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Meetings and 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/. 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. Paul Seidel, Imperial College-London and University of Evanston, Illinois Chicago, Title to be announced. Northwestern University Special Sessions October 23–24, 2004 Algebraic Representations and Deformations, Stephen R. Doty and Anthony Giaquinto, Loyola University of Chicago. Saturday–Sunday Algebraic Topology: Interactions with Representation The- Meeting #1001 ory and Algebraic Geometry, Paul G. Goerss, Northwest- Central Section ern University, Jesper Kragh Grodal, University of Chicago, Associate secretary: Susan J. Friedlander and Brooke E. Shipley, University of Illinois at Chicago. Announcement issue of Notices: August 2004 Applications of Motives, Eric M. Friedlander, Northwestern Program first available on AMS website: September 9, 2004 University, Alexander Goncharov, Brown University, Program issue of electronic Notices: October 2004 Mikhail Kapranov, Yale University, and Yuri Manin, Max Issue of Abstracts: Volume 25, Issue 4 Planck Institute for Mathematics. Codes and Applications, William C. Huffman, Loyola Uni- Deadlines versity of Chicago, and Vera S. Pless, University of Illinois For organizers: Expired at Chicago. For consideration of contributed papers in Special Sessions: Computability Theory and Applications, Robert I. Soare and Expired Denis R. Hirschfeldt, University of Chicago. For abstracts: Expired Differential Geometry, Anders Ingemar Linner and The scientific information listed below may be dated. For Hongyou Wu, Northern Illinois University. the latest information, see www.ams.org/amsmtgs/ Extremal Combinatorics, Dhruv Mubayi and Yi Zhao, Uni- sectional.html. versity of Illinois at Chicago. Fluid Dynamics, Diffusion and Reaction, Peter S. Con- Invited Addresses stantin and Leonid V. Ryzhik, University of Chicago. Ian Agol, University of Illinois at Chicago, Two generator Geometric Aspects of the Langlands Program, Edward Kleinian groups. Frenkel, University of California Berkeley, Dennis Gaitsgory, Robert W. Ghrist, University of Illinois, Urbana- University of Chicago, Mark Goresky, Institute for Advanced Champaign, The geometry and topology of reconfiguration. Study, and Kari Vilonen, Northwestern University. Yuri Manin, Northwestern University, Fractional dimensions Geometric Partial Differential Equations, Gui-Qiang Chen in geometry and algebra. and Jared Wunsch, Northwestern University. 1298 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 51 NUMBER 10 Meetings & Conferences Hopf Algebras at the Crossroads of Algebra, Category Program first available on AMS website: September 23, Theory, and Topology, Louis H. Kauffman and 2004 David E. Radford, University of Illinois at Chicago, and Program issue of electronic Notices: November 2004 Fernando J. O. Souza, University of Iowa. Issue of Abstracts: Volume 25, Issue 4 Index Theory, Morse Theory, and the Witten Deformation Method, Igor Prokhorenkov and Ken Richardson, Texas Deadlines Christian University. For organizers: Expired Iterated Function Systems and Analysis on Fractals, Ka-Sing For consideration of contributed papers in Special Sessions: Lau, Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Stephen S.-T. Expired Yau, University of Illinois at Chicago. For abstracts: Expired Low-Dimensional Topology and Kleinian Groups, Ian Agol, The scientific information listed below may be dated. For John Holt, and Saul Schleimer, University of Illinois at Chicago. the latest information, see www.ams.org/amsmtgs/ sectional.html. Mathematical Problems in Robotics, Robert W. Ghrist, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Invited Addresses Mathematical Techniques in Musical Analysis, Judith Jeffrey F. Brock, Brown University, Ending laminations, Baxter, University of Illinois at Chicago, Richard Cohn, tame ends, and the classification of hyperbolic 3-manifolds University of Chicago, and Robert Peck, Louisiana State University. Der-Chen Chang, Georgetown University, Geometric analy- sis on a class of degenerate elliptic operators. Modern Schubert Calculus, Ezra Miller, University of Min- nesota, and Frank Sottile, University of Massachusetts. Robert Schapire, Princeton University, The boosting ap- Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Applications, proach to machine learning. Gui-Qiang Chen, Northwestern University, and Mikhail Ofer Zeitouni, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Feldman, University of Wisconsin at Madison. Homogenization in asymmetrical random media: Recent Nonlinear Waves, Jerry L. Bona, University of Illinois at results and challenges. Chicago, Shuming Sun, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and Special Sessions State University, and Bingyu Zhang, University of Cincinnati. Representation Theory of Reductive Groups, Jeffrey D. Convexity and Combinatorics, James F. Lawrence and Adler, University of Akron, and Ju-Lee Kim, University of Valeriu Soltan, George Mason University. Illinois at Chicago. Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations in Solving Polynomial Systems, Anton Leykin and Jan Subelliptic Structures, Cristian E. Gutíerrez, Temple Uni- Verschelde, University of Illinois at Chicago. versity, Guozhen Lu, Wayne State University, and Juan J. Special Functions, Orthogonal Polynomials, and Their Manfredi, University of Pittsburgh. Applications, George Gasper, Northwestern University, Graph Polynomials, E. Glen Whitehead Jr., University of and Ahmed I. Zayed, DePaul University. Pittsburgh. Spectral Problems of Differential Operators, Qingkai Kong, The History of Mathematics, Robert E. Bradley, Adelphi Uni- Hongyou Wu, and Anton Zettl, Northern Illinois Univer- versity, and Lawrence A. D’Antonio, Ramapo College of sity. New Jersey. Stability Issues in Fluid Dynamics, Susan J. Friedlander and Invariants of Knots and 3-Manifolds, Marta M. Asaeda, Roman Shvydkoy, University of Illinois at Chicago. University of Maryland, Jozef H. Przytycki, George Wash- ington University, and Adam S. Sikora, SUNY at Buffalo. Knots and Macromolecules, Kenneth C. Millett, University Pittsburgh, of California Santa Barbara, and Eric J. Rawdon, Duquesne Pennsylvania University. Mathematical Biology, Jonathan E. Rubin and Bard University of Pittsburgh Ermentrout, University of Pittsburgh. Mathematical Finance, David Saunders and John Chadam, November 6–7, 2004 University of Pittsburgh. Saturday–Sunday Mathematical Modeling of Nonlinear Phenomena in Biology Meeting #1002 and Mechanics, Anna Vainchtein and William C. Troy, Eastern Section University of Pittsburgh. Associate secretary: Lesley M. Sibner Modularity of Galois Representations and Serre’s Conjec- Announcement issue of Notices: September 2004 ture, Mark E. T. Dickinson, University of Pittsburgh. NOVEMBER 2004 NOTICES OF THE AMS 1299 Meetings & Conferences Multiscale Algorithms in Computational Fluid Dynamics, Contestants can ask for help from anyone in the audience, William J. Layton, University of Pittsburgh, and Anasta- so the more people in the audience who know mathe- sios Liakos, U.S. Naval Academy. matics, the better it is for the contestants. You are invited Multivariate Hypergeometric Functions: Combinatorial and to come and take part in this educational and fun pre- Algebro-Geometric Aspects, Eduardo Cattani, University of sentation. Massachusetts, Amherst, Alicia M. Dickenstein, Univer- MAA Program Updates sidad de Buenos Aires, and Laura Felicia Matusevich, Special Programs and Strategies to Reach Underrepre- Harvard University. sented Populations, Friday, 9:00 a.m.–11:00 a.m., organized Partial Differential Equations and Applications, Xinfu Chen by Elizabeth (Betsy) Yanik, Emporia State University; Jen- and Dehua Wang, University of Pittsburgh. nifer Hontz, Meredith College; and Kathleen Sullivan, PDE-Based Methods in Imaging and Vision, Stacey E. Levine, Seattle University. This poster session is designed to pub- Duquesne University, and Yunmei Chen, University of licize successful activities which have been used to attract Florida. and encourage underrepresented populations in mathe- matics. It is expected that posters representing a wide Trends in Operator Theory and Banach Spaces, Christopher J. range of programming would be appropriate for this ses- Lennard and Thomas A. Metzger, University of Pittsburgh. sion. Efforts such as after-school clubs, special conferences, mentoring programs, and summer camps are just a few of the possible formats that might be high- Atlanta, Georgia lighted. Recipients of grants from the Tensor Foundation Atlanta Marriott Marquis and Hyatt or the NSF programs in Gender Diversity in STEM Educa- tion or Informal Science might be particularly interested Regency Atlanta in sending in a poster proposal. Those who are conduct- ing pilot projects or beginning projects are also welcome January 5–8, 2005 to submit a poster proposal to present in this session. Wednesday–Saturday Send title and abstract by email to yanikeli@emporia. edu or by regular mail to Betsy Yanik, Department of Math- Meeting #1003 ematics and Computer Science,
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