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April 2005 May 2005 * 8–9 Workshop on Sampling, Spectral Theory and Their Applica- * 4–5 Latent Variable Models and Survey Data for Social and tions, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, Georgia. Health Sciences, Centre de recherches mathématiques, Université Organizers: Amin Boumenir (UWG), email: [email protected]; de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada. Vu Kim Tuan (UWG), email: [email protected]. Organizer:MaryE.Thompson(UniversityofWaterloo). Invited Speakers:L.Littlejohn(Univ.ofUtah),H.Volkmer(Milwau- kee Univ.), A. Zayed (DePaul Univ.). * 9–July 3 Uncertainty and Information in Economics, Institute for Description: This workshop is intended for researchers and grad- Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore. uate students workingon Samplingand Spectral Theory and Their Description: The program will consist of tutorials and a workshop Applications. The two-day workshop consists of three mini series with ample opportunities for collaborative research amonglocal of lectures delivered by experts in the area and includes the latest and international participants. In addition, the Tenth Conference trends, updates and methods. Each speaker will deliver 3 one-hour on Theoretical Aspects of Rationality and Knowledge will also be lectures; no other contributions are planned. Due to the restricted held on June 10–12, 2005 in conjunction with the workshop in the number of seats, participants should register by April 1st, 2005 by program. e-mailing one of the organizers. The organizers have no funding Program: Introducingprobabilistic analysis to manageuncer- to support the attendance of participants. tainty and limited information in basic microeconomic models Information: Contact Micky Weldon, email: [email protected], has enriched our understandingof economic behavior and made tel: 678-839-6489. fundamental advances in the mathematical theory of economics. This program will have three sub-themes: game theory, information * 29–May 1 2005 Midwest Geometry Conference, Ohio State Uni- economics, and finance, with uncertainty and information as the versity, Columbus, Ohio. underlyingthread connectingthese sub-themes. Specific topics Workshop Topics: Positively curved manifolds, Ricci flow and include basic game theory, coalition formation, auctions, incen- solitons, geometric group theory. tive compatibility, automated and algorithmic mechanism design, Local Organizers: Andrzej Derdzinski, Tadeusz Januszkiewicz, equilibrium and asset pricing. In addition to participating in the Fangyang Zheng. workshop and tutorials, program visitors will give seminars related Plenary Speakers: Huai-DongCao (Lehigh), Ben Chow (UC San to the core themes and engage in research interactions and new Diego), Claude LeBrun (Stony Brook), Igor Mineyev (Urbana- collaborations. Champaign), Xiaochun Rong (Rutgers), Ralf Spatzier (Ann Arbor). Confirmed participators: Robert Anderson (University of Califor- Information: Status: Conference is tentative pendingapproval of nia at Berkeley), Bernard Cornet (Université Paris 1 and University of support from NSF. http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/~andrzej/ Kansas), Pradeep Dubey (State University of New York, Stony Brook), mgc05.html Joseph Y. Halpern (Cornell University), Peter Hammond (Stanford

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University), Sergiu Hart (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Tom Plenary Speakers: Frederic Campana (Nancy, France), Yves Benoist Henzinger (Ećole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne), Ali Khan (Paris, France), Jan Willem Klop (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), (Johns Hopkins University), Felix Kubler (Universitaet Mannheim), Francoise Point (Mons, Belgium), and the Brouwer Medal Award Isaac Levi (Columbia University), Eric Maskin (Institute for Ad- Winner. EveningLeisure Lectures by Jean Doyen (Brussels, Belgium) vanced Study, Princeton), Rohit Parikh (City University of New and Burkard Polster (Monash, Australia). York), John Quah (University of Oxford), Roberto Raimondo (Uni- Sessions and Organizers: 1a. Differential Geometry, N. Poncin versity of Melbourne), Kali Rath (University of Notre Dame), Ilya (Luxembourg) and M. Schlichemaier (Luxembourg), 1b. Algebraic Ge- Segal (Stanford University), Sudhir Shah (University of Delhi), Henry ometry, O. Debarre (France), 2a. Mathematical Statistics, R. Gill (The Tulkens (Universite´ Catholique de Louvain, Belgium), Anne Villamil Netherlands), M. Hallin (Belgium) and P. Massart (France), 2b. Cod- (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Myrna Wooders (Uni- ing/CryptoTheory,H.vanTilborg (TheNetherlands) and A.Canteaut versity of Warwick), Nicholas Yannelis (University of Illinois at (France), 3a. Harmonic Analysis, A. Valette (Belgium/Switserland) Urbana-Champaign) and Sang-Seung Yi (Seoul National University) and C. Molitor-Braun (Luxembourg), 3b. Partial Differential Equa- Registration: Registration forms for participation in the tutori- tions, G. Lebeau (France) and J. Hulshof (The Netherlands), 4a. als or workshop are available at http://www.ims.nus.edu.sg/ Computer Science, B. Hoogewijs (Belgium), 4b. History of Math- Programs/uie/index.htm. Completed forms should be received ematics, G. Alberts (The Netherlands) and M. Bullinck (Belgium), by the Institute at least one month before commencement of each 5a.NoncommutativeAlgebra,L.DeBruyn(Belgium)andJ.Alev activity. Registration is free of charge. Institute membership is not (France), 5b. Model Theory, F. Point (Belgium) and Z. Chatzidakis required for participation. (France). Information: Contacts: For general enquiries, please email email: [email protected]. For enquiries on scientific aspects of the program, June 2005 please email YenengSun at email: [email protected] information at website: http://www.ims.nus.edu.sg/Programs/ * 1–5 10th International Conference Mathematical Modelling uie/index.htm. and Analysis and 2nd International Conference Computational Methods in Applied Mathematics, Trakai, Lithuania. * 14–20 Workshop on Symplectic Field Theory,Universityof Aim: The Conference focuses on various aspects of mathematical Leipzig, Germany. modellingand usageof finite difference and finite element meth- Topic: Lecture series by Helmut Hofer on “Fredholm theory in ods for numerical solution of modern problems of science and Polyfolds with Applications”. engineering. Organizers: Kai Cieliebak, Helmut Hofer, Dusa McDuff, Klaus Conference organizers: The International Association for Math- Mohnke, Matthias Schwarz. ematics and Computers in Simulation (IMACS). The European Deadline: January 17, 2005. Consortium for Mathematics in Industry (ECMI). Vilnius Gedim- Information: http://www.math.uni-leipzig.de/ws/. inas Technical University (VGTU). Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Vilnius (IMI). Vilnius University (VU). Computational * 15–19 SIAM Conference on Optimization, Norra Latin, City methods in applied mathematics (CMAM). Conference Centre, Stockholm, Sweden. Topics: Analysis of numerical methods for solvingproblems of Information: http://www.siam.org/meetings/OP05/. For addi- mathematical physics; Parallel algorithms and parallel computing; tional information, contact SIAM Conference Department at email: Applications of numerical methods; Analysis of ODE and PDE [email protected]. problems and applications; Navier–Stokes equations and Compu- tational Fluid Dynamics; Image processing; Financial mathematics * 16–20 Fifth IMACS Seminar on Monte Carlo Methods,Florida and mathematics in economics; Scientific computation. The sci- State University, Tallahassee, Florida. entific program includes Invited Plenary Talks (40 min), Invited Plenary Speakers: Financial Applications: Ashvin Chhabra, Merrill Semi-plenary lectures (30 min) and Contributed Talks (20 min). The Lynch, USA. Random Number Generation: Pierre L’Ecuyer, Univ. program also includes Poster Sessions. de Montreal, Canada. Biological and Medical Applications: Alex Deadlines: Abstracts: March 30, 2005. Notification of participation Bielajew, University of Michigan, USA. Nuclear Engineering Ap- and reservation of accommodation: May 10, 2005. plications: Forrest Brown, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA. Information: Dr. A. Tikonas (MMA2005 & CMAM2), Inst. of Math. Statistical Physics Applications: David Landau, University of Geor- and Inform., Akademijos 4, LT-08663,Vilnius, Lithuania; tel: (+370 gia, USA. Monte Carlo in Education: Robert Panoff, Shodor Education 5) 210 97 34, (+370) 5 269 89 28; fax: (+370 5) 272 92 09; email: Foundation, USA. Statistical Applications: Jun Liu, Harvard Uni- [email protected];[email protected]; http://www.vtu.lt/ versity, USA. Applied Mathematics and Monte Carlo: Alexandre rc/mma2005/. Chorin, University of California at Berkeley, USA. Monte Carlo in Radiation Transport: Eugene Brooks, Lawrence Livermore National * 5–10 31st International Conference “Applications of Mathemat- Laboratory, USA. ics in Engineering and Economics”, Sozopol, Bulgaria. Important dates: February 15, 2005: Deadline for submission Topics: Potential Theory and Partial Differential Equations, Mathe- of special session proposals. Such proposals should include the matical Analysis and Appl., Operation Research, Numerical Methods session name, the organizer, the list of speakers, and a list of talk and Mathematical Modeling, Computer Science. titles with abstracts. February 21, 2005: Deadline for submission Organizer: Faculty of Applied Mathematics and Informatics by the of extended abstracts for contributed talks. Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria. Information:email:[email protected]; http://mcm2005.csit. Information: http://www.tu-sofia.bg/fpmi/amee05/. fsu.edu/intro.html. * 6–24 Summer School and Conference on Geometry and Topology * 20–22 First Joint Meeting ofthe Mathematical Societies of of3-Manifolds ,ICTP,Trieste,Italy. Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and France,University Organizers: Michel Boileau, Carlo Petronio, Bruno Zimmermann. of Ghent, Galglaan 2, 9000 Gent, Belgium. Deadline: January 20, 2005. Description: This conference is a joint organization of the Math- Information:http://agenda.ictp.trieste.it/agenda/current/ ematical societies of France, Luxembourg, The Netherlands and fullAgenda.php?email=0&ida=a04195. Belgium. It is the fourth in the series for Belgium, and counts as the 41st KWG meeting. It focuses on some main current themes in pure * 8–11 Second Advanced Course in Operator Theory and Complex and applied mathematics. On the meeting, the KWG awards the Analysis, Seville, Spain. Brouwer Medal, and the Award Winner will give a plenary lecture. Information: http://www.us.es/ceacyto2.

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* 13–17 Recent Developments and Open Questions in Iwasawa Information: http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk/icms/meetings/2005/ theory (in honor ofRalph Greenberg’s 60th birthday) ,Boston klig. University, Boston, Massachusetts. Topics: Main conjectures for modular forms (cyclotomic, anticyclo- * 27–July 5 Probability and Mathematical Physics, Centre de re- tomic), non-abelian Iwasawa theory, supersingular Iwasawa theory, cherches mathématiques, Montréal, Québec, Canada. p-adic variation and p-adic families. Description: Conference celebratingthe 65th birthday of Stanislav Funding: Fundingmay be available for graduate students and Molchanov. recent postdocs. Organizers: Don Dawson (Carleton & McGill), Vojkan Jaksic (McGill), Information:http://math.bu.edu/people/rpollack/greenberg. Boris Vainberg(UNCC). html. Invited Speakers: G. Ben Arous (Courant), L. Bogachev (England), R. Carmona (Princeton), K. Chen (N. Carolina), M. Cranston (Rochester), * 14–18 Random Media and Stochastic Partial Differential Equa- G. Derfel (Ben Gurion), E. Dynkin (Cornel), A. Figotin (Irvine), M. tions, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California. Freidlin (Maryland), J. Gaertner (Berlin), I. Goldsheid (England), A. Organizer: Sergey Lototsky ([email protected]). Gordon (Rochester), R. Grigorchuk (Texas A&M), D. Hundertmark Speakers: M. I. Freidlin (University of Maryland, College Park); (Illinois), S. Jitomirskaya (Irvine), R. Kashminski (Detroit),* K. Khanin R. Z. Khasminskii (Wayne State University); N. V. Krylov (Uni- (England), W. Kirsch (Ruhr), A. Kiselev (Wisconsin), A. Klein (Irvine), versity of Minnesota); G. Papanicolaou (Stanford University); A. N. L. Koralov (Princeton), S. Kotani (Japan),* P. Kuchment (Texas Shiryaev (Steklov Mathematics Institute, Moscow, Russia); R. Sowers A&M),A.Laptev(Stockholm),Y.Last(Hebrew),V.Malyshev(Paris), (Univesity of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign). M. Menshykov (England), N. Minami (Japan), L. Pastur (Ukraine), Information: Program to be posted at http://math.usc.edu. A. Ramirez (Chile), B. Simon (Caltech), A. Soshnikov (Davies), T. Spencer (IAS). (*) To be confirmed. * 15–18 Algebraic and Topological Methods in Non-classical Logics II, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. * 30–July 2 Primeras Jornadas de Teor˘ıa de Numeros´ , EPSVG-UPC, Description: The semantic study of non-classical logics is a field Vilanova i la Geltru(Barcelona),Spain.´ where no single overarching paradigm has been established, and Description: The “Jornadas de Teor˘ıa de Numeros”´ (Number Theory where a variety of techniques are currently beingexplored. An Conference) are born to become a periodic meetingpoint for the important goal of this meeting is to promote the cross-fertilization arithmetical community working in Spanish language, so that it between the fundamental ideas connected with these approaches. can show the state of the art of research in Number Theory in Spain Information: The names of invited speakers, and further details and promote relationships between different research groups. about travel grants, hotels, etc., will be posted at the congress’ web Invited Speakers:P.Bayer,J.Cilleruelo,E.Friedman,J.Guàrdia, J. page http://www.mat.ub.es/~logica/meeting2005/. Please visit C. Peral, F. Rodr´ıguez-Villegas. it for any other information on the meeting. Scientific Committee:J.González-Rovira, J. Munoz-Porras,˜ E. Nart, A. Quiros,´ N. Vila. * 21–24 International Workshop on Function Theory in Seoul, Organizing Committee:G.Cardona,J.Fernández, J. González- Korea University, Seoul, Korea. Rovira,J.Guàrdia, V. Rotger. Description: Operator-related function theory and related topics Information: http://anduril.epsevg.upc.es/~jtn05. will be the main themes of the workshop. Information: http://math.korea.ac.kr/~iwft2005/. July 2005 * 22–24 Logic, Game Theory and Social Choice 4,Universityof * 9–15 Nonlinear dispersive wave phenomena, Anogia Academic Caen, Caen, France. Village, Crete, Greece. Description: FollowingLGS1 (Tilburg1999), LGS2 (St.Petersburg Organizers:J.L.Bona,V.A.Dougalis,J.-C.Saut. 2001) and LGS3 (Siena 2003), LGS4 will bringinto focus the develop- Main speakers:J.L.Bona,U.,A.S.Fokas,F.Merle,J-C.Saut,C. ing theoretical connections between logic and game theory, game Sulem. theory and social choice, logic and social choice. The conference Support: For youngscientists (pre- and post-Ph.D.). program will consist of invited lectures and contributed papers. Deadline: April 9, 2005. Submissions of contributed papers are invited. Papers focussing Information: Financial applications: email: [email protected]. on connections between the relevant disciplines are especially gr. encouraged by the Program Committee. Keynote Speakers: Eric Maskin (Institute of Advanced Studies, * 10–15 Counting Complexity: An International Workshop on Princeton, USA); Philippe Mongin (CNRS and Ecole Polytechnique, Statistical Mechanics and Combinatorics: In Celebration ofthe Paris, France); Harrie de Swart (TilburgUniversity, The Netherlands). 60th Birthday ofTony Guttmann , Dunk Island, Queensland, Abstract deadline: Complete papers or two-page abstracts should Australia. be sent to Vincent Merlin ([email protected])orMaurice Organizers:RichardBrak,JandeGier,AleksOwczarek,OleWarnaar. Salles ([email protected]) as PDF files before March 1st, Information: http://www.complex.org.au/conferences/t60. 2005. Acceptance will be communicated to the authors by the 15th of April 2005. * 11–15 Novi Sad Algebraic Conference 2005,UniversityofNovi Information: http://www.unicaen.fr/crem. Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia/Serbia and Montenegro. Program: In order to attract younger researchers and others who * 27–July 1 Algebraic K- and L-theory ofInfinite Groups ,ICMS, are not experts in the area, there will be longer plenary talks, Edinburgh, Scotland. 60 minutes in duration. Many of them should be of expository, Organizers:AndrewRanicki,IanHambleton. survey-like nature, which should make them understandable to Main speakers:M.Bridson,J.F.Davis,F.T.Farrell,W.Lueck,E.K. a wider audience. The afternoon sessions will be reserved for Pedersen, F. Quinn. contributed talks in several special sessions, the number of which Invitation only: Space is limited. Anyone interested in an invitation will depend on the number of speakers. The duration of these will should contact Andrew Ranicki ([email protected]). be 20 minutes, and it is expected that the speakers will present Financial support: For certain categories of participant–see the their most interestingrecent research. website for details. Topics: Universal algebra, Lattices and ordered structures, Model Support: By the London Mathematical Society and by the Edinburgh theory and set theory, Clone theory, Algebraic methods in computer node of the EU RTN Network HPRN-CT-2002-00287. science.

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Plenary speakers: Z. Esik (Univ. of Szeged), R. Freese (Univ. of Description: This biannual event is the premier conference linking Hawaii), P. Idziak (Jagiellonian Univ., Krakow), J. Jezek (Charles algebraists and algebraic geometers from all of Latin America. Univ., Prague), K. Kearnes (Univ. of Colorado at Boulder), R. Topics: Besides the plenary talks and general courses this meeting Mckenzie (Vanderbilt Univ.), R. Poschel¨ (Technical Univ., Dresden), will have seven thematic parallel sessions on the followingtopics: I. Rosenberg(Univ. of Montreal), A. Szendrei (Univ. of Colorado at Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, Non-associative Boulder), S. Todorèeviæ (Univ. of Toronto & Universite Paris 7), F. Algebras and Ring theory, Group Theory, Hopf Algebras and Wehrung(Univ. of Caen), R. Willard (Univ. of Waterloo). Algebraic Combinatorics,HomologicalMethods and Representation Deadlines: The deadline for the registration is April 30, 2005; The Theory, Number Theory, Operator Algebras. A special session on abstract submission deadline is May 31, 2005. Applications of Algebra will also be held. Information:http://www.im.ns.ac.yu/events/NSAC05/default. Speakers: A list of a few of the confirmed speakers is the following: html;email:[email protected]. Nicolas Andruskiewitsch, Raymundo Bautista, Michel Brion, Ken Brown, Antonio Campillo, Max Karoubi, Jean-Louis Loday, Susan * 11–22 SMS 2005-NATO Advanced Summer Institute: Equidis- Montgomery, Adrian Ocneanu, Jose Antonio de la Pena,˜ Vladimir tribution in Number Theory,UniversitédeMontréal, Montréal, Popov, Hans-Jurgen Schneider, Aron Simis, Frank Sottile, Richard Canada. Stanley, Boris Tsygan, Mariusz Wodzicki. Speakers: Yuri Bilu (Bordeaux I), William Duke (UCLA), John Organizing and Scientific Committee: Walter Ferrer Santos (Co- Friedlander (Toronto), Andrew Granville (Montréal), Roger Heath- ord.), Gerardo Gonzalez-Sprinberg, Alfredo Jones, Alvaro Rittatore, Brown (Oxford), Elon Lindenstrauss (NYU), Jens Marklof (Bristol), Andrea Solotar. Zeev Rudnick (Tel Aviv), Wolfgang Schmidt (Colorado at Boulder and Deadline: May 1st, 2005. ¨ Vienna), K. Soundararajan (Michigan), Yuri Tschinkel (Gottingen), Information:http://www.cmat.edu.uy/cmat/eventos/16cla/en; Emmanuel Ullmo (Paris-Sud 11), Akshay Venkatesh (MIT). Walter Ferrer: email: [email protected] Features: Uniform Distribution and beyond: Applications to Cryp- tographic protocols, distribution of integers, level statistics. Integer * 3–5 30th Sapporo Symposium on Partial Differential Equations, and rational points on varieties: Geometry of numbers, the circle Sapporo, Japan. method, homogeneous varieties via spectral theory and ergodic Description: The Sapporo Symposium on Partial Differential Equa- theory. The Andre-Oort conjectures: Equidistribution of CM-points tions(PDE)hasbeenheldannuallytopresentthelatestdevelopments and Hecke points, points of small height. Quantum ergodicity: on PDE with a broard spectrum of interests not limited to the Quantum maps and modular surfaces. methods of a particular school. Note: This summer school is primarily targeted at senior grad Organizers: T. Ozawa, G. Nakamura, S. Jimbo, Y. Giga, K. Tsutaya, students, postdocs and junior faculty. For full consideration, Y. Tonegawa. requests for participation or financial assistance must be received Information:email:[email protected]; http://coe. before February 28, 2005. Financial support available. math.sci.hokudai.ac.jp/sympo/sapporo/program050803_en. Information: http://www.dms.umontreal.ca/sms/;email: html. [email protected]. * 5–11 Logic In Hungary, 2005, Budapest, Hungary. * 16–August 1 The Eighth International Diffiety school,Santo Topics: Set Theory, Foundations of Space-Time, Algebraic Logic, Stefano del Sole (Avellino), Italy. but contributions from all other branches of symbolic logic are Aim: The aim of the School is to introduce undergraduate and welcome. Ph.D. students in Mathematics and Physics as well as post-doctoral researchers in a recently emerged area of Mathematics and Theo- Organizing Committee: A. Hajnal, J Suranyi (honorary chair), retical Physics: Secondary Calculus. A diffiety is a new geometrical H. Andreka, I. Juhasz, P. Komjath, I. Nemeti (co-chair), G. Sagi object that properly formalizes the concept of the solution space (secretary), L. Csirmaz, M. Ferenczi, M. Redei, I. Sain and L. Soukup of a given system of (nonlinear) PDEs, much as an algebraic variety (members). does with respect to solutions of a given system of algebraic Information:Contact:email:[email protected]; http://www.renyi. equations. Secondary Calculus is a natural diffiety analogue of the hu/lh05. standard Calculus on smooth manifolds, and as such leads to a * 7–12 High-dimensional Partial Differential Equations in Science very rich general theory of nonlinear PDEs. Moreover, it appears to and Engineering, Centre de recherches mathématiques, Université be the unique natural language for quantum physics, just as the de Montréal Montréal, Québec, Canada. standard Calculus is the natural language for classical physics. Organizer: Diffiety Institute (Russia). Description: High dimensional spatio-temporal partial differential Deadline: June 15, 2005. equations are a major challenge to scientific computing of the future. Up to now deemed prohibitive, they have recently become Contact: Prof. A. M. Vinogradov, Dipartimento di Matematica e manageable by combining recent developments in numerical tech- Informatica, Universita‘ di Salerno, Via Ponte del Melillo, 84084 niques, appropriate computer implementations, and the use of Fisciano (SA), Italy; email: school05 @ diffiety.org; http:// computers with parallel and even massively parallel architectures. diffiety.ac.ru. This opens new perspectives in many fields of applications. Ki- * 23–29 Number fields and curves over finite fields, Anogia netic plasma physics equations, many body Schro¨dinger equation, Academic Village, Crete, Greece. Dirac and Maxwell equations for molecular electronic structure Organizer: R. Schoof. and nuclear dynamic computations, options pricingequations in Main speakers:G.vanderGeer,D.Lorenzini,R.Schoof,M. mathematical finance, and Fokker-Planck and fluid dynamics equa- Tsfasman. tions for complex fluids, are examples of equations that can now Support: For youngscientists (pre- and post-Ph.D.), especially from be handled. EU Member and Associated States. Scientific Program Committee and Organizers:André Bandrauk Deadline: March 23, 2005. (CRC, Chimie, Université de Sherbrooke); Michel Delfour (CRM/DMS, ´ Information: Financial applications: email: [email protected]. UniversitédeMontréal, Canada); Claude Le Bris (CERMICS, Ecole gr. Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, France).

August 2005 * 8–12 NSF-CBMS Regional Conference on Algebraic and Topologi- cal Combinatorics ofOrdered Sets , San Francisco State University, * 1–9 XVI Coloquio Latinoamericano de Algebra, Colonia, Uruguay. San Francisco, California.

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Speaker:AndersBjoorner¨ will give ten lectures to introduce September 2005 background material, fundamental results, and recent advances in * 5–8 8th International Conference on Logic Programming and thefieldofalgebraic andtopologicalcombinatoricsofpartiallyorder Nonmonotonic Reasoning (LPNMR’05), Diamante, Cosenza, Italy. sets, (oriented) matroids, subspace arrangements, and algebraic shiftingetc. Most of the 40-50 participants should expect to obtain Description: LPNMR is a forum for exchanging ideas on declarative funding. Graduate students and postdocs are highly encouraged logic programming, nonmonotonic reasoning and knowledge rep- to apply. resentation. The aim of the conference is to facilitate interactions between researchers interested in the design and implementation Other Speakers: Alexander Barvinok, Winfried Bruns, Gunnar of logic based programming languages and database systems, and Carlsson, Persi Diaconis, Isabella Novik, Bernd Sturmfels, Michelle researchers who work in the areas of knowledge representation Wachs, Neil White. and nonmonotonic reasoning. Authors are invited to submit papers Organizers:J.Gubeladze,email:[email protected];S.Hosten; presentingoriginal and unpublished research on nonmonotonic email: [email protected]. aspects of logic programming and knowledge representation. We Information: http://math.sfsu.edu/gubeladze/cbms.html. particularly encourage papers on application of LPNMR techniques to build significant applications. * 14–19 International Conference on Complex Analysis and Re- lated Topics: The 10th Romanian-Finnish Seminar, “Babes-Bolyai” Topics: Development and mathematical studies of logical systems University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. with nonmonotonic entailment relations, Implementation of LPNMR Organizers: The Institute of Mathematics ”Simion Stoilow” of the systems, and Applications of LPNMR systems. Romanian Academy, the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics Important dates: Abstract Submission Deadline: March 22, 2005; of the University of Bucharest, the Faculty of Mathematics and GMT; Paper Submission Deadline: March 25, 2005; Notification Informatics of the ”Babes-Bolyai” University of Cluj-Napoca, the (Accept/Reject): May 16, 2005; Conference Schedule: June 6, 2005; Universities of Helsinki, Joensuu and Jyvaskyla from Finland. Final Conference Papers: June 10, 2005; Early Registration Deadline: Topics: Analytic functions of one complex variable; Quasiconformal July 4, 2005. mappings and Teichmuller spaces; Several complex variables; Information: http://www.mat.unical.it/lpnmr05/. Potential theory; Functional analytical methods in complex analysis. Registration: A preliminary registration form (including: Name; * 12–15 Third International Workshop Meshfree Methods for First name; Institution/Affiliation; Address/E-mail; Sections’ par- Partial Differential Equations, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Uni- ticipation) should be returned (either by e-mail or by standard mail; versita¨t Bonn, Bonn, Germany. see address below). Description: The numerical treatment of partial differential equa- Information: Complex Analysis and Related Topics c/o Institute of tions with meshfree discretization techniques has been a very active Mathematics “Simion Stoilow” of the Romanian Academy, P.O. Box research area in recent years. While the fundamental theory of 1-764, 014700, Bucharest, Romania; fax:+40 21 212 51 26; email: meshfree methods has been developed and considerable advances [email protected]. of the various methods have been made, many challenges in the mathematical analysis and practical implementation of meshfree * 17–21 Third Pacific Rim Conference on Mathematics,Fudan methods remain. University, Shanghai, China. Sponsor: Sonderforschungsbereich 611. Topics: All areas of mathematics with focus topics on: Algebra Deadlines: Abstract: About 300 words (preferably in LaTeX format) and Combinatorics; Algebraic Aspects of Lie Theory and Geometry; to email: [email protected] by May 1, 2005. Confirmation Applied Differential Geometry; Asymptotics and Riemann-Hilbert and program: August 1, 2005. Problems; Computational Approach to Complex Dynamical Sys- Information: http://wissrech.ins.uni-bonn.de/meshfree. tems; Kinetic Theory; Low Dimensional Topology and Geometry; Nonlinear Analysis Nonlinear Phenomena, Symmetry and Integrable * 12–16 p-Adic Representations, Centre de recherches mathémati- Structures; Partial Differential Equations and Applications. ques, Univ. de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada. Plenary Speakers: Gerard Jennhwa Chang(Taiwan), ShuxingChen Topics: The main topics are related to a p-adic Langlands corre- (China), Philippe G. Ciarlet (HongKong), Konstantin Mischaikow spondence and its relationship to p-adic families of motives. More (USA), Colin Rogers (Australia), Minoru Wakimoto, (Japan), Shicheng precisely the p-adic Langlands correspondence is a correspondence Wang(China), Roderick Wong(HongKong), Shih-Hsien Yu (Hong between p-adic Galois representations of dimension n (of the abso- Kong). lute Galois group of Qp) and certain representations of GLn(Qp) on Supporter: Fudan University, Mathematical Center of Ministry of p-adic topological vector spaces. This correspondence is supposed Education of China, National Natural Science Foundation of China, to be compatible with p-adic families on both sides. Chinese Mathematical Society, China Society for Industrial and Organizers: Adrian Iovita (Concordia); Henri Darmon (McGill). Applied Mathematics, Liu Bie Ju Centre for Mathematical Sciences Information: http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/Number2005/. (City University of HongKong), Sino-French Institute of Applied Mathematics * 12–16 CASC’2005: The 8th International Workshop on Computer Information: Contact: Zhou Chunlian, Sino-French Institute of Algebra in Scientific Computing, CASC’2005, Kalamata, Greece. Applied Mathematics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China; Organizers:CASCGeneralChairs:V.P.Gerdt(Dubna),E.W.Mayr tel: 81-21-6564 2469; fax: 86-21-6564 8274; email: clzhou@fudan. (Munich) CASC’2005 Conference Chairs: I. Z. Emiris (Athens), I. S. edu.cn; http://PRCM3.fudan.edu.cn. Kotsireas (Waterloo), M. N. Vrahatis (Patras). Deadlines: For submissions: April 1, 2005. Notification of accep- * 20–26 Algebraic and Geometric Combinatorics, Anogia Academic tance: June 30, 2005. Final version due: July 15, 2005. Village, Crete, Greece. Information: http://www.cargo.wlu.ca/casc2005/; Organizers:V.Batyrev,M.Henk,F.Santos. email: [email protected]. Main speakers: V. Batyrev, L. Billera, A. Bjorner, Sweden, M. Henk, P. McMullen, F. Santos, G. Ziegler. * 13–17 5th International Conference on Words, Centre de re- Support: For youngscientists (pre- and post-Ph.D.), especially from cherches mathématiques, UniversitédeMontréal, Montréal, Québec, EU Member and Associated States. Canada. Deadline: April 20, 2005. Organizers: Srecko Brlek (Univ. du Québec à Montréal); Cedric Information: Financial applications: email: [email protected]. Chauve (Univ. Bordeaux I, UQAM); Annie Lacasse (Univ. du Québec gr. àMontréal); Geneviève Paquin (Univ. du Québec à Montréal).

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* 20–27 International Conference Harmonic Analysis and Approx- Distance Learningand Educational technologies,Mathematics and imations, III, Tsahkadzor, Armenia. Science Education. Deadline for Application: March 31, 2005 . Information: http://sci.tamucc.edu/~iccmm/index.html. Description: The program of the conference will consist of invited 40-minutes plenary lectures and contributed 20-minutes talks. The November 2005 following mathematicians have agreed to give a plenary lecture at * 4–6 Geometric and Probabilistic Methods in Group Theory and the conference: Borislav Bojanov (Bulgaria), Carl de Boor (USA) , Dynamical Systems, Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas. Ronald DeVore (USA), Nira Dyn (Israel), Hakop Hakopian (Armenia), Organizers: Rostislav Grigorchuk, Gilles Pisier, Zoran Sunik. Kazaros Kazarian (Spain), Gerard Kerkyacharian (France), Sergey Participants: M. Bestvina, M. Bridson, P. Diaconis, A. Eskin, B. Farb, Konyagin (Russia), Michael Lacey (USA), Konstantin Oskolkov (USA), E. Ghys, C. Gordon, E. Guentner, I. Kapovich, A. Katok, S. Katok, A. Allan Pinkus (Israel), Gerald Shmieder (Germany), Przemyslaw Lubotzky, S. Mozes, A. Olshanskii, S. Popa, A. Reid, L. Saloff-Coste, Wojtaszczyk (Poland). M. Sapir, K. Vogtmann, E. Zelmanov Contact Information: Artur Sahakian, Institute of Mathematics, Deadlines: Abstracts and Registration August 31, 2005, Financial Marshal Bagramian ave, 24-B, 375019, Yerevan, Armenia; email: Support July 31, 2005. [email protected]; http://math.sci.am; fax: (3741) 524801. On- Information: http://www.math.tamu.edu/~sunik/05tamu. line registration is available: http://math.sci.am/conference/ sept2005/registration.html. December 2005 October 2005 * 12–16 Intersection ofArithmetic Cycles and Automorphic Forms,Centrederecherchemathématiques, UniversitédeMontréal, * 21–26 International Conference of Computational Methods in Montréal, Québec, Canada. Sciences and Engineering 2005 (ICCMSE 2005), Hotel Poseidon, Purpose: To explore the relationship between intersection numbers Loutraki, Korinthos, Greece. for arithmetic cycles on Shimura varieties, Fourier coefficients of Description: In the past decades many significant insights have automorphic forms, and special values of L-functions. been made in several areas of Computational Methods in Sciences Organizers: Eyal Goren (McGill) and Henri Darmon (McGill). and Engineering. New problems and methologies have appeared. Information: http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/Number2005/. There is permanently a need in these fields for the advancement of information exchange. * 14–16 CRAMS-05 International Conference on Applied Nonhar- Topics: Computational Mathematics, Theoretical and Computa- monic Fourier Analysis, Business & Computer, University College tional Physics and Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, (BCU), Beirut, Lebanon. Computational Engineering and Mechanics, Computational Biol- Topics: The conference commemorates the Riemann-Lebesgue ogy and Medicine, Computational Geosciences and Meteorology, Lemma Centennial. Its major themes include, but not limited Computational Economics and Finance, Financial Forecasting, Sci- to: multidimensional localization principle, generalized Tauberian entific Computation, High Performance Computing, Parallel and theory, time-frequency-scale multiresolution analysis, the Segal- Distributed Computing, Visualization, Problem Solving Environ- Bargmann transform, Gabor wavelets and frames, invertibility of ments, Software Tools, Advanced Numerical Algorithms, Modelling Gabor transforms, functional analysis of Gabor frames, almost and Simulation of Complex System, Web-based Simulation and periodic and recurrent functional analysis, reversed filtration and Computing, Grid-based Simulation and Computing, Computational regularization, connections with functional equations and tiling Grids, Fuzzy Logic, Hybrid Computational Methods, Data Mining theory, nonlinear filter theory, analysis with fractal measures, and Information Retrieval, Virtual Reality, Reliable Computing, signal reconstruction in communication theory, and fast numerical Image Processing, Computational Science and Education etc. algorithms. Information: Secretary ICCMSE 2005 (Mrs Eleni Ralli-Simou), email: Deadlines: The deadline for submittingAbstracts is May 15, 2005, [email protected], 26 Menelaou Street, Amfithea Paleon Faliron, GR- for notification of acceptance is July 15, 2005, and for full-length 175 64, Athens, Greece, fax: +30210 94 20 091 or + 30 2710 paper submission is Sept. 15, 2005. 237397. Information:N.H.S.Haidar,ChairmanoftheOrganizingCommittee for CRAMS-05, Business & Computer University College (BCU), * 24–26 SIAM Conference on Mathematics for Industry: Challenges Commodore Str, Hamra, Beirut, Lebanon; tel: 961 1 752 370-4, ext. and Frontiers, Detroit Marriott Renaissance Center, Detroit, Michi- 131, 961 1 736 511, fax: 961 1 340 219, email: nhaidar@suffolk. gan. edu, [email protected], [email protected]; http:// Information: SIAM’s conference on Mathematics for Industry fo- www.hnu-crams.org/ann.html. cuses attention on the many and varied opportunities to promote applications of mathematics to industrial problems. Since the * 15–January 31, 2006 Semidefinite Programming and its Appli- SIAM community encompasses enormous talent for integrating cations, Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University and enrichingboth industrial work and academic research, this of Singapore, Singapore. conference will stress interactions within the context of mathe- Program: Will provide a forum for the exchange of ideas among matical models and complex systems, and will encourage other researchers workingin theory, applications, algorithms, and soft- mathematical themes of interest to industry, government, business ware development of SDP. and finance. The program will consist of tutorials and workshops with ample op- Information: http://[email protected]. portunities for collaborative research amonglocal and international participants. * 24–28InternationalConferenceonComputingandMathematical Organizing Committee: Chair: Michael Todd (Cornell University). Modeling for Environmental, Social-Economical, and Technical Co-chairs: Jie Sun (National University of Singapore) and Kim-Chuan Systems–2005, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China. Toh (National University of Singapore). Topics: Include, but not limited to: Computingand Modelingof Information: For general enquiries, please email [email protected]. Earth Systems, Coastal and Marine Systems, GIS and Spatial Models, For enquiries on scientific aspects of the program, please email Kim- Neural Networks, Statistics and Statistical Modeling, Fuzzy Sets and Chuan Toh, [email protected]. Completed forms should be Systems, Numerical Methods and Applications, Optimization and received by the Institute at least one month before commencement Decision Making, Environmental Modeling, Allocation of Resources, of each activity. Registration is free of charge. Institute membership MathematicsandComputingofRobotics,SensorsandMeasurement, is not required for participation. 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and registration forms are available at the website http://www. June 2006 ims.nus.edu.sg/Programs/semidefinite/index.htm. * 27–July 3 International Commission on Mathematical Instruc- tion: Challenging Mathematics In and Beyond the Classroom, January 2006 Trondheim, Norway. * 16–27 “Propagation ofWaves” CIMPA school and workshop , Scope: The scope of this study will be wide. It will look at, for Instituto de Matemáticas, UNAM, Cuernavaca, Mexico. instance, the impact of mathematical challenges both inside and Description: 6 minicourses, 10 invited lectures, contributed talks. outside of the classroom, the role of mathematical challenges in Organizers:LuzdeTeresa,SalvadorPe´rez Esteva, Carlos Villegas, supportingthe curriculum for students of all levels of ability, Arturo Portnoy. vehicles for propagating mathematical challenges and assessment Deadline: October 30, 2005. of their effectiveness. We would like to emphasize that we are Information: http://wwww.matem.unam.mx/escuelaCIMPA; http: interested in students and activities of all type, and want to go far //www.cimpa-icpam.org//index.html. beyond contests for talented students. Discussion document: Has been prepared by an international February 2006 committee chaired by Ed Barbeau of the University of Toronto ([email protected]) and Peter Taylor of the University of * 13–18 L-functions and Related Themes, Centre de recherche Canberra in Australia who is the executive-director of the Australian mathématiques, Univ. de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada. Mathematical Trust ([email protected]). This document defines Focus: The workshop will focus on the analytic theory of L- terms, describes issues, provides sample situations, and poses functions and how they are used in a variety of questions ranging questions for discussion. Finally, it indicates how to become from arithmetic geometry to classical analytic number theory. involved in the Study Conference. Would-be participants will be Lecturers: Philippe Michel (Montpellier II); Kumar Murty (Toronto); asked to submit a brief curriculum vita and a 6-10 page document K. Soundararajan (Michigan). addressingmatters relevant to the study no later than August31, Organizers: Chantal David (Concordia) and Ram Murty (Queen’s). 2005. The committee plans to send out invitations by January 31, Information: http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/Number2005/. 2006. The Conference will be followed by a publication. A copy of the discussion document can be obtained by going to the March 2006 website http://www.amt.canberra.edu, clickingon “LINKS” and then on “ICMI Study 16”. * 13–17 Anatomy ofIntegers , Centre de recherche mathématiques Deadline: August 31, 2005. UniversitédeMontréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada. Information: http://www.amt.canberra.edu/icmis16.html/. Organizers: Jean-Marie de Koninck (Laval) and Andrew Granville (Montréal). July 2006 Workshop Focus: On multiplicative number theory, divisors, prime factors, distribution of prime divisors, multiplicative functions, * 7–8SecondInternational Conferenceon Nonsmooth/Nonconvex smooth/friable numbers etc. Mechanics with Applications in Engineering, Faculty of Engineer- Lecturers: Kevin Ford (Urbana-Champaign); K. Soundararajan ing, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece. (Michigan); Gerald Tenenbaum (Institut Élie Cartan Nancy). Conference Topics: Contact Mechanics-Friction & stick-slip ef- fects, Elastoplasticity-Shakedown-Limit Analysis, Convex Analysis Information: http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/Number2005/. and Mechanics, Nonsmooth Analysis and Optimization, Nonconvex Mechanics and Duality, Variational, quasivariational and hemivari- ational inequalities, Energy methods in Mechanics and Structural The following new announcements will not be repeated until Analysis, Nonsmooth Dynamics, Structural Optimization, Struc- the criteria in the next to the last paragraph at the bottom of tural Control and Identification, Computational Mechanics, Ap- the first page ofthis section are met. plications, Mathematical Analysis and Approximation resultsm, Innovative topics (like Chaotic behaviour, Fractal approximation, April 2006 Neural Networks etc.) Deadlines: Submission of Abstract by May 1, 2005. Preliminary * 6–12AdditiveCombinatorics,Centrederecherchemathématiques, acceptance by July 30, 2005. Submission of full paper by February UniversitédeMontréal, Montréal, Québec. 28, 2006. Topics: The topics covered will include: the Freiman-Ruzsa the- Conference Organizer: c/o Professor C. C. Baniotopoulos, Institute orem, the structure of set theory addition, Gowers’ approach to of Steel Structures, Department of Civil Engineering, Aristotle Szemeredi’s theorem and Green and Tao’s approach to combinato- University, GR-54124 Thessaloniki, Greece, tel.: +30 2310 99 5753 rial sets with structure. A mini-school will be organized before this Fax: +30 2310 99 5642, email: [email protected]. workshop to introduce more people to this vibrant subject. More Information: http://www.civil.auth.gr/nnmae2006/. information will be made available on this site. Lecturers: Tim Gowers (Cambridge), Ben Green (Cambridge), Imre * 10–14 International Conference on Analytic Topology,LakePlaza Ruzsa (Alfréd Rényi Institute) and Terence Tao (UCLA). Hotel, Rotorua, New Zealand. Organizers:JozsefSolymosi(UBC)andAndrewGranville(Montréal). Description: The main goal of this conference is to bring together Information: http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/Number2005/. a group of researchers from around the world, who are working at the interface between Topology and Analysis, to discuss recent May 2006 developments and future directions of Analytic Topology. Organizers: Warren B. Moors (Auckland University, email: moors@ * 13–18 Analytic methods for Diophantine equations,BanffInter- math.auckland.ac.nz); and JilingCao (Auckland University, email: national Research Station, Banff, Alberta, Canada. [email protected]). Description: This meeting brings together the participants of the Information: http://www.math.auckland.ac.nz/~cao/ MSRI and CRM workshops The meetingwill be held at the Banff conference06.html. International Research Station. Organizers:AndrewGranville(Montréal),YuriTschinkel(Gottingen),¨ Michael Bennett (UBC), Chantal David (Concordia) and Bill Duke (UCLA). 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