Information about the Invited Speakers and their presentations at the Joint Mathematics Meetings.

 

AMS-MAA Joint Invited Addresses

 

 

Fan Chung, University of California San Diego

The Mathematics of PageRank

Tuesday January 8, 2008, 11:10 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Check Out:

“The heat kernel as the pagerank of a graph.”

(PNAS, Dec. 11, 2007), vol. 104, no. 50, pp. 19735-19740.

 

Terence Tao, University of California Los Angeles

Structure and Randomness in the Prime Numbers

Sunday January 6, 2008, 11:10 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

 

 

 

MAA Invited Addresses

 

 

J. Brian Conrey, The American Institute of Mathematics

The Riemann Hypothesis

Tuesday January 8, 2008, 1:00 p.m.-1:50 p.m.

 

John H. Conway, Princeton University

Three-dimensional crystallographic groups: The thirty-five prime space groups

Sunday January 6, 2008, 2:15 p.m.-3:05 p.m.

 

Carl C. Cowen, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

The teaching-technology linkage in mathematics

Wednesday January 9, 2008, 10:05 a.m.-10:55 a.m.

 

Paul H. Edelman, Vanderbilt University

Mathematics and the law: The apportionment of the House of Representatives

Sunday January 6, 2008, 3:20 p.m.-4:10 p.m.

 

Karen H. Parshall, University of Virginia

4000 years of algebra: An historic tour from BM 13901 to em{Moderne Algebra}

Monday January 7, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.

 

Carl Pomerance, Dartmouth College

The covering congruences of Paul Erdös

View Prof. Pomerance's slides for this talk: Pomerance-JMM08.pdf

Tuesday January 8, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.

 

 

 

AMS Invited Addresses

 

 

James G. Arthur, University of Toronto

Semisimple Groups as Universal Examples.

Monday January 7, 2008, 3:20 p.m.-4:10 p.m.

 

 

Constantine M. Dafermos, Brown University

Progress in Hyperbolic Conservation Laws.

Wednesday January 9, 2008, 4:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.

 

Wen-Ching Winnie Li, Penn State University

Combinatorics and Number Theory.

Sunday January 6, 2008, 10:05 a.m.-10:55 a.m.

 

Donald G. Saari, University of California Irvine

A new mathematical frontier: The social and behavioral sciences.

Tuesday January 8, 2008, 10:05 a.m.-10:55 a.m.

 

Peter Teichner, University of California Berkeley

Quantum field theory and generalized cohomology.

Monday January 7, 2008, 2:15 p.m.-3:05 p.m.

 

Wendelin Werner, University of Paris-Sud

Random conformally invariant pictures (Parts I,II, and III).

Sunday January 6, 2008, 1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m.

Monday January 7, 2008, 1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m.

Tuesday January 8, 2008, 1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m.

 

Avi Wigderson, Institute for Advanced Study

Randomness---A computational complexity view.

Sunday January 6, 2008, 8:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m.

        Monday, January 7, 2008, 11:10 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

 

 

AWM Invited Address

 

Audrey A. Terras, University of California San Diego

Fun with zeta functions of graphs.

Monday, January 7, 2008, 10:05 a.m.-10:55 a.m.

 

 

 


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