(All times are in Pacific) 

Joint Prize Session

Wednesday, April 6, 2022

 4:25 PM - 5:25 PM

Claytor-Woodard Lecture

Thursday, April 7 from 2:40 PM -- 3:30 PM

Monica Jackson (American University): Spatial Data Analysis for Public Health Data

Haynes-Granville-Browns Session of Presentations by Recent Doctoral Recipients

Organized by Naiomi Cameron (Spelman College)

Friday, April 8 from 9:00 AM -- 9:25 AM

• 9:00 AM -- 9:25 AM

  Emelie J Curl (Hollins University)

  The Zero Forcing Number of Graph Complements

• 9:30 AM - 9:55 AM

  Dominique Kemp (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

  Decoupling and Approximation of Surfaces

• 10:00 AM - 10:25 AM

  Danielle Middlebrooks, Paul Patrone, Gregory Cooksey and Geoffrey McFadden,

  (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

  Separating Flow Cytometry Populations Based on Probabilistic Analysis

• 10:30 AM - 10:55 AM

  Asia Wyatt, and Doron Levy

  The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

  Modeling the Effect of Memory in the Adaptive Immune Response

Cox-Talbot Lecture

Friday, April 8 from 11:10 AM -- 12:00 PM

Robert Q. Berry (University of Virginia): Interest Convergence: An analytical viewpoint for examining how power dictates policies and reforms in mathematics

NAM Awards Reception

Friday, April 8 from 12:00 PM -- 12:30 PM

NAM Panel Discussion and social 

Friday, April 8 from 12:30 PM -- 2:00 PM

Passing the torch: A reflective dialogue

Friday April 8 from 12:30 PM -- 1:30 PM

followed by a social hour and time to remember our past NAM leaders

NAM Business Meeting

Saturday, April 9 from 10:00 AM -- 11:00 AM

MAA-JCW-AWM-NAM Panel

Haynes-Granville-Browns Session of Presentations by Recent Doctoral Recipients

Organized by Naiomi Cameron (Spelman College) and Edray Goins (Pomona College)

Friday, January 17 from 1:00 PM -- 4:00 PM

Room 605 (Meeting Room Level) of the Colorado Convention Center

• Opel Jones (Towson University): Enumerations of Restricted Dumont Permutations

• Shanise Walker (University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire): Lower bounds for induced poset saturation

• Brett Jefferson (Pacific Northwest National Laboratories): An Investigation Using Homology and Inverted Distances

• Zerotti L. Woods (Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory): A New Regularization Term for Deep Neural Networks With Applications to Biological Data

Cox-Talbot Lecture

Friday, January 17 from 7:45 PM -- 8:35 PM

Centennial Ballroom A, B, C (Third Floor) in the Hyatt Regency Denver

Roselyn Williams (Florida A\&M University): Bridging the Gaps in Undergraduate Mathematics Education

NAM Panel Discussion

Saturday, January 18 from 9:00 AM -- 9:50 AM -- 9:50 AM

Room 607 (Meeting Room Level) in the Colorado Convention Center

Changing Curriculum and the Zeitgeist: Effects and Current Trends on Underrepresented Students in Undergraduate Mathematics Education

Moderated by Shelby Wilson (University of Maryland at College Park) and featuring panelists

• Terrence Richard Blackman (Medgar Evers College, CUNY)
• Torina Lewis (Clark Atlanta University)
• Farrah Jackson Ward (Elizabeth City State University)
• Michael Young (Iowa State University)

NAM Business Meeting

Saturday, January 18 from 10:00 AM -- 10:50 AM

Room 607 (Meeting Room Level) in the Colorado Convention Center

Claytor-Woodard Lecture

Saturday, January 18 from 1:00 PM -- 1:50 PM

Room 607 (Meeting Room Level) in the Colorado Convention Center

Suzanne Weekes (Worcester Polytechnic Institute): A Numerical and Analytical Study of Dynamic Materials

AMS Special Session I: The Mathematics of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in the Mid-Atlantic

Organized by Edray Goins (Pomona College), Janis Oldham (North Carolina A&T), Talitha Washington (Howard University), and Scott Williams (SUNY Buffalo)

Thursday January 17 from 8:00 AM -- 12:00 PM

Room 314, Baltimore Convention Center

• Cheryl M. Adeyemi (Virginia State University): The Identification of Variables Associated with Student Outcomes on Praxis II Mathematics Content Exams at a South Central VA HBCU

• Gaston Mandata N'Guerekata (Morgan State University): Pseudo almost periodic solutions for a Nicholson's blowflies model with mortality term

• Bonita V. Saunders (National Institute of Standards and Technology): Complex Variables, Mesh Generation, and 3D Web Graphics: Research and Technology Behind the Dynamic Visualizations in the NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions

• Abdul-Aziz Yakubu (Howard University): Mathematics Research at Howard University: Pure and Applied Mathematics

• Caleb J. Ashley (University of Michigan): A Capstone Companion to Mathematics

• Kendra E. Pleasant (Morgan State University): Inscribing n-gons

• Nakeya D. Williams (The United States Military Academy at West Point) Cardiovascular dynamics during orthostatic stress assessed via pulsatile and non-pulsatile models

• Carmen Wright (Jackson State University): On the Structure of Generalized Symmetric Spaces of SLn(Fq)

AMS Special Session II: The Mathematics of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in the Mid-Atlantic

Organized by Edray Goins (Pomona College), Janis Oldham (North Carolina A&T), Talitha Washington (Howard University), and Scott Williams (SUNY Buffalo)

Thursday January 17 from 1:00 PM -- 4:00 PM

Room 314, Baltimore Convention Center

• Leona A. Harris (University of the District of Columbia): My Choice to Change the World: An Exploration of My Journey from the Spelman College Mathematics Department to an Urban Public HBCU in the Nation's Capital

• Neil Hindman (Howard University): The research of 20 Ph.D. students at Howard University
• Shelly M. Jones (Central Connecticut State University): Motivating Students in Mathematics: Women Who Count

• Asamoah Nkwanta (Morgan State University): Episodes in the Life of a Genius: J. Ernest Wilkins Jr.

• Dawn A. Lott (Delaware State University): A Lott of History

• Johnny L. Houston (Elizabeth City State University): The National Association of Mathematicians (NAM), The First Fifty Years (1969-2019): Contributions and Influences as an Advocate and a Catalyst for Improvement

National Association of Mathematicians (NAM) and the National Security Agency (NSA) Special Presentation

Thursday January 17 from 5:30 PM -- 7:00 PM

Room 316, Baltimore Convention Center

Town Hall Meeting on the Status of the African Diaspora in the Mathematical Sciences

Moderated by Ulrica Wilson (Morehouse College) and featuring panelists

• Melvin Currie (National Security Agency)
• Raegan Higgins (Texas Tech University)
• Tanya Moore (Goodwill of San Francisco)
• Michael Young (Iowa State University)

MAA Invited Paper Session: The Past 50 Years of African Americans in the Mathematical Sciences

Organized by Edray Goins (Pomona College), Janis Oldham (North Carolina A&T), and Scott Williams (SUNY Buffalo)

Friday, January 18 from 8:00 AM -- 10:20 AM

Room 317, Baltimore Convention Center

• Michael Young (Iowa State University): A random walk with a black graph theorist

• Talitha Washington, (Howard University): Hidden Figures: The Mathematics of Katherine Johnson and Rudy Horne

• William A. Massey (Princeton University): A Uniform Acceleration Trilogy for Dynamic Rate, Single Server Queueing Transience

• Fern Y. Hunt (National Institute of Standards and Technology): Finding Nodes for Fast Communication in Small and Large Networks

• Scott W. Williams (SUNY Buffalo): On Mathematicians of the African Diaspora

Haynes-Granville-Browne Session of Presentations by Recent Doctoral Recipients

Organized by Edray Goins (Pomona College) and Talitha Washington (Howard University)

Friday, January 18 from 1:00 PM -- 4:30 PM

Room 333, Baltimore Convention Center

• Seye E. Adekanye (Wilmington, Delaware): Developing Non-Standard Finite Difference (NSFD) Schemes for a System of Coupled Second Order Differential Equations

• Ranthony A.C. Edmonds (Ohio State University): Factorization in Polynomial Rings with Zero Divisors

• Quentin Robinson (North Carolina Central University): Frequency of Upstream propagating soliton generation in the forced Korteweg-de Vries Equation

• Alexander J. Barrios (Carleton College): Minimal Models of Rational Elliptic Curves with non-Trivial Torsion

• Nadia Monrose Mills (University of the Virgin Islands): The UVI Growth Model: A model for retention and persistence for STEM undergraduates

• Samuel J. Ivy (United States Military Academy): Classifying the Fine Structures of Involutions Acting on Root Systems

• Anisah N. Nu'Man (Ursinus College): Counting Rainbow Triples

NAM Founder's Awards

Friday, January 18 from 7:00 PM -- 7:10 PM

Holiday Ballroom 6, 2nd Floor, Hilton

Honorees TBA

NAM Centenarian Award

Friday, January 18 from 7:10 PM -- 7:15 PM

Holiday Ballroom 6, 2nd Floor, Hilton

Katherine G. Johnson (NASA)

NAM Lifetime Achievement Award

Friday, January 18 from 7:15 PM -- 7:20 PM

Holiday Ballroom 6, 2nd Floor, Hilton

Melvin R. Currie (National Security Agency)

NAM Golden Anniversary Legacy Award

Friday, January 18 from 7:20 PM -- 7:30 PM

Holiday Ballroom 6, 2nd Floor, Hilton

Evelyn Boyd Granville (IBM / University of Texas at Tyler)

NAM Stephens-Shabazz Teaching Award

Friday, January 18 from 7:30 PM -- 7:40 PM

Holiday Ballroom 6, 2nd Floor, Hilton

Honoree TBA

Cox-Talbot Lecture

Friday, January 18 from 7:45 PM -- 8:35 PM

Holiday Ballroom 6, 2nd Floor, Hilton

Talithia Williams (Harvey Mudd College)

A Seat at the Table: Equity and Social Justice in Mathematics Education

NAM Panel Discussion

Saturday January 19 from 9:00 AM -- 9:50 AM

Room 316, Baltimore Convention Center

NAM 2019-2069: Where Do We Go from Here?

Moderated by Duane Cooper (Morehouse College) and featuring panelists

• Robert E. Bozeman (Morehouse College)
• Shea D. Burns (North Carolina A&T State University)
• Edray Herber Goins (Pomona College)
• Shelby Wilson (Morehouse College)

NAM Business Meeting

Saturday January 19 from 10:00 AM -- 10:50 AM

Room 316, Baltimore Convention Center

Claytor-Woodard Lecture

Saturday January 19 from 1:00 PM -- 1:50 PM

Room 316, Baltimore Convention Center

On Mathematical Problems in Geometric Optics

MAA-JCW-AWM-NAM Panel

Organized by Andrew Cahoon (Colby-Sawyer College), Naomi Cameron (Lewis & Clark College), Charles Doering (University of Michigan), and Semra Kilic-Bahi (Colby-Sawyer College)

Wednesday January 10 from 4:15 PM -- 5:35 PM

Room 2, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center

Implicit Bias and Its Effects in Mathematics

Moderated by Maura Mast (Fordham College at Rose Hill) and featuring panelists

• Ron Buckmire (National Science Foundation)
• Jenna P. Carpenter (Campbell University)
• Lynn J. Garrioch (Colby-Sawyer College)
• Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska (National Science Foundation)
• Francis Su (Harvey Mudd College)

Haynes-Granville-Browns Session of Presentations by Recent Doctoral Recipients

Organized by Talitha Washington (Howard University)

Friday, January 12 from 1:00 PM -- 3:35 PM

Room 32A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center

• Bobby Wilson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

  Orthogonal Projections and Regularity of Sets

• Cory H. Colbert (Williams College)

  Enlarging Noetherian Rings While Preserving Their Spectrum

• Kendra E. Pleasant (Morgan State University)

  Central Sets Theorem in Adequate Partial Semigroups

• Haydee Lindo (Williams College)

  Trace ideals and their applications in commutative algebra

• Alexander Diaz-Lopez (Villanova University)

  A proof of the peak polynomial positivity conjecture

• Melissa Guemo Ngamini (Morehouse College)

  Nonlinear Filtering Problems for systems governed by PDEs

• Kamal K. Barley (University of Cincinnati)

  Implications from Modeling of Visceral Leishmaniasis Transmission: A Region-dependent Characterization of Risks

• Karen T. Hicklin (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

  A Bayesian Markov Decision Process to Evaluate Mode of Delivery

NAM Centenarian Awards

Friday, January 12 from 7:15 PM -- 7:30 PM

Marina Ballroom FG, 3rd Floor, South Tower, Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina

Virginia Kimbrough Newell (Winston-Salem State University)

Clarence F. Stephens (SUNY Potsdam)

NAM Lifetime Achievement Awards

Friday, January 6 from 7:30 PM -- 7:45 PM

Marina Ballroom FG, 3rd Floor, South Tower, Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina

Rudy L. Horne, Jr. (Morehouse College)

Carolyn Mahoney (Lincoln University of Missouri)

Cox-Talbot Lecture

Friday, January 12 from 7:45 PM -- 8:35 PM

Marina Ballroom FG, 3rd Floor, South Tower, Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina

Erica Walker (Teacher's College, Columbia University)

Hidden in Plain Sight: Mathematics Teaching and Learning Through a Storytelling Lens

NAM Panel Discussion

Saturday January 13 from 9:00 AM -- 9:50 AM

Room 1B, Upper Level, of the San Diego Convention Center

Advising Our Students on the Transition to the 1st (or 0th) Year of Graduate School

Moderated by Duane Cooper (Morehouse College) and featuring panelists

• Julia Anderson-Lee (Iowa State University)
• Trachette Jackson (University of Michigan)
• Douglas Mupasiri (University of Northern Iowa)
• Michael Young (Iowa State University)

NAM Business Meeting

Saturday January 13 from 10:00 AM -- 10:50 AM

Room 1B, Upper Level, of the San Diego Convention Center

Claytor-Woodard Lecture

Saturday January 13 from 1:00 PM -- 1:50 PM

Room 1B, Upper Level, of the San Diego Convention Center

Ronald E. Mickens (Clark Atlanta University)

Nonstandard Finite Difference Schemes: Impact, Importance, and Dynamical Consistency

Special Panel Presentation

The Mathematics and Mathematicians Behind Hidden Figures

Wednesday January 4 from 6:30 PM -- 8:00 PM

A704, Atrium Level, Marriott Marquis Atlanta

AMS-NAM Joint Special Session on The Mathematics of the Atlanta University Center

Organized by Talitha Washington (Howard University), Monica Jackson (American University), and Colm Mulcahy (Spelman College)

Thursday, January 5 from 8:00 AM -- 11:50 AM and from 1:00 PM -- 3:50 PM

M101, Marquis Level, Marriott Marquis Atlanta

• Ronald E. Mickens (Clark Atlanta University)

  Applied Mathematics Research at Atlanta University/Clark Atlanta University: 1980-2015

• Samuel J. Ivy (United States Military Academy)

  Generalizing Parabolic Subsets from Involutorial Automorphisms

• Monica Christine Jackson (American University)

  Race matters: analyzing the relationship between colorectal cancer mortality rates and various factors within respective racial groups

• Michael P. Johnson (University of Massachusetts at Boston)

  Community Data Analytics: Localized Data Analysis and Decision Modeling in the Era of "Big Data" and "Smart Cities"

• Shelby Nicole Wilson (Morehouse College)

  Mathematical Model of Temperature Effects on Human Sleep Regulation

• Karen D. King (National Science Foundation)

  Why a mathematics degree? Implications of a Mathematics Major for Secondary Teachers

• Charles C. Earl (Automattic)

  AI and Communities of Color: What Questions Should We Be Asking?

• Tepper L. Gill (Howard University)

  Non-uniqueness of the dual of a Banach space and its application

• Johnny L. Houston (Elizabeth City State University)

  The Culture and History of Mathematics In The Atlanta University Center (AUC)

• Sandra Rucker (Clark Atlanta University)

  A Historical Perspective of Mathematics at Morris Brown College

• Colm Mulcahy (Spelman College)

  A century of mathematical excellence at Spelman College

• Sylvia T. Bozeman (Spelman College)

  Mathematics at Spelman College: Mission Possible

• Duane Cooper (Morehouse College)

  Morehouse Mathematics: Making a Difference from "Pop" through "Doc" to the Present

Haynes-Granville-Browns Session of Presentations by Recent Doctoral Recipients

Organized by Candice Price (University of San Diego) and Talitha Washington (Howard University)

Friday, January 6 from 1:00 PM -- 4:00 PM

A708, Atrium Level, Marriott Marquis Atlanta

• Deidra Andrea Coleman (Philander Smith College)

  A Bayesian False Discovery Approach to Syndromic Surveillance

• Piper A. Harron (University of Hawaii at Manoa)

  Equidistribution of Shapes of Number Fields of degree 3, 4, and 5

• Cris Negron (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

  Hopf algebras, tensor categories, and gauge invariants

• Valerie Nelson (Howard University/Department of Defense)

  Existence Results for Some Higher-Order Abstract Differential Equations with Applications to PDEs

• Nourridine Siewe (NIMBioS)

  Granuloma Formation in Leishmaniasis: A Mathematical Model

• Ashley K. Wheeler (University of Arkansas)

  Finiteness of Associated Primes of Local Cohomology Modules over Stanley-Reisner Rings

NAM Lifetime Achievement Award

Friday, January 6 from 7:45 PM -- 8:35 PM

Imperial Ballroom B, Marquis Level, Marriott Marquis Atlanta

Nagambal Shah (Spelman College)

Cox-Talbot Lecture

Friday, January 6 from 7:45 PM -- 8:35 PM

Imperial Ballroom B, Marquis Level, Marriott Marquis Atlanta

Garikai Campbell (Morehouse College)

The Changing Higher Education Landscape: One Mathematician Turned Administrator's View

NAM Panel Discussion

Saturday January 7, 2017, 9:00 AM -- 9:50 AM

A708, Atrium Level, Marriott Marquis Atlanta

Transforming Post-Secondary Education (TPSE) Mathematics: Implications for the Preparation of African American Undergraduates and Institutions

Moderated by Duane Cooper (Morehouse College) and featuring panelists

• Frank Ingram (Winston-Salem State University)
• Sylvester James Gates, Jr. (University of Maryland at College Park)
• Asamoah Nkwanta (Morgan State University)
• Suzanne L. Weekes (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)

NAM Business Meeting

Saturday January 7 from 10:00 AM -- 10:50 AM

A708, Atrium Level, Marriott Marquis Atlanta

Claytor-Woodard Lecture

Saturday January 7 from 1:00 PM -- 1:50 PM

A708, Atrium Level, Marriott Marquis Atlanta

Wilfrid Gangbo (University of California at Los Angeles)

Paths of minimal lengths on the set of exact differential k-forms

Haynes-Granville-Browns Session of Presentations by Recent Doctoral Recipients

Friday, January 8 from 1:00 PM -- 3:50 PM

Room 211, Washington State Convention Center

Organized by Candice Price (University of San Diego) and Talitha Washington (Howard University), featuring talks by

• Caleb James Ashley (University of Maryland at College Park)
• Syvillia Averett (Central State University)
• Reginald L. McGee (Mathematical Biosciences Institute)
• Kevin Muriithi Mugo (Purdue University)
• Nakeya D. Williams (United States Military Academy)

NAM Lifetime Achievement Award

Friday, January 8 from 7:45 PM -- 8:35 PM

Grand Ballroom C, 2nd Floor, Sheraton Seattle Hotel

Bill Hawkins (University of District of the Columbia)

Cox-Talbot Lecture

Friday, January 8 from 7:45 PM -- 8:35 PM

Grand Ballroom C, 2nd Floor, Sheraton Seattle Hotel

Tanya A. Moore (Building Diversity in Science/Presidio Graduate School)

Why Mathematicians and Statisticians are needed to Create Lasting Social Impact

NAM Panel Discussion

Saturday, January 9 from 9:00 AM -- 9:50 AM

Room 211, Washington State Convention Center

Work Hard, Play Hard: Balancing Career, Hobbies, and Family

Moderated by Duane Cooper (Morehouse College) and featuring panelists

• Ron Buckmire (Occidental College)
• Emille Davie Lawrence (University of San Francisco)
• Mariel Vazquez (University of California at Davis)
• Robin Wilson (California State Polytechnic University)

NAM Business Meeting

Saturday, January 9 from 10:00 AM -- 10:50 AM

Room 211, Washington State Convention Center

Claytor-Woodard Lecture

Saturday, January 9 from 1:00 PM -- 1:50 PM

Room 211, Washington State Convention Center

Tatiana Toro (University of Washington)

Analysis on Non-Smooth Domains

At the largest gathering of mathematicians in the United States, NAM has six key events:

• Haynes-Granville-Browne Session of Presentations by Recent Doctoral Recipients
• Cox-Talbot Lecture
• NAM Lifetime Achievement Award
• NAM Panel Discussion
• NAM Business Meeting
• Claytor-Woodard Lecture