New Mexico Analysis Seminars

University Of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM

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Abstract

Abstract The New Mexico Analysis Seminar is an annual three-day meeting, now in its fourth year. Its principal goal is to provide an opportunity for scientific exchange among mathematics students and faculty in the Southwest region and beyond. To encourage participation, analysis is defined broadly. The centerpiece of the seminar is a series of one hour lectures given by a first rate mathematician who is also a first rate lecturer, capable of communicating very well with students and faculty. Time is allocated for shorter talks and informal discussion as well. The main speaker for the Fourth New Mexico Analysis Seminar will be Steve Hofmann, who recently proved Kato's 40 year old conjecture known as the Square Root Problem. The New Mexico Analysis Seminar is playing an important role in facilitating student exposure to pioneering research and in providing role models for future and present practitioners and communicators of mathematics in the classroom and in industry. The need for this is particularly urgent in a region of relative geographical isolation and limited financial resources. The conference site alternates between New Mexico State University and The University of New Mexico, which have the only Ph.D. granting mathematics programs in New Mexico.