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 http://www.ams.org/meetings/. Programs and abstracts will continue to be displayed on the AMS website in the Meetings and Conferences section until about three weeks after the meeting is over. Final programs for Sectional Meetings will be archived on the AMS website in an electronic issue of the Notices as noted below for each meeting. Special Sessions Nashville, Tennessee Algebraic Geometry and Commutative Algebra, Juan C. Vanderbilt University Migliore, University of Notre Dame, and Uwe Nagel, Uni- versity of Kentucky. October 16–17, 2004 Biomathematics, Laurent Pujo-Menjouet and Glenn F. Saturday–Sunday Webb, Vanderbilt University. Geometry of Hyperbolic Manifolds, John G. Ratcliffe and Meeting #999 Steven T. Tschantz, Vanderbilt University. Southeastern Section Graph Theory and Matroid Theory, Mark N. Ellingham and Associate secretary: John L. Bryant Michael D. Plummer, Vanderbilt University. Announcement issue of Notices: August 2004 Index Theory and the Topology of Manifolds, Bruce Hughes Program first available on AMS website: September 2, 2004 and Guoliang Yu, Vanderbilt University. Program issue of electronic Notices: October 2004 Issue of Abstracts: Volume 25, Issue 4 Inverse Problems, Maeve L. McCarthy, Murray State Uni- versity, and Rudi Weikard, University of Alabama at Birm- Deadlines ingham. For organizers: Expired Local and Homological Algebra, Florian Enescu, University For consideration of contributed papers in Special Sessions: of Utah, and Adela N. Vraciu, University of South Carolina. Expired Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Applications, For abstracts: Expired Gieri Simonett, Vanderbilt University. Invited Addresses Operator Theory on Function Spaces, Dechao Zheng, Van- derbilt University. Ruth M. Charney, Brandeis University, Artin groups, map- Semigroup Theory, Matthew I. Gould, Vanderbilt Univer- pling class groups, and automorphism groups. sity, and Karen Ann Linton, California State Polytechnic Peter S. Ozsvath, Columbia University, Holomorphic disks University, Pomona. and low-dimensional topology. Topological Aspects of Group Theory, Michael L. Mihalik Sorin T. Popa, University of California Los Angeles, De- and Mark V. Sapir, Vanderbilt University. formation, rigidity, and the classification of II1 factors. Universal Algebra and Lattice Theory, Ralph N. McKenzie, Rudi Weikard, University of Alabama at Birmingham, In- Vanderbilt University, and George F. McNulty, University verse problems for Sturm-Liouville equations. of South Carolina. OCTOBER 2004 NOTICES OF THE AMS 1127 Meetings & Conferences Von Neumann Algebras and Noncommutative Ergodic The- Zbigniew Oziewicz, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de ory, Dietmar Bisch, Vanderbilt University, and Sorin T. México. Popa, University of California Los Angeles. Financial Mathematics: The Mathematics of Derivative Se- Wavelets, Frames, and Sampling, Akram Aldroubi and curities, Maria Cristina Mariani, New Mexico State Uni- Douglas P. Hardin, Vanderbilt University, and Qiyu Sun, versity, and Osvaldo Mendez, University of Texas at El Paso. University of Central Florida. Interactions in Riemannian Geometry, Charles P. Boyer and Krzysztof Galicki, University of New Mexico. Albuquerque, New Mathematical Methods in Turbulence, Monika Nitsche and Vachtang Poutkaradze, University of New Mexico. Mexico Mathematics for Secondary Teachers: Curriculum and As- University of New Mexico sessment, Adriana Aceves and Kristin Umland, University of New Mexico. October 16–17, 2004 Multiscale Methods and Sampling in Time-Frequency Analy- Saturday–Sunday sis, Jeffrey Andrew Hogan, University of Arkansas, and Joseph D. Lakey, New Mexico State University. Meeting #1000 Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations Applied to Mate- Western Section rials Science, Patricia Bauman, Purdue University, and Associate secretary: Michel L. Lapidus Tiziana Giorgi, New Mexico State University. Announcement issue of Notices: August 2004 Program first available on AMS website: September 3, 2004 Probabilistic and Geometric Methods in Learning Theory, Program issue of electronic Notices: October 2004 Vladimir Koltchinskii, University of New Mexico. Issue of Abstracts: Volume 25, Issue 4 Random Matrix Theory and Growth Processes, Craig A. Deadlines Tracy, University of California Davis. For organizers: Expired Regularity in PDEs and Harmonic Analysis, Marianne Kor- For consideration of contributed papers in Special Sessions: ten and Charles Nelson Moore, Kansas State University, Expired and Maria C. Pereyra, University of New Mexico. For abstracts: Expired Several Complex Variables and CR Geometry, Peter Eben- Invited Addresses felt, University of California San Diego, and Marshall A. Whittlesey, California State University, San Marcos. Sara C. Billey, University of Washington, Seattle, A com- binatorial approach to solving Schubert problems on the Spectral Geometry, Ivan G. Avramidi, New Mexico Insti- flag manifold. tute of Mining and Technology, and Thomas Patrick Bran- son, University of Iowa. Peter Ebenfelt, University of California San Diego, Analytic and geometric properties of CR manifolds and their map- pings. Theodore Stanford, New Mexico State University, Knots Evanston, Illinois modulo braids. Northwestern University Craig A. Tracy, University of California Davis, The uni- versality of the distribution functions of random matrix the- October 23–24, 2004 ory. Saturday–Sunday Special Sessions Meeting #1001 Algebraic Geometry, Hirotachi Abo and Chris Peterson, Central Section Colorado State University. Associate secretary: Susan J. Friedlander Analysis and Geometry in Carnot-Caratheodory Spaces, Announcement issue of Notices: August 2004 Luca Capogna, University of Arkansas, and Robert Smits, Program first available on AMS website: September 9, 2004 New Mexico State University. Program issue of electronic Notices: October 2004 Arithmetic Geometry, Alexandru Buium and Michael J. Issue of Abstracts: Volume 25, Issue 4 Nakamaye, University of New Mexico. Braids and Knots, Theodore Stanford, New Mexico State Deadlines University. For organizers: Expired Categories and Operads in Topology, Geometry, Physics, and For consideration of contributed papers in Special Sessions: Other Applications, Hanna Ewa Makaruk and Robert Expired Michal Owczarek, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and For abstracts: Expired 1128 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 51, NUMBER 9 Meetings & Conferences Invited Addresses Mathematical Techniques in Musical Analysis, Judith Bax- ter, University of Illinois at Chicago, Richard Cohn, Uni- Ian Agol, University of Illinois at Chicago, Title to be an- versity of Chicago, and Robert Peck, Louisiana State Uni- nounced. versity. Robert W. Ghrist, University of Illinois at Urbana-Cham- Modern Schubert Calculus, Ezra Miller, University of Min- paign, Title to be announced. nesota, and Frank Sottile, University of Massachusetts. Yuri Manin, Northwestern University, Title to be announced. Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Applications, Paul Seidel, Imperial College-London and University of Gui-Qiang Chen, Northwestern University, and Mikhail Chicago, Title to be announced. Feldman, University of Wisconsin at Madison. Special Sessions Nonlinear Waves, Jerry L. Bona, University of Illinois at Chicago, Shuming Sun, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and Algebraic Representations and Deformations, Stephen R. State University, and Bingyu Zhang, University of Cincin- Doty and Anthony Giaquinto, Loyola University of Chicago. nati. Algebraic Topology: Interactions with Representation The- Representation Theory of Reductive Groups, Jeffrey D. ory and Algebraic Geometry, Paul G. Goerss, Northwest- Adler, University of Akron, and Ju-Lee Kim, University of ern University, Jesper Kragh Grodal, University of Chicago, Illinois at Chicago. and Brooke E. Shipley, University of Illinois at Chicago. Solving Polynomial Systems, Anton Leykin and Jan Ver- Applications of Motives, Eric M. Friedlander, Northwestern schelde, University of Illinois at Chicago. University, Alexander Goncharov, Brown University, Special Functions, Orthogonal Polynomials, and their Ap- Mikhail Kapranov, Yale University, and Yuri Manin, Max plications, George Gasper, Northwestern University, and Planck Institute for Mathematics. Ahmed I. Zayed, DePaul University. Codes and Applications, William C. Huffman, Loyola Uni- Spectral Problems of Differential Operators, Qingkai Kong, versity of Chicago, and Vera S. Pless, University of Illinois Hongyou Wu, and Anton Zettl, Northern Illinois Univer- at Chicago. sity. Computability Theory and Applications, Robert I. Soare and Stability Issues in Fluid Dynamics, Susan J. Friedlander and Denis R. Hirschfeldt, University of Chicago. Roman Shvydkoy, University of Illinois at Chicago. Differential Geometry, Anders Ingemar Linner and Hongyou Wu, Northern Illinois University. Extremal Combinatorics, Dhruv Mubayi and Yi Zhao, Uni- Pittsburgh, versity of Illinois at Chicago. Fluid Dynamics, Diffusion and Reaction, Peter S. Con- Pennsylvania stantin and Leonid V. Ryzhik, University of Chicago. University of Pittsburgh Geometric Aspects of the Langlands Program, Edward Frenkel, University of California Berkeley, Dennis Gaits- November 6–7, 2004 gory, University of Chicago,