University of Colorado to Host Mathematics Meeting

September 18, 2003

PROVIDENCE, RI— The University of Colorado will host the 2003 Joint Central and Western Section Meeting of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) October 2-4. Approximately 300 mathematicians from 43 states and 11 countries will gather at the University for the meeting, the first ever joint meeting of two sections of the AMS. Highlights of the meeting follow.

Seven talks by the University’s Department of Mathematics faculty. Presenters of talks are: Alexander Gorokhovsky, Judith A. Packer, Arlan Ramsay, Eric Stade, Marty Walter, and Bin Wang (who will be giving two talks).

Three talks by faculty from the University's Department of Applied Mathematics. Those speakers are: M. D. Betterton, Keith Julien, and Harvey Segur.

Four University mathematics graduate students—Christopher Catone, William Kirwin, Erich McAlister, and Christopher Seaton —are giving talks.

Two University Mathematics faculty members, Jeanne N. Clelland and Judith Packer, are co-authors of talks. Harvey Segur and Mark Ablowitz, of the Department of Applied Mathematics, are also co-authors of talks.

University Physics professors Henry Kapteyn and Margaret Murnane are combining to give three talks. Peter W. Engels, a Research Associate in the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA) will be giving two talks. Other University speakers are Deborah S. Jin, a JILA fellow, Rob Knight, a Research Associate in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Thomas T. Perkins, JILA-NIST, and Pranav Dayal, a graduate student in electrical engineering.

Eleven Mathematics or Applied Mathematics faculty are organizing sessions on seven areas of research. The organizers are: Lawrence Baggett, Jeanne N. Clelland, Carla Farsi, Alexander Gorokhovsky, David R. Grant, Keith A. Kearnes, Judith Packer, Harvey Segur, Walter Taylor, Lynne Walling, and Siye Wu. There will be 16 special sessions at the meeting.

Erdős Memorial Lecture. On Friday, October 3^rd, Avi Wigderson of the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, NJ) and Hebrew University (Jerusalem) will give this year's Erdős Memorial Lecture. Wigderson's lecture, Some Insights of Computational Complexity Theory, will be Friday evening from 5:10 to 6:00. The Erdős Memorial Lecture is an annual invited address named for the prolific mathematician Paul Erdős (1913-1996) and made possible by a fund created by Andrew Beal, a Dallas banker. The Erdős Lecture is one of seven invited addresses at the meeting. Topics of the addresses cover a wide spectrum of mathematics and its applications.

The meeting program has more information.

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