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Program of the Sessions, Washington, DC Meeting Program of the Sessions Washington, District of Columbia, January 5–8, 2009 1:00PM What does the math-based introductory course look Saturday, January 3 (7) like in 2009? How do we merge mathematical concepts into the introductory course for the math/science student? How does statistical AMS Short Course on Quantum Computation and programming fit in? Quantum Information (Part I) Richard D. De Veaux, Williams College 2:30PM Break. 8:00 AM –5:00PM 2:45PM Introduction to modeling. Regression and ANOVA. Organizer: Samuel J. Lomonaco,Universityof (8) Overview: How much to teach the first semester. Maryland Baltimore County Richard D. De Veaux, Williams College 8:00AM Registration. 9:00AM A Rosetta Stone for quantum computing. (1) Samuel Lomonaco, University of Maryland Baltimore County Sunday, January 4 10:15AM Break. 10:45AM Quantum algorithms. AMS Department Chairs Workshop (2) Peter Shor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 8:00 AM –6:30PM 2:00PM Concentration of measure effects in quantum (3) information. Patrick Hayden, McGill University MAA Board of Governors 3:15PM Break. 8:00 AM –6:00PM 3:45PM Quantum error correction and fault tolerance. (4) Daniel Gottesman, Perimeter Institute MAA Ancillary Workshop 8:30 AM –5:00PM MAA Short Course on Data Mining and New Trends in Teaching Statistics (Part I) Teaching introductory data analysis through modeling. 8:00 AM –4:00PM Presenter: Daniel Kaplan, Macalester College Organizer: Richard D. De Veaux, Williams College AMS Short Course on Quantum Computation and 8:00AM Registration Quantum Information (Part II) 9:00AM Math is music—statistics is literature. What are the (5) challenges of teaching statistics, and why is it 9:00 AM –5:00PM different from mathematics? Richard D. De Veaux, Williams College Organizer: Sanuel J. Lomonaco,Universityof Maryland Baltimore County 10:30AM Break. 9:00AM Riemannian geometry of quantum computation. 10:45AM What does the introductory course look like in (9) Howard Brandt,U.S.ArmyResearchLaboratory (6) 2009? How technology has changed what we do in introductory statistics for the non-math/science 10:15AM Break. student. 10:45AM Topology and quantum computing. Richard D. De Veaux, Williams College (10) Louis H. Kauffman, University of Illinois at Chicago 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 30, 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. JANUARY 2009 NOTICES OF THE AMS 113 Program of the Sessions – Sunday, January 4 (cont’d.) 2:00PM Quantum knots and mosaics. 9:00AM A numerical and analytical study of modeling (11) Samuel Lomonaco, University of Maryland (18) techniques for microstructure evolution. Baltimore County M. R. Atkins, George Mason University 3:15PM Break. (1046-35-103) 3:45PM Panel Discussion: The Grand Mathematical 9:30AM Understanding and predicting materials properties Challenge for Quantum Computation and Quantum (19) from phase-field simulations. Preliminary report. Information. Thomas Dean Stephens, George Mason University (1046-35-101) MAA Short Course on Data Mining and New Trends in 10:00AM Vector invariants of elementary Abelian p-Groups. Teaching Statistics (Part II) (20) Preliminary report. Aaron B. Adcock, Texas Tech University, Lubbock 9:00 AM –4:00PM TX (1046-13-22) 10:30AM Mathematical modeling, analysis and computation Organizer: Richard D. De Veaux, Williams College (21) of a fluid-structure interaction problem with 9:00AM Introduction to data mining, Part I: What is data applications. Preliminary report. (12) mining? How does it differ from statistics? What are Sarah Minerva Venuti*, Kevin Kelbaugh and the problems and techniques in data mining? Padmanabhan Seshayer, George Mason University Richard D. De Veaux, Williams College (1046-65-66) 10:30AM Break. 10:45AM Introduction to data mining, Part II: Five lessons AMS Special Session on Recent Trends in Coding (13) learned from data mining. Theory, I Richard D. De Veaux, Williams College 1:00PM Introduction to data mining, Part III: The methods 8:00 AM –10:50AM (14) and algorithms of data mining. Richard D. De Veaux, Williams College Organizers: Gretchen L. Matthews,Clemson University 2:30PM Break. Judy L. Walker, University of Nebraska 2:45PM Introduction to data mining, Part IV: Practical data (15) mining: Case studies. 8:00AM Generalizing binary quadratic residue codes. Richard D. De Veaux, Williams College (22) P. Charters, University of Texas at Austin (1046-11-645) AMS Council 8:25AM Locally decodable codes. (23) Sergey Yekhanin, Microsoft Research 1:30 PM – 10:00 PM (1046-68-951) 8:50AM Iterative subspace pursuit decoding of weighted Joint Meetings Registration (24) euclidean superimposed codes. Wei Dai*andOlgica Milenkovic,Universityof 3:00 PM –7:00PM Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1046-68-1510) 9:15AM On algebraic constructions of codes for random (25) linear network coding. Felice Manganiello*, Elisa Gorla and Joachim Monday, January 5 Rosenthal, Zurich University (1046-94-854) 9:40AM Further analysis of codes based on permutations. Joint Meetings Registration (26) Christine A. Kelley, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (1046-94-1960) 7:30 AM –4:00PM 10:05AM Coding theory and Pseudorandomness. (27) Venkatesan Guruswami, University of Washington AMS-MAA-SIAM Special Session on Research in & Carnegie Mellon University (1046-05-1085) Mathematics by Undergraduates, I 8:00 AM –10:50AM AMS Special Session on Representation Theory of Lie Algebras and Algebraic Groups, I Organizers: Darren A. Narayan,Rochester Institute of Technology 8:00 AM –10:50AM Jacqueline A. Jensen,SamHouston State University Organizers: David G. Taylor, Roanoke College Carl V. Lutzer, Rochester Institute of Terrell L. Hodge,WesternMichigan Technology University Vadim Ponomarenko, San Diego State Daniel K. Nakano,Universityof University Georgia Tamas Wiandt, Rochester Institute of 8:00AM Killing forms of Lie algebras. Technology (28) Audrey Malagon, Emory University (1046-17-72) 8:00AM Frames: Surgeries, dilation, and robustness. 8:30AM Freudenthal triple systems by root system methods. (16) Preliminary report. (29) Fred W. Helenius, Emory University (1046-17-80) Jennifer L. Wolfe*, Rachael L. Tomasino, Eileen L. 9:00AM Filtrations of Weyl modules. Preliminary report. Radzwion and Sara P. Rimer, Central Michigan (30) Brian Parshall, University of Virginia University (1046-15-90) (1046-20-1137) 8:30AM The minimum semidefinite rank of a graph. 9:30AM Cohomology of algebraic, quantum, and finite (17) Taiji Tsutsui*, Hiram College, Hiram OH, and (31) groups. Rachel Ellen Cranfill, Harvey Mudd College Leonard L. Scott, The University of Virginia (1046-15-91) (1046-20-1149) 114 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 56, NUMBER 1 Monday, January 5 – Program of the Sessions 10:00AM Cohomology of finite-dimensional quantized 10:00AM Cooperative/competitive dynamics in social (32) enveloping algebras: The mixed case. (44) networks. Preliminary report. Christopher M. Drupieski, University of Virginia Jagdish Chandra*, The George Washington (1046-20-1224) University, and G. S. Ladde,UniversityofSouth 10:30AM Combinatorics of crystal bases for certain Florida (1046-34-472) (33) Demazure modules. 10:30AM Fractional differential and integral equations of Julie C. Beier, Mercer University (1046-17-445) (45) Riemann-Liouville versus Caputo type. Preliminary report. AMS Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Aghalaya S. Vatsala, University of Louisiana at Equations and Applications, I Lafayette (1046-34-490) 8:00 AM –10:50AM AMS Special Session on Experimental Mathematics, I Organizers: Gui-Qiang G. Chen,Northwestern University 8:00 AM –10:50AM Cleopatra C. Christoforou,University of Houston Organizers: Tewodros Amdeberhan,Tulane 8:00AM Compensated compactness and the University (34) multi-dimensional Euler equations. Luis A. Medina, Tulane University James Glimm, State University of New York at Victor H. Moll, Tulane University Stony Brook (1046-35-257) 8:00AM Towards a classification of periodic orbits of 8:30AM On the dynamics of multicomponent reactive flows. (46) particular fractal billiards. (35) Konstantina Trivisa, University of Maryland Michel L. Lapidus and Robert G. Niemeyer*, (1046-35-1186) University of California, Riverside (1046-37-945) 9:00AM Instantaneous boundary tangency and cusp 8:30AM Towards a proof of the q-TSPP conjecture. (36) formation in two-dimensional fluid flows. (47) Christoph Koutschan, RISC, Johannes Kepler Misha Perepelitsa*, Vanderbilt University, and University, Linz, Austria (1046-05-1749) David Hoff, Indiana University (1046-35-636) 9:00AM Some divisibility properties for Stirling numbers of 9:30AM On shock-free periodic solutions for the Euler (48) the second kind. Preliminary report. (37) equations. O-Yeat Chan*, Dalhousie University, and Dante Robin C. Young*, University of Massachusetts, Manna, Virginia Wesleyan College (1046-11-1271) Amherst, and J. Blake Temple,Universityof 9:30AM Experimentation
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