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Mathematics Calendar The most comprehensive and up-to-date Mathematics Calendar information is available on e-MATH at http://www.ams.org/mathcal/. January 2006 Jan. 15 and $30 onsite. Information:http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/sormani/conf/2006/ * 5–15 International Workshop on Teichmuller Theory and Moduli geom06.html. Problems, Harish-Chandra Research Institute (HRI), Allahabad, India. * 26–March 4 The 2006 Talbot workshop: Automorphisms of Description:The principal aim of the workshop is to bring closer manifolds, North Conway, New Hampshire. two mathematical traditions, namely the Ahlfors-Bers school of Description:The Talbot workshop will constitute a weeklong the complex analytic approach to Teichmueller theory, and the retreat in New Hampshire, bringing together a small group of algebro-geometric tradition of the moduli of vector bundles that has graduate students and junior faculty in an informal and collabo- flourished in India. Another aim of the workshop is to introduce rative environment to study the topology of homeomorphism and young researchers to some fundamental techniques and recent diffeomorphism groups of manifolds and related topics in surgery, developments in the fields. The Workshop is funded by National geometric topology, algebraic K-theory, calculus of functors, and Science Foundation (USA), Department of Science and Technology index theory. (India), Infosys foundations. Plenary speaker:Michael Weiss. Organizers:Ravi Kulkarni (HRI, India), Sudeb Mitra (CUNY, USA), Organizers:Chris Douglas, John Francis, Andre Henriques, Mike Indranil Biswas(TIFR, India). Hill. Information: http://www.mri.ernet.in/~teich. To attend the Contact:For more information about participating in the workshop, Workshop contact email: [email protected]. email Mike Hill ([email protected]). Information: http://www-math.mit.edu/~jnkf/talbot. February 2006 * 3–5 CUNY Geometric Analysis 2006: The Laplace and Length March 2006 Spectra, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, New York. * 2–5 SouthEastern Analysis Meeting, SEAM XXII,Universityof Confirmed Speakers:C. Croke, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Carolyn Florida, Gainesville, Florida. Gordon,DartmouthCollege,R.Gornet,Univ.ofTexasatArlington, Description:The University of Florida math department is hosting N. Hingston, The College of New Jersey, M. Kotani, Tohoku Univ., the 22nd edition of SEAM as part of its special year in probability A. Nabutovsky, Univ. Toronto and Penn State, I. Polterovich, Univ. and analysis. Montreal, R. Rotman, Penn State and Univ. Toronto, P. Sarnak, Information:For conference details, visit the special year web site Princeton Univ., T. Sunada, Meiji Univ., Z. I. Szabo, CUNY Grad. http://www.math.ufl.edu/~sam/payr. Center and Lehman College, A. Vasy, Stanford Univ. and MIT. Organizers:Y.Petridis,C.Sormani,J.Dodziuk. * 12–25 RDSES/ESI Educational Workshop on Discrete Probability, Registration:Free for students, $20 for others who register before Erwin Schroedinger Institute (ESI), Vienna, Austria. respect to participation in the meeting, this fact should be noted. This section contains announcements of meetings and conferences All communications on meetings and conferences in the mathematical of interest to some segment of the mathematical public, including ad sciences should be sent to the Editor of the Notices in care of the American hoc, local, or regional meetings, and meetings and symposia devoted Mathematical Society in Providence or electronically to [email protected] to specialized topics, as well as announcements of regularly scheduled or [email protected]. meetings of national or international mathematical organizations. A In order to allow participants to arrange their travel plans, organizers of complete list of meetings of the Society can be found on the last page of meetings are urged to submit information for these listings early enough each issue. to allow them to appear in more than one issue of the Notices prior to An announcement will be published in the Notices if it contains a call the meeting in question. To achieve this, listings should be received in for papers and specifies the place, date, subject (when applicable), and Providence eight months prior to the scheduled date of the meeting. the speakers; a second announcement will be published only if there The complete listing of the Mathematics Calendar will be published are changes or necessary additional information. Once an announcement only in the September issue of the Notices. The March, June/July, and has appeared, the event will be briefly noted in every third issue until December issues will include, along with new announcements, references it has been held and a reference will be given in parentheses to the to any previously announced meetings and conferences occurring within month, year, and page of the issue in which the complete information the twelve-month period following the month of those issues. New appeared. 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In any case, if there is any application deadline with ams.org/. 66 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 53, NUMBER 1 Mathematics Calendar Minicourses:By Persi Diaconis (Stanford), Alexander Gamburd Confirmed Speakers:Aart Blokhuis (Eindhoven Univ. of Tech- (Princeton), Gregory Lawler (Cornell), Christophe Pittet (Marseille). nology, Netherlands), Andries E. Brouwer (Eindhoven Univ. of Organizers:V. A. Kaimanovich (Bremen), K. Schmidt (Vienna), W. Technology, Netherlands), Jeff Dinitz (Univ. of Vermont, USA), Woess (Graz). Willem H. Haemers (Tilburg Univ., Netherlands), Brendan Mckay Information: http://www.math.tugraz.at/mathc/esi2006/. (Australian National Univ., Australia), Patric Ostergard¨ (Helsinki Univ. of Technology, Finland), Qing Xiang (Univ. of Delaware, USA). * 27–31 Spectral Theory and Mathematical Physics, A Conference Information: http://www.ipm.ac.ir/combinatoricsII/ in Honor ofBarry Simon’s 60th Birthday , California Institute of deadline.htm. Technology, Pasadena, California. Aim:The conference aims to bring together scholars from around * 30–May 5 Conference on Topology, Geometry and Physics, the world for fruitful scientific exchange in a broad range of Columbia University, New York, New York. areas reflecting Barry Simon’s scientific interests over the years in Description:The conference will be in honor of John Morgan’s Mathematical Physics and Analysis. 60th Birthday. It will take place from May 1-4. It will be preceded by Confirmed Speakers:Michael Aizenman (Princeton), Yosi Avron an intensive workshop on gauge theory, symplectic geometry and (Technion, Haifa), Alexei Borodin (Caltech, Pasadena), Jean Bourgain related topics on April 30th, and will conclude with an intensive (IAS, Princeton), David Damanik (Caltech, Pasadena), E. Brian Davies workshop on geometrization and hyperbolic geometry on May 5th. (King’s College, London), Percy Deift (Courant Institute, New York), Organizers:Robert Friedman, David Gabai, Peter Ozsv ´ath, Andr´as Laszlo Erdos¨ (Univ. Munich), Richard Froese (UBC, Vancouver), Jurg¨ Stipsicz, Zolt´an Szabo.´ Frohlich¨ (ETH-Zu¨rich), Christian Gerard (Univ. Paris Sud, Orsay), Information:More information will be posted on the conference Leonid Golinskii (ILT, Kharkov), Gian Michele Graf (ETH-Zurich),¨ home page as it becomes available: http://www.math.columbia. George Hagedorn (Virginia Tech, Blacksburg), Evans Harrell (Georgia edu/~petero/MorganConference.html. Tech, Atlanta), Ira Herbst (Univ. Virginia, Charlottesville), Dirk Hundertmark (U.Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Vojkan Jaksic (McGill May 2006 U., Montreal), Svetlana Jitomirskaya (UC Irvine), Sergey Khrushchev (Atilim U., Ankara), Rowan Killip (UCLA), Alexander Kiselev (Univ. * 14–20 International Symposium on Functional Equations,Uni- Wisconsin, Madison), Yoram Last (Hebrew U., Jerusalem), Peter Perry versity of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky. (Univ. Kentucky, Lexington), William Reinhardt (Univ. Washington, Topics:Functional equations and inequalities, mean values, func- Seattle), Lon Rosen (UBC, Vancouver), Wilhelm Schlag (Caltech, tional equations on algebraic structures, Hyers-Ulam stability, Pasadena), Terence Tao (UCLA), Vilmos Totik (Univ. South Florida, regularity properties of solutions, conditional functional equa- Tampa; Univ. Szeged). tions, iteration theory; applications of the above, in particular to Topics:The conference is organized around a topic of the day the natural, social, and behavioral sciences. with reviews of some of Barry Simon’s work and typically sev- Local Organizers:T. Riedel ( [email protected]) eral reviews on the state of the art of various aspects of the andP.K.Sahoo([email protected]), University of Louisville, principal subject on each day. The topics are distributed