SIAM Sessions at the
Joint Mathematics Meetings
January 13 - 16, 2010 (Wednesday - Saturday)
San Francisco, CA

SIAM is a participant in the Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM). SIAM sponsors an invited speaker and several minisymposia.

Full details of the conference and registration information may be found at http://www.ams.org/amsmtgs/2124_intro.html.

Organizers of the SIAM program at JMM 2010

SIAM Coordinating Committee for the Joint Mathematics Meetings

Marie-Carme T. Calderer (Chair)
Mary Lou Zeeman
Douglas West

SIAM Invited Address

Optimization Inside: The use of mathematical methods in business processes
Brenda Dietrich, IBM
Main Lecture Room, 2nd Floor, Moscone Center West
Thursday January 14, 2010, 11:10 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

AMS-MAA-SIAM Gerald and Judith Porter Public Lecture

The calculus of friendship
Steven Strogatz, Cornell University
Main Lecture Room, 2nd Floor, Moscone Center West
Saturday January 16, 2010, 3:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.

SIAM Minisymposia

SIAM Minisymposium on Economics and Sustainability
Room 2002, 2nd Floor, Moscone Center West
Organizer:
Christian Traeger, University of California, Berkeley, [email protected]
Wednesday January 13, 2010, 8:05 a.m.-11:00 a.m.

SIAM Minisymposium on Frontiers in Geomathematics
Room 2002, 2nd Floor, Moscone Center West
Organizers:
Willi Freeden, University of Kaiserslautern
M. Zuhair Nashed, University of Central Florida
Thomas H. Sonar, Technical University of Braunschweig
Wednesday January 13, 2010, 2:15 p.m.-6:30 p.m.

SIAM Minisymposium on High School Outreach to Introduce Students to Applied Mathematics
Room 2002, 2nd Floor, Moscone Center West
Organizer:
Peter Turner, Clarkson University, [email protected]
Thursday January 14, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.

SIAM Minisymposium on Mathematics and a Smart Planet
Room 2002, 2nd Floor, Moscone Center West
Organizer:
Brenda Dietrich, IBM T. J. Watson Research, [email protected]
Thursday January 14, 2010, 1:00 p.m.-4:15 p.m.

SIAM Minisymposium on Graph Theory, I and II
Room 2002, 2nd Floor, Moscone Center West
Organizers:
Andre Kundgen, California State University San Marcos, [email protected]
Hal Kierstead, Arizona State University
Friday January 15, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
Friday January 15, 2010, 1:00 p.m.-5:55 p.m.

SIAM Minisymposium on New Trends in Mathematical Biology
Room 2002, 2nd Floor, Moscone Center West
Organizers:
Mariel Vazquez, San Francisco State University, [email protected]
Javier Arsuaga, San Francisco State University
Saturday January 16, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.

SIAM Minisymposium on New Trends in Mathematical Methods in Imaging Science
Room 2002, 2nd Floor, Moscone Center West
Organizers:
Rick Chartrand, Los Alamos National Laboratory, [email protected]
Stacey E. Levine, Duquesne University
Jennifer L. Mueller, Colorado State University
Luminita A. Vese, University of California Los Angeles
Saturday January 16, 2010, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.

Joint Minnisymposia

AMS-SIAM Special Session on Mathematics of Computation, I and II
Room 2004, 2nd Floor, Moscone Center West
Organizers:
Susanne Brenner, Louisiana State University, [email protected]
Chi-Wang Shu, Brown University
Wednesday January 13, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Wednesday January 13, 2010, 2:15 p.m.-6:05 p.m.

AMS-MAA-SIAM Special Session on Research in Mathematics by Undergraduates, I, II, III and IV
Part I: Room 2024, 2nd Floor, Moscone Center West
Part II, III, and IV: Room 2000, 2nd Floor, Moscone Center West
Organizers:
Darren Narayan, Rochester Institute of Technology, [email protected]
Bernard Brooks, Rochester Institute of Technology
Jacqueline Jensen, Sam Houston State University
Carl V. Lutzer, Rochester Institute of Technology
Vadim Ponomarenko, San Diego State University
Tamas Wiandt, Rochester Institute of Technology
Friday January 15, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Friday January 15, 2010, 1:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Saturday January 16, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Saturday January 16, 2010, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.

AMS-SIAM Special Session on Applications of Algebraic Geometry, I and II
Room 3005, 3rd Floor, Moscone Center West
Organizers:
Frank Sottile, Texas A&M University, [email protected]
Luis Garcia-Puente, Sam Houston State University
Saturday January 16, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Saturday January 16, 2010, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.