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 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. OCTOBER 2013 NOTICES OF THE AMS 1221 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. David Ambrose and Shari Moskow, Drexel University. Partially Ordered Sets, Csaba Biro and Stephen J. Combinatorial Commutative Algebra, Tái Huy Há, Tu- Young, University of Louisville. lane University, and Fabrizio Zanello, Massachusetts Insti- Recent Advances on Commutative Algebra and Its Ap- tute of Technology and Michigan Technological University. plications, Hamid Kulosman and Jinjia Li, University of Contact and Symplectic Topology, Joshua M. Sabloff, Louisville, and Hamid Rahmati, Miami University. Haverford College, and Lisa Traynor, Bryn Mawr College. Set Theory and Its Applications, Paul Larson, Miami Difference Equations and Applications, Michael Radin, University, Justin Moore, Cornell University, and Grigor Rochester Polytechnic Institute, and Faina Berezovskaya, Sargsyan, Rutgers University. Howard University. Spreading Speeds and Traveling Waves in Spatial- Geometric Aspects of Topology and Group Theory, Temporal Evolution Systems, Bingtuan Li, University of David Futer, Temple University, and Ben McReynolds, Purdue University. Louisville, and Roger Lui, Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Geometric Topology of Knots and 3-manifolds, Abhijit The Work of Mathematicians and Mathematics Depart- Champanerkar, Ilya Kofman, and Joseph Maher, College ments in Mathematics Education, Benjamin Braun, Carl of Staten Island and The Graduate Center, City University Lee, and David Royster, University of Kentucky. of New York. Topological Dynamics and Ergodic Theory, Alica Miller, Geometric and Spectral Analysis, Thomas Krainer, University of Louisville, and Joe Rosenblatt, University of Pennsylvania State Altoona, and Gerardo A. Mendoza, Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Temple University. Weak Convergence in Probability and Statistics, Cristina Higher Structures in Algebra, Geometry and Physics, Tone, Ryan Gill, and Kiseop Lee, University of Louisville. Jonathan Block, University of Pennsylvania, Vasily Dol- gushev, Temple University, and Tony Pantev, University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, History of Mathematics in America, Thomas L. Bartlow, Villanova University, Paul R. Wolfson, West Chester Uni- Pennsylvania versity, and David E. Zitarelli, Temple University. Mathematical Biology, Isaac Klapper, Temple Univer- Temple University sity, and Kathleen Hoffman, University of Maryland, Baltimore County. October 12–13, 2013 Meshfree, Particle, and Characteristic Methods for Par- Saturday – Sunday tial Differential Equations, Toby Driscoll and Louis Rossi, University of Delaware, and Benjamin Seibold, Temple Meeting #1093 University. Eastern Section Modular Forms and Modular Integrals in Memory of Associate secretary: Steven H. Weintraub Marvin Knopp, Helen Grundman, Bryn Mawr College, Announcement issue of Notices: June 2013 and Wladimir Pribitkin, College of Staten Island and the Program first available on AMS website: August 29, 2013 Graduate Center, City University of New York. Program issue of electronic Notices: October 2013 Multiple Analogues of Combinatorial Special Numbers Issue of Abstracts: Volume 34, Issue 3 and Associated Identities, Hasan Coskun, Texas A&M Uni- versity Commerce. Deadlines Nonlinear Elliptic and Wave Equations and Applications, For organizers: Expired Nsoki Mavinga, Swarthmore College, and Doug Wright, For abstracts: Expired Drexel University. 1222 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 60, NUMBER 9 Meetings & Conferences Parabolic Evolution Equations of Geometric Type, Special Sessions Xiaodong Cao, Cornell University, Longzhi Lin, Rutgers Advances in Difference, Differential, and Dynamic Equa- University, and Peng Wu, Cornell University. tions with Applications, Elvan Akin, Missouri S&T Univer- Partial Differential Equations, Stochastic Analysis, and sity, Youssef Raffoul, University of Dayton, and Agacik Applications to Mathematical Finance, Paul Feehan and Zafer, American University of the Middle East. Ruoting Gong, Rutgers University, and Camelia Pop, Uni- Advances in Mathematical Methods for Disease Model- versity of Pennsylvania. ing, Jimin Ding, Washington University in St. Louis, Necibe Recent Advances in Harmonic Analysis and Partial Dif- Tuncer, University of Tulsa, and Naveen K. Vaidya, Uni- ferential Equations, Cristian Gutiérrez and Irina Mitrea, versity of Missouri-Kansas City. Temple University. Algebraic Cycles and Coherent Sheaves, Roya Beheshti, Recent Developments in Noncommutative Algebra, Matt Kerr, and N. Mohan Kumar, Washington University Edward Letzter and Martin Lorenz, Temple University. in St. Louis. Representation Theory, Combinatorics and Categorifica- Algebraic and Combinatorial Invariants of Knots, tion, Corina Calinescu, New York City College of Technol- Heather Dye, McKendree University, Allison Henrich, ogy, City University of New York, Andrew Douglas, New Seattle University, Aaron Kaestner, North Park University, York City College of Technology and Graduate Center, and Louis Kauffman, University of Illinois. City University of New York, and Joshua Sussan and Bart Automorphic Forms and Representation Theory, Du- Van Steirteghem, Medgar Evers College, City University bravka Ban and Joe Hundley, Southern Illinois University, of New York. and Shuichiro Takeda, University of Missouri, Columbia. Several Complex Variables and CR Geometry, Andrew Commutative Algebra, Lianna Sega, University of Mis- Raich, University of Arkansas, and Yuan Zhang, Indiana souri, Kansas City, and Hema Srinivasan,