AMS Hosts Congressional Briefing
Mathematics and stents was the subject of a Congressional briefing hosted by the AMS on December 6, 2011. The Capitol Hill presentation entitled "Mathematics: Leading the Way for New Options in the Treatment of Coronary Artery Disease" was given by Professor Suncica Canic of the University of Houston.
Coronary artery disease is a precursor for heart attack, the number one killer in the United States. Treatment of this disease entails insterting a stent to keep the coronary arteries open. Patient-specific decisions on the choice of a particular stent tailored to a given patient anatomy are not common practice. This presentation showed how mathematics provides a quick and inexpensive way to make patient-specific decisions by testing the stent's behavior prior to the insertion into a patient's coronary artery. Prescribing mathematical and computer simulations, in addition to prescribing a blood test and angiogram, is the future of personalized medicine.
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The AMS holds annual congressional briefings as a means to communicate information to policymakers. Speakers discuss the importance of mathematics research and present their work in layman's terms to Congressional staff as a way to inform Members of Congress of how mathematics impacts today's important issues.
Other Congressional Briefings:
Beginning in 2017, the AMS is partnering with MSRI to organize and host bi-annual briefings; prior to 2017, the AMS hosted annual briefings.
- December 2019, "Cryptography in the Quantum Era" presented by Jill Pipher, Brown University.
- June 2019, "Addressing Threats and Vulnerabilities in Critical Interconnected Systems: Common Principles in Disease Outbreaks, Internet Malware, and Bank Failures" presented by Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University.
- December 2018, "From the Color of Birds to Nanomaterials and New Technology" presented by Rodolfo Torres, University of Kansas.
- May 2018, "Origami Meets Math, Science, and Engineering" presented by Erik Demaine, MIT.
- December 2017, "Cryptography: How to Enable Privacy in a Data-Driven World" presented by Dr. Shafi Goldwasser, MIT.
- June 2017, "Blackboard to bedside: How high-dimensional geometry is transforming the MRI industry" presented by David Donoho, Stanford University.
- December 2016, "How Mathematical Models Predict Emerging Epidemics," presented by Mac Hyman, Tulane University.
- December 2015, "From right triangles to modern cryptography" presented by Ken Ribet, University of California-Berkeley.
- December 2014, "The Future of Mathematics: Education & Innovation" presented by Robert Ghrist, Andrea Mitchell University Professor of Mathematics and Electrical/Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania.
- December 2013, "How Math Fuels the Knowledge Economy" presented by Mark L. Green, professor emeritus at the University of California-Los Angeles.
- December 2012, "Chaos and Avalanches in Science and Socio-Political Systems" presented by James A. Yorke, professor of mathematics and physics at the University of Maryland.
- December 2011, "Mathematics: Leading the Way for New Options in the Treatment of Coronary Artery Disease" presented by Suncica Canic, professor of mathematics at the University of Houston.
- October 2010, "The Gulf Oil Spill: How Can We Protect our Beaches in the Future?" presented by Andrea Bertozzi, professor of mathematics at UCLA.
- October 2009, "The Movies, the Markets and Mathematics", presented by Stuart Geman, professor of applied mathematics at Brown University.
- September 2008, "Can Mathematics Cure Leukemia?" presented by Doron Levy, associate professor of mathematics at the University of Maryland, College Park.
- September 2007, "Mathematics of Ice to Aid Global Warming Forecasts", presented by Ken Golden, professor of mathematics at the University of Utah.
- November 2006, "The Necessity of Mathematics: From Google to Counterterrorism to Sudoku", presented by Amy Langville, professor of mathematics at the College of Charleston.
- November 2005, "From Katrina Forward: How Mathematics Helps Predict Storm Surges", presented by Clint Dawson, professor at the University of Texas and a member of the Center for Subsurface Modeling in the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences; and James Westerink, associate professor of civil engineering and geological sciences at the University of Notre Dame.
- September 2004, "Homeland Security: What Can Mathematics Do?" presented by Fred Roberts, professor of mathematics and director of the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS) at Rutgers University.
- July 2003, "Mathematics is Biology's Next Microscope, Only Better; Biology is Mathematics' Next Physics, Only Better" presented by Joel E. Cohen, Laboratory of Populations, Rockefeller and Columbia Universities.
- February 2002, "Mathematics, Patterns and Homeland Security", presented by Ingrid Daubechies, Princeton University.
- July 2001, "Adding It Up: Helping Children Learn Mathematics", a briefing on this National Research Council Report presented by Deborah Loewenberg Ball and Hyman Bass, University of Michigan and by Roger Howe, Yale University.
- Other previous briefings include:
- What Does Water Know About Mathematics, by Mary Fannett Wheeler, The University of Texas at Austin
- Calculating the Secrets of Life: Mathematics in Medicine by DeWitt Sumners, Florida State University
- Eavesdropping on the Internet: Mathematics and Policy by Carl Pomerance, University of Georgia
- Mathematical Transcriptions of the Real World: Fingerprints, Magnetic Resonance and Video by Ronald Coifman, Yale University