not KNerds: A Community for Knot Theory
  • Moshe Cohen, Vassar College mcohen@vassar.edu
  • Elizabeth Denne, Washington and Lee University
  • Adam Lowrance, Vassar College
• AMS Special Session on Number Theoretic Methods in Hyperbolic Geometry (a Mathematics Research Communities Session)
  • Samantha Fairchild, University of Washington skayf92@gmail.com
  • Junxian Li, Universität Göttingen
  • Richard Vradenburgh, University of Virginia
• AMS Special Session on Number Theory, Arithmetic Geometry, and Computation
  • Brendan Hassett, Brown University
  • Drew Sutherland, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • John Voight, Dartmouth College jvoight@gmail.com
• AMS Special Session on Numerical Methods for PDEs and Applications
  • Wenrui Hao, Pennsylvania State University
  • Qingguo Hong, Pennsylvania State University huq11@psu.edu
  • Jinchao Xu, Pennsylvania State University
• AMS Special Session on Optimal Methods in Applicable Analysis: Variational Inequalities, Low Rank Matrix Approximations, Systems Engineering, Cyber Security
  • Aritra Dutta, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
  • Ram Mohapatra, University of Central Florida ram.mohapatra@ucf.edu
  • Gayatri Pany, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
  • Nabin Kumar Sahu, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, India
• AMS Special Session on Orthogonal Polynomials, Quantum Probability, Harmonic and Stochastic Analysis
  • Nobuhiro Asai, Aichi University of Education, Kariya, Japan
  • Rodica Costin, The Ohio State University
  • Aurel I. Stan, The Ohio State University at Marion stan.7@math.osu.edu
  • Hiroaki Yoshida, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, Japan
• AMS Special Session on Partition Theory and Related Topics
  • Dennis Eichhorn, University of California, Irvine deichhor@math.uci.edu
  • Tim Huber, University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley
  • Amita Malik, Rutgers University
• AMS Special Session on Problems in Partial Differential Equations
  • Alex Himonas, University of Notre Dame himonas.1@nd.edu
  • Curtis Holliman, The Catholic University of America
• AMS Special Session on Quantum Symmetries: Subfactors and Fusion Categories (a Mathematics Research Communities Session)
  • Cain Edie-Michell, Vanderbilt University
  • Lauren Ruth, Vanderbilt University lauren.c.ruth@vanderbilt.edu
  • Yilong Wang, Louisiana State University
• AMS Special Session on Quaternions
  • Terrence Blackman, Medgar Evers College, City University of New York
  • Johannes Familton, Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York jfamilton@bmcc.cuny.edu
  • Chris McCarthy, Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York
• AMS Special Session on Recent Advancements in Mathematical Modeling of Cancer
  • Kamila Larripa, Humboldt State University
  • Hwayeon Ryu, University of Hartford hryu@hartford.edu
• AMS Special Session on Recent Advances and Trends in Computable Structure Theory (in honor of J. Remmel)
  • Jennifer Chubb, University of San Francisco
  • Tim McNicholl, Iowa State University mcnichol@iastate.edu
• AMS Special Session on Recent Advances in Biological Modeling and Related Dynamical Analysis
  • Joshi Raj Hem, Xavier University
  • Yanyu Xiao, University of Cincinnati yanyu.xiao@uc.edu
• AMS Special Session on Recent Advances in Homological and Commutative Algebra
  • Neil Epstein, George Mason University
  • Claudiu Raicu, Notre Dame University
  • Alexandra Seceleanu, University of Nebraska aseceleanu@unl.edu
• AMS Special Session on Recent Advances in Inverse Problems and Imaging
  • Kui Ren, University of Texas at Austin
  • Yang Yang, Michigan State University yangy5@msu.edu
• AMS Special Session on Recent Advances in Regularity Lemmas
  • Gabriel Conant, University of Notre Dame gconant@nd.edu
  • Rehana Patel,
  • Julia Wolf, University of Bristol, UK
• AMS Special Session on Recent Progress in Multivariable Operator Theory
  • Dmitry Kaliuzhnyi-Verbovetsky, Drexel University
  • Hugo Woerdeman, Drexel University hugo@math.drexel.edu
• AMS Special Session on Research in Mathematics by Early Career Graduate Students
  • Marat Markin, California State University, Fresno
  • Morgan Rodgers, California State University, Fresno
  • Khang Tran, California State University, Fresno khangt@csufresno.edu
  • Oscar Vega, California State University, Fresno
• 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
  • Khang Tran, California State University, Fresno
  • Mark David Ward, Purdue University
  • John Wierman, The Johns Hopkins University
• AMS Special Session on Riordan Arrays
  • Alexander Burstein, Howard University aburstein@howard.edu
  • Dennis Davenport, Howard University
  • Asamoah Nkwanta, Morgan State University
  • Lou Shapiro, Howard University
  • Leon Woodson, Morgan State University
• AMS Special Session on Statistical, Variational, and Learning Techniques in Image Analysis and their Applications to Biomedical, Hyperspectral, and Other Imaging
  • Justin Marks, Gonzaga University
  • Laramie Paxton, Washington State University realtimemath@gmail.com
  • Viktoria Taroudaki, Eastern Washington University
• AMS Special Session on Stochastic Analysis and Applications in Finance, Actuarial Science and Related Fields
  • Julius N. Esunge, University of Mary Washington jesunge@umw.edu
  • See Keong Lee, University of the Sciences, Malaysia
  • Aurel I. Stan, The Ohio State University at Marion
• AMS Special Session on Stochastic Differential Equations and Applications
  • Carey Caginalp, University of Pittsburgh carey_caginalp@alumni.brown.edu
• AMS Special Session on Symbolic Dynamics
  • Van Cyr, Bucknell University
  • Bryna Kra, Northwestern University kra@math.northwestern.edu
• AMS Special Session on Topological Data Analysis: Theory and Applications
  • Justin Curry, University at Albany, State University of New York jmcurry@albany.edu
  • Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson, College of Staten Island, City University of New York
  • Sara Kalisnik Verovsek, Wesleyan University
• AMS Special Session on Topology, Structure and Symmetry in Graph Theory
  • Lowell Abrams, George Washington University
  • Mark Ellingham, Vanderbilt University mark.ellingham@vanderbilt.edu
• AMS Special Session on Using Modeling to Motivate the Study of Differential Equations
  • Robert Kennedy, Centennial High School, Ellicott City MD
  • Audrey Malagon, Virginia Wesleyan University
  • Brian Winkel, SIMIODE, Cornwall NY brianwinkel@simiode.org
  • Dina Yagodich, Frederick Community College
• AMS Special Session on Women in Topology
  • Jocelyn Bell, Hobart and William Smith Colleges bell@hws.edu
  • Rosemary Guzman, University of Chicago
  • Candice Price, University of San Diego
  • Arunima Ray, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Germany