The 2017 Joint Mathematics Meetings were held in Atlanta, Georgia January 4 – 7, 2017.

AMS Special Session on Quaternions

• Friday January 6, 2017, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Quaternions
  International 8, International Level, Marriott Marquis
  Organizers:
  Johannes Familton, Borough of Manhattan Community College jFamilton@bmcc.cuny.edu
  Terrence Blackman, Medgar Evers College
  Chris McCarthy, Borough of Manhattan Community College

See below for links to abstracts, slides, and/or papers.

• 1:00 p.m.
  The eigenvalue problem for quaternionic and octonionic matrices.
  Tevian Dray*, Oregon State University
  Corinne A. Manogue, Oregon State University
  (1125-17-219)
  Slides: http://people.oregonstate.edu/~drayt/talks/JMMeigenpub.pdf
• 1:30 p.m.
  Division algebra descriptions of rotation groups, with applications to physics.
  Corinne A. Manogue*, Oregon State University
  Tevian Dray, Oregon State University
  (1125-17-218)
• 2:00 p.m.
  The Joining of Quaternions with Grassmann algebras: William Kingdon Clifford.
  Johannes C. Familton*, Borough of Manhattan Community College
  (1125-01-279)
  Slides: GrassmannClifford.pdf
• 2:30 p.m.
  Split quaternions and carcinogenesis.
  Garri Davydyan*, Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Canada
  (1125-92-410)
  Slides: 2017JMM-Split-quaternions-and-Carcinogenesis-1.pdf
  Article/paper: Quaternions and Carcinogenesis Paper 
• 3:00 p.m.
  TALK CANCELLED: Visualizing Gimbal Lock and Quaternions with the HTML5 Canvas.
  Paul R. Bouthellier*, University of Pittsburgh-Titusville
  (1125-15-49)
• 3:30 p.m.
  Navigating the three-sphere via quaternions.
  Henry Segerman*, Oklahoma State University
  (1125-68-77)
  Slides:  https://math.okstate.edu/people/segerman/talks/hypernom_movement_talk.pdf
• 4:00 p.m.
  A categorical approach to the Cayley-Dickson construction.
  Noson S. Yanofsky*, Brooklyn College, CUNY
  (1125-18-83)
  Slides: CDconstruction.pdf
• 4:30 p.m.
  A-Calculus on a Real Associative Algebra.
  James S Cook*, Liberty University
  (1125-16-290)
  Slides: Introducation To A Calculus.pdf
• 5:00 p.m.
  NEW TIME: Spectral correspondences for Maass waveforms on quaternion groups.
  Terrence Richard Blackman*, Medgar Evers College, CUNY
  (1125-11-2105)
  Slides:  Spectral correspondences slides.pdf
  Article/paper: Spectral correspondences article

• 5:30 p.m.
  TALK CANCELLED: Poisson Structures on Twistor Spaces of Hyperkähler and HKT Manifolds.
  Lisandra Hernandez-Vazquez*, Stony Brook University
  Gueo Grantcharov, Florida International University
  (1125-53-398)

Link to JMM2017 website:
JMM 2017 AMS Special Session on Quaternions