DOCSLIB.ORG

Meetings and Conferences, Volume 45, Number 6

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Meetings and Conferences, Volume 45, Number 6 mtgs.qxp 5/18/98 11:26 AM Page 794 Meetings & Conferences of the AMS PROGRAM ALERT: In order that AMS meeting programs include the most timely information for each speaker, abstract dead- lines have been moved to dates much closer to the meeting. What this means is that most meeting programs will appear in the No- tices *after* the meeting takes place. However, complete meeting programs will be available on e-MATH about two to three weeks after the abstract deadline. *Remember*, e-MATH is your most comprehensive source for up-to-date meeting information. See http://www.ams.org/meetings/. Manhattan, Kansas Davis, California Kansas State University University of California March 27–28, 1998 April 25–26, 1998 Meeting #932 Meeting #934 Central Section Western Section Associate secretary: Susan J. Friedlander Associate secretary: Robert J. Daverman Announcement issue of Notices: January 1998 Announcement issue of Notices: February 1998 Program issue of Notices: June/July 1998, page 806 Program issue of Notices: June/July 1998, page 831 Issue of Abstracts: Volume 19, Issue 2 Issue of Abstracts: Volume 19, Issue 2 Philadelphia, Chicago, Illinois DePaul University-Chicago Pennsylvania September 12–13, 1998 Temple University Meeting #935 April 4–6, 1998 Central Section Associate secretary: Susan J. Friedlander Meeting #933 Announcement issue of Notices: June/July 1998 Eastern Section Program issue of Notices: November 1998 Associate secretary: Lesley M. Sibner Issue of Abstracts: Volume 19, Issue 3 Announcement issue of Notices: February 1998 Program issue of Notices: June/July 1998, page 819 Deadlines Issue of Abstracts: Volume 19, Issue 2 For organizers: Expired 794 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 45, NUMBER 6 mtgs.qxp 5/18/98 11:26 AM Page 795 Meetings & Conferences For consideration of contributed papers in Special Ses- Topics in Mathematics and Curriculum Reform (Code: AMS sions: Expired SS B1), Richard J. Maher, Loyola University Chicago. For abstracts: July 21, 1998 Accommodations Invited Addresses Participants should make their own arrangements directly Vitaly Bergelson, Ohio State University, Title to be an- with the hotel of their choice and request the DePaul rate. nounced. All rooms will be on a space available basis. The AMS is not responsible for rate changes or for the quality of the Sheldon Katz, Oklahoma State University, Title to be an- accommodations. nounced. Best Western Grant Park, 1100 S. Michigan Ave.; 312- Ralf Spatzier, University of Michigan, Title to be announced. 922-2900; $62/single or double; two blocks from campus. Vladimir Voevodsky, Northwestern University, Title to be Palmer House Hilton, 17 E. Monroe Ave.; 312-917-7348; announced. $149/single or double. Ramada Congress Inn, 520 S. Michigan Ave.; 800-635- Special Sessions 1666; $99/single or double; hotel parking. Algebraic Coding (Code: AMS SS C1), William C. Huffman, Food Service Loyola University of Chicago, and Vera S. Pless, University Campus dining facilities: 11th floor, DePaul Center, 7:30 of Illinois at Chicago. a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Additional restaurants are located within Algebraic Combinatorics: Association Schemes and Related short walking distance. Topics (Code: AMS SS L1), Sung Yell Song, Iowa State Uni- versity. Local Information Algebraic Geometry and Mirror Symmetry (Code: AMS SS Please visit the Web site maintained by DePaul University N1), Ezra Getzler and Mikhail Kapranov, Northwestern Uni- at http://www.depaul.edu/. versity, and Sheldon Katz, Oklahoma State University. Other Activities Commutative Algebra (Code: AMS SS J1), Irena V. Peeva, AMS Book Sale: Examine the newest titles from AMS! Most Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Michael Still- books will be available at a special 50% discount offered man, Cornell University. only at meetings. Complimentary coffee will be served, Complex Dynamics (Code: AMS SS H1), Shmuel Friedland, courtesy of AMS Membership Services. University of Illinois at Chicago. Parking Complexity of Geometric Structures on Manifolds (Code: AMS SS F1), Melvin G. Rothenberg and Shmuel A. Wein- Although DePaul University has no parking facilities of its berger, University of Chicago. own in the loop area, there are several municipal parking lots in the area. The cost of parking varies. Ergodic Theory and Topological Dynamics (Code: AMS SS G1), Roger L. Jones, DePaul University, and Randall Mc- Registration and Meeting Information Cutcheon, Wesleyan College. Registration will take place in the lobby on the 8th floor Fourier Analysis (Code: AMS SS E1), Marshall Ash, DePaul of the DePaul Center, 1 E. Jackson Blvd., from 7:30 a.m. to University, and Mark A. Pinsky, Northwestern University. 5:00 p.m., Saturday, September 12, and from 8:00 a.m. to K-Theory and Motivic Cohomology (Code: AMS SS D1), 11:00 a.m. on Sunday, September 13. Invited addresses will Kevin Knudson, Northwestern University, and Mark take place in the Egan Urban Center located in the Ad- Walker, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. ministration Center at 243 South Wabash. Special Sessions will take place in the DePaul Center and the Lewis Center. Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations (Code: AMS SS O1), Registration Fees: (payable on-site only) $30/AMS mem- Gui-Qiang Chen and Konstantina Trivisa, Northwestern bers; $45/nonmembers; $10/emeritus members, students, University. or unemployed mathematicians. Fees are payable by cash, Number Theory (Code: AMS SS I1), Jeremy T. Teitelbaum check, VISA, MasterCard, Discover, or American Express. and Yuri Tschinkel, University of Illinois at Chicago. Travel Orthogonal Polynomial Series, Summability and Conjugates (Code: AMS SS M1), Calixto P. Calderon, University of The DePaul Center is located at the intersection of State Illinois at Chicago, and Luis A. Caffarelli, University of Texas Street and Jackson Boulevard. It is well served by public at Austin. transportation and has many nearby parking garages. By Air: Inquire upon arrival at O’Hare Airport or Mid- Rigidity in Geometry and Dynamics (Code: AMS SS K1), way Airport for public transportation or car rentals. The Steven E. Hurder, University of Illinois at Chicago, and following specially negotiated rates are available only for Ralf J. Spatzier, University of Michigan. the period September 9–15: 5% discount off first-class and Stochastic Analysis (Code: AMS SS A1), Richard B. Sowers, any published USAirways promotional round-trip fare, or University of Illinois-Urbana, and Elton P. Hsu, North- 10% discount off unrestricted coach fares with seven-day western University. advance reservations and ticketing required. These dis- JUNE/JULY 1998 NOTICES OF THE AMS 795 mtgs.qxp 5/18/98 11:26 AM Page 796 Meetings & Conferences counts are valid providing all rules and restrictions are met By Train or Bus: All six rapid transit train lines (CTA) and are applicable for travel from the continental U.S., Ba- service the campus and include the O’Hare/Congress/Dou- hamas, Canada, and San Juan, P.R. Discounts are not com- glas (Blue) and Midway/Loop (Orange). From the trains, exit binable with other discounts or promotions. Additional re- at Jackson Boulevard (300 South). The fare from each air- strictions may apply on international travel. For reservations port is $1.50, and exact change is recommended to sim- call (or have your travel agent call) 800-334-8644 between plify entering the train stations. 8:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. Refer to Gold Weather: The daytime temperatures typically range File Number 73670341. from 50–70 degrees Fahrenheit, and in the 50 degree range Airport Express vans depart O’Hare every 10 minutes at night. Some light rain is possible. for the 45-minute trip downtown, and from Midway every 15 minutes for the 30-minute trip to downtown. Driving: From the north and northwest: the campus is accessible from the John F. Kennedy Expressway (I-90/I-94); Winston-Salem, exit at Jackson Boulevard (300 South) and turn east. The campus is approximately one mile from the expressway at North Carolina Jackson Blvd. Wake Forest University From the west: The campus is accessible from the Dwight D. Eisenhower Expressway (I-290). As you enter the down- October 9–10, 1998 town area, the expressway becomes Congress Parkway. Turn left (north) on Dearborn Street (50 West), go two Meeting #936 blocks to Jackson Blvd. (300 South) and turn right (east). Southeastern Section DePaul University is one block east on Jackson Blvd. at State Associate secretary: Robert J. Daverman Street. From the south: Take I-90/I-94 exit at Jackson Blvd. Announcement issue of Notices: August 1998 (300 South) and turn east. The campus is approximately Program issue of Notices: December 1998 one mile from the expressway on Jackson Boulevard. Issue of Abstracts: Volume 19, Issue 3 Deadlines For organizers: Expired DEPAUL UNIVERSITY For consideration of contributed papers in Special Ses- N sions: June 23, 1998 For abstracts: August 18, 1998 W E Adams St. S Invited Addresses Parking David F. Anderson, University of Tennessee, Unique and 4 nonunique factorization in integral domains. Administration Idris Assani, University of Carolina, Chapel Hill, A.e. mul- Center 3 tiple recurrence and Wiener Wintner dynamical systems. Jackson Blvd. ★ Marcy Barge, Montana State University, Structure of at- 1 2 tractors. Roger Temam, Indiana University, Some mathematical problems related to the equations of the atmosphere and DePaul Center Lewis Center the oceans. Van Buren St. Grant Park South Dearborn St. Wabash Ave. Michigan Ave. Special Sessions State Strreet Abelian Groups and Modules (Code: AMS SS B1), Ulrich Al- brecht, Auburn University. Congress Pkwy. Boundary Value Problems (Code: AMS SS K1), John V. Bax- ley and Stephen B. Robinson, Wake Forest University. Combinatorics and Graph Theory (Code: AMS SS A1), Bruce Landman, University of North Carolina. Commutative Ring Theory (Code: AMS SS E1), David F. An- derson, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and Evan Hous- 1 DePaul Center 2 Lewis Center ton, University of North Carolina, Charlotte.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • FIELDS MEDAL for Mathematical Efforts R
    Recognizing the Real and the Potential: FIELDS MEDAL for Mathematical Efforts R Fields Medal recipients since inception Year Winners 1936 Lars Valerian Ahlfors (Harvard University) (April 18, 1907 – October 11, 1996) Jesse Douglas (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) (July 3, 1897 – September 7, 1965) 1950 Atle Selberg (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton) (June 14, 1917 – August 6, 2007) 1954 Kunihiko Kodaira (Princeton University) (March 16, 1915 – July 26, 1997) 1962 John Willard Milnor (Princeton University) (born February 20, 1931) The Fields Medal 1966 Paul Joseph Cohen (Stanford University) (April 2, 1934 – March 23, 2007) Stephen Smale (University of California, Berkeley) (born July 15, 1930) is awarded 1970 Heisuke Hironaka (Harvard University) (born April 9, 1931) every four years 1974 David Bryant Mumford (Harvard University) (born June 11, 1937) 1978 Charles Louis Fefferman (Princeton University) (born April 18, 1949) on the occasion of the Daniel G. Quillen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) (June 22, 1940 – April 30, 2011) International Congress 1982 William P. Thurston (Princeton University) (October 30, 1946 – August 21, 2012) Shing-Tung Yau (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton) (born April 4, 1949) of Mathematicians 1986 Gerd Faltings (Princeton University) (born July 28, 1954) to recognize Michael Freedman (University of California, San Diego) (born April 21, 1951) 1990 Vaughan Jones (University of California, Berkeley) (born December 31, 1952) outstanding Edward Witten (Institute for Advanced Study,
    [Show full text]
  • Algebra & Number Theory Vol. 7 (2013)
    Algebra & Number Theory Volume 7 2013 No. 3 msp Algebra & Number Theory msp.org/ant EDITORS MANAGING EDITOR EDITORIAL BOARD CHAIR Bjorn Poonen David Eisenbud Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of California Cambridge, USA Berkeley, USA BOARD OF EDITORS Georgia Benkart University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA Susan Montgomery University of Southern California, USA Dave Benson University of Aberdeen, Scotland Shigefumi Mori RIMS, Kyoto University, Japan Richard E. Borcherds University of California, Berkeley, USA Raman Parimala Emory University, USA John H. Coates University of Cambridge, UK Jonathan Pila University of Oxford, UK J-L. Colliot-Thélène CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, France Victor Reiner University of Minnesota, USA Brian D. Conrad University of Michigan, USA Karl Rubin University of California, Irvine, USA Hélène Esnault Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Peter Sarnak Princeton University, USA Hubert Flenner Ruhr-Universität, Germany Joseph H. Silverman Brown University, USA Edward Frenkel University of California, Berkeley, USA Michael Singer North Carolina State University, USA Andrew Granville Université de Montréal, Canada Vasudevan Srinivas Tata Inst. of Fund. Research, India Joseph Gubeladze San Francisco State University, USA J. Toby Stafford University of Michigan, USA Ehud Hrushovski Hebrew University, Israel Bernd Sturmfels University of California, Berkeley, USA Craig Huneke University of Virginia, USA Richard Taylor Harvard University, USA Mikhail Kapranov Yale University, USA Ravi Vakil Stanford University,
    [Show full text]
  • Fall 2020 Issue
    MATHEMATICS + BERKELEY Fall 2020 IN THIS ISSUE Letter from the Chair 2 Department News 4 Happy Hours, New Horizons 3 Grad and Undergrad News 5 Prize New Faculty and Staff 7 Chair Michael Hutchings (PhD, Harvard, 1998) has been a member of the math faculty since 2001. His research is in low dimension- al and symplectic geometry and topology. He became Chair in Fall 2019. Dear Friends of Berkeley Math, Due to Covid-19, this last year has been quite extraordinary for almost everyone. I have been deeply moved by the enormous efforts of members of our department to make the most of the The department’s weekly afternoon tea in virtual 1035 Evans Hall on gather.town. Some attendees are dressed as vampires and pumpkins, others are playing pictionary. circumstances and continue our excellence in teaching and research. rejoined the department as an Assistant Teaching Professor. Yingzhou Li, who works in Applied Mathematics, and Ruix- We switched to remote teaching in March with just two days iang Zhang, who works in Analysis, will join the department of preparation time, and for the most part will be teaching as Assistant Professors in Spring and Fall 2021, respectively. remotely at least through Spring 2021. As anyone who teach- es can probably tell you, teaching online is no easier than And we need to grow our faculty further, in order to meet very teaching in person, and often much more difficult. However, high teaching demand. In Spring 2020 we had over 900 mathe- developing online courses has also given us an opportunity to matics majors, and we awarded a record 458 undergraduate de- rethink how we can teach and interact with students.
    [Show full text]
  • THÔNG TIN TOÁN HỌC Tháng 9 Năm 2014 Tập 18 Số 3 Thông Tin Toán Học (Lưu Hành Nội Bộ)
    Hội Toán Học Việt Nam THÔNG TIN TOÁN HỌC Tháng 9 Năm 2014 Tập 18 Số 3 Thông Tin Toán Học (Lưu hành nội bộ) Tổng biên tập Bản tin Thông Tin Toán Học nhằm ∙ ∙ Ngô Việt Trung mục đích phản ánh các sinh hoạt chuyên môn trong cộng đồng toán học Phó tổng biên tập Việt Nam và quốc tế. Bản tin ra thường ∙ kỳ 4 số trong một năm. Nguyễn Thị Lê Hương Thư ký tòa soạn ∙ Đoàn Trung Cường Thể lệ gửi bài: Bài viết bằng tiếng Việt. ∙ Tất cả các bài, thông tin về sinh hoạt Ban biên tập ∙ toán học ở các khoa (bộ môn) toán, Trần Nguyên An về hướng nghiên cứu hoặc trao đổi về Đào Phương Bắc phương pháp nghiên cứu và giảng dạy Trần Nam Dũng đều được hoan nghênh. Bản tin cũng Trịnh Thanh Đèo nhận đăng các bài giới thiệu tiềm năng Đào Thị Thu Hà khoa học của các cơ sở cũng như các Đoàn Thế Hiếu bài giới thiệu các nhà toán học. Bài viết Nguyễn An Khương xin gửi về tòa soạn theo email hoặc địa Lê Công Trình chỉ ở trên. Nếu bài được đánh máy tính, xin gửi kèm theo file với phông chữ Nguyễn Chu Gia Vượng unicode. Địa chỉ liên hệ ∙ Bản tin: Thông Tin Toán Học Viện Toán Học 18 Hoàng Quốc Việt, 10307 Hà Nội Email: [email protected] Trang web: http://www.vms.org.vn/ttth/ttth.htm c Hội Toán Học Việt Nam ○ Ảnh bìa 1. Xem trang 25 Trang web của Hội Toán học: Nguồn: Internet http://www.vms.org.vn 1 Cảm nhận về Đại hội Toán học Quốc tế tại Seoul Ngô Việt Trung (Viện Toán học) Năm 2009 GS Lovasz và GS Groetschel, - Tiến hành các nỗ lực đặc biệt nhằm vận Chủ tịch và Tổng thư ký Liên đoàn toán động mọi công dân trong mọi tổ chức, học thế giới đến thăm Việt Nam.
    [Show full text]
  • The Jones-Witten Invariants of Knots Astérisque, Tome 189-190 (1990), Séminaire Bourbaki, Exp
    Astérisque MICHAEL ATIYAH The Jones-Witten invariants of knots Astérisque, tome 189-190 (1990), Séminaire Bourbaki, exp. no 715, p. 7-16 <http://www.numdam.org/item?id=SB_1989-1990__32__7_0> © Société mathématique de France, 1990, tous droits réservés. L’accès aux archives de la collection « Astérisque » (http://smf4.emath.fr/ Publications/Asterisque/) implique l’accord avec les conditions générales d’uti- lisation (http://www.numdam.org/conditions). Toute utilisation commerciale ou impression systématique est constitutive d’une infraction pénale. Toute copie ou impression de ce fichier doit contenir la présente mention de copyright. Article numérisé dans le cadre du programme Numérisation de documents anciens mathématiques http://www.numdam.org/ Seminaire BOURBAKI novembre 1989 42eme annee, 1989-90, n° 715 THE JONES-WITTEN INVARIANTS OF KNOTS par Michael ATIYAH 1. INTRODUCTION One of the most remarkable developments of recent years has been the work initiated by Vaughan Jones [2] [3] on knot invariants. This has all the hallmarks of great mathematics. It produces simple new invariants which solve classical problems and it involves a very wide range of ideas and techniques from practically all branches of mathematics and physics. Here is a list of the areas which have been significantly involved in the theory up to the present : combinatorics, group representations, algebraic geom- etry, differential geometry, differential equations, topology, Von Neumann algebras, statistical mechanics, quantum field theory..Moreover the subject continues to develop rapidly and a final picture has not yet emerged. Given this very wide field I have to be very selective for a one-hour presentation. I will concentrate on some aspects and I shall have to omit all the technicalities.
    [Show full text]
  • Oberwolfach Jahresbericht Annual Report 2008 Herausgeber / Published By
    titelbild_2008:Layout 1 26.01.2009 20:19 Seite 1 Oberwolfach Jahresbericht Annual Report 2008 Herausgeber / Published by Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach Direktor Gert-Martin Greuel Gesellschafter Gesellschaft für Mathematische Forschung e.V. Adresse Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach gGmbH Schwarzwaldstr. 9-11 D-77709 Oberwolfach-Walke Germany Kontakt http://www.mfo.de [email protected] Tel: +49 (0)7834 979 0 Fax: +49 (0)7834 979 38 Das Mathematische Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach ist Mitglied der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft. © Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach gGmbH (2009) JAHRESBERICHT 2008 / ANNUAL REPORT 2008 INHALTSVERZEICHNIS / TABLE OF CONTENTS Vorwort des Direktors / Director’s Foreword ......................................................................... 6 1. Besondere Beiträge / Special contributions 1.1 Das Jahr der Mathematik 2008 / The year of mathematics 2008 ................................... 10 1.1.1 IMAGINARY - Mit den Augen der Mathematik / Through the Eyes of Mathematics .......... 10 1.1.2 Besuch / Visit: Bundesministerin Dr. Annette Schavan ............................................... 17 1.1.3 Besuche / Visits: Dr. Klaus Kinkel und Dr. Dietrich Birk .............................................. 18 1.2 Oberwolfach Preis / Oberwolfach Prize ....................................................................... 19 1.3 Oberwolfach Vorlesung 2008 .................................................................................... 27 1.4 Nachrufe ..............................................................................................................
    [Show full text]
  • The Top Mathematics Award
    Fields told me and which I later verified in Sweden, namely, that Nobel hated the mathematician Mittag- Leffler and that mathematics would not be one of the do- mains in which the Nobel prizes would The Top Mathematics be available." Award Whatever the reason, Nobel had lit- tle esteem for mathematics. He was Florin Diacuy a practical man who ignored basic re- search. He never understood its impor- tance and long term consequences. But Fields did, and he meant to do his best John Charles Fields to promote it. Fields was born in Hamilton, Ontario in 1863. At the age of 21, he graduated from the University of Toronto Fields Medal with a B.A. in mathematics. Three years later, he fin- ished his Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University and was then There is no Nobel Prize for mathematics. Its top award, appointed professor at Allegheny College in Pennsylvania, the Fields Medal, bears the name of a Canadian. where he taught from 1889 to 1892. But soon his dream In 1896, the Swedish inventor Al- of pursuing research faded away. North America was not fred Nobel died rich and famous. His ready to fund novel ideas in science. Then, an opportunity will provided for the establishment of to leave for Europe arose. a prize fund. Starting in 1901 the For the next 10 years, Fields studied in Paris and Berlin annual interest was awarded yearly with some of the best mathematicians of his time. Af- for the most important contributions ter feeling accomplished, he returned home|his country to physics, chemistry, physiology or needed him.
    [Show full text]
  • Issue 118 ISSN 1027-488X
    NEWSLETTER OF THE EUROPEAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY S E European M M Mathematical E S Society December 2020 Issue 118 ISSN 1027-488X Obituary Sir Vaughan Jones Interviews Hillel Furstenberg Gregory Margulis Discussion Women in Editorial Boards Books published by the Individual members of the EMS, member S societies or societies with a reciprocity agree- E European ment (such as the American, Australian and M M Mathematical Canadian Mathematical Societies) are entitled to a discount of 20% on any book purchases, if E S Society ordered directly at the EMS Publishing House. Recent books in the EMS Monographs in Mathematics series Massimiliano Berti (SISSA, Trieste, Italy) and Philippe Bolle (Avignon Université, France) Quasi-Periodic Solutions of Nonlinear Wave Equations on the d-Dimensional Torus 978-3-03719-211-5. 2020. 374 pages. Hardcover. 16.5 x 23.5 cm. 69.00 Euro Many partial differential equations (PDEs) arising in physics, such as the nonlinear wave equation and the Schrödinger equation, can be viewed as infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems. In the last thirty years, several existence results of time quasi-periodic solutions have been proved adopting a “dynamical systems” point of view. Most of them deal with equations in one space dimension, whereas for multidimensional PDEs a satisfactory picture is still under construction. An updated introduction to the now rich subject of KAM theory for PDEs is provided in the first part of this research monograph. We then focus on the nonlinear wave equation, endowed with periodic boundary conditions. The main result of the monograph proves the bifurcation of small amplitude finite-dimensional invariant tori for this equation, in any space dimension.
    [Show full text]
  • Fighting for Tenure the Jenny Harrison Case Opens Pandora's
    Calendar of AMS Meetings and Conferences This calendar lists all meetings and conferences approved prior to the date this issue insofar as is possible. Instructions for submission of abstracts can be found in the went to press. The summer and annual meetings are joint meetings with the Mathe­ January 1993 issue of the Notices on page 46. Abstracts of papers to be presented at matical Association of America. the meeting must be received at the headquarters of the Society in Providence, Rhode Abstracts of papers presented at a meeting of the Society are published in the Island, on or before the deadline given below for the meeting. Note that the deadline for journal Abstracts of papers presented to the American Mathematical Society in the abstracts for consideration for presentation at special sessions is usually three weeks issue corresponding to that of the Notices which contains the program of the meeting, earlier than that specified below. Meetings Abstract Program Meeting# Date Place Deadline Issue 890 t March 18-19, 1994 Lexington, Kentucky Expired March 891 t March 25-26, 1994 Manhattan, Kansas Expired March 892 t April8-10, 1994 Brooklyn, New York Expired April 893 t June 16-18, 1994 Eugene, Oregon April4 May-June 894 • August 15-17, 1994 (96th Summer Meeting) Minneapolis, Minnesota May 17 July-August 895 • October 28-29, 1994 Stillwater, Oklahoma August 3 October 896 • November 11-13, 1994 Richmond, Virginia August 3 October 897 • January 4-7, 1995 (101st Annual Meeting) San Francisco, California October 1 December March 4-5, 1995
    [Show full text]
  • Vaughan Jones Obituary Operators Are Transformations of a Space Jones Grew Upinauckland, Newzealand
    Obituary Vaughan Jones (1952–2020) Mathematician whose invention connected knots to quantum physics. n 1994, mathematician Vaughan Jones knots from their mirror images. It was the kind walked on stage to address the Italian of tool that topologists had been seeking for national academy in Rome’s Palazzo decades. Soon, the polynomial and its refine- Corsini, lit a cigar and began to blow smoke ments helped to solve long-standing problems, rings. With a mischievous grin, he told some of which had been formulated in the late Ithe assembled academics, “When I did this in nineteenth century by Peter Guthrie Tait — the Berkeley, I almost lost my job.” smoke-ring pioneer. Researchers also found a Jones had little time for the stuffy halls of plethora of connections between knot theory academia. He cared about the study of knots, a and physics. Jones investigated connections field launched by nineteenth-century physicists with statistical mechanics, the study of aver- experimenting with smoke rings. In 1990, he aged properties of large numbers of particles. became the first New Zealander to be awarded The most surprising link came in 1989. Theo- the Fields Medal — for an invention that revo- retical physicist Edward Witten at the Institute lutionized the field of topology, the branch of for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, maths that studies knots and other shapes. He showed that the polynomial can be interpreted attended the solemn ceremony wearing the as a feature of the quantum physics of a uni- jersey of New Zealand’s national rugby team. verse with simplified laws of nature and just “He was larger than life in many ways, but at the two dimensions of space.
    [Show full text]
  • Problems in Low-Dimensional Topology
    Problems in Low-Dimensional Topology Edited by Rob Kirby Berkeley - 22 Dec 95 Contents 1 Knot Theory 7 2 Surfaces 85 3 3-Manifolds 97 4 4-Manifolds 179 5 Miscellany 259 Index of Conjectures 282 Index 284 Old Problem Lists 294 Bibliography 301 1 2 CONTENTS Introduction In April, 1977 when my first problem list [38,Kirby,1978] was finished, a good topologist could reasonably hope to understand the main topics in all of low dimensional topology. But at that time Bill Thurston was already starting to greatly influence the study of 2- and 3-manifolds through the introduction of geometry, especially hyperbolic. Four years later in September, 1981, Mike Freedman turned a subject, topological 4-manifolds, in which we expected no progress for years, into a subject in which it seemed we knew everything. A few months later in spring 1982, Simon Donaldson brought gauge theory to 4-manifolds with the first of a remarkable string of theorems showing that smooth 4-manifolds which might not exist or might not be diffeomorphic, in fact, didn’t and weren’t. Exotic R4’s, the strangest of smooth manifolds, followed. And then in late spring 1984, Vaughan Jones brought us the Jones polynomial and later Witten a host of other topological quantum field theories (TQFT’s). Physics has had for at least two decades a remarkable record for guiding mathematicians to remarkable mathematics (Seiberg–Witten gauge theory, new in October, 1994, is the latest example). Lest one think that progress was only made using non-topological techniques, note that Freedman’s work, and other results like knot complements determining knots (Gordon- Luecke) or the Seifert fibered space conjecture (Mess, Scott, Gabai, Casson & Jungreis) were all or mostly classical topology.
    [Show full text]
  • From Algebras to Varieties
    F EATURE Principal Investigator Alexey Bondal Research Area：Mathematics From Algebras to Varieties geometry of varieties superlatively developed by Derived categories after Grothendieck Italian school of the late 19th and early 20th century. Both groups had very strong representatives, but Homological algebra is considered by they had scarce overlap in research. mathematicians to be one of the most formal Perhaps, one of the reasons for this strange state subjects within mathematics. Its formal austerity of affairs was a side effect of the great achievement requires a lot of efforts to come through basic of one of the best Grothendieck’s students, Pierre denitions and frightens off many of those who Deligne, who used complicated homological algebra starts studying the subject. This high level of to prove Weil conjectures. These conjectures are, formality of the theory gives an impression that it probably, more of arithmetic nature and do not is a ding an sich, something that has no possible have so much to do with geometry of algebraic way of comprehension for outsiders and efforts for varieties in the classical sense of Italian school. learning the theory would never be paid back. For years, applications of derived categories were After Alexander Grothendieck, the great creator developed rather in the area of number theoretical of modern homological algebra who introduced the and topological aspects of varieties and, later, in concept of derived categories, had left the stage Representation Theory than in classical geometry of where he occupied a central place for decades, the varieties. opinion that the homological theory had reached its bounds and become a useless formal theory Associative algebras was widely spread in the mathematical community.
    [Show full text]