NAM at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in January 2008 in San Diego, California

a) NAM's Annual National Meeting.

b) The Granville-Browne Session of Presentations by Recent Doctoral Recipients addresses Students, Professional Development, and Scholarly Productivity. The following new doctoral recipients will present:

• Volumes of hyperbolic orbifolds, by Dr. Ilesanmi Adeboye,  adeboye@usc.edu

• Case-Control Association Testing with Incomplete Genealogy, by Dr. Timothy Alvin Thornton, thornton@stat.berkeley.edu

• Edgeworth Type Expansion of The Distribution of The Largest Eigenvalue In Classical Random Matrix Ensembles, by Dr. Leonard N Choup, Leonard.Choup@uah.edu

• Characterizing Right-Veering Surface Homeomorphisms using the Burau Representation, by Dr. Emille K. Davie, davie@math.ucsb.edu

• The Dimension of the Space of Smooth Splines of Degree 8 on Tetrahedral Partitions, by Dr. Ben N. Kamau, bkamau@desu.edu

• Evaluation of a Rotavirus Vaccine Program, by Dr. Omayra Y Ortega, omayra.ortega@asu.edu

• Parabolic Equation Techniques for Range-Dependent Seismo-Acoustics, by Dr. Donald A. Outing, donald.outing@usma.edu

c) The Annual NAM Banquet.

d) The Cox Talbot Address at the Annual NAM Banquet addresses current issues in Mathematics Education and Public Policy. This address will be given by Dr. Earl Barnes.

e) The NAM Panel addresses current issues in the mathematical sciences/ mathematics education/ public policy. The topic is TBA.

f) The Woodward-Claytor Invited Lecture addresses Scholarly Productivity. This address will be given by Dr. Scott Williams.

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