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.

Ralph McKenzie, Vanderbilt University, A perspective Louisville, Kentucky on fifty years of work, delight and discovery in general algebra. University of Louisville Victor Moll, Tulane University, 2-adic valuations of classical sequences: A collection of examples. October 5–6, 2013 Saturday – Sunday Special Sessions Algebraic Coding Theory, Steve Szabo, Eastern Ken- Meeting #1092 tucky University, and Heide Gluesing-Luerssen, University Southeastern Section of Kentucky. Associate secretary: Brian D. Boe Algebraic Cryptography, Daniel Smith, University of Announcement issue of Notices: June/July 2013 Louisville. Program first available on AMS website: August 22, 2013 Applied Analysis and Inverse Problems, Peijun Li, Program issue of electronic Notices: October 2013 Purdue University, Jiguang Sun, Michigan Technological Issue of Abstracts: Volume 34, Issue 3 University, and Yongzhi Steve Xu, University of Louisville. Combinatorial Commutative Algebra, Juan Migliore, Deadlines University of Notre Dame, and Uwe Nagel, University of For organizers: Expired Kentucky. For abstracts: Expired Commutative Rings, Ideals, and Modules, Ela Celikbas and Olgur Celikbas, University of Missouri-Columbia. The scientific information listed below may be dated. Extremal Graph Theory, Jozsef Balogh, University of For the latest information, see www.ams.org/amsmtgs/ Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Louis DeBiasio and sectional.html. Tao Jiang, Miami University, Oxford, OH. Finite Universal Algebra, Ralph McKenzie, Vanderbilt Invited Addresses University, and Matthew Valeriote, McMaster University. Michael Hill, University of Virginia, Framed manifolds Fixed Point Theorems and Applications to Integral, and equivariant homotopy: A solution to the Kervaire In- Difference, and Differential Equations, Jeffrey W. Lyons, variant One problem. Nova Southeastern University, and Jeffrey T. Neugebauer, Suzanne Lenhart, University of Tennessee and NIMBioS, Eastern Kentucky University. Using optimal control of PDEs to investigate population Harmonic Analysis and Partial Differential Equations, questions. Russell Brown and Katharine Ott, University of Kentucky.

September 2013 Notices of the AMS 1123 Meetings & Conferences

History of Mathematics and Its Use in Teaching, Daniel The scientific information listed below may be dated. J. Curtin, Northern Kentucky University, and Daniel E. For the latest information, see www.ams.org/amsmtgs/ Otero, Xavier University. sectional.html. Homogenization of Partial Differential Equations, Zhongwei Shen, University of Kentucky, and Yifeng Yu, Invited Addresses University of California, Irvine. Patrick Gerald Brosnan, University of Maryland, Nor- Mathematical Analysis of Complex Fluids and Flows, mal functions. Xiang Xu, Carnegie Mellon University, and Changyou Xiaojun Huang, Rutgers University at New Brunswick, Wang, University of Kentucky. Equivalence problems in several complex variables. Mathematical Issues in Ecological and Epidemiological Barry Mazur, Harvard University, Arithmetic statistics: Modeling, K. Renee Fister, Murray State University, and Elliptic curves and other mathematical objects (Erdo˝s Me- Suzanne Lenhart, University of Tennessee. morial Lecture). Mathematical Models in Biology and Physiology, Yun Robert Strain, University of Pennsylvania, On the Kang, Arizona State University, and Jiaxu Li, University Boltzmann equation without angular cut-off. of Louisville. Partial Differential Equations from Fluid Mechanics, Special Sessions Changbing Hu, University of Louisville, and Florentina Analysis and Computing for Electromagnetic Waves Tone, University of West Florida. (Code: SS 10A), David Ambrose and Shari Moskow, Drexel Partially Ordered Sets, Csaba Biro and Stephen J. University. Young, University of Louisville. Combinatorial Commutative Algebra (Code: SS 12A), Recent Advances on Commutative Algebra and Its Ap- Tái Huy Há, Tulane University, and Fabrizio Zanello, plications, Hamid Kulosman and Jinjia Li, University of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Michigan Louisville, and Hamid Rahmati, Miami University. Technological University. Set Theory and Its Applications, Paul Larson, Miami Contact and Symplectic Topology (Code: SS 5A), Joshua University, Justin Moore, Cornell University, and Grigor M. Sabloff, Haverford College, and Lisa Traynor, Bryn Sargsyan, Rutgers University. Mawr College. Spreading Speeds and Traveling Waves in Spatial- Difference Equations and Applications (Code: SS 9A), Temporal Evolution Systems, Bingtuan Li, University of Michael Radin, Rochester Polytechnic Institute, and Faina Louisville, and Roger Lui, Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Berezovskaya, Howard University. The Work of Mathematicians and Mathematics Depart- Geometric Aspects of Topology and Group Theory ments in Mathematics Education, Benjamin Braun, Carl (Code: SS 17A), David Futer, Temple University, and Ben Lee, and David Royster, University of Kentucky. McReynolds, Purdue University. Topological Dynamics and Ergodic Theory, Alica Miller, University of Louisville, and Joe Rosenblatt, University of Geometric Topology of Knots and 3-manifolds (Code: SS Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 16A), Abhijit Champanerkar, Ilya Kofman, and Joseph Weak Convergence in Probability and Statistics, Cristina Maher, College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center, Tone, Ryan Gill, and Kiseop Lee, University of Louisville. City University of New York. Geometric and Spectral Analysis (Code: SS 3A), Thomas Krainer, Pennsylvania State Altoona, and Gerardo A. Men- doza, Temple University. Philadelphia, Higher Structures in Algebra, Geometry and Physics (Code: SS 2A), Jonathan Block, University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Vasily Dolgushev, Temple University, and Tony Pantev, Temple University University of Pennsylvania. History of Mathematics in America (Code: SS 4A), October 12–13, 2013 Thomas L. Bartlow, Villanova University, Paul R. Wolfson, Saturday – Sunday West Chester University, and David E. Zitarelli, Temple University. Meeting #1093 Mathematical Biology (Code: SS 8A), Isaac Klapper, Eastern Section Temple University, and Kathleen Hoffman, University of Associate secretary: Steven H. Weintraub Maryland, Baltimore County. Announcement issue of Notices: June/July 2013 Meshfree, Particle, and Characteristic Methods for Par- Program first available on AMS website: August 29, 2013 tial Differential Equations (Code: SS 21A), Toby Driscoll Program issue of electronic Notices: October 2013 and Louis Rossi, University of Delaware, and Benjamin Issue of Abstracts: Volume 34, Issue 3 Seibold, Temple University. Modular Forms and Modular Integrals in Memory of Deadlines Marvin Knopp (Code: SS 20A), Helen Grundman, Bryn For organizers: Expired Mawr College, and Wladimir Pribitkin, College of Staten Is- For abstracts: August 20, 2013 land and the Graduate Center, City University of New York.

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Multiple Analogues of Combinatorial Special Numbers Effie Kalfagianni, Michigan State University, Title to be and Associated Identities (Code: SS 11A), Hasan Coskun, announced. Texas A&M University Commerce. Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University, Title to be announced. Nonlinear Elliptic and Wave Equations and Applications Vladimir Sverak, University of Minnesota, Title to be (Code: SS 15A), Nsoki Mavinga, Swarthmore College, and announced. Doug Wright, Drexel University. Parabolic Evolution Equations of Geometric Type (Code: Special Sessions SS 18A), Xiaodong Cao, Cornell University, Longzhi Lin, Advances in Difference, Differential, and Dynamic Rutgers University, and Peng Wu, Cornell University. Equations with Applications (Code: SS 12A), Elvan Akin, Partial Differential Equations, Stochastic Analysis, and Missouri S&T University, Youssef Raffoul, University of Applications to Mathematical Finance (Code: SS 14A), Paul Dayton, and Agacik Zafer, American University of the Feehan and Ruoting Gong, Rutgers University, and Cam- Middle East. elia Pop, University of Pennsylvania. Advances in Mathematical Methods for Disease Modeling Recent Advances in Harmonic Analysis and Partial Dif- (Code: SS 21A), Jimin Ding, Washington University in St. ferential Equations (Code: SS 1A), Cristian Gutiérrez and Louis, Necibe Tuncer, University of Tulsa, and Naveen K. Irina Mitrea, Temple University. Vaidya, University of Missouri-Kansas City. Recent Developments in Noncommutative Algebra Algebraic Cycles and Coherent Sheaves (Code: SS 19A), (Code: SS 6A), Edward Letzter and Martin Lorenz, Temple Roya Beheshti, Matt Kerr, and N. Mohan Kumar, Wash- University. ington University, St. Louis. Representation Theory, Combinatorics and Categorifi- Algebraic and Combinatorial Invariants of Knots (Code: cation (Code: SS 19A), Corina Calinescu, New York City SS 1A), Heather Dye, McKendree University, Allison College of Technology, City University of New York, An- Henrich, Seattle University, Aaron Kaestner, North Park drew Douglas, New York City College of Technology and University, and Louis Kauffman, University of Illinois. Graduate Center, City University of New York, and Joshua Automorphic Forms and Representation Theory (Code: Sussan and Bart Van Steirteghem, Medgar Evers College, SS 7A), Dubravka Ban and Joe Hundley, Southern Illinois City University of New York. University, and Shuichiro Takeda, University of Missouri, Several Complex Variables and CR Geometry (Code: Columbia. SS 7A), Andrew Raich, University of Arkansas, and Yuan Commutative Algebra (Code: SS 11A), Lianna Sega, Zhang, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne. University of Missouri, Kansas City, and Hema Srinivasan, The Geometry of Algebraic Varieties (Code: SS 13A), University of Missouri, Columbia. Karl Schwede, Pennsylvania State University, and Zsolt Computability Across Mathematics (Code: SS 2A), Wes- Patakfalvi, Princeton University. ley Calvert, Southern Illinois University, and Johanna Franklin, University of Connecticut. Convex Geometry and its Applications (Code: SS 16A), St. Louis, Missouri Susanna Dann, Alexander Koldobsky, and Peter Pivova- Washington University rov, University of Missouri. Geometric Aspects of 3-Manifold Invariants (Code: SS October 18–20, 2013 10A), Oliver Dasbach, Louisiana State University, and Effie Friday – Sunday Kalfagianni, Michigan State University. Geometric Topology in Low Dimensions (Code: SS 4A), Meeting #1094 William H. Kazez, University of Georgia, and Rachel Rob- Central Section erts, Washington University in St. Louis. Associate secretary: Georgia M. Benkart Groupoids in Analysis and Geometry (Code: SS 6A), Alex Announcement issue of Notices: August 2013 Kumjian, University of Nevada at Reno, Markus Pflaum, Program first available on AMS website: September 5, 2013 University of Colorado, and Xiang Tang, Washington Program issue of electronic Notices: October 2013 University in St. Louis. Issue of Abstracts: Volume 34, Issue 4 Interactions between Geometric and Harmonic Analysis (Code: SS 3A), Leonid Kovalev, Syracuse University, and Deadlines Jeremy Tyson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. For organizers: Expired Linear and Non-linear Geometry of Banach Spaces For abstracts: August 27, 2013 (Code: SS 13A), Daniel Freeman and Nirina Lovasoa Ran- drianarivony, St. Louis University. The scientific information listed below may be dated. Noncommutative Rings and Modules (Code: SS 5A), Greg For the latest information, see www.ams.org/amsmtgs/ Marks and Ashish Srivastava, St. Louis University. sectional.html. Operator Theory (Code: SS 9A), John McCarthy, Wash- ington University in St. Louis. Invited Addresses PDEs of Fluid Mechanics (Code: SS 17A), Roman Shvyd- Ronny Hadani, University of Texas at Austin, Title to koy, University of Illinois Chicago, and Vladimir Sverak, be announced. University of Minnesota.

September 2013 Notices of the AMS 1125 Meetings & Conferences

Spectral, Index, and Symplectic Geometry (Code: SS Categorification in Representation Theory (Code: SS 15A), Alvaro Pelayo and Xiang Tang, Washington Uni- 15A), Aaron Lauda and David Rose, University of South- versity, St. Louis. ern California. Statistical Properties of Dynamical Systems (Code: SS Commutative Algebra and its Interaction with Algebraic 14A), Timothy Chumley and Renato Feres, Washington Geometry and Combinatorics (Code: SS 10A), Kuei-Nuan University in St. Louis, and Hongkun Zhang, University of Lin and Paolo Mantero, University of California, Riverside. Massachusetts, Amherst. Computational Problems on Large Graphs and Applica- Topological Combinatorics (Code: SS 20A), John tions (Code: SS 16A), Kevin Costello and Laurent Thomas, Shareshian, Washington University, St. Louis, and Russ University of California, Riverside. Woodroofe, Mississippi State University. Computer, Mathematics, Imaging, Technology, Network, Wavelets, Frames, and Related Expansions (Code: SS 8A), Health, Big Data, and Statistics (Code: SS 3A), Subir Ghosh, Marcin Bownik, University of Oregon, Darrin Speegle, University of California, Riverside. Saint Louis University, and Guido Weiss, Washington Developments in Markov Chain Theory and Methodol- University, St. Louis. ogy (Code: SS 2A), Jason Fulman, University of California, p-local Group Theory, Fusion Systems, and Representa- Riverside, and Mark Huber, Claremont McKenna College. tion Theory (Code: SS 18A), Justin Lynd, Rutgers Univer- Diophantine Geometry and Nevanlinna Theory (Code: sity, and Julianne Rainbolt, Saint Louis University. SS 14A), Aaron Levin, Michigan State University, David McKinnon, University of Waterloo, and Paul Vojta, Uni- versity of California, Berkeley. Riverside, California Dynamical Systems (Code: SS 13A), Nicolai Haydn, University of Southern California, and Huyi Hu, Michigan University of California Riverside State University. November 2–3, 2013 Fluids and Boundaries (Code: SS 5A), James P. Kelliher, Juhi Jang, and Gung-Min Gie, University of California, Saturday – Sunday Riverside. Meeting #1095 Fractal Geometry, Dynamical Systems, and Mathemati- cal Physics (Code: SS 9A), Michel L. Lapidus, University Western Section of California, Riverside, Erin P. J. Pearse, California State Associate secretary: Michel L. Lapidus Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, and John A. Rock, Announcement issue of Notices: August 2013 California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Program first available on AMS website: September 19, From Harmonic Analysis to Partial Differential Equa- 2013 tions: In Memory of Victor Shapiro (Code: SS 11A), Alfonso Program issue of electronic Notices: November 2013 Castro, Harvey Mudd College, Michel L. Lapidus, Uni- Issue of Abstracts: Volume 34, Issue 4 versity of California, Riverside, and Adolfo J. Rumbos, Deadlines Pomona College. For organizers: Expired Geometric Analysis (Code: SS 4A), Zhiqin Lu, University For abstracts: September 10, 2013 of California, Irvine, Bogdan D. Suceava, California State University, Fullerton, and Fred Wilhelm, University of The scientific information listed below may be dated. California, Riverside. For the latest information, see www.ams.org/amsmtgs/ Geometric and Combinatorial Aspects of Representation sectional.html. Theory (Code: SS 8A), Wee Liang Gan and Jacob Green- stein, University of California, Riverside. Invited Addresses Geometry of Algebraic Varieties (Code: SS 6A), Karl Michael Christ, University of California, Berkeley, Title Fredrickson, University of California, Riverside, Mark to be announced. Gross, University of California, San Diego, and Ziv Ran, Mark Gross, University of California, San Diego, Title University of California, Riverside. to be announced. Heights, Diophantine Problems, and Lattices (Code: SS Matilde Marcolli, California Institute of Technology, 17A), Lenny Fukshansky, Claremont McKenna College, Title to be announced. and David Krumm, University of Georgia and Claremont Paul Vojta, University of California, Berkeley, Title to McKenna College. be announced. Homotopy Theory and K-Theory (Code: SS 7A), Julie Bergner, University of California, Riverside, and Christian Special Sessions Haesemeyer, University of California, Los Angeles. Algebraic Structures in Knot Theory (Code: SS 19A), Teaching ODEs: Best Practices from CODEE (Community Allison Henrich, Seattle University, and Sam Nelson, of Ordinary Differential Equations Educators) (Code: SS Claremont McKenna College. 18A), Nishu Lal, Pomona College and Pitzer College, and Analysis and Geometry of Metric Spaces (Code: SS 12A), Ami Radunskaya, Pomona College. Asuman G. Aksoy, Claremont McKenna College, and Zair The Mathematics of Planet Earth (Code: SS 1A), John Ibragimov, California State University, Fullerton. Baez, University of California, Riverside.

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Accelerated Advances in Higher Order Invexities/Univex- Baltimore, Maryland ities with Applications to Optimization and Mathematical Programming (Code: SS 8A), Ram U. Verma, International Baltimore Convention Center, Hilton Publications USA, and Alexander J. Zaslavski, Technion- Baltimore, and Baltimore Marriott Inner Israel Institute of Technology. Harbor Hotel Advances in Analysis and PDEs (Code: SS 49A), Tepper L. Gill and Daniel A. Williams, Howard University. January 15–18, 2014 Algebraic Geometry (Code: SS 50A), Christopher Hacon, Wednesday – Saturday University of Utah, and Zsolt Patakfalvi, Princeton Uni- versity. Meeting #1096 Algebraic Structures Motivated by Knot Theory (Code: Joint Mathematics Meetings, including the 120th Annual SS 17A), Mieczyslaw K. Dabkowski, University of Texas Meeting of the AMS, 97th Annual Meeting of the Math- at Dallas, Jozef Przytycki, George Washington University, ematical Association of America (MAA), annual meetings and Radmila Sazdanovic, University of Pennsylvania. of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) and Algebraic and Analytic Aspects of Integrable Systems the National Association of Mathematicians (NAM), and the and Painleve Equations (Code: SS 32A), Anton Dzhamay, winter meeting of the Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL), University of Northern Colorado, Kenichi Maruno, Uni- with sessions contributed by the Society for Industrial and versity of Texas-Pan America, and Christopher Ormerod, Applied Mathematics (SIAM). California Institute of Technology. Associate secretary: Georgia M. Benkart Analytic Number Theory (Code: SS 23A), Angel Kum- Announcement issue of Notices: October 2013 chev, Towson University, Scott Parsell, West Chester Program first available on AMS website: November 1, 2013 University, and Gang Yu, Kent State University. Program issue of electronic Notices: January 2013 Applied Harmonic Analysis: Large Data Sets, Signal Issue of Abstracts: Volume 35, Issue 1 Processing, and Inverse Problems (Code: SS 12A), Mauro Maggioni, Duke University, and Naoki Saito and Thomas Deadlines Strohmer, University of California, Davis. For organizers: Expired Banach Spaces, Metric Embeddings, and Applications For abstracts: September 17, 2013 (Code: SS 16A), Mikhail Ostrovskii, St. John’s University, and Beata Randrianantoanina, Miami University. The scientific information listed below may be dated. Big Data: Mathematical and Statistical Modeling, Tools, For the latest information, see www.ams.org/amsmtgs/ Services, and Training (Code: SS 18A), Ivo Dinov, Univer- national.html. sity of California Los Angeles. Joint Invited Addresses Categorical Topology (Code: SS 42A), Frédéric Mynard, Georgia Southern University, and Gavin Seal, École Poly- Benson Farb, University of Chicago, Title to be an- technique Fédérale de Lausanne. nounced (AMS-MAA Invited Address). Classification Problems in Operator Algebras (Code: SS Eitan Grinspun, Columbia University, Title to be an- 38A), Ionut Chifan, University of Iowa, and David Pen- nounced (MAA-AMS-SIAM Gerald and Judith Porter Public neys, University of Toronto. Lecture). Communication of Mathematics via Interactive Activi- Carl Pomerance, Dartmouth College, Title to be an- ties (Code: SS 47A), Benjamin Levitt and Glen Whitney, nounced (AMS-MAA Invited Address). National Museum of Mathematics. AMS Invited Addresses Computability in Geometry and Topology (Code: SS Andrew Blake, Microsoft Research Cambridge, Title to 39A), Mieczyslaw Dabkowski, University of Texas at Dal- be announced (AMS Josiah Willard Gibbs Lecture). las, and Rumen D. Dimitrov, Western Illinois University. Emmanuel Candès, Stanford University, Title to be De Bruijn Sequences and Their Generalizations (Code: announced. SS 53A), Abbas Alhakim, American University of Beirut, Christopher Hacon, University of Utah, Title to be an- and Steven Butler, Iowa State University. nounced. Deformations Spaces of Geometric Structures on Low- Dusa McDuff, Columbia University, Title to be an- dimensional Manifolds (Code: SS 40A), Caleb Ashley, nounced (AMS Colloquium Lectures). Howard University, Michelle Lee and Melissa Macasieb, Paul Seidel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Maryland, and Andy Sanders, University of Title to be announced. Illinois at Chicago. H.-T. Yau, Harvard University, Title to be announced. Difference Equations and Applications (Code: SS 9A), Michael A. Radin, Rochester Institute of Technology. AMS Special Sessions Dispersive and Geometric Partial Differential Equations Some sessions are cosponsored with other organiza- (Code: SS 1A), Shuanglin Shao, University of Kansas, tions. These are noted within the parenthesis at the end Chongchun Zeng, Georgia Institute of Technology, and of each listing, where applicable. Shijun Zheng, Georgia Southern University.

September 2013 Notices of the AMS 1127 Meetings & Conferences

Ergodic Theory and Symbolic Dynamics (Code: SS 31A), Mathematics of Computation: Differential Equations, Aimee Johnson, Swarthmore College, and Cesar Silva, Linear Algebra, and Applications (Code: SS 30A), Susanne Williams College. C. Brenner, Louisiana State University, and Chi-Wang Shu, Fractal Geometry: Mathematics of Fractals and Related Brown University (AMS-SIAM). Topics (Code: SS 11A), Michel Lapidus, University of Cali- My Favorite Graph Theory Conjectures (Code: SS 35A), fornia Riverside, Erin Pearse, California State Polytechnic Craig Larson, Virginia Commonwealth University, and University, San Luis Obispo, Robert Strichartz, Cornell Ralucca Gera, Naval Postgraduate School. University, and Machiel Van Frankenhuijsen, Utah Valley Nineteenth Century Algebra and Analysis (Code: SS University. 10A), Frank D. Grosshans, West Chester University, Karen Fractional, Stochastic, and Hybrid Dynamic Systems H. Parshall, University of Virginia, and Paul R. Wolfson, with Applications (Code: SS 7A), John Graef, University of West Chester University. Tennessee at Chattanooga, Gangaram S. Ladde, University Nonlinear Systems: Polynomial Equations, Nonlinear of South Florida, and Aghalaya S. Vatsala, University of PDEs, and Applications (Code: SS 27A), Wenrui Hao, Uni- Louisiana at Lafayette. versity of Notre Dame. Geometric Applications of Algebraic Combinatorics Outreach for Mathematically Talented Youth (Code: SS (Code: SS 48A), Elizabeth Beazley, Haverford College, and 45A), Christina Eubanks-Turner, University of Louisiana Kristina Garrett, St. Olaf College (AMS-AWM). at Lafayette, Virginia Watson, Kennesaw State University, Geometric Group Theory, I (a Mathematics Research and Daniel Zaharopol, Art of Problem Solving Foundation. Communities Session) (Code: SS 54A), Tariq Aougab, Yale Progress in Free Probability (Code: SS 26A), Dmitry University, Curtis Kent, University of Toronto, Sang Rae Kaliuzhnyi-Verbovetskyi, Drexel University, and Todd Lee, Texas A&M University, and Emily Stark, Tufts Uni- Kemp, University of California San Diego. versity. Quantum Walks, Quantum Computation, and Related Global Dynamics and Bifurcations of Difference Equa- Topics (Code: SS 6A), Chaobin Liu, Bowie State University, tions (Code: SS 37A), Mustafa Kulenovic and Orlando Takuya Machida, University of Tokyo, Nelson Petulante, Bowie State University, and Salvador E. Venegas-Andraca, Merino, University of Rhode Island. Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Estado de México. Heavy Tailed Probability Distributions and Their Ap- Random Matrices: Theory and Applications (Code: SS plications (Code: SS 22A), Tuncay Alparslan and John P. 13A), Paul Bourgade and Horng-Tzer Yau, Harvard Uni- Nolan, American University. versity. Highlighting Achievements and Contributions of Math- Reaction Diffusion Equations and Applications (Code: SS ematicians of the African Diaspora (Code: SS 34A), Asa- 44A), Jerome Goddard II, Auburn University Montgomery, moah Nkwanta, Morgan State University, and Talitha M. and Ratnasingham Shivaji, University of North Carolina Washington, Howard University. Greensboro. History of Mathematics (Code: SS 29A), Sloan Despeaux, Recent Advances in Homogenization and Model Reduc- Western Carolina University, Della Dumbaugh, University tion Methods for Multiscale Phenomena (Code: SS 21A), of Richmond, and Glen van Brummelen, Quest University. Silvia Jiménez Bolaños and Burt S. Tilley, Worcester Homological and Characteristic p Methods in Commu- Polytechnic Institute. tative Algebra (Code: SS 4A), Neil Epstein, George Mason Recent Progress in Geometric and Complex Analysis University, Sean Sather-Wagstaff, North Dakota State (Code: SS 3A), Zheng Huang, City University of New York, University, and Karl Schwede, Penn State University. Graduate Center and College of Staten Island, Longzhi Lin, Homotopy Theory (Code: SS 20A), Niles Johnson, Ohio Rutgers University, and Marcello Lucia, City University State University at Newark, Mark W. Johnson, Penn State of New York, Graduate Center & College of Staten Island. University, Altoona, Nitu Kitchloo, Johns Hopkins Univer- Recent Progress in Multivariable Operator Theory (Code: sity, James Turner, Calvin College, and Donald Yau, Ohio SS 46A), Ron Douglas, Texas A&M University, and Michael State University at Newark. Jury, University of Florida. Hyperplane Arrangements and Applications (Code: Recent Progress in the Langlands Program (Code: SS SS 41A), Takuro Abe, Kyoto University, Max Wakefield, 15A), Moshe Adrian, University of Utah, and Shuichiro United States Naval Academy, and Masahiko Yoshinaga, Takeda, University of Missouri. Hokkiado University. Representation Theory of p-adic Groups and Automor- Logic and Probability (Code: SS 2A), Wesley Calvert, phic Forms (Code: SS 28A), Arsalan Chademan, University Southern Illinois University, Doug Cenzer, University of Kurdistan, and Manouchehr Misaghian, Prairie View of Florida, Johanna Franklin, University of Connecticut, A&M University. and Valentina Harizanov, George Washington University Research in Mathematics by Undergraduates and (AMS-ASL). Students in Post-Baccalaureate Programs (Code: SS 25A), Mathematics and Mathematics Education in Fiber Arts Bernard Brooks and Jobby Jacobs, Rochester Institute (Code: SS 14A), Sarah-Marie Belcastro, Smith College, and of Technology, Jacqueline Jensen-Vallin, Slippery Rock Carolyn Yackel, Mercer University. University, and Carl Lutzer, Darran Narayan, and Tamas Mathematics in Natural Resource Modeling (Code: SS Wiandt, Rochester Institute of Technology. 43A), Shandelle Henson, Andrews University, and Cath- Set-Valued Optimization and Variational Problems with erine Roberts, College of the Holy Cross. Applications (Code: SS 24A), Akhtar Khan, Rochester In-

1128 Notices of the AMS Volume 60, Number 8 Meetings & Conferences stitute of Technology, Mau Nam Nguyen, Portland State Special Sessions University, Miguel Sama, Universidad Nacional de Educa- Commutative Ring Theory (in honor of the retirement cin e Distancia, and Christiane Tammer, Martin Luther of David E. Dobbs) (Code: SS 1A), David Anderson, Uni- University of Halle-Wittenberg. versity of Tennessee, Knoxville, and Jay Shapiro, George Structural and Extremal Problems (Code: SS 19A), Daniel Mason University. Cranston, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Gexin Diversity of Modeling and Optimal Control: A Celebra- Yu, College of William & Mary. Symplectic and Contact Structures on Manifolds with tion of Suzanne Lenhart’s 60th Birthday (Code: SS 3A), Special Holonomy (Code: SS 51A), Sergey Grigorian, Uni- Wandi Ding, Middle Tennessee State University, and Renee versity of Texas Pan American, Sema Salur, University of Fister, Murrray State University. Rochester, and Albert J. Todd, University of California, Fractal Geometry and Ergodic Theory (Code: SS 2A), Riverside. Mrinal Kanti Roychowdhury, University of Texas Pan The Changing Education of Pre-service Teachers in Light American. of the Common Core (Code: SS 52A), William McCallum, Harmonic Analysis and Nonlinear Partial Differential University of Arizona, Kristin Umland, University of New Equations (Code: SS 5A), J. Denzler, M. Frazier, Tuoc Phan, Mexico, and Ellen Whitesides, University of Arizona. and T. Todorova, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. The Ubiquity of Dynamical Systems (Code: SS 33A), Randomized Numerical Linear Algebra (Code: SS 4A), Edray H. Goins, Purdue University, and Talitha M. Wash- Ilse Ipsen, North Carolina State University. ington, Howard University. Topological Graph Theory: Structure and Symmetry (Code: SS 5A), Jonathan L. Gross, Columbia University, and Thomas W. Tucker, Colgate University. Baltimore, Maryland Trends in Graph Theory (Code: SS 36A), Ralucca Gera, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Naval Postgraduate School. March 29–30, 2014 Knoxville, Tennessee Saturday – Sunday Meeting #1098 University of Tennessee, Knoxville Eastern Section March 21–23, 2014 Associate secretary: Steven H. Weintraub Friday – Sunday Announcement issue of Notices: January 2014 Program first available on AMS website: February 26, 2014 Meeting #1097 Program issue of electronic Notices: March 2014 Southeastern Section Issue of Abstracts: Volume 35, Issue 2 Associate secretary: Brian D. Boe Announcement issue of Notices: January 2014 Deadlines Program first available on AMS website: February 6, 2014 For organizers: August 29, 2013 Program issue of electronic Notices: March 2014 For abstracts: January 28, 2014 Issue of Abstracts: Volume 35, Issue 2 The scientific information listed below may be dated. Deadlines For the latest information, see www.ams.org/amsmtgs/ For organizers: August 21, 2013 sectional.html. For abstracts: January 28, 2014 Invited Addresses The scientific information listed below may be dated. Maria Gordina, University of Connecticut, Title to be For the latest information, see www.ams.org/amsmtgs/ announced. sectional.html. L. Mahadevan, Harvard University, Title to be an- Invited Addresses nounced. Maria Chudnovsky, Columbia University, Title to be Nimish Shah, Ohio State University, Title to be an- announced (Erdo˝s Memorial Lecture). nounced. Ilse Ipsen, North Carolina State University, Title to be Dani Wise, McGill University, Title to be announced. announced. Daniel Krashen, University of Georgia, Title to be an- Special Sessions nounced. Invariants in Low-Dimensional Topology (Code: SS 1A), Suresh Venapally, Emory University, Title to be an- Jennifer Hom, Columbia University, and Tye Lidman, nounced. University of Texas at Austin.

September 2013 Notices of the AMS 1129 Meetings & Conferences

Topics in Spectral Geometry and Global Analysis (Code: Albuquerque, New SS 3A), Ivan Avramidi, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Mexico Technology, and Klaus Kirsten, Baylor University. University of New Mexico Lubbock, Texas April 5–6, 2014 Texas Tech University Saturday – Sunday April 11–13, 2014 Meeting #1099 Friday – Sunday Western Section Associate secretary: Michel L. Lapidus Meeting #1100 Announcement issue of Notices: January 2014 Central Section Program first available on AMS website: To be announced Associate secretary: Georgia M. Benkart Program issue of electronic Notices: April 2014 Announcement issue of Notices: February 2014 Issue of Abstracts: To be announced Program first available on AMS website: February 27, 2014 Program issue of electronic Notices: April 2014 Deadlines Issue of Abstracts: Volume 35, Issue 2 For organizers: September 5, 2013 For abstracts: February 11, 2014 Deadlines For organizers: September 18, 2013 The scientific information listed below may be dated. For abstracts: February 10, 2014 For the latest information, see www.ams.org/amsmtgs/ sectional.html. The scientific information listed below may be dated. For the latest information, see www.ams.org/amsmtgs/ Invited Addresses sectional.html. Anton Gorodetski, University of California, Irvine, To be announced. Invited Addresses Fan Chung Graham, University of California, San Diego, Nir Avni, Northwestern University, To be announced. To be announced. Alessio Figalli, University of Texas, To be announced. Adrian Ioana, University of California, San Diego, To Jean-Luc Thiffeault, University of Wisconsin-Madison, be announced. To be announced. Karen Smith, University of Michigan, Ann Harbor, To Rachel Ward, University of Texas at Austin, To be an- be announced. nounced.

Special Sessions Special Sessions Commutative Algebra (Code: SS 7A), Daniel J. Her- Algebraic Geometry (Code: SS 9A), David Weinberg, nandez, University of Utah, Karen E. Smith, University Texas Tech University. of Michigan, and Emily E. Witt, University of Minnesota. Analysis and Applications of Dynamic Equations on Time Descriptive Set Theory and its Applications (Code: SS 6A), Scales (Code: SS 2A), Heidi Berger, Simpson College, and Alexander Kechris, California Institute of Technology, Raegan Higgins, Texas Tech University. and Christian Rosendal, University of Illinois, Chicago. Complex Function Theory and Special Functions (Code: Interactions in Commutative Algebra (Code: SS 4A), SS 7A), Roger W. Barnard and Kent Pearce, Texas Tech Louiza Fouli, New Mexico State University, Bruce Olberd- University, Kendall Richards, Southwestern University, ing, New Mexico State University, and Janet Vassilev, and Alex Solynin and Brock Williams, Texas Tech Uni- University of New Mexico. versity. Progress in Noncommutative Analysis (Code: SS 2A), Fractal Geometry and Dynamical Systems (Code: SS 3A), Anna Skripka, University of New Mexico, and Tao Mei, Mrinal Kanti Roychowdhury, The University of Texas-Pan Wayne State University. American. Stochastics and PDEs (Code: SS 5A), Juraj Földes, Insti- Homological Methods in Algebra (Code: SS 8A), Lars tute for Mathematics and Its Applications, Nathan Glatt- W. Christensen, Texas Tech University, Hamid Rahmati, Holtz, Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications and Miami University, and Janet Striuli, Fairfield University. Virginia Tech, and Geordie Richards, Institute for Math- Issues Regarding the Recruitment and Retention of ematics and Its Applications and University of Rochester. Women and Minorities in Mathematics (Code: SS 5A), James The Inverse Problem and Other Mathematical Methods Valles Jr. and Doug Scheib, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods Col- Applied in Physics and Related Sciences (Code: SS 1A), lege. Hanna Makaruk, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Qualitative Theory for Non-linear Parabolic and Ellip- Robert Owczarek, University of New Mexico and Enfitek, tic Equations (Code: SS 6A), Akif Ibragimov, Texas Tech Inc. University, and Peter Polacik, University of Minnesota.

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Recent Advancements in Differential Geometry and In- Deadlines tegrable PDEs, and Their Applications to Cell Biology and For organizers: March 20, 2014 Mechanical Systems (Code: SS 4A), Giorgio Bornia, Akif For abstracts: July 29, 2014 Ibragimov, and Magdalena Toda, Texas Tech University. Topology and Physics (Code: SS 1A), Razvan Gelca and The scientific information listed below may be dated. Alastair Hamilton, Texas Tech University. For the latest information, see www.ams.org/amsmtgs/ sectional.html.

Tel Aviv, Israel Invited Addresses Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan and Tel- Matthew Kahle, Ohio State University, To be announced. Aviv University, Ramat-Aviv Markus Keel, University of Minnesota, To be announced. Svitlana Mayboroda, University of Minnesota, To be June 16–19, 2014 announced. Monday – Thursday Dylan Thurston, Indiana University, To be announced.

Meeting #1101 The Second Joint International Meeting between the AMS Halifax, Canada and the Israel Mathematical Union. Associate secretary: Michel L. Lapidus Dalhousie University Announcement issue of Notices: January 2014 Program first available on AMS website: To be announced October 18–19, 2014 Program issue of electronic Notices: To be announced Saturday – Sunday Issue of Abstracts: To be announced Meeting #1103 Deadlines Eastern Section For organizers: To be announced Associate secretary: Steven H. Weintraub For abstracts: To be announced Announcement issue of Notices: August 2014 The scientific information listed below may be dated. Program first available on AMS website: September 5, 2014 For the latest information, see www.ams.org/amsmtgs/ Program issue of electronic Notices: October 2014 internmtgs.html. Issue of Abstracts: Volume 35, Issue 3

Special Sessions Deadlines Mirror Symmetry and Representation Theory, David For organizers: March 18, 2014 Kazhdan, Hebrew University, and Roman Bezrukavnikov, For abstracts: August 19, 2014 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Nonlinear Analysis and Optimization, Boris Morduk- The scientific information listed below may be dated. hovich, Wayne State University, and Simeon Reich and For the latest information, see www.ams.org/amsmtgs/ Alexander Zaslavski, The Technion-Israel Institute of sectional.html. Technology. Qualitative and Analytic Theory of ODE’s, Yosef Yom- Invited Addresses din, Weizmann Institute. François Bergeron, Université du Québec à Montréal, Title to be announced. Sourav Chatterjee, New York University, Title to be Eau Claire, Wisconsin announced. University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire William M. Goldman, University of Maryland, Title to be announced. September 20–21, 2014 Sujatha Ramdorai, University of British Columbia, Title Saturday – Sunday to be announced. Meeting #1102 Central Section Associate secretary: Georgia M. Benkart Announcement issue of Notices: June 2014 Program first available on AMS website: August 7, 2014 Program issue of electronic Notices: September 2014 Issue of Abstracts: Volume 35, Issue 3

September 2013 Notices of the AMS 1131 Meetings & Conferences San Francisco, Greensboro, North California Carolina San Francisco State University University of North Carolina, Greensboro

October 25–26, 2014 November 8–9, 2014 Saturday – Sunday Saturday – Sunday

Meeting #1104 Meeting #1105 Western Section Southeastern Section Associate secretary: Michel L. Lapidus Associate secretary: Brian D. Boe Announcement issue of Notices: August 2014 Announcement issue of Notices: August 2014 Program first available on AMS website: September 11, Program first available on AMS website: September 25, 2014 2014 Program issue of electronic Notices: October 2014 Program issue of electronic Notices: November 2014 Issue of Abstracts: Volume 35, Issue 4 Issue of Abstracts: Volume 35, Issue 4

Deadlines Deadlines For organizers: March 25, 2014 For organizers: April 8, 2014 For abstracts: September 16, 2014 For abstracts: September 3, 2014

The scientific information listed below may be dated. The scientific information listed below may be dated. For the latest information, see www.ams.org/amsmtgs/ For the latest information, see www.ams.org/amsmtgs/ sectional.html. sectional.html. Invited Addresses Invited Addresses Susanne Brenner, Louisiana State Unviersity, Title to Kai Behrend, University of British Columbia, Vancou- be announced. ver, Canada, To be announced. Skip Garibaldi, Emory Unviersity, Title to be announced. Kiran S. Kedlaya, University of California, San Diego, Stavros Garoufaldis, Georgia Institute of Technology, To be announced. Title to be announced. Julia Pevtsova, University of Washington, Seattle, To James Sneyd, Unviersity of Auckland, Title to be an- be announced. nounced (AMS-NZMS Maclaurin Lecture). Burt Totaro, University of California, Los Angeles, To be announced.

Special Sessions San Antonio, Texas Algebraic Geometry (Code: SS 1A), Renzo Cavalieri, Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center and Colorado State University, Noah Giansiracusa, University Grand Hyatt San Antonio of California, Berkeley, and Burt Totaro, University of California, Los Angeles. January 10–13, 2015 Geometry of Submanifolds (Code: SS 3A), Yun Myung Saturday – Tuesday Oh, Andrews University, Bogdan D. Suceava, California Joint Mathematics Meetings, including the 121st Annual State University, Fullerton, and Mihaela B. Vajiac, Chap- Meeting of the AMS, 98th Annual Meeting of the Math- man University. ematical Association of America (MAA), annual meetings Polyhedral Number Theory (Code: SS 2A), Matthias of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) and Beck, San Francisco State University, and Martin Henk, the National Association of Mathematicians (NAM), and the Universität Magdeburg. winter meeting of the Association of Symbolic Logic (ASL), with sessions contributed by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). Associate secretary: Steven H. Weintraub Announcement issue of Notices: October 2014 Program first available on AMS website: To be announced Program issue of electronic Notices: January 2015 Issue of Abstracts: Volume 36, Issue 1

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Deadlines For organizers: April 1, 2014 Porto, Portugal For abstracts: To be announced University of Porto Washington, District June 11–14, 2015 Thursday – Sunday First Joint International Meeting involving the American of Columbia Mathematical Societry (AMS), the European Mathematical Georgetown University Society (EMS), and the Sociedade de Portuguesa Matematica (SPM). March 7–8, 2015 Associate secretary: Georgia M. Benkart Saturday – Sunday Announcement issue of Notices: To be announced Eastern Section Program first available on AMS website: To be announced Associate secretary: Steven H. Weintraub Program issue of electronic Notices: To be announced Announcement issue of Notices: To be announced Issue of Abstracts: Not applicable Program first available on AMS website: To be announced Program issue of electronic Notices: To be announced Deadlines Issue of Abstracts: To be announced For organizers: To be announced Deadlines For abstracts: To be announced For organizers: August 7, 2014 For abstracts: To be announced Chicago, Illinois Huntsville, Alabama Loyola University Chicago University of Alabama in Huntsville October 3–4, 2015 Saturday – Sunday March 20–22, 2015 Central Section Friday – Sunday Associate secretary: Georgia M. Benkart Southeastern Section Announcement issue of Notices: To be announced Associate secretary: Brian D. Boe Program first available on AMS website: To be announced Announcement issue of Notices: To be announced Program issue of electronic Notices: October 2015 Program first available on AMS website: To be announced Issue of Abstracts: To be announced Program issue of electronic Notices: To be announced Issue of Abstracts: To be announced Deadlines Deadlines For organizers: March 10, 2015 For organizers: August 20, 2014 For abstracts: To be announced For abstracts: To be announced Las Vegas, Nevada Fullerton, California California State University, Fullerton University of Nevada, Las Vegas October 24–25, 2015 April 18–19, 2015 Saturday – Sunday Saturday – Sunday Western Section Western Section Associate secretary: Michel L. Lapidus Associate secretary: Michel L. Lapidus Announcement issue of Notices: To be announced Announcement issue of Notices: To be announced Program first available on AMS website: To be announced Program first available on AMS website: To be announced Program issue of electronic Notices: To be announced Program issue of electronic Notices: October 2015 Issue of Abstracts: To be announced Issue of Abstracts: To be announced

Deadlines Deadlines For organizers: September 18, 2014 For organizers: March 27, 2015 For abstracts: To be announced For abstracts: To be announced

September 2013 Notices of the AMS 1133 Meetings & Conferences Seattle, Washington San Diego, California Washington State Convention Center and San Diego Convention Center and San the Sheraton Seattle Hotel Diego Marriott Hotel and Marina

January 6–9, 2016 January 10–13, 2018 Wednesday – Saturday Wednesday – Saturday Joint Mathematics Meetings, including the 124th Annual Joint Mathematics Meetings, including the 122nd Annual Meeting of the AMS, 101st Annual Meeting of the Math- Meeting of the AMS, 99th Annual Meeting of the Math- ematical Association of America (MAA), annual meetings ematical Association of America (MAA), annual meetings of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) and of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) and the National Association of Mathematicians (NAM), and the the National Association of Mathematicians (NAM), and the winter meeting of the Association of Symbolic Logic (ASL), winter meeting of the Association of Symbolic Logic (ASL), with sessions contributed by the Society for Industrial and with sessions contributed by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). Applied Mathematics (SIAM). Associate secretary: Georgia M. Benkart Associate secretary: Michel L. Lapidus Announcement issue of Notices: October 2017 Program first available on AMS website: To be announced Announcement issue of Notices: October 2015 Program issue of electronic Notices: To be announced Program first available on AMS website: To be announced Issue of Abstracts: To be announced Program issue of electronic Notices: January 2016 Issue of Abstracts: Volume 37, Issue 1 Deadlines For organizers: April 1, 2017 Deadlines For abstracts: To be announced For organizers: April 1, 2015 For abstracts: To be announced Baltimore, Maryland Atlanta, Georgia Baltimore Convention Center, Hilton Baltimore, and Baltimore Marriott Inner Hyatt Regency Atlanta and Marriott Harbor Hotel Atlanta Marquis January 16–19, 2019 January 4–7, 2017 Wednesday – Saturday Wednesday – Saturday Joint Mathematics Meetings, including the 125th Annual Meeting of the AMS, 102nd Annual Meeting of the Math- Joint Mathematics Meetings, including the 123rd Annual ematical Association of America (MAA), annual meetings Meeting of the AMS, 100th Annual Meeting of the Math- of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM)and ematical Association of America, annual meetings of the the National Association of Mathematicians (NAM), and the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) and the winter meeting of the Association of Symbolic Logic (ASL), National Association of Mathematicians (NAM), and the with sessions contributed by the Society for Industrial and winter meeting of the Association of Symbolic Logic, with Applied Mathematics (SIAM). sessions contributed by the Society for Industrial and Ap- Associate secretary: Steven H. Weintraub plied Mathematics (SIAM). Announcement issue of Notices: October 2018 Associate secretary: Brian D. Boe Program first available on AMS website: To be announced Program issue of electronic Notices: To be announced Announcement issue of Notices: October 2016 Issue of Abstracts: To be announced Program first available on AMS website: To be announced Program issue of electronic Notices: January 2017 Deadlines Issue of Abstracts: Volume 38, Issue 1 For organizers: April 2, 2018 For abstracts: To be announced Deadlines For organizers: April 1, 2016 For abstracts: To be announced

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