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May 2009 * 4–13 The Seventh Annual Spring Institute on Noncommutative Geometry and Operator Algebras, Department of Mathematics, * 4–6 Workshop on Pairings in Arithmetic Geometry and Cryptog- Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. raphy, Institute for Experimental Mathematics of the University of Description: The Seventh Annual Spring Institute on Noncommutative Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany. Geometry and Operator Algebras is a combination of spring school Description: The subject of the workshop is bilinear structures on and international conference. During the school part of the meeting, ideal class groups of curves over finite fields. Besides the theoretical several mini-courses on a variety of topics from noncommutative ge- background, computational aspects as well as applications to public ometry, operator algebras and related topics will be given by leading key cryptography, will be in the center of the talks. We plan to have experts. This year’s topic is “Geometry over F1, noncommutative ge- four introductory minicourses (two hours each) as well as lectures ometry and Zeta”. Mini-courses will be given by David Goss (Ohio State about the state of the art and new perspectives. Everyone interested University), Lisa Carbone (Rutgers University), Christophe Soule (IHES), in these topics is heartily invited to come! Alain Connes (IHES & Vanderbilt University), Pierre Cartier (IHES), Ca- Information: Visit http://www.exp-math.uni-essen.de/ terina Consani (John Hopkins University) and Jack Morava (John Hop- zahlentheorie/pairings09/index.html. kins University). The conference is organized by Alain Connes (Direc- tor), Dietmar Bisch, Bruce Hughes, Gennadi Kasparov and Guoliang Yu. * 4–9 The Power of Analysis: A conference in honor of Charles Fef- Students and postdocs are especially encouraged to attend. ferman on the occasion of his 60th birthday, Princeton University Information: http://www.math.vanderbilt.edu/~ncgoa09/. (Mathematics Department), Princeton, New Jersey. * 6–10 East Asian Symplectic Conference 2009, Institute of Mathemat- Description: Conference (sponsored by AIM, the NSF, CMI, and the ics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. Princeton University Mathematics Department) honoring Charles Fef- Description: The purpose of the conference is to explore and cross- ferman on the occasion of his 60th birthday. To be held in McDonnell fertilize the developments of various subjects in Symplectic Geometry Hall (part of the Fine Hall–Jadwin Hall complex at Princeton Univer- and Topology for the researchers in East Asia. sity). Registration requested (via conference website). Confirmed speakers: Meng-Kiat Chuah (NTHU, Taiwan), Urs Frauen- Information: http://www.math.princeton.edu/conference/ felder (SNU, Korea), Kenji Fukaya (Kyoto-Univ., Japan), Young- fefferman09/. Hoon Kiem (SNU, Korea), Bumsig Kim (KIAS, Korea), Otto van Koert

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(Hokkaido Univ., Japan), Hiroshi Konno (U-Tokyo, Japan), Yng-Ing Lee Information: http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/ten- (NTU, Taiwan), Naichung Conan Leung (CUHK, Hong Kong), Jiang-Hua nant9/friedman_conference.html. Lu (HKU, Hong Kong), Yoshiaki Maeda (Keio Univ., Japan), Giovanni * 15–17 Conference on Differential Geometry: Tribute to Professor Marelli (KIAS, Korea), Stefan Muller (KIAS, Korea), Takeo Nishinou (To- Kostake Teleman (1933-2007), Bucharest University, Faculty of Math- hoku Univ., Japan), Yuichi Nohara (Nagoya-Univ., Japan), Hiroshi Ohta ematics and Computer Science, Academiei 14, Bucharest, Romania. (Nagoya-Univ., Japan), Hajime Ono (TUS, Japan), Kaoru Ono (Hokkaido Description: This international conference is devoted to the memory Univ., Japan), Jongil Park (SNU, Korea), Wei-dong Ruan (KAIST, Korea), of Kostake Teleman, an outstanding Romanian geometer, professor Kazushi Ueda (Osaka-Univ., Japan), Xiaowei Wang (CUHK, Hong Kong), at the Bucharest University till 2007. The topics of the conference Siye Wu (HKU, Hong Kong & CU-Boulder, USA), Daisuke Yamakawa will cover the domains of interest of Professor Teleman: Differential (Kyoto-Univ., Japan), Mei-Lin Yau (NCU, Taiwan). Geometry, Topology, Algebraic Topology, Mathematical Physics and Information: http://www.math.ncku.edu.tw/~easc2009/. Relativity, focusing on latter developments of his works. * 8–9 The 2009 Annual Meeting of the Michigan Section of the Math- Organizers: Knud Lonsted (Denmark), Andrei Moroianu (CNRS- Ecole ematical Association of America & MichMATYC, Mathematics De- Polytechnique), Gabriel-Teodor Pripoae (Univ. Bucharest), Olivian partment at Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Michigan. Simionescu-Panait (Univ. Bucharest), Constantin Udriste (Univ. Po- Information: Visit http://www.cst.cmich.edu/units/mth/ litehnica, Bucharest), Vladimir Balan (Univ. Politehnica, Bucharest), MAAMeeting/MAASectMeet09.htm. Paul Popescu (Univ. Craiova), Wladimir Boskoff (Univ. `Ovidius’, Constanta). * 11–13 DIMACS Workshop on Algorithmic Mathematical Art: Spe- Registration: The registration is free. cial Cases and Their Applications, DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Deadline: The deadline for registration is April 15, 2009. Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey. Information: For further details, please contact Gabriel-Teodor Short Description: There is a significant and growing interest in Pripoae: [email protected] or [email protected]; mathematical or algorithmic art. This is in part due to advancement in Visit http://fmi.unibuc.ro/ro/pdf/2009/manifestari/ computer technology, higher mathematics, sophisticated algorithms, anunt_KTeleman%202009.pdf. and the community of mathematically- or computationally-minded contributors whose works demonstrate the beauty and potential of * 15–17 Twenty Years of Wavelets, DePaul University, Chicago, Illi- mathematics in manifestation of algorithmic art. This DIMACS work- nois. shop will be a three-day exploration focusing on some special cases Organizers: Jonathan Cohen (DePaul), [email protected]. of what may be characterized as algorithmic mathematical art and its edu, and Ahmed Zayed (DePaul), [email protected]. applications. Topics include mathematically-rooted, algorithmically- Conference Themes: DePaul University is sponsoring a conference conducted approaches to computer graphics, visualization, painting, on wavelets and their applications. The conference commemorates sculpturing, drawing, and other visual arts. The workshop will include the twentieth anniversary of a 1989 conference at DePaul University invited and contributed talks as well as hands-on activities. In particu- on computational and numerical aspects of harmonic analysis that lar, the participants will be introduced to Polynomiography and its featured the emerging topic of wavelets. This conference will focus software at a computer lab. There will be an informal exhibit area for on what has been accomplished in twenty years both in terms of ap- display of artwork of the participants. We encourage participation of plication and theory, and on current areas. Speakers: Raphy Coifman, Peter Jones, Ingrid Daubechies, John Bene- mathematicians, scientists, artist, and educators. To contribute a talk, detto, Martin Vetterli, Michael Frazier, Naoki Saito, Greg Beylkin, Victor please submit a 1–2 page abstract (pdf format is preferred) to Bahman Wickerhauser, Guido Weiss, Bjorn Jawerth and Mauro Maggioni. Kalantari (email: [email protected]) for refereed evalu- Financial Support: The conference is supported by a grant from the ation by March 15, 2009. Contributors will be notified of acceptance National Science Foundation, DMS-0852170. Partial travel support is decisions by mid April. The possibility of a refereed proceedings ex- available with priority given to junior faculty and graduate students. ists and a decision will be announced at a later time. There will be contributed paper sessions related to the themes of Organizers: Bahman Kalantari, Rutgers University, kalantari@ the conference. cs.rutgers.edu; Helaman Ferguson, http://Helasculpt.com; Information: Registration, travel, and support information can be ob- [email protected]. Dirk Huylebrouck, Sint Lucas (Brus- tained directly from the website: http://depaul.edu/~wavelets sels), [email protected]; Contact: [email protected]. Radmila Sazdanovic, The George Washington University, radmila@ gwmail.gwu.edu. * 18–29 2009 Georgia International Topology Conference, University Local Arrangements: Nicole Clark, DIMACS Center, nicolec@di- of Georgia, Athens, Georgia. macs.rutgers.edu, 732-445-5928. Description: This will be the seventh in a series of octennial confer- Information: http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/Workshops/ ences that started in 1961. MathArt/. Information: http://www.math.uga.edu/~topology/. * 14–17 Foundational Adventures: Conference in Honor of the 60th * 19–29 2009 PIMS-MITACS GIMMC/IPSW Events, University of Calgary, Birthday of Harvey M. Friedman, The Blackwell Inn, The Ohio State Calgary, Alberta, Canada. University, Columbus, Ohio. Description: Both events are being organized under the auspices of Description: This interdisciplinary conference, with a stellar list of the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences and the MITACS speakers, is made possible by the support of The Ohio State University Network of Centres of Excellence. Registration began on February 11, and the John Templeton Foundation. We have at our disposal some 2009, and will end on April 9, 2009. limited travel funds from the National Science Foundation, with the Information: http://www.pims.math.ca/industrial/ aim of providing opportunities for participation by women, minorities, workshops/2009-pims-industrial-problem-solving- and persons with disabilities. Details about the application process workshop-and-graduate-industrial-mathemati. are available on the conference webpage. The program and the list of * 24–29 Workshop on Finsler Geometry and its Applications, Univer- titles and abstracts are also accessible from that webpage. sity of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary. Plenary speakers include: Martin Davis (UC Berkeley and NYU), Solo- Description: The scientific program is devoted to lectures given by mon Feferman (Stanford), Harvey Friedman (Ohio State), Saul Kripke the participants on various fields of Finsler geometry, their general- (CUNY), Anil Nerode (Cornell), Hilary Putnam (Harvard), Gerald Sacks izations, and applications in physics, biology, control theory, finance, (Harvard and MIT), and Patrick Suppes (Stanford). psychometry, etc. The workshop focuses on open problems such as

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the existence of nontrivial Landsberg metrics. This event is intended * 7–12 35th International Conference: Applications of Mathematics to continue the series of workshops on Finsler geometry (Seattle 1995, in Engineering and Economics (AMEE’09), The Black Sea resort of Edmonton 1998, Iasi 2001, Berkeley 2002, Debrecen 2003, Tianjin Sozopol, Bulgaria. 2004, Balatonföldvár 2007) and the Finsler Symposiums held yearly Description: This is the 35th in a series of conferences on the applica- in Japan. At the openings, the 100th anniversary of the late academi- tion of mathematics to foundational issues in general science and in cian Ottó Varga’s birthday will be commemorated. engineering sciences. The aim of the conference is to provide a widely Information: http://www.math.klte.hu/finsler2009. selected forum among experts and young scientists to exchange ideas, * 28–30 Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations. Fuensanta Andreu: methods and techniques in the fields of Applied Mathematics and In Memoriam, Facultat de Matematiques, Universitat de Valencia, Bur- Mathematical Modeling. In addition to the invited lectures there will jassot, Spain. be sessions for twenty-minute contributed talks. Young researchers Description: This international conference is a tribute to the memory are particularly encouraged to present their recent works. The confer- of Fuensanta Andreu Vaillo, an outstanding person and mathematician ence post-proceedings will be published only after peer reviewing by who sadly passed away last December 26th at the age of 53. the International Conference Proceedings Series of AIP. List of speakers: David Arcoya, Coloma Ballester, Lucio Boccardo, Local Organizers: Ketty Peeva, Vesela Pasheva, Adriana Georgieva, Xavier Cabré, Vicent Caselles, Andrea Dall’Aglio, Jesús Ildefonso Díaz, Nikola Kaloyanov, Krasimira Prodanova, George Venkov, Yana Stoya- Noureddine Igbida, Antonio Marquina, Rainer Nagel, Luigi Orsina, Ire- nova. neo Peral, Julio Rossi, Mircea Sofonea, Juan Soler. International Programme Committee: Ralitza Kovacheva, Mayer Information: http://www.uv.es/fuensanta. Aladjem, Stefanka Chukova, Maya Flikop, Vladimir Georgiev, Michail Konstantinov, Raytcho Lazarov, Bernadette Miara, Petko Petkov. June 2009 Information: http://www.tu-sofia.bg/fpmi/amee/. * 2–5 Holomorphically symplectic varieties and moduli spaces, Labo- * 10–12 (NEW DATE) Sixth Advanced Course in Operator Theory and ratoire Paul Painlevé at the University of Lille 1, Lille, France. Complex Analysis, Seville, Spain. Description: The conference will focus on irreducible symplectic va- Invited Speakers: Gilles Cassier (Université Lille 1, France), Carl C. rieties (ISV) and on moduli problems related to ISVs. One of the aims Cowen (Purdue University, USA), Nikolai G. Makarov (California Insti- of the conference is to bring together specialists in both arithmetic tute of Technology, USA), Armen G. Sergeev (Steklov Mathematical and geometric aspects of the theory. The geometric aspect includes Institute, Russia). the description of families of ISVs’ which possess particular geo- Information: http://congreso.us.es/ceacyto/2009. metric properties. The arithmetic aspect is connected to indefinite lattices and associated automorphic forms, which come up via the * 15–19 Conference on Harmonic Analysis, Geometric Measure polarized Hodge structures of the ISVs’ or of other varieties with a Theory and Quasiconformal Mappings, CRM: Centre de Recerca similar Hodge structure. Matematica, Bellaterra, Spain. Organizers: Valery Gritsenko and Dimitri Markushevich. Purpose: Of the conference is to provide researchers working in har- Preliminary List of Non-local Participants: F. Bogomolov, U. Bruzzo, monic analysis, quasiconformal mappings or geometric measure the- F. Catanese, S. Druel, L. Gruson, K. Hulek, M. Lehn, E. Looijenga, C. ory with a scientific event designed to promote a deep interaction be- Madonna, L. Manivel, E. Markman, V. Nikulin, G. Sankaran, C. Sorger, tween the three subjects. The themes dealt with in the conference will A. Tikhomirov, M. Verbitsky, K.-I. Yoshikawa. be: 1. New developments on distortion of sets under quasiconformal Information: See http://math.univ-lille1.fr/~markushe/ mappings (Lacey, Sawyer, Uriarte) 2. Quasiconformal mappings and MOD2009/. PDE, in particular the Calderón inverse problem (Astala, Faraco, Iwan- iec, Päivärinta, Zhong) 3. Removability and quasiconformal mappings * 2–6 The 29th Great Planes Operator Theory Symposium (GPOTS (Astala, Clop, Mateu, Orobitg, Tolsa) 4. Functions of finite distortion 2009), Department of Mathematics, University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado. and hyperelastic deformations (David, Iwaniec, Koskela, Saksman) 5. Description: The GPOTS conferences have traditionally brought to- Metric measure spaces, Poincaré’s inequality and harmonic functions gether a wide range of researchers in operator theory and operator (Hajlasz, Koskela, Zhong) 6. Human vision and the Heisenberg group algebras. Moreover, the GPOTS 2009 special meeting will serve as a (Citti, Sarti). Grants are available for young researchers. high-altitude training for the next generation of operator theorists Chair: Pertti Mattila, Univ. of Helsinki, Finland. and operator algebraists. The particular topics covered in the confer- Organisers: ESF-EMS-ERCOM. Information: http://www.esf.org/conferences/09308. ence are (A) C∗​-algebras​ and their classification, (B) noncommutative geometry and index theory, (C) wavelets, frames, and operator theory * 15–19 International Summer School on Operator Algebras and Ap- and (c) subfactors. plications, Instituto Superior Tecnico, UTL, Lisbon, Portugal. Information: http://www.colorado.edu/math/gpots2009. Description: The main goal of this summer school is to present devel- * 4–6 Lehigh University Geometry and Topology Conference, Lehigh opments in operator algebras, function algebras and applications and University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. to promote research exchanges in these topics. The school is being Description: Invited talks by Gunnar Carlsson (Stanford), Fred Cohen organized by the Research Center for Functional Analysis and Ap- (Rochester), Panagiota Daskalopoulos (Columbia), Ngaiming Mok plications, at Instituto Superior TÈcnico, Lisbon, Portugal. It consists (Hong Kong), Wilfried Schmid (Harvard), and Rick Schoen (Stanford) of four short courses covering the following topics: Crossed product (all confirmed). Participants may give 40-minute contributed talks in C​-algebras, Christopher Phillips, University of Oregon; Regularity ∗ geometry or topology. Limited travel support is available for recent conditions for Banach function algebras, Joel Fe