Vanderbilt University to Host Mathematics Meeting

September 23, 2004

PROVIDENCE, RI--Vanderbilt University will host the Fall Southeastern Section Meeting of the American Mathematical Society October 16-17. Approximately 300 mathematicians from 37 states and 21 countries will gather at the university for the meeting.

Department of Mathematics participation in the meeting :

Sixteen talks by faculty in the Vanderbilt Department of Mathematics. Those speakers are: Dietmar Bisch, Nikolaos Galatos, Douglas Hardin, Mary Ann Horn, Gennadi Kasparov, Miklos Maroti, Ralph McKenzie, Laurent Pujo-Menjouet, John Ratcliffe, Remus Nicoara, Mark Sapir, Steven Tschantz, Constantine Tsinakis, Christoph Walker, Glenn Webb, and Daoxing Xia.

Eight mathematics faculty members are co-authors of talks. Co-authors are: Mary Ann Horn, Michael Plummer, Laurent Pujo-Menjouet, John Ratcliffe (co-author of two talks), Steven Tschantz (also a co-author of two talks), Glenn Webb, Guoliang Yu, and Dechao Zheng.

Seventeen mathematics department faculty members are organizing sessions on 11 areas of research. Vanderbilt session organizers are: Akram Aldroubi, Dietmar Bisch, Mark Ellingham, Matthew Gould, Douglas Hardin, Bruce Hughes, Ralph McKenzie, Mike Mihalik, Michael Plummer, Laurent Pujo-Menjouet, John Ratcliffe, Mark Sapir, Gieri Simonett, Steven Tschantz, Glenn Webb, Guoliang Yu, and Dechao Zheng.

Also giving talks at the meeting are Colette Jeanne Calmelet, a lecturer in the Department of Mathematics, and Jurgen Saal, a visiting researcher.

Vanderbilt graduate students participating in the meeting are Yan Zhao, who is presenting a talk, and Hannah Callender, who is a co-author of a talk.

The meeting program has more information.

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