Rider University to Host Mathematics Meeting

March 24, 2004 

PROVIDENCE, RI—Rider University will host the Spring 2004 Eastern Section Meeting of the American Mathematical Society April 17-18. Approximately 300 mathematicians from 35 states and 15 countries will gather at the university for the meeting.

Saturday morning, at 11:10, Rider University President Mordechai Rozanski will welcome meeting participants in the theater of the Bart Luedeke Center.

Rider University Department of Mathematics and Physics participation in the meeting :

Charles F. Schwartz, chair of the department, is presenting a talk at the meeting. Schwartz is also co-author of another talk and a co-organizer of one of the meeting's sessions.

Ciprian Borcea is presenting a talk and organizing one of the sessions at the meeting.

Andrew Markoe is a co-organizer of one of the sessions at the meeting.

Other events at the meeting :

Saturday evening there will be a celebration of William Browder's 70th birthday. Browder is a professor of mathematics at Princeton University and a former president of the AMS. He is giving an invited address, Problems in topology left over from the twentieth century, Sunday afternoon at 1:30. Three of the special sessions at the meeting are in honor of Browder's work.

One of Browder's most distinguished former students, Dennis Sullivan (Graduate Center of CUNY and SUNY at Stony Brook), is giving the first invited address at the meeting, Poincaré duality, free loop space, and strings. This address follows President Rozanski's welcome Saturday morning.

The other two invited addresses at the meeting are Affine isoperimetric inequalities, by Gaoyong Zhang (Polytechnic University) Saturday afternoon at 1:30 and Vortices in the Ginzburg-Landau model of superconductivity, by Sylvia Serfaty (Courant Institute) Sunday morning at 11:10.

All invited addresses take place in the theater of the Bart Luedeke Center.

The meeting program has more information.

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