{"666087":{"#nid":"666087","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech to Host American Mathematical Society Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThis spring, Georgia Tech will host one of the largest regional meetings of mathematicians in the country. The \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ams.org\/meetings\/sectional\/2298_program.html\u0022\u003E2023 Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting\u003C\/a\u003E of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ams.org\/home\/page\u0022\u003EAmerican Mathematical Society (AMS)\u003C\/a\u003E comes to campus March 18-19, 2023.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EApproximately 800 mathematicians are expected to attend lectures and special sessions in Skiles and Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons, with a reception scheduled for Saturday evening at the Academy of Medicine.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/math.gatech.edu\/people\/michael-wolf\u0022\u003EMichael Wolf\u003C\/a\u003E, professor and chair of the\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/math.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E School of Mathematics\u003C\/a\u003E, said the AMS meeting is shaping up to be one of the busier ones in recent memory.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;Georgia Tech is just thrilled to be hosting this sectional meeting of the American Mathematical Society, and we\u0026#39;ve been amazed at the response. This will be one of the larger sectional meetings to be held,\u0026rdquo; Wolf said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Mathematics advances through sustained conversation, and one can see the hunger for personal connection that has built up over the pandemic,\u0026rdquo; he added, \u0026ldquo;reflected in the large number of special sessions and the robust attendance. We are looking forward to a wonderful event where we can all reconnect in person with mathematicians we have not seen in a while and younger people can join the community that has only recently opened up beyond the virtual.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E41 special sessions are scheduled for the AMS meeting. Topics speak to a wide range of mathematics research interests: combinatorics, the intersection of math and biology, geometric group theory, quantum systems, disease transmission, big data, and new methods for teaching math to undergraduates.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpecial AMS lectures on tap\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA School of Mathematics alumna will deliver one of the four invited addresses at the Southeastern Sectional Meeting. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/users.cs.utah.edu\/~sullivan\/#!\/about\u0022\u003EBlair Dowling Sullivan\u003C\/a\u003E graduated from Georgia Tech in 2003 with a double major in applied mathematics and computer science.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESullivan went on to receive her M.A. and Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton University. After internships with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Microsoft, she served on the faculty of North Carolina State University. She is currently an associate professor in the School of Computing at the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.utah.edu\/\u0022\u003EUniversity of Utah\u003C\/a\u003E. Her address, \u0026ldquo;Taking a Hard Look at Generalized Coloring Numbers,\u0026rdquo; is scheduled for 11 a.m. on Saturday, March 18 in Clough Room 152.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe AMS\u0026rsquo;s annual \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ams.org\/meetings\/lectures\/meet-erdos-lect\u0022\u003EErd\u0151s Memorial Lecture\u003C\/a\u003E, named for prolific mathematician Paul Erd\u0151s (1913-1996), will be given by \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/math.uchicago.edu\/~wilkinso\/\u0022\u003EAmie Wilkinson\u003C\/a\u003E, professor at the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.uchicago.edu\/\u0022\u003EUniversity of Chicago\u003C\/a\u003E, at 5 p.m. on Saturday in Clough Room 152. Wilkinson\u0026rsquo;s Erd\u0151s Lecture is titled \u0026ldquo;Symmetry Rigidity.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWilkinson\u0026rsquo;s research interest is smooth dynamical systems and their relationship with other structures in pure mathematics \u0026mdash; geometric, statistical, topological, and algebraic.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The basic idea of dynamical systems is that you do some \u0026lsquo;move\u0026rsquo; to a \u0026lsquo;space\u0026rsquo; over and over again, and try to figure out what will happen in the long term,\u0026rdquo; explains \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/dmargalit7.math.gatech.edu\/index.shtml\u0022\u003EDan Margalit\u003C\/a\u003E, a School of Mathematics professor whose research topics include topology and geometric group theory.. \u0026ldquo;An example is what happens to the solar system in the long term? Will Jupiter fly out of the solar system, or will it stay in orbit around the sun forever?\u0026nbsp; Another example is the rolling of pastry dough, like a croissant. This is an example of a chaotic dynamical system.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMargalit, a co-organizer of the meeting along with fellow School of Mathematics Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/math.gatech.edu\/people\/greg-blekherman\u0022\u003EGreg Blekherman\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;adds that Wilkinson has published many times in top journals such as \u003Cem\u003EAnnals of Mathematics\u003C\/em\u003E. 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