Department related talks and events at the JMM

Jarod Alper will be giving an invited address as part of the Current Events Bulletin, Friday, Jan 10, 5-6pm (https://jointmathematicsmeetings.org/meetings/national/jmm2025/2314_invspeakers), on Embracing AI and Formalization: Experimenting with Tomorrow's Mathematical Tools.

Soumik Pal, Zaid Harchaoui, Bamdad Hosseini, JIngwei Hu, and Yanqin Fan are co-organizers of the CRM-PIMS-AARMS Special Session on Optimal Transport - Theory and Applications, Friday-Saturday, Jan 10-11 (https://jointmathematicsmeetings.org/meetings/national/jmm2025/2314_program_cpass2.html).

Sara Billey and Herman Chau are organizing a section on machine learning (https://jointmathematicsmeetings.org/meetings/national/jmm2025/2314_program_ss70.html).

Xiaowen Zhu and Alexis Drouot are organizing a special session in the mathematics of topological insulators on Friday, January 10 (https://meetings.ams.org/math/jmm2025/meetingapp.cgi/Session/11138).

Bennet Goeckner, Gaku Liu, and Isabella Novik are organizing a session on Geometric and Topological Combinatorics on Saturday, January 11 from 8:30am to 6pm (https://jointmathematicsmeetings.org/meetings/national/jmm2025/2314_program_ss56.html).

The UW Math Alumni Group will have a reception from Thursday Jan 9 at 7:00-9:00pm at the Diamond Room on the Lobby level of the Sheraton Grand Seattle 1400 Sixth Avenue Seattle (near the Convention Center)
RSVP link: https://forms.gle/FNLV6xu4u7odhpZz8