University of California, Santa Barbara to Host Mathematics Meeting

March 11, 2005

Providence, RI--The University of California, Santa Barbara will host the Spring 2005 Western Section Meeting of the American Mathematical Society April 16-17. Approximately 300 mathematicians from 31 states and 14 countries will gather at the University for the meeting.

UCSB Department of Mathematics participation in the meeting:

Mihai Putinar is giving one of four invited addresses at the meeting. Putinar's address, Positive polynomials, a hilbertian perspective, is Sunday morning April 17, from 11:00 until 11:50. Topics of the remaining invited addresses are from both pure and applied mathematics. All invited addresses are in Room 1004, Girvetz Hall.

There are six other talks by faculty in the University’s Department of Mathematics. Those speakers are: Roy B. Leipnik, Pengzi Miao, John Douglas Moore, Jeffrey Stopple, Milen Yakimov, and Adil Yaqub.

Six mathematics faculty members are co-authors of talks. Co-authors are: Daryl Cooper, K. R. Goodearl, Darren Long (who is a co-author of two talks), Jon McCammond, Mihai Putinar, and Martin Scharlemann.

Twelve mathematics department faculty members are organizing sessions on eight areas of research. Session organizers are: Adebisi Agboola, Daryl Cooper, Xianzhe Dai, Stephan R. Garcia, Kenneth R. Goodearl, Birge K. Huisgen-Zimmermann, Darren Long, Jon McCammond, Mihai Putinar, Martin Scharlemann, Guofang Wei, and Rugang Ye.

Mathematics graduate students speaking at the meeting: Roger A. Roybal, Maggy Tomova, and Will Wylie.

Participation in the meeting by University personnel from outside the Department of Mathematics:

Jeff Moehlis, from the Department of Mechanical and Environmental Engineering, is a speaker at the meeting.

The meeting program has more information about the meeting.

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