Northeastern University to Host Mathematics Meeting

September 12, 2002

Providence, RI:

Northeastern University will host the Fall Meeting of the Eastern Section of the American Mathematical Society, October 5-6. Approximately 300 mathematicians from 32 states and 12 countries will gather at the University to present results of their research.

Among these presentations will be nine by members of the University's Department of Mathematics: eight by the faculty and one by a graduate student. Three members of the Department are co-authors of talks and thirteen faculty members have organized sessions on eight areas of research.

Northeastern University Associate Professor Christopher King will be giving an invited address, one of five at the meeting. The address, Information capacity of quantum channels, will be Sunday morning from 11:00 to 11:50 in the ballroom of the Curry Student Center.

The Erdös Memorial Lecture is an annual invited address, which this year will be given at the meeting at Northeastern. The address, The conjecture of Erdös-Turan and its impact on ergodic theory, will be given by Hillel Furstenberg of the Einstein Institute of Mathematics in Jerusalem on Sunday afternoon from 1:00 to 1:50, also in the Curry Student Center ballroom. The Lecture is named for Paul Erdös, a legendary mathematician who died in 1996, and is made possible by a fund created by Andrew Beal, a Dallas banker.

More information about the meeting can be found here.

Founded in 1888 to further mathematical research and scholarship, the 30,000-member American Mathematical Society fulfills its mission through programs and services that promote mathematical research and its uses, strengthen mathematical education, and foster awareness and appreciation of mathematics and its connections to other disciplines and to everyday life.