Math Symposia at the Annual
AAAS Meeting
Why Mathematicians should be more
involved in the Broader Scientific
Community
The Structure of the Meeting
• Central Theme: Sustainability
• Many interdisciplinary talks
• Talks from industry as well as academics
but still focusing on scholarship
• Poster sessions
• Family Science Day
• Organization-sponsored panels
What is the AAAS
• American Association for the Advancement
of Science
Largest General Scientific Society (in the world
they claim)
Not very many Mathematicians compared to say
…Biologists--- something like 8 to 150
What are mathematicians missing out on?
Mathematics and America's
Future: A Call to Action
• The Role of Mathematics in the Challenges of
the Future--Mac Hyman. Los Alamos
National Laboratory
• How University Mathematics Departments
Can Help Make Mathematics Careers
Attractive--De Witt Sumners
• From Data to Policy: Scientific Excellence Is
Our Future--Sallie Keller-McNulty. Rice
University
• Mathematics and America's Future: The Role
of Education--Daniel L. Goroff. Harvey Mudd
New Vistas in Mathematics of
Ecology and Evolution
• Climate-Driven Infectious Disease Dynamics:
Understanding the Past, Forecasting the
FutureMercedes Pascual University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor
• Epistasis and Shapes of Fitness
LandscapesBernd Sturmfels. University of
California, Berkley
• Collective Motion and Decision-Making in
Animal Groups--Iain Couzin. University of
Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
New Mathematical Methods in
the Visual Arts
• Inpainting: A Synthesis of Mathematics, Art,
and Biology -- Guillermo Sapiro University of
Minnesota
• Digital Stylometry-- Daniel Rockmore
Dartmouth College
• Digital Forensics -- Hany Farid, Dartmouth
College
• Digital Analysis Versus Eye of the Beholder:
Rivalry or Partnership?--Ellen Handy. City
College of New York
Prime Numbers:
New Developments on Ancient Problems
• The Riemann Hypothesis, Random Matrices,
and Primes-- Brian Conrey. American
Institute of Mathematics, Palo Alto, CA
• Primal Screens--Carl Pomerance. Dartmouth
College
• Progressions of Primes and Gaps Between
Primes--Kannan Soundararajan. University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI,
Math in Blockbuster Movies
• How We Do It at Pixar--Tony DeRose.
Pixar, Emeryville, CA
• Computational Fluids and Solids for
Feature Films--Ron Fedkiw. Stanford
University, Stanford, CA
• Varied Math Techniques for Varied
Graphics Problems--Doug Roble.
Digital Domain, Venice CA
Miscommunications, Misunderstandings,
and Mistakes:
Gender, Science, and the Press
• Getting Gender Reported -- Abbe Herzig.
University at Albany, Albany, NY, USA.
• Why Don’t They Hear What I Say?--Kathryn
B. Campbell-Kibler. Stanford University
• Reporting Gender--Annalee Newtiz.
Freelance Science Journalist
• Discussant--Shirley M. Malcom. AAAS
Education and Human Resources,
Washington, DC