Joint Mathematics Meetings

Jennifer Pi

The ASL Program will be on Tuesday and Wednesday at #JMM2026. Jennifer Pi, University of Oxford, will be giving an ASL Invited Address on “Model Theory of Operator Algebras,” Tuesday, January 6.

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Kasso Okoudjou

Kasso Okoudjou, Tufts University, will give the NAM Claytor-Woodward Lecture at the 2026 Joint Mathematics Meetings. The lecture will be entitled “The Beauty of Linear Dependence and the Mystery of Linear Independence,” Tuesday, January 6.
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People in audience at session at JMM2025

More Digital Twins: SIAM Minisymposium on The Mathematics of Digital Twins and its Applications; Harbir Antil, Keegan Kirk, Rohit Khandelwal, and Sarswati Shah, George Mason University.
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Photograph of Harbir Antil

The SIAM Invited Address at the 2026 Joint Mathematics Meetings will be given by Harbir Antil, George Mason University, on “Digital Twins, Generative AI, and Beyond: A PDE-Constrained Optimization Perspective”
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Students at #JMM2026

There will also be a JMM Workshop on “Self Supervised Learning: Harmonic Analysis at the Center of Artificial Intelligence,” organized by Randall Balestriero, Brown University and Yann LeCun, Meta/CIMS-NYU. #JMM2026
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JMM 2025--Participants working

AMS Special Session “Spline Operators: The Mathematics of Deep Neural Networks” organized by Randall Balestriero, Brown University, and Richard G. Baraniuk, Rice University. Read more: jointmathematicsmeetings.org/meetings/nat...

Jonathan Hickman

Jonathan Hickman, Univ of Edinburgh, will be giving a Current Events Bulletin talk on “The Kakeya Conjecture: Where does it come from and why is it important?” as background to the recent solution by Hong Wang and Joshua Zahl.
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Jane Street Estimathon (registered copyright)

Coming to #JMM2026? Join us on January 5th at 2:00 p.m. in the Marriott Marquis Ballroom Salon 5 for a Jane Street Estimathon. Estimathon is a mind-bending mixture of math and trivia. Register to play or come to watch.
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Poster for Film: Hunting Yellow Pigs

Special Screening at #JMM2026: The YP Math Foundation presents “Hunting Yellow Pigs,” a documentary film about HCSSiM (the Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics) Put this on your calendar: Sunday, January 4 at the Marriott Marquis, Salon 3, from 8:00. p.m.-9:30 p.m.

Mathematicians at JMM

Don’t miss the series of MAA Project NExT Workshops at #JMM2026. The Project NExT (New Experiences in Teaching) program is designed to support new PhDs in mathematics as they begin their careers. Search for “Project NExT” at jointmathematicsmeetings.org/meetings/nat...
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Christine Kelley, from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will give the MAA Lecture on Teaching and Learning at the 2026 Joint Mathematics Meetings. Her topic is “The Importance of Effective Mentoring in Mathematics” See: jointmathematicsmeetings.org/meetings/nat...
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Mathematicians in audience, JMM 2025

Combinatorial Algebraic Geometry, an AMS session org. by Matt W. Larson and June Huh, Princeton University/IAS, and Daoji Huang, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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Glenn H. Stevens Headshot. 2026 Award for Impact on Teaching and Learning of Mathematics. AMS logo.

Glenn H. Stevens, @bostonu.bsky.social, received the Award for Impact on the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics for his transformative contributions to math education at both pre-college and college levels. Congratulations!

Maplesoft, MathWorks, Oxford University Press, the National Security Agency, PiMuEpsilon, Project Euclid, and Taylor and Francis logos.

Thank you to Maplesoft, MathWorks, Oxford University Press, the National Security Agency, PiMuEpsilon, Project Euclid, and Taylor & Francis Research for returning to exhibit with us at the 2026 Joint Mathematics Meetings. We are looking forward to seeing you in DC! #JMM2026

A session at JMM 2025

"Arithmetic Geometry of Shimura Varieties," an AIM session organized by Wei Zhang, MIT, Yifeng Liu,  Zhejiang University, and Xinwen Zhu, Stanford University at #JMM2026.
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@mirandalynchphd.bsky.social, Dirk Jäger, and I are organizing the @amermathsoc.bsky.social special session on Computational Biomedicine: New Frontiers in Methods and Applications at the @jointmath.bsky.social with exceptional speakers from mathematics, biology, and medicine.

Yifeng Liu

The AIM Alexanderson Award Lecture will be given by Yifeng Liu, Zhejiang University. The talk will be entitled “From Periods of Modular Forms to Arithmetic Geometry,” and will take place on Tuesday, Jan. 5 at the 2026 Joint Mathematics Meetings.
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Maisha Moses, the Young People's Project

Maisha Moses from The Young People's Project will be giving the AMS Lecture on Education on Sunday, January 4 at #JMM2026. Her title is “Young People, Math Literacy, and Citizenship,” and she will be speaking about the early days of the Young People’s Project.

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Dominique Guillot, University of Delaware, will be giving the ILAS (International Linear Algebra Society) Invited Address at the 2026 Joint Mathematics Meetings. The talk is on "The Many Facets of Matrix Positivity: A Celebration of Linear Algebra.
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Mathematicians meeting at the JMM2025 exhibits.

AMS Special Session on Communicating Mathematics, organized by Kathryn Mann, Lillian Pierce, Ingrid Daubechies, Jonathan Mattingly, Emily Riehl, Bryna Kra, Ravi Vakil, Jennifer Taback and Sam Vandervelde.
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People in a classroom, talking to each other before a talk

At #JMM2026, attend the AMS Special Session on "Algebraic and Analytic Aspects of Curves and L-Functions, taking place on Sunday, Jan 4, and organized by Jennifer M. Johnson-Leung, University of Idaho.
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Ryan Hynd, University of Pennsylvania. Photo credit: Christopher Descano

Ryan Hynd, University of Pennsylvania, will give the MAA-SIAM-AMS Hrabowski-Gates-Tapia-McBay Lecture at the 2026 Joint Mathematics Meetings. His talk will be on “Reuleaux Polyhedra: From Discrete to Convex Geometry.” #JMM2026

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This talk is on Wednesday, January 7.

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Ismar Volic, Wellesley College, will give the AAAS-AMS Invited Address at the 2026 Joint Mathematics Meetings. His topic is “Math goes to Washington: The Mathematics of Democracy, from Theory to Practice”
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Photo from #JMM2025, showing a group of people in the audience of a talk, raising their hands

AMS Special Session on Mathematics and Democracy: Theory to Action, Sunday Jan 4 at the 2026 Joint Mathematics Meetings. This session is organized by Karen Saxe, AMS, and Ismar Volic, Wellesley College. See this session and the talks: jointmathematicsmeetings.org/meetings/nat...

Photograph of Étienne Ghys, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon

Étienne Ghys, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, will give the MAA-AMS-SIAM Gerald and Judith Porter Public Lecture at the 2026 Joint Mathematics Meetings. The lecture will be about “The Shape of Letters: from Leonardo da Vinci to Donald Knuth”
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Photo of Aris Winger

More workshops at #JMM2026: Professional Enhancement Program (PEP) #2: “Transforming Your Math Department with the COME-In Framework,” organized by Abbe Herzig, Sarah Lawrence College and Aris Winger, Georgia Gwinnett College, January 4-5 in Washington, DC. Read more: www.ams.org/learning-car...

Workshop for Department Chairs and Leaders. Julius Esunge, University of Mary Washington.

Meet Julius Esunge from the University of Mary Washington! Julius is one of the organizers of the upcoming one-day workshop for Department Chairs and Leaders to be held in Washington, DC on Saturday, January 3, 2026. Sign up today! Link in comments.

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Monica Visan, UCLA

Looking forward to the AWM-AMS Noether Lecture at #JMM2026, which will be given by Monica Visan, UCLA, on “Well-Posedness and the Method of Commuting Flows” #mathsky

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