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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 www.ams.org/meetings/. Final programs for Sectional Meetings will be archived on the AMS website accessible from the stated URL . Illinois Institute of Technology, and Despina Stasi, Univer- Chicago, Illinois sity of Cyprus and Illinois Institute of Technology. Algebraic and Combinatorial Invariants of Knots, Micah Loyola University Chicago Chrisman, Monmouth University, Heather Dye, McKen- dree University, Aaron Kaestner, North Park University, October 3–4, 2015 Louis Kauffman, University of Illinois at Chicago, and Saturday – Sunday Emily Peters, Loyola University Chicago. Analysis of Partial Differential Equations and Fluid Dy- Meeting #1112 namics, Mimi Dai, University of Illinois at Chicago, Vera Central Section Mikyoung Hur, University of Illinois at Urbana-Cham- Associate secretary: Georgia Benkart paign, and Yao Yao, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Announcement issue of Notices: June 2015 Automorphic Forms and Representations, Moshe Program first available on AMS website: August 20, 2015 Adrian, University of Toronto, and Shuichiro Takeda and Issue of Abstracts: Volume 36, Issue 4 Aaron Wood, University of Missouri-Columbia. Automorphisms of Riemann Surfaces and Related Top- Deadlines ics, S. Allen Broughton, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technol- For organizers: Expired ogy, Peter Turbek, Purdue University Calumet, Anthony For abstracts: Expired Weaver, Bronx Community College, the City University of New York, and Aaron Wootton, University of Portland. The scientific information listed below may be dated. Coding Theory and Its Applications, W. Cary Huffman, For the latest information, see www.ams.org/amsmtgs/ Loyola University Chicago. sectional.html. Cohomology of Algebras and Deformation Theory, Anthony Giaquinto, Loyola University Chicago, Mihai D. Invited Addresses Staic, Bowling Green State University, and Alin Stancu, Julia Chuzhoy, Toyota Technological Institute at Chi- Columbus State University. cago, Title to be announced. Combinatorial and Computational Algebra, David Andrew Neitzke, The University of Texas at Austin, Cook II, Eastern Illinois University, and Sonja Mapes, Title to be announced. University of Notre Dame. Sebastien Roch, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Title Combinatorial and Geometric Representation Theory, to be announced. Ben Salisbury, Central Michigan University, and Peter Peter Sarnak, Princeton University, Title to be an- Tingley, Loyola University Chicago. nounced (Erdo˝s Memorial Lecture). Commutative Algebra, Youngsu Kim and Paolo Man- tero, University of California, Riverside, and Jonathan Special Sessions Montano, Purdue University. If you are volunteering to speak in a Special Session, you Computability Theory and Applications, Denis should send your abstract as early as possible via the ab- Hirschfeldt, University of Chicago, and Steffen Lempp, stract submission form found at www.ams.org/cgi-bin/ University of Wisconsin-Madison. abstracts/abstract.pl. Enumerative Algebraic and Geometric Combinatorics, Algebraic Methods Common to Association Schemes, Kyle Petersen, DePaul University, and Steven Klee, Seattle Hopf Algebras, Tensor Categories, Finite Geometry, and University. Related Areas, Harvey Blau, Northern Illinois University, Enumerative Combinatorics and Graph Theoretic Ap- Sung Y. Song, Iowa State University, and Bangteng Xu, plications, Adam Goyt, Minnesota State University, and Eastern Kentucky University. Lara Pudwell, Valparaiso University. Algebraic Statistics and its Interactions with Combina- Ergodic and Symbolic Actions of Amenable Groups, torics, Computation, and Network Science, Sonja Petrovic, Ays¸e ¸ahinS and Ilie Ugarcovici, DePaul University. SEPTEMBER 2015 NOTICES OF THE AMS 1009 Meetings & Conferences Frontiers in Computational Mathematics, Sou-Cheng Stochastic Analysis With Applications to Quantitative (Terrya) Choi, NORC at the University of Chicago, and Finance, Igor Cialenco and Ruoting Gong, Illinois Institute Illinois Institute of Technology. of Technology. Generalized Derivatives, J. Marshall Ash, DePaul Uni- The Langlands Program and Related Topics, Andrei versity, and Paul Musial, Chicago State University. Jorza, University of Notre Dame, and Martin Luu, Univer- Geometric Partial Differential Equations, Morgan Sher- sity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. man, California Polytechnic State University, and Valen- Topics in Graph Theory, Hypergraphs and Set Systems, tino Tosatti and Ben Weinkove, Northwestern University. John Engbers, Marquette University, and David Galvin, Geometric Perspectives in Knot Theory, David Krcato- University of Notre Dame. vich and Allison Moore, Rice University. Variational Analysis, Optimization, and Control (Dedi- Graduate Student Perspectives on Undergraduate cated to Terry Rockafellar on the occasion of his 80th Research, Mindy Capaldi and Zsuzsanna Szaniszlo, Val- birthday), Rafal Goebel, Loyola University Chicago. paraiso University. Groups, Rings, Group Rings, and Hopf Algebras (cel- ebrating the 75th birthday of Donald S. Passman), Jef- Memphis, Tennessee frey Bergen, Stefan Catoiu, and William Chin, DePaul University of Memphis University. History of Mathematics, Steven Jordan, Loyola Univer- October 17–18, 2015 sity Chicago. Saturday – Sunday Hopf Algebraic Combinatorics, Marcelo Aguiar, Cornell University, and Aaron Lauve, Loyola University Chicago. Meeting #1113 K-loops, Neardomains, Loops, and Nonassociative Divi- Southeastern Section sion Algebras, Alper Bulut, American University of the Associate secretary: Brian D. Boe Middle East, C. E. Ealy Jr., Western Michigan University, Announcement issue of Notices: August 2015 Hubert Kiechle, University of Hamburg, Benjamin Phil- Program first available on AMS website: September 3, 2015 lips, University of Michigan Dearborn, and J. D. Phillips, Issue of Abstracts: Volume 36, Issue 3 Northern Michigan University. Mathematical Analysis and Computation of Nematic Deadlines Liquid Crystals, Patricia Bauman, Daniel Phillips, and For organizers: Expired Changyou Wang, Purdue University. For abstracts: August 25, 2015 Mathematics of Evolution, Ruth Davidson, University The scientific information listed below may be dated. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Ruriko Yoshida, Uni- For the latest information, see www.ams.org/amsmtgs/ versity of Kentucky. sectional.html. Metric Spaces: Geometry, Group Theory, and Dynam- ics, Tullia Dymarz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Invited Addresses Anton Lukyanenko, University of Michigan. Mark van Hoeij, Florida State University, Solving prob- Model Theory, Uri Andrews, University of Wisconsin- lems with the LLL algorithm. Madison, Isaac Goldbring, University of Illinois at Chicago, Vaughan Jones, Vanderbilt University, Are all subfac- and Maryanthe Malliaris, University of Chicago. tors related to quantum field theory?. Nonlinear PDEs and Calculus of Variations, Emmanuel Mette Olufsen, North Carolina State University, Title Barron, Marian Bocea, and Robert Jensen, Loyola Univer- to be announced. sity Chicago. Nonlocal Diffusions, Jinqiao Duan, Xiaofan Li, and Special Sessions Xiaoxia Xie, Illinois Institute of Technology. If you are volunteering to speak in a Special Session, you Probability Theory, Antonio Auffinger, Northwestern should send your abstract as early as possible via the ab- University, Jian Ding, University of Chicago, and Sebastien stract submission form found at www.ams.org/cgi-bin/ Roch, University of Wisconsin-Madison. abstracts/abstract.pl. Recent Advances in Non-Commutative Analysis, Hari Bercovici, Indiana University, and John Williams, Univer- Advances in Operator Theory and Applications, in mem- sitát des Saarlandes. ory of James Jamison (Code: SS 5A), Fernanda Botelho, Recent Developments in Graph and Matroid Theory, Ser- University of Memphis, and T.S.S.R.K. Rao, Indian Statisti- gei Bezrukov, University of Wisconsin-Superior, Dalibor cal Institute Bangalore. Froncek, University of Minnesota Duluth, and Xiaofeng Gu Analysis of Differential and Integral Equations (Code: SS and Steven Rosenberg, University of Wisconsin-Superior. 18A), D.P. Dwiggins and T. Hagen, University of Memphis. Recent Developments in the Theory and Applications of Banach Spaces and Applications (Code: SS 4A), Anna Reaction Network Models, Carsten Conradi, Max Planck Kaminska, Peikee Lin, and Bentuo Zheng, University of Institute, and Casian Pantea, West Virginia University. Memphis. Singularities in Algebra, Geometry and Topology, Cahn-Hilliard and Related Equations and Applications. Manuel Gonzalez Villa and Laurentiu Maxim, University (Code: SS 11A), Giséle Ruiz Goldstein, University of Mem- of Wisconsin-Madison. phis, and Alain Miranville, Université de Poitiers. 1010 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 62, NUMBER 8 Meetings & Conferences Computational Analysis (Code: SS 1A), George Anastas- Program first available on AMS website: September 10, siou, University of Memphis. 2015 Control and Inverse Problems for Partial Differential Issue of Abstracts: Volume 36, Issue 4 Equations (Code: SS 6A), Matthias Eller, Georgetown University, Shitao Liu, Clemson University, and Roberto Deadlines Triggiani, University of Memphis. For organizers: Expired Difference Equations and Applications. (Code: SS 12A), For abstracts: September
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