JOINT MATHEMATICS MEETING, JANUARY 6--11, 1997
SAN DIEGO CONVENTION CENTER
SOME FEATURES
SHORT COURSE ON MATHEMATICAL FINANCE: January 6-7, 1997
Organizers: David Heath and Glen Swindle

Speakers:
Yacine Ait-Sahalia: Graduate School of Business, The University of Chicago
Marco Avellaneda: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Freddy Delbaen: Departement fuer Mathematik, Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule
Eric Grannan: CS First Boston
David Heath: Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, Cornell University
Andy Morton: Senior Vice President Fixed Income Research, Lehman Brothers
Steven Shreve: Department of Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon University
Thaleia Zariphopoulou: Department of Mathematics University of Wisconsin

For details and registration information: See the October Notices of the AMS

Email inquiries: davidh@orie.cornell.edu and swindle@orie.cornell.edu

SPECIAL SESSION ON STOCHASTIC MODELING: January 8-10, 1997
Organizers: Raisa Feldman and Glen Swindle

Some Speakers:
Robert Adler University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Tamer Basar University of Illinois, Urbana
Robert Elliott University of Alberta, Edmonton
Robert Engle University of California, San Diego
Marianne Huebner Michigan State University, East Lansing
Thomas Kurtz University of Wisconsin, Madison
Per Mykland University of Chicago, Chicago
John Nolan American University, Washington D.C.
Philip Protter Purdue University, West Lafayette
Ron Pyke University of Washington, Seattle
Gennady Samorodnitsky Cornell University, Ithaca
Mete Soner Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg
Keith Worsley McGill University, Montreal

For details and registration information: See the October Notices of the AMS or the AMS web page.

Email inquiries: epstein@pstat.ucsb.edu and swindle@orie.cornell.edu

PANEL ON CAREERS FOR MATHEMATICIANS IN INDUSTRY, GOVERNMENT AND BUSINESS
Moderator: Ruth J. Williams, University of California, San Diego

Time and date: Wed, Jan 8, 2.15-4.15pm

This panel will feature a selection of mathematicians working in industry, business and government. Issues to be addressed by the panelists include the nature of their work, how they found their jobs, useful aspects of their graduate training, desirable skills. Presentations by the panelists will be followed by a question and answer period.

Panelists:
Steve Altschuler, Microsoft
Jerome Braunstein, GDE Systems
Richard Clayton, National Security Agency
Arnon Levy, J. P. Morgan Securities
Jill Mesirov, IBM
Lani Wu, Microsoft

SPECIAL SESSION ON THE MATHEMATICS OF INDUSTRY, GOVERNMENT AND BUSINESS
Organizer: Desiree Beck

For more details and registration information: see the October Notices of the AMS or the AMS web page.