Vanderbilt Hosts AMS Section Meeting

Vanderbilt University was host to the Fall Southeastern Section Meeting of the American Mathematical Society October 16-17. 2004. Approximately 300 mathematicians from 37 states and 21 countries gathered at the university for the meeting.

Department of Mathematics participation in the meeting:

* Sixteen talks were by faculty in the Vanderbilt Department of Mathematics. Those speakers were: 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 were co-authors of talks. Co-authors were: 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 organized sessions on 11 areas of research. Vanderbilt session organizers were: 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, Daoxing Xia, Guoliang Yu, and Dechao Zheng.

* Also giving talks at the meeting were Colette Jeanne Calmelet, a lecturer in the Department of Mathematics, and Jurgen Saal and Jeroslav Jezek, visiting researchers.

* Vanderbilt graduate students participating in the meeting were Yan Zhao, who presented a talk, and Hannah Callender, who was a co-author of a talk.

For more details about the AMS section meeting, click here.


Date Posted: Oct. 14, 2004
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