University of North Carolina to Host Mathematics Meeting

October 10, 2003

PROVIDENCE, RI-- The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill will host the Fall Southeastern Section Meeting of the American Mathematical Society October 24-25. Over 300 mathematicians from 37 states and 9 countries will gather at the University for the meeting. University participation in the meeting follows.

James N. Damon of the Mathematics Department will be giving an invited address, entitled Scale-based geometry and its role in computer imaging. Damon's address is one of four at the meeting. The address will be given on Friday in the Carroll Hall auditorium from 11:05 a.m. to 12:05 p.m. An online abstract of the address is available.

There will be eight other talks given by members of the University’s Mathematics Department. Mathematics faculty speakers are: J. A. Cima, Tim Elston, M. Gregory Forest, Richard M. McLaughlin, Sorin M. Mitran, Lev Rozansky, Jim Stasheff, and Mark Williams. Anita T. Layton, Joohee Lee, and Ruhai Zhou, postdoctoral fellows in mathematics, are also giving talks at the meeting, as is Jack Snoeyink from the University's Computer Science Department.

There are five mathematics faculty members who are co-authors of talks: David Adalsteinsson, Joseph A. Cima, M. Gregory Forest (co-author of 5 talks), Jane Hawkins, and Christopher Jones. Mathematics postdoctoral fellows Tobias Schaefer and Ruhai Zhou —a co-author of five talks—are also co-authors of talks at the meeting.

Six mathematics department faculty members are organizing sessions during the meeting. Session organizers are: M. Gregory Forest, Jane Hawkins, Christopher Jones, Sorin M. Mitran, Karl E. Petersen, and James Stasheff. Postdoctoral fellows Rudy Horne, Tobias Schaefer, and Ruhai Zhou are also organizers of sessions.

University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill mathematics graduate students Nick Costanzino, Lingxing Yao, and Xiaoyu Zheng will be giving talks at the meeting. Also University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill students Nicole Abaid and John Fricks are co-authors of papers to be presented at the meeting.

The meeting program has more information.

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