Meetings & Conferences of the AMS

IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING MEETINGS PROGRAMS: AMS Sectional Meeting programs do not appear in the print version of the Notices. However, comprehensive and continually updated meeting and program information with links to the abstract for each talk can be found on the AMS website. See www.ams.org/meetings/. Final programs for Sectional Meetings will be archived on the AMS website accessible from the stated URL .

Jill Pipher, Brown University, Harmonic analysis and New Brunswick, New elliptic boundary value problems. David Vogan, Department of Mathematics, MIT, Matri- Jersey ces almost of order two. Wei Zhang, Columbia University, The Euler product and Rutgers University the Taylor expansion of an L-function.

November 14–15, 2015 Special Sessions Saturday – Sunday If you are volunteering to speak in a Special Session, you Meeting #1115 should send your abstract as early as possible via the ab- Eastern Section stract submission form found at www.ams.org/cgi-bin/ Associate secretary: Steven H. Weintraub abstracts/abstract.pl. Announcement issue of Notices: September 2015 Advances in Valuation Theory, Samar El Hitti, New York Program first available on AMS website: October 1, 2015 City College of Technology, City University of New York, Issue of Abstracts: Volume 36, Issue 4 Franz-Viktor Kuhlmann, University of Saskatchewan, and Deadlines Hans Schoutens, New York City College of Technology, For organizers: Expired City University of New York. For abstracts: Expired Algebraic Geometry and Combinatorics, Elizabeth Drel- lich, University of North Texas, Erik Insko, Florida Gulf The scientific information listed below may be dated. Coast University, Aba Mbirika, University of Wisconsin- For the latest information, see www.ams.org/amsmtgs/ Eau Claire, and Heather Russell, Washington College. sectional.html. Applications of CAT(0) Cube Complexes, Sean Cleary, Invited Addresses City College of New York and the City University of New Lee Mosher, Rutgers University, Newark, The geometry York Graduate Center, and Megan Owen, Lehman College of the outer automorphism group of a free group. of the City University of New York.

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Aspects of Minimal Surfaces in Riemannian Manifolds, Representation Theory, Vertex Operator Algebras, and Zheng Huang and Marcello Lucia, City University of New Related Topics, Corina Calinescu, New York City College of York, Staten Island and Graduate Center. Technology, City University of New York, Andrew Doug- Aspects of Resolutions and Syzygies in Commutative las, New York City College of Technology and Graduate Algebra, Courtney Gibbons, Hamilton College, and Denise Center, City University of New York, and Joshua Sussan, Rangel Tracy, Syracuse University. Medgar Evers College, City University of New York. Commutative Algebra, Laura Ghezzi, New York City Representations of Reductive Groups, Jeffrey Adams, College of Technology, City University of New York, and University of Maryland, Stephen D. Miller, Rutgers Uni- Jooyoun Hong, Southern Connecticut State University. versity, and David Vogan, Massachusetts Institute of Difference Equations and Applications, Manos Drymo- Technology. nis, Providence College, Evelina Lapierre, Johnson and Smooth and Symbolic Ergodic Theory, Andrey Gogolev, Wales University, and Michael Radin, Rochester Institute State University of New York at Binghamton, and Federico of Technology. Rodriguez Hertz and Zhiren Wang, Pennsylvania State Geometric Analysis, Paul Feehan, Manos Maridakis, and University. Natasa Sesum, Rutgers University. Topological Data Analysis: Computations, Statistics, Geometric Topology: A Celebration of Jim West’s 70th and Applications, Miroslav Kramar and Rachel Levanger, Birthday, Alexandre Dranishnikov, University of Florida, Rutgers University. Steve Ferry, Rutgers University, and Boris Goldfarb, State University of New York at Albany. Geometry and Combinatorics of Polytopes, Egon Schulte, Seattle, Washington Northeastern University, and Asia Ivic´ Weiss, York Uni- versity. Washington State Convention Center Geometry of Groups, Surfaces and 3-manifolds, Abhijit and the Sheraton Seattle Hotel Champanerkar, College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center, City University of New York, Feng Luo, Rutgers January 6–9, 2016 University, and Joseph Maher, College of Staten Island Wednesday – Saturday and The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Meeting #1116 Invariants of Knots, Links and 3-Manifolds,I, Ilya Kof- Joint Mathematics Meetings, including the 122nd Annual man, College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center, Meeting of the AMS, 99th Annual Meeting of the Math- City University of New York, and Adam Lowrance, Vassar ematical Association of America (MAA), annual meetings College. of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) and Modern Schubert Calculus, Anders Buch and Chris the National Association of Mathematicians (NAM), and the Woodward, Rutgers University. winter meeting of the Association of Symbolic Logic (ASL), Multiple Combinatorial Numbers and Associated Identi- with sessions contributed by the Society for Industrial and ties, Hasan Coskun, Texas A & M University-Commerce. Applied Mathematics (SIAM). Multiscale Methods in Cell and Developmental Biology, Associate secretary: Michel L. Lapidus Anastasios Matzavinos, Brown University, and Chuan Announcement issue of Notices: October 2015 Xue, Ohio State University. Program first available on AMS website: November 1, 2015 Nonlinear Waves in Differential Equations, Linghai Issue of Abstracts: Volume 37, Issue 1 Zhang, Lehigh University. Number Theory, Spectral Theory, and Homogeneous Deadlines Dynamics, Dubi Kelmer, Boston College, and Alex Kon- For organizers: Expired torovich, Rutgers University. For abstracts: Expired Partial Differential Equations in Geometric Analysis, The scientific information listed below may be dated. Jeffrey Case and Alice Chang, Princeton University, and For the latest information, see www.ams.org/amsmtgs/ Yi Wang, Johns Hopkins University and Institute for Ad- national.html. vanced Study. Probability, Combinatorics and Statistical Mechanics, Joint Invited Addresses Nayantara Bhatnagar, University of Delaware, Brian Rider, Jennifer Chayes, Microsoft Research, Network Science: Temple University, and Douglas Rizzolo, University of From the Online World to Cancer Genomics (MAA-AMS- Delaware. SIAM Gerald and Judith Porter Public Lecture).

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Kristin Estella Lauter, Microsoft Research, How to Keep Montgomery, and Ratnasingham Shivaji, University of your Genome Secret (AMS-MAA Invited Address). North Carolina, Greensboro. Xiao-Li Meng, Harvard University, Statistical Paradises Algebraic Theory of Differential and Functional Equa- and Paradoxes in Big Data (AMS-MAA Invited Address). tions, Taylor Dupuy, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Karen E. Smith, University of Michigan, The Power of University of Vermont, and Alexey Ovchinnikov, CUNY Noether’s Ring Theory in Understanding Singularities of Queens College, New York. Complex Algebraic Varieties (AWM-AMS Noether Lecture). Algebraic and Topological Methods in Combinatorics, Andrew Berget, Western Washington University, Steven AMS Invited Addresses Klee, Seattle University, and Isabella Novik, University of Panagiota Daskalopoulos, Columbia University, An- Washington, Seattle. cient solutions to parabolic partial differential equations. Analysis and Geometry in Nonsmooth Metric Measure Alex Eskin, University of Chicago, The S​L(2, ​R) action Spaces, Luca Capogna, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, on moduli space. and Jeremy Tyson, University of Illinois at Urbana- W. Timothy Gowers, University of Cambridge, UK, Champaign. Quasirandom sets, quasirandom graphs, and applications Analysis, Geometry, and Data, Kevin R. Vixie, Washing- (AMS Colloquium Lectures: Lecture I). ton State University, Pullman, and Bala Krishnamoorthy, W. Timothy Gowers, University of Cambridge, UK, Washington State University, Vancouver. Arithmetic progressions of length 4, quadratic Fourier Analytic Function Spaces and Operators on Them, Tim analysis, and 3-uniform hypergraphs (AMS Colloquium Ferguson and Hyun Kwon, University of Alabama, Tus- caloosa. Lectures: Lecture II). Analytic Methods in Geometry, Eric Bahuaud and Dylan W. Timothy Gowers, University of Cambridge, UK, Helliwell, Seattle University. Fourier analysis on general finite groups (AMS Colloquium Applications of Logic, Model Theory, and Theoreti- Lectures: Lecture III). cal Computer Science to Systems Biology, James Lynch, Marta Lewicka, University of Pittsburgh, Prestrained Clarkson University, and Leo Marcus, Santa Monica, CA elasticity: curvature constraints and differential geometry (AMS-ASL). with low regularity. Applied and Computational Topology, Pawel Dlotko, Daniel Alan Spielman, Yale University, Graphs, Vectors, INRIA Saclay, France, Nicholas Scoville, Ursinus College, and Matrices (AMS Josiah Willard Gibbs Lecture). and Matthew Wright, IMA University of Minnesota. David Vogan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Arithmetic Dynamics, Matthew Baker, Georgia Institute Conjugacy classes and group representations (AMS Retiring of Technology, and Joseph Silverman, Brown University. Presidential Address). Big Demand for Big Data: How Do We Create the Big Steve Zelditch, Northwestern University, Chaotic bil- Supply?, Rick Cleary, Babson College, and Xiao-Li Meng, liards and vibrations of drums. Harvard University. AMS Special Sessions Classification Problems in Operator Algebras, Marcel Bischoff and Ben Hayes, Vanderbilt University. If you are volunteering to speak in a Special Ses- Combinatorial Design Theory, Esther R. Lamken, Cali- sion, you should send your abstract as early as pos- fornia Insitute of Technology. sible via the abstract submission form found at Commutative Algebra, Karen Smith, University of jointmathematicsmeetings.org/meetings/ab- Michigan, Ann Arbor, Emily Witt, University of Utah, and stracts/abstract.pl?type=jmm. Irena Swanson, Reed College (AMS-AWM). Commutative Algebra and Its Interactions with Alge- Some sessions are cosponsored with other organiza- braic Geometry, Daniel Hernández, University of Utah, tions. These are noted within the parenthesis at the end Jack Jeffries, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and Karl of each listing, where applicable. Schwede, University of Utah (AMS-AWM). Advances in Free Analysis: the Theory and Applications Commutative Algebra, I (a Mathematics Research Com- of Noncommutative Functions, Inequalities, and Domains, munities Session), Linquan Ma, University of Utah, Sarah Joseph A. Ball, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and Paul S. Mayes-Tang, Quest University, and Jonathan Montaño, Muhly, University of Iowa, Iowa City. University of Kansas. Advances in the Theory and Application of Reaction Current Areas of Interest in the Mathematical Sciences Diffusion Models, Jerome Goddard, II, Auburn University, of Medieval Islam, Mohammad K. Azarian, University of

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Evansville, and Mohammad Javaheri and Emelie A. Ken- Andreas Malmendier, Utah State University, Logan, and ney, Siena College. Tony Shaska, Oakland University, Rochester. Data-Intensive Modeling in Ecology, Nikolay Strigul, Innovative Ideas in Enhancing Success in Mathematics Washington State University, Vancouver, and Bala Krish- Classes, Natali Hritonenko, Prairie View A&M University, namoorthy, Washington State Unviersity, Vancouver. Ellina Grigorieva, Texas Woman’s University, and Michael Difference Equations and Applications, Michael A. A. Radin, Rochester Institute of Technology (AMS-MAA). Radin, Rochester Institute of Technology. Integrable Systems, Painlevé Equations, and Random Differential Equations, Probability and Sea Ice, I (a Math- Matrices, Anton Dzhamay, University of Northern Colo- ematics Research Communities Session), B.Cael Barry, MIT rado, Christopher M. Ormerod, California Institute of and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Kaitlin Hill, Technology, and Virgil U. Pierce, University of Texas-Pan Northwestern University, Ross Lieb-Lappen, Dartmouth American. College, Christian Sampson, University of Utah, and Al- Interactions between Noncommutative Algebra, Alge- exandria Volkening, Brown University. braic Geometry, and Representation Theory, Ellen Kirk- Distribution of Zeros of Entire Functions, Matthew man, Wake Forest University, and James Zhang, University Chasse, Rochester Institute of Technology, Tamás of Washington. Forgács, California State University, Fresno, and Andrzej Knots in Washington (State), Allison Henrich, Seattle Piotrowski, University of Alska Southeast, Juneau. University, Sam Nelson, Claremont McKenna College, Early Career Female Mathematicians in Algebra and Jozef Przytycki, George Washington University, and Rad- Topology, Jocelyn Bell, United States Military Academy, mila Sazdanovic, North Carolina State University, Raleigh. West Point, Bethany Kubik, University of Minnesota, Du- Mathematical Information in the Digital Age of Sci- luth, and Candice Price, Sam Houston State University. ence, Patrick Ion, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Olaf Equations of Fluid Motion, Elaine Cozzi and Radu Das- Teschke, zbMATH, Berlin, and Stephen Watt, University caliuc, Oregon State University, and James P. Kelliher, of Western Ontario. University of California Riverside. Mathematical Programming on Integral Invexity, Ram Essential Mathematical Structures and Practices in K–12 Verma, Texas State University, San Marcos, and Alexander Mathematics, William McCallum, University of Arizona, Zaslavski, Israel Institute of Technology. Tucson, Kristin Umland, University of New Mexico, and Mathematics and Public Policy, Paul Dreyer, RAND Ellen Whitsides, University of Arizona, Tucson. Corporation. Financial Mathematics, I (a Mathematics Research Com- Mathematics in Natural Resource Modeling, Catherine munities Session), Triet Pham, Rutgers University, Wilber A. Roberts, College of the Holy Cross, and Shandelle M. A Ventura, University of Texas at Arlington, and Kim Henson, Andrews University. Weston, Carnegie Mellon University. Metrical and Topological Fixed Point Theory with Fractal Geometry and Dynamical Systems, John Rock, Cal Poly Pomona, Machiel van Frankenhuijesen, Utah Applications, Clement Boateng Ampadu, Boston, MA, Valley University, and Michel L. Lapidus, University of Talat Nazir, Mälardalen University, Sweden, and Hudson California, Riverside. Akewe, University of Lagos, Nigeria. Geometric and Categorical Methods in Representation Modular Forms, q-Series, and Mathematics Inspired by Theory, Anthony Licata, Australian National University, Ramanujan, Chris Jennings-Shaffer, University of Florida, and Julia Pevtsova, Universityof Washington, Seattle. Gainesville, and Oregon State University, Corvallis, and Global Harmonic Analysis, Steven Zelditch, Northwest- Holly Swisher, Oregon State University, Corvallis. ern University, Hart Smith, University of Washington, Moduli Spaces in Algebraic Geometry, Yaim Cooper, Seattle, and Chris Sogge, Johns Hopkins University. Harvard University. Graduate Mathematics Courses and Programs for Sec- Moduli Spaces in Symplectic Geometry, Nathaniel Bott- ondary Mathematics Teachers, James J. Madden, Louisiana man, MIT, Joel Fish, IAS, Princeton, and the University State University, Baton Rouge, and James A. Mendoza of Massachusetts, Boston, Sheel Ganatra, Stanford Uni- Epperson, University of Texas, Arlington. versity, and Katrin Wehrheim, University of California Graph Products, Richard Hammack and Dewey Taylor, Berkeley. Virginia Commonwealth University. Nonlinear Algebra, Bernd Sturmfels, University of Higher Genus Curves and Fibrations of Higher Genus California Berkeley, and Rekha Thomas, University of Curves in Mathematical Physics and Arithmetic Geometry, Washington, Seattle.

December 2015 Notices of the AMS 1417 Meetings & Conferences

Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures, Natalie Representation Theory of Algebraic Groups, Daniel Sheils and Chris Swierczewski, University of Washington, K. Nakano, University of Georgia, and Cornelius Pillen, Seattle. University of South Alabama. Number Theory and Cryptography, Matilde Lalin, Uni- Research by Posdocs of the Alliance for Diversity in versity of Montreal, Michelle Manes, University of Hawaii, Mathematics, Aloysius Helminck, North Carolina State Honolulu, and Christelle Vincent, University of Vermont. University, Raleigh, and Michael Young, Iowa State Uni- Operators, Function Spaces, and Models, Alberto Con- versity, Ames. dori, Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, and Wil- Research from the 2014 and 2015 Rocky Mountain- liam Ross, University of Richmond. Great Plains Graduate Research Workshop in Combina- Origami Methods and Applications, Erik Demaine, MIT, torics, Michael Ferrera, University of Colorado, Denver, Thomas C. Hull, Western New England University, and Greeley, Leslie Hogben, Iowa State University, Ames, Paul Robert J. Lang, Lang Origami. Horn, University of Denver, and Derrick Stolee, Iowa State Parabolic Geometries, Twistor Theory, and the AdS/CFT University, Ames. Correspondence, Jonathan Holland and George Sparling, Research in Mathematics by Undergraduates and Stu- University of Pittsburgh, and Daniela Mihai, Carnegie dents in Post-Baccalaureate Programs, Darren A. Narayan Mellon University. and Jobby Jacob, Rochester Institute of Technology, Partial Differential Equations in Complex Analysis, Deb- Tamas Forgacs, California State University, Fresno, and Ugur Abdulla, Florida Institute of Technology (AMS-MAA- raj Chakrabarti, Central Michigan University, and Yunus SIAM). Zeytuncu, University of Michigan, Dearborn. Set-Valued Optimization and Variational Problems with Problems and Challenges in Financial Engineering and Applications, Baasansuren Jadamba and Akhtar A. Kahn, Risk Management, Matthew Lorig, University of Washing- Rochester Institute of Technology, Mau Nam Nguyen, ton, Seattle, and Haijun Li and Hong-Ming Yin, Washing- Portland State University, Miguel Sama, Universidad Na- ton State University, Pullman. cional de Educacion a Distancia, Spain, and Christiane Problems in Geometry and Design of Materials, Marta Tammer, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg. Lewicka, University of Pittsburgh, and Petronela Radu, Special Functions and q-Series, Richard Askey, Univer- University of Nebraska. sity of Wisconsin, Madison, Mourad E. H. Ismail, Univer- Pseudorandomness and Its Applications, Timothy sity of Central Florida and King Saud University, Riyadh, Gowers, University of Cambridge, and Jozsef Solymosi, and Erik Koelink, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The University of British Columbia. Netherlands. Quantum Walks, Quantum Markov Chains, Quantum Stochastic Effects in Models for Mathematical Biology Computation and Related Topics, Chaobin Liu, Bowie and Ecology, Olcay Akman, Illinois State University, State University, Takyua Machida, Japan Sociey for the Timothy D. Comar, Benedictine University, and Daniel Promotion of Science, Salvador E. Venegas-Andraca, Hrozencik, Chicago State University. Technológico de Monterrey, Mexico, and Nelson Petulante, Stochastic Models in Population Biology, Brian Dennis, Bowie State University. University of Idaho, Moscow, and Eddy Kwessi, Trinity Random and Complex Dynamics of Reaction-Diffusion University. Systems, Michael Anton Hoegele, Universidad de Los Surreal Numbers, Philip Ehrlich, Ohio University, Ath- Andes, Bogota, Colombia, and Yuncheng You, University ens, and Ovidiu Costin, Ohio State University, Columbus of South Florida, Tampa. (AMS-ASL). Recent Advances in Dynamical Systems and Mathemati- Tensor Decompositions and Secant Varieties, Zach Te- cal Biology, Guihong Fan, Columbus State University, Jing itler, Boise State University. Li, Califorrnia State University Northridge, and Hongying The History of Mathematics, Patti Hunter, Westmont Shu, Tongji University, China. College, Adrian Rice, Randolph-Macon College, Sloan De- Recent Advances in Orthogonal Polynomials and Special speaux, Western Carolina University, and Deborah Kent, Functions, Xiang-Sheng Wang, Southeast Missouri State Drake University (AMS-MAA). University, Cape Girardeau. The Mathematics of Computation, Susanne C. Brenner, Recent Developments in Dispersive Partial Differential Louisiana State University. Equations and Harmonic Analysis, William Green, Rose- Topological Graph Theory: Structure and Symmetry, Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, and Jennifer Jonathan L. Gross, Columbia University, and Thomas W. Beichman, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Tucker, Colgate University.

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Topological Representation Theory, Charles Frohman, Algebraic Structures in Mathematical Physics: Lie Al- University of Iowa, Iowa City, and Helen Wong, Carelton gebras, Vertex Algebras, Quantum Algebras (Code: SS College. 19A), Iana I. Anguelova, College of Charleston, and Bojko Water Waves, John Carter, Seattle University, Bernard Bakalov, North Carolina State University. Deconinck, University of Washington, Seattle, and Katie Algebraic and Combinatorial Methods in Mathematical Oliveras, Seattle University. Biology (Code: SS 25A), Elena Dimitrova and Svetlana What’s New in Group Theory? Arturo Magidin, Uni- Poznanovic, Clemson University. versity of Louisiana at Lafayette, and Elizabeth Wilcox, Bioinformatics and Molecular Biology: Dynamic Models, Oswego State University of New York. Structural Analysis, and Computational Methods (Code: SS 26A), Christine Heitsch, Chi-Jen Wang, and Haomin Zhou, Georgia Institute of Technology. Athens, Georgia Combinatorial and Computational Algebra (Code: SS 7A), Huy Tai Ha, Tulane University, Kuei-Nan Lin, Penn University of Georgia State Greater Allegheny, and Augustine O’Keefe, Con- necticut College. March 5–6, 2016 Commutative Algebra (Code: SS 6A), Jon F. Carlson, Saturday – Sunday University of Georgia, and Andrew Kustin, University of Meeting #1117 South Carolina. Southeastern Section Discrete and Applied Algebraic Geometry (Code: SS Associate secretary: Brian D. Boe 18A), Cynthia Vinzant, North Carolina State University, Announcement issue of Notices: January 2016 and Josephine Yu, Georgia Institute of Technology. Program first available on AMS website: To be announced Elliptic Curves (Code: SS 1A), Abbey Bourdon and Pete Issue of Abstracts: Volume 37, Issue 2 L. Clark, University of Georgia. Experimental Mathematics (Code: SS 23A), Frank Gar- Deadlines van, University of Florida, and Andrew Sills, Georgia For organizers: Expired Southern University. For abstracts: January 19, 2016 Financial Mathematics (Code: SS 27A), Arash Fahim and Alec Kercheval, Florida State University. The scientific information listed below may be dated. Harmonic Analysis and Applications (Code: SS 28A), For the latest information, see www.ams.org/amsmtgs/ Irina Holmes, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Brett sectional.html. D. Wick, Washington University. Invited Addresses Interactions Between Algebraic and Tropical Geometry (Code: SS 13A), Matthew Ballard, University of South Michele Benzi, Emory University, Title to be announced. Carolina, Noah Giansiracusa, University of Georgia, and Frank Garvan, University of Florida, Title to be an- Jesse Kass, University of South Carolina. nounced. Invariant Measures of Dynamical Systems (Code: SS William Graham, University of Georgia, Title to be an- 24A), Miaohua Jiang and Chris Johnson, Wake Forest nounced. University, and Martin Schmoll, Clemson University. Special Sessions Lie Theory, Representation Theory, and Geometry (Code: If you are volunteering to speak in a Special Session, you SS 3A), Shrawan Kumar, University of North Carolina, and should send your abstract as early as possible via the ab- Daniel K. Nakano and Paul Sobaje, University of Georgia. stract submission form found at www.ams.org/cgi-bin/ Low-dimensional Topology and Geometry (Code: SS abstracts/abstract.pl. 15A), David Gay and Gordana Matic, University of Geor- gia. Active Learning in Undergraduate Mathematics (Code: Mathematical Physics and Spectral Theory (Code: SS SS 22A), Darryl Chamberlain,Jr, Aubrey Kemp, Leslie 4A), Stephen Clark, Missouri University of Science and Meadows, Harrison Stalvey, and Draga Vidakovic, Geor- Technology, and Roger Nichols, The University of Ten- gia State University. nessee at Chattanooga. Algebraic Structures in Knot Theory (Code: SS 5A), Mathematics and Music (Code: SS 14A), Mariana Mon- Sam Nelson, Claremont McKenna College, and Mohamed tiel, Georgia State University, and Robert Peck, Louisiana Elhamdadi, University of South Florida. State University.

December 2015 Notices of the AMS 1419 Meetings & Conferences

Moduli Spaces and Vector Bundles (Code: SS 8A), Patri- cio Gallardo and Anna Kazanova, University of Georgia. Stony Brook, New New Developments in Discrete and Intuitive Geometry (Dedicated to the 75th birthday of Wlodzimierz Kuperberg) York (Code: SS 16A), Andras Bezdek, Auburn University, Oleg Musin, University of Texas at Brownsville, and Gabor State University of New York at Stony Fejes Toth, Renyi Institute of Mathematics, Hungary Brook (AMS-AAAS). March 19–20, 2016 Numerical Methods and Scientific Computing (Code: Saturday – Sunday SS 17A), Michele Benzi, Emory University, and Edmond Chow, Georgia Institute of Technology. Meeting #1118 PDE Analysis in Fluid Flows (Code: SS 21A), Geng Chen, Eastern Section Ronghua Pan, and Yao Yao, Georgia Institute of Technol- Associate secretary: Steven H. Weintraub ogy. Announcement issue of Notices: January 2016 Probabilistic and Analytic Tools in Convexity (Code: SS Program first available on AMS website: February 9, 2016 2A), Joseph Fu, University of Georgia, Galyna Livshyts, Issue of Abstracts: Volume 37, Issue 2 Georgia Institute of Technology, and Elisabeth Werner, Case Western Reserve University. Deadlines Sharp Estimates and Bellman Functions in Harmonic For organizers: Expired Analysis (Code: SS 29A), Kabe Moen, University of Ala- For abstracts: February 2, 2016 bama, Leonid Slavin, University of Cincinnati, and Alex The scientific information listed below may be dated. Stokolos, Georgia Southern University. For the latest information, see www.ams.org/amsmtgs/ Symplectic and Contact Geometry (Code: SS 20A), Yi Lin sectional.html. and Stefan Müller, Georgia Southern University, Michael Usher, University of Georgia, and François Ziegler, Geor- Invited Addresses gia Southern University. Simon Donaldson, Stony Brook University, Title to be The Combinatorics of Symmetric Functions (Code: SS announced. 9A), Sarah K. Mason, Wake Forest University, and Eliza- Dmitry Kleinbock, Brandeis University, Title to be an- beth Niese, Marshall University. nounced. Theory and Applications of Graphs (Code: SS 12A), Irena Lasiecka, University of Memphis, Title to be an- Colton Magnant and Hua Wang, Georgia Southern Uni- nounced. versity. Special Sessions Topics in Graph Theory (Code: SS 11A), Guantao Chen, If you are volunteering to speak in a Special Session, you Georgia State University, and Songling Shan, Vanderbilt should send your abstract as early as possible via the University. abstract submission form found at www.ams.org/cgi- Topology and Dynamical Systems (Code: SS 10A), Al- bin/abstracts/abstract.pl. exander Blokh, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Krystyna Kuperberg, Auburn University, and John Analysis, Probability and Mathematical Physics on Frac- Mayer and Lex Oversteegen, University of Alabama at tals (Code: SS 10A), Joe P. Chen and Luke Rogers, Univer- Birmingham. sity of Connecticut, Robert Strichartz, Cornell University, and Alexander Teplyaev, University of Connecticut. Commutative Ring Theory (Code: SS 7A), Alan Loper, Ohio State University, and Nick Werner, State University of New York at Old Westbury. Complex Geometric Analysis (Code: SS 11A), Xiuxiong Chen, Stony Brook University, Weiyong He, University of Oregon, and Ioana Suvaina, Vanderbilt University. Evolution of Partial Differential Equations and their Control (Code: SS 15A), George Avalos, University of

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Nebraska, and Irena Lasiecka and Roberto Triggiani, University of Memphis. Salt Lake City, Utah G_2 Geometry (Code: SS 9A), Sergey Grigorian, Univer- sity of Texas, Rio Grande Valley, Sema Salur, University University of Utah of Rochester, and Albert J. Todd, University of South April 9–10, 2016 Alabama. Saturday – Sunday Geometric Measure Theory and Its Applications (Code: SS 2A), Matthew Badger, University of Connecticut, and Meeting #1119 Christopher J. Bishop and Raanan Schul, Stony Brook Western Section University. Associate secretary: Michel L. Lapidus Graph Vulnerability Parameters and their Role in Net- Announcement issue of Notices: January 2016 work Analysis (Code: SS 16A), Michael Yatauro, Pennsyl- Program first available on AMS website: To be announced vania State University-Brandywine. Issue of Abstracts: Volume 37, Issue 2 Holomorphic Dynamics (Code: SS 4A), Artem Dudko Deadlines and Raluca Tanase, Stony Brook University. For organizers: Expired Homogeneous Dynamics and Related Topics (Code: SS For abstracts: February 16, 2016 12A), Dmitry Kleinbock, Brandeis University, and Han Li, Wesleyan University. The scientific information listed below may be dated. Invariants of Closed Curves on Surfaces (Code: SS 1A), For the latest information, see www.ams.org/amsmtgs/ Ara Basmajian, Hunter College and Graduate Center, City sectional.html. University of New York, and Moira Chas, Stony Brook University. Invited Addresses Mathematical General Relativity (Code: SS 3A), Lan- Daniel Bump, Stanford University, From Whittaker Hsuan Huang, University of Connecticut, Marcus Khuri, Functions to Quantum Groups. Stony Brook University, and Christina Sormani, Lehman James McKernan, University of California, San Diego, College and City University of New York Graduate Center. Classification of algebraic varieties. Mathematicians in Mathematics Education (Code: SS Ravi Vakil, Stanford University, Cutting and pasting in 8A), Lisa Berger, Stony Brook University, and Melkana algebraic geometry (Erdo˝s Memorial Lecture). Brakalova, Fordham University. Stephanie van Willigenburg, University of British PDE Methods in Geometric Flows (Code: SS 5A), Mihai Columbia, Vancouver, An introduction to quasisymmetric Bailesteanu, Central Connecticut State University, and Schur functions. Andrew Cooper, North Carolina State University. Special Sessions Teichmüller Theory and Related Topics (Code: SS 6A), If you are volunteering to speak in a Special Session, you Sudeb Mitra and Dragomir Saric, Queens College of the should send your abstract as early as possible via the ab- City University of New York and City University of New stract submission form found at www.ams.org/cgi-bin/ York Graduate Center. abstracts/abstract.pl. Topology and Combinatorics of Arrangements (in honor of Mike Falk) (Code: SS 14A), Daniel C. Cohen, Louisiana Algebraic Combinatorics (Code: SS 5A), Susanna Fishel, State University, and Alexander I. Suciu, Northeastern Arizona State University, Edward Richmond, Oklahoma University. State University, and Stephanie van Willigenburg, Univer- Vertex Algebra and Related Algebraic and Geometric sity of British Columbia. Structures (Code: SS 13A), Katrina Barron, University of Algebraic Geometry (association with the Erd˝so Lec- Notre Dame, Antun Milas, State University of New York ture by Ravi Vakil) (Code: SS 1A), Ravi Vakil, Stanford at Albany, and Jinwei Yang, University of Notre Dame. University, and Christopher Hacon and Karl Schwede, University of Utah. Automorphic Forms, Combinatorics and Representa- tion Theory (Code: SS 6A), Anna Puskás, University of Alberta, Daniel Bump, Stanford University, Paul Gunnells,

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University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Solomon Fried- The scientific information listed below may be dated. berg, Boston College. For the latest information, see www.ams.org/amsmtgs/ CR Geometry and Partial Differential Equations in sectional.html. Complex Analysis (Code: SS 4A), Yuan Yuan, Syracuse Invited Addresses University, and Yuan Zhang, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne. Rodrigo Banuelos, Purdue University, Title to be an- Combinatorial and Computational Commutative Al- nounced. gebra and Algebraic Geometry (Code: SS 10A), Hirota- Laura Matusevich, Texas A&M University, Title to be chi Abo, University of Idaho, Zach Teitler, Boise State announced. University, Jim Wolper, Idaho State University, and Alex Jeff Viaclovsky, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Title Woo, University of Idaho. to be announced. Commutative Algebra (Code: SS 7A), Adam Boocher Special Sessions and Linquan Ma, University of Utah. If you are volunteering to speak in a Special Session, you Descriptive Set Theory and its Applications (Code: SS should send your abstract as early as possible via the 9A), Christian Rosendal, University of Illinois at Chicago, abstract submission form found at www.ams.org/cgi- and Alexander Kechris, California Institute of Technology. bin/abstracts/abstract.pl. Extremal Problems in Graph Theory (Code: SS 8A), Andre Kundgen and Mike Picollelli, California State Uni- Algebraic and Geometric Combinatorics (Code: SS 16A), versity San Marcos. Kevin Dilks and Jessica Striker, North Dakota State Uni- Fusion Categories and Topological Phases of Matter versity. (Code: SS 11A), Paul Bruillard, Pacific Northwest National Applications of Microlocal Analysis: Eigenfunctions and Laboratory, and Julia Plavnik, Texas A&M University. Dispersive PDE (Code: SS 20A), Hans Christianson and Inverse Problems (Code: SS 2A), Hanna Makaruk, Los Jason Metcalfe, University of North Carolina. Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), and Robert Owcza- Combinatorial Ideals and Applications (Code: SS 10A), rek, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque and UNM, Laura Matusevich and Christopher O’Neill, Texas A&M Los Alamos. University. Representations of Reductive p-adic Groups (Code: SS Commutative Algebra and Its Interactions with Com- 3A), Shiang Tang and Gordan Savin, University of Utah. binatorics and Algebraic Geometry (Code: SS 4A), Susan Topics in Probability (Code: SS 13A), Tom Alberts and Cooper, North Dakota State University, and Adam Van Arjun Krishnan, University of Utah. Tuyl, McMaster University. Topics in Stochastic Partial Differential Equations (Code: Commutative Ring Theory (Code: SS 6A), Catalin Ci- SS 12A), Jingyu Huang and Davar Khosnevisan, Univer- sity of Utah. uperca and Sean Sather-Wagstaff, North Dakota State University. Contemporary Issues in Mathematics Education (Code: Fargo, North Dakota SS 8A), Abraham Ayebo, North Dakota State University. Convexity and Harmonic Analysis (Code: SS 2A), Maria North Dakota State University Alfonseca-Cubero, North Dakota State University, and Dmitry Ryabogin, Kent State University. April 16–17, 2016 Discrete Probability (Code: SS 9A), Jonathon Peterson, Saturday – Sunday Purdue University, and Arnab Sen, University of Min- Meeting #1120 nesota. Dynamics, Inverse Semigroups, and Operator Algebras Central Section (Code: SS 15A), Benton Duncan, North Dakota State Uni- Associate secretary: Georgia Benkart versity, and David Pitts, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Announcement issue of Notices: February 2016 Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems (Code: SS 1A), Program first available on AMS website: To be announced Dogan Comez, North Dakota State University, and Mrinal Issue of Abstracts: Volume 37, Issue 2 Kanti Roychowdhury, University of Texas Rio Grand Deadlines Valley. For organizers: Expired Extremal Graph Theory (Code: SS 13A), Michael Ferrara For abstracts: February 23, 2016 and Stephen Hartke, University of Colorado Denver.

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Frames, Harmonic Analysis, and Operator Theory (Code: Invited Addresses SS 7A), Gabriel Picioroaga, University of South Dakota, Tim Austin, New York University, Title to be announced. and Eric Weber, Iowa State University. Moon Duchin, Tufts University, Title to be announced. Frames, Wavelets and Gabor Systems (Code: SS 11A), Thomas Lam, University of Michigan, Title to be an- Yeonhyang Kim and Sivaram K. Narayan, Central Michi- nounced. gan University. Integrable Dynamical Systems and Special Functions (Code: SS 5A), Oksana Bihun, University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado Colorado Springs. Interactions with Algebraic Geometry (Code: SS 19A), University of Denver Julie Rana and Kaisa Taipale, University of Minnesota. October 8–9, 2016 Low Dimensional and Symplectic Topology (Code: SS Saturday – Sunday 12A), Anar Akhmedov, University of Minnesota, and Josef Meeting #1122 G. Dorfmeister, North Dakota State University. Mathematical Finance (Code: SS 3A), Indranil SenGupta, Western Section Associate secretary: Michel L. Lapidus North Dakota State University. Announcement issue of Notices: August 2016 Matrix and Operator Theory (Code: SS 14A), Shaun Fal- Program first available on AMS website: To be announced lat and Douglas Farenick, University of Regina. Issue of Abstracts: Volume 37, Issue 3 Probabilistic and Extremal Combinatorics (Code: SS 17A), Jonathan Cutler, and Jamie Radcliffe, University Deadlines of Nebraska-Lincoln. For organizers: March 8, 2016 Probability and Complex Analysis Inspired by Schramm For abstracts: August 16, 2016 and Loewner (Code: SS 21A), Michael Kozdron, University The scientific information listed below may be dated. of Regina. For the latest information, see www.ams.org/amsmtgs/ Topological and Smooth Dynamics (Code: SS 18A), sectional.html. Azer Akhmedov and Michael Cohen, North Dakota State University. Invited Addresses Henry Cohn, Microsoft Research, New England, Title to be announced. Brunswick, Maine Ronny Hadani, University of Texas, Austin, Title to be announced. Bowdoin College Chelsea Walton, Temple University, Philadelphia, Title to be announced. September 24–25, 2016 Saturday – Sunday Special Sessions If you are volunteering to speak in a Special Session, you Meeting #1121 should send your abstract as early as possible via the ab- Eastern Section stract submission form found at www.ams.org/cgi-bin/ Associate secretary: Steven H. Weintraub abstracts/abstract.pl. Announcement issue of Notices: June 2016 Program first available on AMS website: July 27, 2016 Algebraic Logic (Code: SS 1A), Nick Galatos, University Issue of Abstracts: Volume 37, Issue 3 of Denver, and Peter Jipsen, Chapman University. Analysis on Graphs and Spectral Graph Theory (Code: Deadlines SS 2A), Paul Horn and Mei Yin, University of Denver. For organizers: February 24, 2016 Nonassociative Algebra (Code: SS 3A), Izabella Stuhl, For abstracts: July 19, 2016 University of Debrecen and University of Denver, and Petr Vojteˇchovsky´, University of Denver. The scientific information listed below may be dated. Noncommutative Geometry and Fundamental Applica- For the latest information, see www.ams.org/amsmtgs/ tions (Code: SS 4A), Frederic Latremoliere, University of sectional.html. Denver.

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Operator Algebras and Applications (Code: SS 5A), Al- varo Arias, University of Denver. Raleigh, North Recent Trends in Semigroup Theory (Code: SS 6A), Mi- chael Kinyon, University of Denver, and Ben Steinberg, Carolina City College of New York. Set Theory of the Continuum (Code: SS 7A), Natasha North Carolina State University at Raleigh Dobrinen and Daniel Hathaway, University of Denver. November 12–13, 2016 Unimodularity in Randomly Generated Graphs (Code: Saturday – Sunday SS 8A), Florian Sobieczky, University of Denver. Vertex Algebras and Geometry (Code: SS 9A), Andrew Meeting #1124 Linshaw, University of Denver, and Thomas Creutzig, Southeastern Section University of Alberta. Associate secretary: Brian D. Boe Zero Dimensional Dynamics (Code: SS 10A), Nic Ormes Announcement issue of Notices: September 2016 and Ronnie Pavlov, University of Denver. Program first available on AMS website: To be announced Issue of Abstracts: Volume 37, Issue 4 Minneapolis, Deadlines For organizers: April 12, 2016 Minnesota For abstracts: September 13, 2016

University of St. Thomas The scientific information listed below may be dated. For the latest information, see www.ams.org/amsmtgs/ October 28–30, 2016 sectional.html. Friday – Sunday Invited Addresses Meeting #1123 Ricardo Cortez, Tulane University, Title to be an- Central Section nounced. Associate secretary: Georgia Benkart Jason Metcalfe, University of North Carolina at Chapel Announcement issue of Notices: August 2016 Hill, Title to be announced. Program first available on AMS website: To be announced Agnes Szanto, North Carolina State University, Title to Issue of Abstracts: Volume 37, Issue 4 be announced. Deadlines Special Sessions For organizers: March 22, 2016 If you are volunteering to speak in a Special Session, you For abstracts: August 30, 2016 should send your abstract as early as possible via the ab- The scientific information listed below may be dated. stract submission form found at www.ams.org/cgi-bin/ For the latest information, see www.ams.org/amsmtgs/ abstracts/abstract.pl. sectional.html. (Code: SS 1A), Alina Iacob and Saeed Nasseh, Georgia Invited Addresses Southern University. Thomas Nevins, University of Illinois Urbana-Cham- paign, Title to be announced. Charles Rezk, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Title to be announced. Christof Sparber, University of Illinois at Chicago, Title to be announced. Samuel Stechmann, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Title to be announced.

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Hyatt Regency Atlanta and Marriott Indiana University Atlanta Marquis April 1–2, 2017 January 4–7, 2017 Saturday – Sunday Wednesday – Saturday Meeting #1127 Meeting #1125 Central Section Joint Mathematics Meetings, including the 123rd Annual Associate secretary: Georgia Benkart Meeting of the AMS, 100th Annual Meeting of the Math- Announcement issue of Notices: To be announced Program first available on AMS website: To be announced ematical Association of America, annual meetings of the Issue of Abstracts: To be announced Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) and the National Association of Mathematicians (NAM), and the Deadlines winter meeting of the Association of Symbolic Logic, with For organizers: To be announced sessions contributed by the Society for Industrial and Ap- For abstracts: To be announced plied Mathematics (SIAM). Associate secretary: Brian D. Boe Pullman, Washington Announcement issue of Notices: October 2016 Program first available on AMS website: To be announced Washington State University Issue of Abstracts: Volume 38, Issue 1 April 22–23, 2017 Deadlines Saturday – Sunday For organizers: April 1, 2016 For abstracts: To be announced Meeting #1128 Western Section Charleston, South Associate secretary: Michel L. Lapidus Announcement issue of Notices: To be announced Carolina Program first available on AMS website: To be announced Issue of Abstracts: To be announced College of Charleston Deadlines For organizers: To be announced March 10–12, 2017 For abstracts: To be announced Friday – Sunday Meeting #1126 New York, New York Southeastern Section Associate secretary: Brian D. Boe Hunter College, City University of New Announcement issue of Notices: To be announced York Program first available on AMS website: To be announced Issue of Abstracts: To be announced May 6–7, 2017 Saturday – Sunday Deadlines For organizers: November 10, 2016 Meeting #1129 For abstracts: To be announced Eastern Section Associate secretary: Steven H. Weintraub Announcement issue of Notices: To be announced Program first available on AMS website: To be announced Issue of Abstracts: To be announced

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Deadlines For organizers: September 14, 2016 Orlando, Florida For abstracts: March 21, 2017 University of Central Florida, Orlando Montréal, Quebec September 23–24, 2017 Saturday – Sunday Canada Southeastern Section Associate secretary: Brian D. Boe Announcement issue of Notices: To be announced McGill University Program first available on AMS website: To be announced July 24–28, 2017 Issue of Abstracts: To be announced Monday – Friday Deadlines Meeting #1130 For organizers: February 23, 2017 For abstracts: July 25, 2017 The second Mathematical Congress of the Americas (MCA 2017) is being hosted by the Canadian Mathematical Soci- ety (CMS) in collaboration with the Pacific Institute for the Riverside, California Mathematical Sciences (PIMS), the Fields Institute (FIELDS), Le Centre de Recherches Mathématiques (CRM), and the University of California, Riverside Atlantic Association for Research in the Mathematical Sci- November 4–5, 2017 ences (AARMS). Saturday – Sunday Associate secretary: Brian D. Boe Western Section Announcement issue of Notices: To be announced Associate secretary: Michel L. Lapidus Program first available on AMS website: To be announced Announcement issue of Notices: To be announced Issue of Abstracts: To be announced Program first available on AMS website: To be announced Issue of Abstracts: To be announced Deadlines Deadlines For organizers: July 31, 2016 For organizers: To be announced For abstracts: To be announced For abstracts: To be announced Buffalo, New York San Diego, California

State University of New York at Buffalo San Diego Convention Center and San September 16–17, 2017 Diego Marriott Hotel and Marina Saturday – Sunday January 10–13, 2018 Eastern Section Wednesday – Saturday Associate secretary: Steven H. Weintraub Joint Mathematics Meetings, including the 124th Annual Announcement issue of Notices: To be announced Meeting of the AMS, 101st Annual Meeting of the Math- Program first available on AMS website: To be announced ematical Association of America (MAA), annual meetings Issue of Abstracts: To be announced of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) and the National Association of Mathematicians (NAM), and the Deadlines winter meeting of the Association of Symbolic Logic (ASL), For organizers: February 14, 2017 with sessions contributed by the Society for Industrial and For abstracts: To be announced Applied Mathematics (SIAM). Associate secretary: Georgia Benkart Announcement issue of Notices: October 2017 Program first available on AMS website: To be announced

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Issue of Abstracts: To be announced Deadlines Deadlines For organizers: April 1, 2019 For abstracts: To be announced For organizers: April 1, 2017 For abstracts: To be announced Washington, District Baltimore, Maryland of Columbia Baltimore Convention Center, Hilton Walter E. Washington Convention Center Baltimore, and Baltimore Marriott Inner Harbor Hotel January 6–9, 2021 Wednesday – Saturday January 16–19, 2019 Joint Mathematics Meetings, including the 127th Annual Wednesday – Saturday Meeting of the AMS, 104th Annual Meeting of the Math- Joint Mathematics Meetings, including the 125th Annual ematical Association of America (MAA), annual meetings Meeting of the AMS, 102nd Annual Meeting of the Math- of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) and ematical Association of America (MAA), annual meetings the National Association of Mathematicians (NAM), and the of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM)and winter meeting of the Association of Symbolic Logic (ASL), the National Association of Mathematicians (NAM), and the with sessions contributed by the Society for Industrial and winter meeting of the Association of Symbolic Logic (ASL), Applied Mathematics (SIAM). with sessions contributed by the Society for Industrial and Associate secretary: Brian D. Boe Applied Mathematics (SIAM). Announcement issue of Notices: October 2020 Associate secretary: Steven H. Weintraub Program first available on AMS website: November 1, 2020 Issue of Abstracts: To be announced Announcement issue of Notices: October 2018 Program first available on AMS website: To be announced Deadlines Issue of Abstracts: To be announced For organizers: April 1, 2020 Deadlines For abstracts: To be announced For organizers: April 2, 2018 For abstracts: To be announced Denver, Colorado

Colorado Convention Center

January 15–18, 2020 Wednesday – Saturday Joint Mathematics Meetings, including the 126th Annual Meeting of the AMS, 103rd Annual Meeting of the Math- ematical Association of America (MAA), annual meetings of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) and the National Association of Mathematicians (NAM), and the winter meeting of the Association of Symbolic Logic (ASL), with sessions contributed by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Associate secretary: Michael Lapidus Announcement issue of Notices: To be announced Program first available on AMS website: November 1, 2019 Issue of Abstracts: To be announced

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