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Program of the Sessions New Orleans, Louisiana, January 5–8, 2007 2:00PM D’Alembert, Clairaut and Lagrange: Euler and the Wednesday, January 3 (6) French mathematical community. Robert E. Bradley, Adelphi University AMS Short Course on Aspects of Statistical Learning, I 3:15PM Break. 3:30PM Enter, stage center: The early drama of hyperbolic 8:00 AM –4:45PM (7) functions in the age of Euler. Organizers: Cynthia Rudin, Courant Institute, New Janet Barnett, Colorado State University-Pueblo York University Miroslav Dud´ik, Princeton University 8:00AM Registration. 9:00AM Opening remarks by Cynthia Rudin and Miroslav Thursday, January 4 Dud´ik. 9:15AM Machine Learning Algorithms for Classification. MAA Board of Governors (1) Robert E. Schapire, Princeton University 10:30AM Break. 8:00 AM –5:00PM 11:00AM Occam’s Razor and Generalization Bounds. (2) Cynthia Rudin*, Center for Neural Science and AMS Short Course on Aspects of Statistical Learning, Courant Institute, New York University, and II Miroslav Dud´ik*, Princeton University 2:00PM Exact Learning of Boolean Functions and Finite 9:00 AM –1:00PM (3) Automata with Queries. Lisa Hellerstein, Polytechnic University Organizers: Cynthia Rudin, Courant Institute, New York University 3:15PM Break. Miroslav Dud´ik, Princeton University 3:45PM Panel Discussion. 9:00AM Online Learning. (8) Adam Tauman Kalai, Weizmann Institute of MAA Short Course on Leonhard Euler: Looking Back Science and Toyota Technological Institute after 300 Years, I 10:15AM Break. 10:45AM Spectral Methods for Visualization and Analysis of 8:00 AM –4:45PM (9) High Dimensional Data. Organizers: Ed Sandifer, Western Connecticut Lawrence Saul, University of California San Diego State University NOON Question and answer session. Robert E. Bradley, Adelphi University 8:00AM Registration. MAA Short Course on Leonhard Euler: Looking Back 9:00AM Introductions. after 300 Years, II AM 9:15 A mathematical life in the enlightenment. 9:00 AM –5:00PM (4) Ronald S. Calinger, Catholic University of America 10:30AM Break. Organizers: Ed Sandifer, Western Connecticut State University 10:45AM Euler and number theory: A study in mathematical (5) invention. Robert E. Bradley, Adelphi University Jeff Suzuki, Brooklyn College 9:00AM Questions and answers. The time limit for each AMS contributed paper in the sessions is ten Papers flagged with a solid triangle () have been designated by the minutes. The time limit for each MAA contributed paper varies. In the author as being of possible interest to undergraduate students. Special Sessions the time limit varies from session to session and within Abstractsofpaperspresentedin the sessions at this meeting will be sessions. To maintain the schedule, time limits will be strictly enforced. found in Volume 28, Issue 1 of Abstracts of papers presented to the For papers with more than one author, an asterisk follows the name of American Mathematical Society, ordered according to the numbers in the author who plans to present the paper at the meeting. parentheses following the listings. 102 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 54, NUMBER 1 Friday, January 5 – Program of the Sessions 9:15AM Euler and classical physics. 10:00AM University of California, Davis’s Explore Math (10) Stacy G. Langton,UniversityofSanDiego (17) Program: Graduate students bringing cutting-edge 10:30AM Break. research into the classroom to share with undergraduate and high school students. 10:45AM Elliptic intergrals, mechanics, and differential Preliminary report. (11) equations. Brandy S. Wiegers*, Yuan-Juang Yvonne Lai, Lawrence D. D’Antonio, Ramapo College Sarah A. Williams and Spyridon Michalakis, 2:00PM Euler’s great theorems. University of California, Davis (1023-97-1723) (12) Edward Sandifer, Western Connecticut State 10:30AM Discussion. University 3:15PM Break. 3:30PM Panel discussion. AMS-ASL Special Session on Logical Methods in Computational Mathematics, I AMS Council 8:00 AM –10:55AM 1:30 PM – 10:00 PM Organizers: Saugata Basu, Georgia Institute of Technology Joint Meetings Registration Charles N. Delzell, Louisiana State University 3:00 PM –8:00PM 8:00AM General logical metatheorems for functional Full registration will be conducted from 3:00 p.m. (18) analysis. to 7:00 p.m. Badge/program pickup for those Philipp Gerhardy, Department of Philosophy, registered in advance will be open until 8:00 p.m. Carnegie Mellon University (1023-03-1468) 8:30AM New effective uniformity results in fixed point (19) theory. Ulrich Kohlenbach, Darmstadt University of Technology (1023-03-361) Friday, January 5 9:00AM Proof mining in CAT(0)-spaces and R-trees. (20) Laurentiu Leustean, TU Darmstadt, Germany and Joint Meetings Registration Institute of Mathematics ”Simion Stoilow” of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania 7:30 AM –6:00PM (1023-03-1261) 9:30AM Model elimination and cut elimination. Preliminary Full registration will be conducted from 7:30 a.m. (21) report. to 4:00 p.m. Badge/program pickup for those Grigori Mints, Stanford University (1023-03-79) registered in advance will be open until 6:00 p.m. 10:00AM Phase transitions in logic and combinatorics. (22) Andreas Weiermann, Ghent University Employment Center (1023-03-1102) 10:30AM Primitive Recursive Selection Functions for Provable 7:30 AM –6:00PM (23) Existential Assertions over Abstract Algebras. Preliminary report. AMS-MAA Special Session on Math Circles and Similar Jeffery Zucker, McMaster University, Hamilton, Programs for Students and Teachers, I Canada (1023-03-628) 8:00 AM –10:55AM AMS-AWM Special Session on Geometric Group Organizers: Morris Kalka, Tulane University Theory, I Kathleen O’Hara,Mathematical Sciences Research Institute 8:00 AM –10:55AM Hugo Rossi, Mathematical Sciences Organizers: Ruth M. Charney, Brandeis University Research Institute Karen Vogtmann, Cornell University Tatiana Shubin, San Jose State University 8:00AM Automorphisms of right-angled groups. (24) Adam Piggott*andMauricio Gutierrez,Tufts Zvezdelina E. Stankova, Mills College University (1023-20-237) Daniel H. Ullman, George Washington 8:30AM Quasi-isometric classification of graph manifolds. University (25) Jason A. Behrstock*, University of Utah, and Paul A. Zeitz,UniversityofSan Walter D. Neumann,BarnardCollege,Columbia Francisco University (1023-20-136) 8:00AM Backyard Mathematics. 9:00AM Dual presentations for Artin groups. Preliminary (13) Mark Saul, Bronxville Schools (ret.) (1023-97-704) (26) report. 8:30AM The Great Conversation. Jon McCammond, U C Santa Barbara (1023-20-476) (14) Robert Kaplan*andEllen Kaplan,TheMathCircle 9:30AM Spaces with nonpositive immersions. Preliminary (1023-97-914) (27) report. 9:00AM The San Diego Math Circle. Robert W. Bell, Michigan State University (15) David Patrick, Art of Problem Solving (1023-20-1164) (1023-97-325) 10:00AM A geometric perspective on the conjugacy problem 9:30AM Mathematical Circles (Silicon Valley Experience). (28) in Thompson’s group F. Preliminary report. (16) Tatiana Shubin, San Jose State University Kai-Uwe Bux*andDimitriy Sonkin,Universityof (1023-97-705) Virginia (1023-20-1088) JANUARY 2007 NOTICES OF THE AMS 103 Program of the Sessions – Friday, January 5 (cont’d.) 10:30AM Hilbert space compression of groups. Preliminary 10:30AM Khovanov Homology & Reidemeister Torsion. (29) report. (41) Juan Ariel Ortiz-Navarro*, University of Iowa, Mark Sapir, Vanderbilt University (1023-20-1372) and Chris Truman, University of Maryland (1023-55-1693) AMS Special Session on Fixed Point Theory, Dynamics, and Group Theory, I AMS Special Session on Arrangements and Related Topics, I 8:00 AM –10:55AM 8:00 AM –10:50AM Organizers: Michael R. Kelly, Loyola University Peter N. Wong, Bates College Organizers: Daniel C. Cohen, Louisiana State 8:00AM The Euler characteristic of the Whitehead University (30) automorphism group of a free product. Anne V. Shepler,UniversityofNorth Craig A Jensen*, University of New Orleans, Jon Texas McCammond, UC Santa Barbara, and John Meier, 8:00AM A spectral sequence stratification of cohomology Lafayette College (1023-20-253) (42) jump loci. Preliminary report. 8:30AM Strong monotonicity for filtered ends of pairs of Hal Schenck*, Texas A&M University, and (31) groups. Graham Denham, University of Western Ontario Tom Klein, Binghamton University (1023-20-1244) (1023-13-518) 9:00AM Some Topological Invariants of Groups and Actions. 8:30AM Upper bound on the number of split fibers in a (32) Nic Koban, University of Maine at Farmington (43) pencil of curves. (1023-20-616) Jorge V. Pereira,IMPA,andSergey Yuzvinsky*, 9:30AM Roots and symetries of pseudo-Anosov. University of Oregon (1023-14-796) (33) Jerome Los*, CNRS, University Aix-Marseille1, and 9:00AM Resonant weights and critical loci of rational Jerome Fehrenbach, University of Toulouse (44) functions. Preliminary report. (1023-20-1027) Daniel C. Cohen, Lousiana State University, 10:00AM Fixed points of abelian group actions on surfaces. Graham Denham, University of Western Ontario, (34) John Franks*, Northwestern University, Michael Michael J. Falk*, Northern Arizona University, and Handel, Herbert H. Lehman College (CUNY), and Alexander N. Varchenko,UniversityofNorth Kamlesh Parwani, Univ. of Houston (1023-37-590) Carolina (1023-14-1410) 1 10:30AM From dynamical systems to surface braid groups. 9:30AM Resonance: getting past H . (35) Daciberg Lima Goncalves,UniversidadedeSao (45) Graham Denham*, University of Western Paulo, and John Guaschi*, Laboratoire de Ontario, and Hal Schenck,TexasA&MUniversity Mathematiques Emile Picard, UMR CNRS 5580, (1023-13-1583)