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. Niky Kamran, McGill University, Wave equations in Kerr Montréal, Quebec geometry. Rafael de la Llave, University of Texas at Austin, Title to Canada be announced. Centre de Recherches Mathématiques, Special Sessions Université de Montréal Asymptotics for Random Matrix Models and Their Appli- cations, Nicholas M. Ercolani, University of Arizona, and May 3–5, 2002 Kenneth T.-R. McLaughlin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and University of Arizona. Meeting #976 Combinatorial Hopf Algebras, Marcelo Aguiar, Texas A&M Eastern Section University, and François Bergeron and Christophe Associate secretary: Lesley M. Sibner Reutenauer, Université du Québec á Montréal. Announcement issue of Notices: March 2002 Combinatorial and Geometric Group Theory, Olga G. Khar- Program first available on AMS website: March 21, 2002 lampovich, McGill University, Alexei Myasnikov and Program issue of electronic Notices: May 2002 Vladimir Shpilrain, City College, New York, and Daniel Issue of Abstracts: Volume 23, Issue 3 Wise, McGill University. Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, Irena Deadlines Peeva, Cornell University, and Hema Srinivasan, Univer- For organizers: Expired sity of Missouri-Columbia. For consideration of contributed papers in Special Sessions: Curvature and Topology, Regina Rotman, Courant Insti- Expired tute, New York University, Christina Sormani, Lehman For abstracts: Expired College, CUNY, and Kristopher R. Tapp, SUNY at Stony Brook. Invited Addresses Function Spaces in Harmonic Analysis and PDEs, Galia D. Nicholas M. Ercolani, University of Arizona, Title to be an- Dafni and Jie Xiao, Concordia University. nounced. Potential Theory, Paul M. Gauthier, Université de Mon- Lars Hesselholt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, tréal, K. Gowri Sankaran, McGill University, and David H. Title to be announced. Singman, George Mason University. 632 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 49 NUMBER 5 Meetings & Conferences Shape Theory in Dynamics, Alex Clark, University of North Algebraic Vector Bundles, Vincenzo Ancona, University of Texas, and Krystyna M. Kuperberg, Auburn University. Firenze, Mohan Kumar, Washington University, Giorgio Spectral Geometry, Dmitry Jakobson, McGill University, and Maria Ottaviani, University of Firenze, Christopher Yiannis Petridis, McGill University and Centre de Peterson, Colorado State University, and Prabhakar Rao, Recherches Mathématiques. University of Missouri. Analytic Aspects of Convex Geometry, Stefano Campi, Uni- versity of Modena, Richard Gardner, Western Washington Pisa, Italy University, Erwin Lutwak, Polytechnic University Brook- lyn, and Alijosa Volcic, University of Trieste. June 12–16, 2002 Classification Theory and Topology of Algebraic Varieties, Fabrizio Catanese, University of Gottingen, Janos Kollar, Meeting #977 Princeton University, and Shing-Tung Yau, Harvard Uni- First Joint International Meeting between the AMS and the versity. Unione Matematica Italiana. Commutative Algebra and the Geometry of Projective Va- Associate secretary: Lesley M. Sibner rieties, Ciro Ciliberto, University of Roma II, Anthony Announcement issue of Notices: March 2002 Geramita, University of Genova, Rick Miranda, Colorado Program first available on AMS website: Not applicable Program issue of electronic Notices: Not applicable State University, and Ferruccio Orecchia, University of Issue of Abstracts: Not applicable Napoli. Commutative Algebra: Hilbert Functions, Homological Meth- Deadlines ods and Combinatorial Aspects, Aldo Conca, University of For organizers: Expired Genova, Anna Guerrieri, University of L’Aquila, Claudia For consideration of contributed papers in Special Sessions: Polini, University of Oregon, and Bernd Ulrich, Michigan Expired State University. For abstracts: Expired Commutative Rings and Integer-valued Polynomials, Ste- fania Gabelli, University of Roma III, and Thomas G. Lucas, Invited Addresses University of North Carolina Charlotte. Luigi Ambrosio, Scuola Normale Superiore, Title to be an- Complex, Contact and Quaternionic Geometry, David E. nounced. Blair, Michigan State University, and Stefano Marchiafava, Luis A. Caffarelli, University of Texas at Austin, Title to University of Roma, La Sapienza. be announced. Contemporary Developments in Partial Differential Equa- Claudio Canuto, Politecnico of Torino, Title to be an- tions and in the Calculus of Variations, Irene Fonseca, nounced. Carnegie Mellon University, and Paolo Marcellini, Univer- L. Craig Evans, University of California Berkeley, Title to sity of Firenze. be announced. Didattica della Dimostrazione, Ferdinando Arzarello, Uni- Giovanni Gallavotti, University of Rome I, Title to be an- versity of Torino, Guershon Harel, Purdue University, and nounced. Vinicio Villani, University of Pisa. Sergiu Klainerman, Princeton University, Title to be an- Dynamical Systems, Antonio Giorgilli, University of Milano- nounced. Bicocca, Stefano Marmi, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, and John Norman Mather, Princeton University. Rahul V. Pandharipande, California Institute of Technol- ogy, Title to be announced. Elliptic Partial Differential Equations, Angelo Alvino, Uni- versity of Napoli, Luis Caffarelli, University of Texas, Gior- Claudio Procesi, University of Roma, Title to be announced. gio Talenti, University of Firenze, and Vladimir Oliker, Special Sessions Emory University. Advances in Complex, Contact and Symplectic Geometry, Equazioni di Evoluzione Nonlineari, Alberto Tesei, Uni- Paolo De Bartolomeis, University of Firenze, Yakov Eliash- versity of Roma, La Sapienza, and Wei-Ming Ni, University berg, Stanford University, Gang Tian, MIT, and Giuseppe of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Tomassini, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa. Free Boundary Problems, Ricardo Horacio Nochetto, Uni- Advances in Differential Geometry of PDEs and Applications, versity of Maryland, College Park, and Augusto Visintin, Valentin Lychagin, New Jersey Institute of Technology, and University of Trento. Agostino Prastaro, University of Roma, La Sapienza. Geometric Properties of Solutions to PDEs, Donatella Algebraic Logic and Universal Algebra, Paolo Agliano, Danielli, Purdue University, and Sandro Salsa, Politecnico University of Siena, Keith A. Kearnes, University of Col- of Milano. orado, Franco Montagna, University of Siena, Don Pigozzi, Harmonic Analysis, Fulvio Ricci, Scuola Normale Superi- Iowa State University, and Aldo Ursini, University of Siena. ore, Pisa, and Elias M. Stein, Princeton University. MAY 2002 NOTICES OF THE AMS 633 Meetings & Conferences Higher Dimensional Algebra, John Baez, University of Partial Differential Equations of Mixed Elliptic-Hyperbolic California, Riverside, and Giuseppe Rosolini, Univer- Type and Applications, Daniela Lupo, Politecnico of Milano, sity of Genova. Cathleen S. Morawetz, Courant Institute, and Kevin R. History of Mathematics, Piers Bursil-Hall, Cambridge Uni- Payne, University of Milano. versity, Enrico Giusti, University of Firenze, and James J. Periodic Solutions of Differential and Difference Equations, Tattersall, Providence College. Massimo Furi, University of Firenze, and Mario Umberto Hyperbolic Equations, Sergiu Klainerman, Princeton Uni- Martelli, Claremont McKenna College. versity, and Sergio Spagnolo, University of Pisa. Poisson Geometry and Integrable Systems, Franco Magri, Hyperbolic Systems of Conservation Laws, Alberto Bressan, University of Milano, and Ping Xu, Pennsylvania State Uni- SISSA, Trieste, and Shi Jin, University of Wisconsin. versity. Inverse Boundary Problems and Applications, Giovanni Quantum Cohomology and Moduli Spaces, Angelo Vistoli, Alessandrini, University of Trieste, and Gunther Uhlmann, University of Bologna, and Aaron Bertram, University of University of Washington. Utah. Jump Processes in Option Pricing Theory, Claudio Albanese, Scaling Limits and Homogenization Problems in Physics University of Toronto, and Marco Isopi, University of Bari. and Applied Sciences, Mario Pulvirenti, University of Roma, Kolmogorov Equations, Giuseppe Da Prato, Scuola Normale and George Papanicolaou, Stanford University. Superiore, Pisa, and Nicolai V. Krylov, University of Min- Semigroups of Operators and Applications, Francesco Al- nesota. tomare, University of Bari, and Frank Neubrander, Logarithmic De Rham Cohomology and Dwork Cohomol- Louisiana State University. ogy, Alan Adolphson, Oklahoma State University, Still- Semigroups, Automata and Formal Languages, Alessandra water, Francesco Baldassarri, University of Padova, Arthur Cherubini, Politecnico of Milano, and John Meakin, Uni- Ogus, University of California Berkeley, and Steven Sper- versity of Nebraska-Lincoln. ber, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Some Mathematics Around Composites, Robert V. Kohn, Mathematical Problems in Soft Matter Modelling, Eugene Courant Institute, and Vincenzo Nesi, University of Roma, C. Gartland, Kent State University, and Epifanio Virga,