AMS Conference: 12,13 March 1999

I am maintaining a local copy of the schedule the abstract titles, and the abstracts text format, you can download them rapidly.
All our talks will be in Room 223 (2^nd floor, west wing, north side) in Little Hall, the math building. This room has two large blackboards. I have been told that we will have an overhead projector.
Here is the official AMS schedule of the ET&DS Special Session links to the abstracts and titles of the talks. The AMS has a list of special sessions. The AMS also maintains a conference header page.

YOUR TRAVEL PLANS: Some of you may wish to stay in Gainesville through Sunday, or Monday (March 14,15). On March 15, the first Erdos Colloquium will be held here. The speaker is Ron Graham of A T & T Labs Research.
On Sunday, 13March, I'm hoping that a number of us can have a post-conference gathering and BBQ at Ginny or Poe Springs (there are three springs within a 25 minute drive). In addition to providing a pleasant environment for mathematics, these Springs have year-round 72degree swimming, volleyball facilities, hiking trails, rental canoes. At Ginny Springs one can go tubing.
The tentative plan is to leave for the Springs around 10AM on Sunday, and drive back around 4PM. Naturally, some cars might leave earlier to get some folks to the airport.

TRAVEL, WEATHER, ETC., can be found on our local conference-webpage Of the several listed, I am familiar with two:
The Holiday Inn—University Center hotel is the closest to the math dept.; perhaps a 3 minute walk. It has a Denny's restaurant downstairs, which I am not particularly fond of, but there are several other restaurants within a 5 minute walk. I like the nearby Chaucer's restaurant, which has a limited, but good, menu, and which is open for breakfast/lunch/dinner. There is also a bagel place right across the street from the hotel, as well as Leonardo's pizza, both of which are pretty good. The latter is something of a student hangout; it serves various fancy forms of coffee. There is also a good, interesting, Berkeleyesque (but tiny) restaurant called Rhapsody across the street from the Holiday Inn.
The Radisson Hotel is a long walk from the department; there is a free shuttle for conference participants. I've not dined at its restaurant, but I've been at a catered event at the hotel, and the food was quite good.

WEATHER: In March, the days are usually sunny and brisk. You may want a sweater for evenings. Available is the average weather conditions for March, as well as a forecast of Gainesville weather for the week to come.

(Past: The absolute drop-dead deadline for abstracts was 20 January 1999.)

AMS Meeting #940 (Gainesville)

Open problems (As of 11Apr1999)

Pre-conference webpage (Archival)