AMS Fall 2005 Central Section Meeting

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American Mathematical Society—Fall 2005 Central Section Meeting

University of Nebraska–Lincoln
October 21–23, 2005

Summary

The meeting, held from October 21 to October 23, 2005, was very successful; there were about 530 registrants and a huge crowd attended Sir Michael's talk. Unfortunately several hundred people had to be turned away or to listen to the talk in the basement of Kimball Hall. Video of the talk, and additional photos of the meeting, are available on-line. If others have pictures to share, we'll post the websites as we learn of them.

Schedule

Registration will open approximately at noon and will run until about 4 p.m. on October 22, 2005. Most special sessions started at 1:45 p.m. on Friday; the Special Session on Randomness in Computation started Friday morning and finished Saturday morning. Some sessions continued through part of Sunday afternoon. For archival purposes, we have preserved below the web page for the meeting.

Public Lecture

The American Mathematical Society is pleased to inaugurate a series of public lectures to be given annually at one of its eight sectional meetings. The Department of Mathematics at UNL is honored that the AMS has chosen the Lincoln meeting for its first public lecture and that Abel-prizewinner Sir Michael Atiyah will be the speaker.

See the poster for Sir Atiyah's talk.

Sir Michael Atiyah
Sir Michael Atiyah will speak on "The Nature of Space", Friday, October 21 in Kimball Recital Hall at 4:00pm.
There will be a reception immediately following the lecture in the Van Brunt Visitors Center.

Abstract: The Nature of Space
For more than two thousand years philosophers, mathematicians and physicists have struggled to understand the nature of space. Kant studied the role of the human mind, mathematicians examined the logical ramifications of space and physicists investigated experimental phenomena. The story continues to the present day, with increasingly exotic scenarios of vibrating strings in ten dimensional space-time. I shall review the history and present status of the great philosophical controversies in the light of modern developments.

Please note: Sir Michael's lecture is free and open to the public.

Program

The following schedule is tentative.

  • Friday
    • 8:30am to 11:30am Randomness in Computation
    • 1:45–3:45 Special Sessions
    • 4:00–5:00 Sir Michael's Lecture, Kimball Recital Hall
    • 5:15 Reception, Van Brunt Visitors Center
  • Saturday
    • 8:30–11:30 Special Sessions
    • 11:40–12:30 Invited Address
    • Lunch
    • 2:00–2:50 Invited Address
    • 3:00–5:00 Special Sessions
    • 5:10–6:00 Invited Address
  • Sunday
    • 8:30–11:30 Special Sessions
    • 11:40–12:30 Invited Address

For a more detailed program please refer to the AMS website.

Registration

The registration desk location is to be announced; it will be open Friday, October 21, noon–5:00 p.m. and Saturday, October 22, 8:00 a.m–4:00 p.m..

Fees are $40 for AMS or CMS members; $60 for nonmembers; and $5 for students/unemployed/emeritus, payable on site by cash, check, or credit card.

Locations

The meeting will take place on the city campus of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Sir Michael Atiyah's lecture will be Friday, October 21 in Kimball Recital Hall (roughly 11th & R) at 4:00 pm.

There will be a reception immediately following the lecture in the Van Brunt Visitors Center, 313 N. 13th.

Sessions and Invited Addresses will take place in the Nebraska Union; Avery Hall and surrounding buildings.

For a map of UNL and its location in Lincoln, please see the campus maps.
In addition we have a floor plan of Avery Hall available.

Further Information, Links

See the AMS meeting webpage for more general information.

See the UNL site and local information page for information for presenters, computing facilities, and information about Lincoln.

The UNL travel page has hotel, parking, driving directions, and airport information.

Special session websites

Algebraic Geometry AMS page.

Analysis of Partial Differential and Integral Equations AMS page.

Association Schemes and Related Topics Session organizers' page, and
Association Schemes and Related Topics AMS page.

Calculus of Variations Session organizers' page, and
Calculus of Variations AMS page.

Combinatorial Matrix Theory Session organizers' page, and Combinatorial Matrix Theory AMS page.

Commutative Algebra Session organizers' page,
Commutative Algebra AMS page for the Saturday Sunday talks, and
Combined session AMS page for the Friday talks, Commutative Algebra/Representation Theory of Noetherian Rings Session.

Dynamic Equations on Time Scales Session organizers' page, and
Dynamic Equations on Time Scales AMS page.

Geometric Methods in Group Theory and Semigroup Theory Session organizers' page, and
Geometric Methods in Group Theory and Semigroup Theory AMS page.

Geometry of Differential Equations Session organizers' page, and
Geometry of Differential Equations AMS page.

Graph Theory Session organizers' page, and
Graph Theory AMS page.

K-theory and Algebraic Cycles Session organizers' page, and
K-theory and Algebraic Cycles AMS page.

Mathematical Ecology AMS page.

Mathematical Education of Teachers AMS page.

Mathematical and Engineering Aspects of Coding Theory Session organizers' page, and
Mathematical and Engineering Aspects of Coding Theory AMS page.

Nonlinear Analysis and Control of Partial Differential Equations Session organizers' page, and
Nonlinear Analysis and Control of Partial Differential Equations AMS page.

Randomness in Computation Session organizers' page and
Randomness in Computation AMS page.

Recent Progress in Operator Algebras Session organizers' page and
Recent Progress in Operator Algebras AMS page.

Representation Theory of Noetherian Rings Session organizers' page,
Representation Theory of Noetherian RingsAMS page for the Saturday Sunday talks, and
Combined session AMS page for the Friday talks, Commutative Algebra/Representation Theory of Noetherian Rings Session.

Scattering and Spectral Problems in Geometry AMS page.

Undergraduate Research AMS page.

Universal Algebra and Order AMS page.

Sponsors of the meeting:

American Mathematical Society
The University of Nebraska–Lincoln Department of Mathematics.

For additional information please contact:

AMS Associate Secretary: Susan J. Friedlander susan@math.northwestern.edu
Local Organizer: Sylvia Wiegand swiegand@math.unl.edu
Conference Coordinator: Marilyn Johnson mjohnson11@math.unl.edu