SIAM Sessions at the
Joint Mathematics Meeting
January 5 - 8 (Fri. - Mon.), 2007
New Orleans Marriott & Sheraton, New Orleans, LA



SIAM Invited Address

Geometry in the Movies
Tony DeRose, Pixar Animation Studios
Saturday, January 6, 2007, 11:10 a.m.-12:00 p.m

SIAM Minisymposia

Phylotaxis
Pau Atela and Christophe Gole, Smith College
Friday, January 5, 8:00 a.m. – 10:55 a.m.

Mathematics and Materials Science
Robert P. Lipton, Louisiana State University
Friday, January 5, 8:00 a.m. – 10:55 a.m.

Environmental Modeling: Challenges in Practical Applications
and in Teaching
William L. Briggs, University of Colorado at Denver
Friday, January 5, 2:15 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Recent Advances in Computational Scattering
Jie Shen, Purdue University
Friday, January 5, 2:15 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Mathematical Modeling of Complex Systems in Biology
Lisa J. Fauci, Tulane University
Saturday, January 6, 8:00 p.m. – 10:55 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Structure and Topology in Graph Theory
Mark N. Ellingham, Vanderbilt University, and Chris Stephens and
Xiaoya Zha, Middle Tennessee State University
Saturday, January 6, 8:00 p.m. – 10:55 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. – 4:10 p.m

Other Special Sessions

AMS-MAA-SIAM Special Session on Research in Mathematics by Undergraduates
Darren A. Narayan, Rochester Institute of Technology
Carl V. Lutzer, Rochester Institute of Technology
Bernard Brooks, Rochester Institute of Technology
Tamas I. Wiandt, Rochester Institute of Technology
Michael J. Fisher, California State University, Fresno
Saturday January 8 8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m. and 1:00 pm – 5:55 pm

For more information about the 2007 Joint Mathematics Meeting
www.ams.org/amsmtgs/2098_intro.html