{"643774":{"#nid":"643774","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Two JMM Invited Speakers are SoM Faculty ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM) is the largest meeting of the year, bringing together researchers and academic professionals from every corner of the country and from every disicpline. Two of the invited speakers were SoM faculty, and one was an SoM alumni.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003EASL Invited Address -\u0026nbsp;Anton Bernshteyn\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDescriptive combinatorics and distributed algorithms\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ESaturday January 9, 2021, 9:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDescriptive combinatorics is the study of combinatorial problems (such as graph coloring) under additional topological or measure-theoretic regularity restrictions. It turns out that there is a close relationship between descriptive combinatorics and distributed computing, i.e., the area of computer science concerned with problems that can be solved efficiently by a decentralized network of processors. In this talk, I will outline this relationship and present a number of applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003ECurrent Events Bulletin Session (Lecture III) -\u0026nbsp;Jennifer Hom\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGetting a handle on the Conway knot\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EFriday January 8, 2021, 3:00 p.m.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhen does a knot bound a disk? In three dimensions, the only knot that bounds a smoothly embedded disk is the unknot. 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