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Meetings & Conferences of The 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/. Final programs for Sectional Meetings will be archived on the AMS website accessible from the stated URL and in an electronic issue of the Notices as noted below for each meeting. Tamar Zeigler, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Tel Aviv, Israel Patterns in primes and dynamics on nilmanifolds. Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan and Special Sessions Tel-Aviv University, Ramat-Aviv Additive Number Theory, Melvyn B. Nathanson, City University of New York, and Yonutz V. Stanchescu, Afeka June 16–19, 2014 Tel Aviv Academic College of Engineering. Monday – Thursday Algebraic Groups, Division Algebras and Galois Co- homology, Andrei Rapinchuk, University of Virginia, and Meeting #1101 Louis H. Rowen and Uzi Vishne, Bar Ilan University. The Second Joint International Meeting between the AMS Applications of Algebra to Cryptography, David Garber, and the Israel Mathematical Union. Holon Institute of Technology, and Delaram Kahrobaei, Associate secretary: Michel L. Lapidus City University of New York Graduate Center. Announcement issue of Notices: January 2014 Asymptotic Geometric Analysis, Shiri Artstein and Boaz Program first available on AMS website: To be announced Klar’tag, Tel Aviv University, and Sasha Sodin, Princeton Program issue of electronic Notices: To be announced University. Issue of Abstracts: Not applicable Combinatorial Games, Aviezri Fraenkel, Weizmann University, Richard Nowakowski, Dalhousie University, Deadlines Canada, Thane Plambeck, Counterwave Inc., and Aaron For organizers: To be announced Siegel, Twitter. For abstracts: To be announced Combinatorics, Gil Kalai, Hebrew University of Jeru- salem. The scientific information listed below may be dated. Dynamics and Number Theory, Alex Kontorovich, Yale For the latest information, see www.ams.org/amsmtgs/ University. internmtgs.html. Field Arithmetic, David Harbater, University of Penn- sylvania, and Moshe Jarden, Tel Aviv University. Invited Addresses Financial Mathematics, Jean-Pierre Fouque, University Ian Agol, University of California, Berkeley, 3-manifolds of California, and Eli Merzbach and Malka Schaps, Bar and cube complexes. Ilan University. Gil Kalai, Hebrew University, Influence, thresholds, and Geometric Group Theory and Low-Dimensional Topol- noise sensitivity. ogy, Ian Agol, University of California, Berkeley, and Zlil Michael Larsen, Indiana University, Borel’s theorem on Sela, Hebrew University. word maps and some recent variants. Geometry and Dynamics, Yaron Ostrover, Tel Aviv Andrei Okounkov, Columbia University, The M-theory University. index. History of Mathematics, Leo Corry, Tel Aviv University, Leonid Polterovich, Tel-Aviv University, Symplectic Michael N. Fried, Ben Gurion University, and Victor Katz, topology: From dynamics to quantization. University of the District of Columbia. 678 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 61, NUMBER 6 Meetings & Conferences Mirror Symmetry and Representation Theory, Roman Dylan Thurston, Indiana University, To be announced. Bezrukavnikov, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and David Kazhdan, Hebrew University. Special Sessions Nonlinear Analysis and Optimization, Boris Morduk- If you are volunteering to speak in a Special Session, you hovich, Wayne State University, and Simeon Reich and should send your abstract as early as possible via the ab- Alexander Zaslavski, Technion Israel Institute of Tech- stract submission form found at http://www.ams.org/ nology. cgi-bin/abstracts/abstract.pl. PDEs: Modeling Theory and Numerics, Edriss S. Titi, University of California, Irvine. Algebraic Combinatorics, Pavlo Pylyavskyy, Victor Qualitative and Analytic Theory of ODE’s, Andrei Gabri- Reiner, and Dennis Stanton, University of Minnesota. elov, Purdue University, and Yossef Yomdin, Weizmann Algorithms in Algebraic Geometry, Adriana Salerno, Institute of Science. Bates College, and Ursula Whitcher, University of Wis- Quasigroups, Loops and Applications, Tuval Foguel, consin-Eau Claire. Western Carolina University. Analysis and Geometry on Lie Groups, Chal Benson and Random Matrix Theory, Brendan Farrell, California In- Gail Ratcliff, East Carolina University. stitute of Technology, Mark Rudelson, University of Michi- Cohomology and Representation Theory of Groups gan, and Ofer Zeitouni, Weizmann Institute of Science. and Related Structures, Christopher Bendel, University Recent Trends in History and Philosophy of Mathemat- of Wisconsin-Stout, and Christopher Drupieski, De Paul ics, Misha Katz, Bar Ilan University, and David Sherry, Northern Arizona University. University. Teaching with Mathematical Habits in Mind, Theodore Commutative Ring Theory, Michael Axtell, University Eisenberg, Ben Gurion University, Davida Fishman, of St. Thomas, and Joe Stickles, Millikin University. California State University, San Bernardino, and Jennifer Directions in Commutative Algebra: Past, Present and Lewis, Wayne State University. Future, Joseph P. Brennan, University of Central Florida, The Mathematics of Menahem M. Schiffer, Peter L. and Robert M. Fossum, University of Illinois at Urbana- Duren, University of Michigan, and Lawrence Zalcman, Champaign. Bar Ilan University. Graph and Hypergraph Theory, Sergei Bezrukov, Uni- Topological Graph Theory and Map Symmetries, Jona- versity of Wisconsin-Superior, Dalibor Froncek, University than Gross, Columbia University, and Toufik Mansour, of Minnesota Duluth, and Xiaofeng Gu, Uwe Leck, and University of Haifa. Steven Rosenberg, University of Wisconsin-Superior. Knot Concordance and 4-Manifolds, Christopher W. Davis, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Taylor Martin, Eau Claire, Wisconsin Sam Houston State University, and Carolyn Otto, Univer- sity of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Lie Algebras and Representation Theory, Michael Lau, Université Laval, Ian Musson, University of Wisconsin- September 20–21, 2014 Milwaukee, and Matthew Ondrus, Weber State University. Saturday – Sunday New Trends in Toric Varieties, Christine Berkesch Za- maere, University of Minnesota, Daniel Erman, University Meeting #1102 of Wisconsin-Madison, and Hal Schenck, University of Central Section Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Associate secretary: Georgia Benkart Number Theory, Colleen Duffy, University of Wisconsin- Announcement issue of Notices: June 2014 Eau Claire, and Rafe Jones, Carleton College. Program first available on AMS website: August 7, 2014 Patterns in Permutations and Words, and Applications, Program issue of electronic Notices: September 2014 Manda Riehl, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, and Alex Issue of Abstracts: Volume 35, Issue 3 Woo, University of Idaho. Deadlines Problem Solving in Extremal Combinatorics and Com- For organizers: Expired binatorial Geometry, Jeremy Alm, Illinois College, and For abstracts: July 29, 2014 Jacob Manske, Epic. Random Spaces, Matthew Kahle, Ohio State University, The scientific information listed below may be dated. and Dylan Thurston, Indiana University. For the latest information, see www.ams.org/amsmtgs/ The Mathematical Education of Future K-12 Teach- sectional.html. ers, Charles Bingen and Ryan Harrison, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. Invited Addresses Wavelets, Frames, and Time-Frequency Analysis, Patrick Matthew Kahle, Ohio State University, To be announced. Van Fleet, University of St. Thomas, and James S. Walker, Markus Keel, University of Minnesota, To be announced. University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. Svitlana Mayboroda, University of Minnesota, To be von Neumann Algebras and Related Fields, Stephen announced. Avsec and Ken Dykema, Texas A&M University. JUNE/JULY 2014 NOTICES OF THE AMS 679 Meetings & Conferences General Relativity (Code: SS 12A), Jack Gegenberg, Halifax, Canada University of New Brunswick. Generalized Catalan Algebraic Combinatorics (Code: Dalhousie University SS 9A), François Bergeron and Franco Saliola, Université du Québec á Montréal, Hugh Thomas, University of New October 18–19, 2014 Brunswick, and Nathan Williams, Université du Québec Saturday – Sunday á Montréal. Hopf Algebras (Code: SS 11A), Margaret Beattie, Mount Meeting #1103 Allison University, and Mitja Mastnak, Saint Mary’s Uni- Eastern Section versity. Associate secretary: Steven H. Weintraub New Directions in Category Theory (Code: SS 5A), Pi- Announcement issue of Notices: August 2014 eter Hofstra, University of Ottawa, and Dorette Pronk, Program first available on AMS website: September 5, 2014 Dalhousie University. Program issue of electronic Notices: October 2014 p-adic Methods in Arithmetic (Code: SS 1A), Henri Issue of Abstracts: Volume 35, Issue 3 Darmon, McGill University, Adrian Iovita, Concordia University, and Sujatha Ramdorai, University of British Deadlines Columbia. For organizers: Expired Sampling Theory (Code: SS 4A), John J. Benedetto, Uni- For abstracts: August 19, 2014 versity of Maryland, Jean-Pierre Gabardo, McMaster Uni- versity, and Ozgur Yilmaz, University of British Columbia. The scientific information listed below may be dated. Special Functions and Their Applications. (Code: SS 3A), For the latest information, see www.ams.org/amsmtgs/ Mourad E. H. Ismail, University of Central Florida, and sectional.html. Nasser Saad, University of Prince Edward Island. Invited Addresses
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