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Meetings & 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/. 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. San Diego, California Oxford, Mississippi San Diego Convention Center and San University of Mississippi Diego Marriott Hotel and Marina March 1–3, 2013 January 9–12, 2013 Friday – Sunday Wednesday – Saturday Meeting #1087 Meeting #1086 Southeastern Section Associate secretary: Robert J. Daverman Joint Mathematics Meetings, including the 119th Annual Announcement issue of Notices: December 2012 Meeting of the AMS, 96th Annual Meeting of the Math- Program first available on AMS website: December 13, ematical Association of America, annual meetings of the 2012 Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) and the Program issue of electronic Notices: March 2013 National Association of Mathematicians (NAM), and the Issue of Abstracts: Volume 34, Issue 2 winter meeting of the Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL), with sessions contributed by the Society for Industrial and Deadlines Applied Mathematics (SIAM). For organizers: Expired Associate secretary: Georgia Benkart For consideration of contributed papers in Special Ses- Announcement issue of Notices: October 2012 sions: Expired Program first available on AMS website: November 1, 2012 For abstracts: Expired Program issue of electronic Notices: January 2012 Issue of Abstracts: Volume 34, Issue 1 The scientific information listed below may be dated. For the latest information, see www.ams.org/amsmtgs/ Deadlines sectional.html. For organizers: Expired Invited Addresses For consideration of contributed papers in Special Ses- Patricia Hersh, North Carolina State University, An sions: Expired interplay of combinatorics with topology. For abstracts: Expired Daniel Krashen, University of Georgia, Topology, arith- metic, and the structure of algebraic groups. Washington Mio, Florida State University, Taming shapes and understanding their variation. Slawomir Solecki, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, An abstract approach to Ramsey theory with applications. 126 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 60, NUMBER 1 Meetings & Conferences Special Sessions Invited Addresses Algebraic Combinatorics, Patricia Hersh, North Caro- Roman Bezrukavnikov, Massachusetts Institute of lina State University, and Dennis Stanton, University of Technology, Canonical bases and geometry. Minnesota. Marston Conder, University of Auckland, Discrete ob- Approximation Theory and Orthogonal Polynomials, jects with maximum possible symmetry. David Benko, University of South Alabama, Erwin Mina- Alice Guionnet, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Diaz, University of Mississippi, and Edward Saff, Vander- Title to be announced. bilt University. Yanir Rubinstein, University of Maryland, Geometry: Banach Spaces and Operators on Them, Qingying Bu (very) local meets global. and Gerard Buskes, University of Mississippi, and William B. Johnson, Texas A&M University. Special Sessions Commutative Algebra, Sean Sather-Wagstaff, North Algebraic and Geometric Structures of 3-manifolds Dakota State University, and Sandra M. Spiroff, University (Code: SS 3A), Ian Biringer, Tao Li, and Robert Meyerhoff, of Mississippi. Boston College. Connections between Matroids, Graphs, and Geometry, Algorithmic Problems of Group Theory and Applications Stan Dziobiak, Talmage James Reid, and Haidong Wu, to Information Security (Code: SS 14A), Delaram Kahro- University of Mississippi. baei, City University of New York Graduate Center and Dynamical Systems, Alexander Grigo, University of New York College of Technology, and Vladimir Shpilrain, Oklahoma, and Saˇsa Kocic´, University of Mississippi. City College of New York and City University of New York Fractal Geometry and Ergodic Theory, Manav Das, Graduate Center. University of Louisville, and Mrinal Kanti Roychowdhury, Arithmetic Dynamics and Galois Theory (Code: SS 6A), University of Texas-Pan American. John Cullinan, Bard College, and Farshid Hajir and Siman Graph Theory, Laura Sheppardson and Bing Wei, Uni- Wong, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. versity of Mississippi, and Hehui Wu, McGill University. Combinatorics and Classical Integrability (Code: SS 16A), Amanda Redlich and Shabnam Beheshti, Rutgers Modern Methods in Analytic Number Theory, Nathan University. Jones and Micah B. Milinovich, University of Mississippi, Commuting Matrices and the Hilbert Scheme (Code: SS and Frank Thorne, University of South Carolina. 11A), Anthony Iarrobino, Northeastern University, and Set Theory and Its Applications, Christian Rosendal, Leila Khatami, Union College. University of Illinois at Chicago, and Slawomir Solecki, Complex Geometry and Microlocal Analysis (Code: SS University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 2A), Victor W. Guillemin and Richard B. Melrose, Massa- chusetts Institute of Technology, and Yanir A. Rubinstein, Stanford University. Chestnut Hill, Counting and Equidistribution on Symmetric Spaces (Code: SS 5A), Dubi Kelmer, Boston College, and Alex Massachusetts Kontorovich, Yale University. Discrete Geometry of Polytopes (Code: SS 10A), Barry Boston College Monson, University of New Brunswick, and Egon Schulte, Northeastern University. April 6–7, 2013 Financial Mathematics (Code: SS 18A), Hasanjan Sayit Saturday – Sunday and Stephan Sturm, Worcester Polytechnic Institute. History and Philosophy of Mathematics (Code: SS 7A), Meeting #1088 James J. Tattersall, Providence College, and V. Frederick Eastern Section Rickey, United States Military Academy. Associate secretary: Steven H. Weintraub Homological Invariants in Low-dimensional Topology. Announcement issue of Notices: January 2013 (Code: SS 1A), John Baldwin, Joshua Greene, and Eli Program first available on AMS website: February 21, 2013 Grigsby, Boston College. Program issue of electronic Notices: April 2013 Homology and Cohomology of Arithmetic Groups Issue of Abstracts: Volume 34, Issue 2 (Code: SS 13A), Avner Ash, Boston College, Darrin Doud, Brigham Young University, and David Pollack, Wesleyan Deadlines University. For organizers: Expired Hopf Algebras and their Applications (Code: SS 9A), For consideration of contributed papers in Special Ses- Timothy Kohl, Boston University, and Robert Underwood, sions: December 18, 2012 Auburn University Montgomery. For abstracts: February 12, 2013 Moduli Spaces in Algebraic Geometry (Code: SS 4A), Dawei Chen and Maksym Fedorchuk, Boston College, The scientific information listed below may be dated. and Joe Harris and Yu-Jong Tzeng, Harvard University. For the latest information, see www.ams.org/amsmtgs/ Real and Complex Dynamics of Difference Equations sectional.html. with Applications (Code: SS 12A), Ann Brett, Johnson and JANUARY 2013 NOTICES OF THE AMS 127 Meetings & Conferences Wales University, and M. R. S. Kulenovic, University of note that hotel tax in Newton is 11.7%. Amenities include Rhode Island. complimentary parking, fitness center, complimentary Recursion and Definability (Code: SS 15A), Rachel Ep- business center, complimentary shuttle service within stein, Harvard University, Karen Lange, Wellesley College, a five-mile radius of the hotel, and free wired and wire- and Russell Miller, Queens College and City University of less Internet in guest rooms. This property is located New York Graduate Center. approximately one mile from the campus by car and ap- Research by Undergraduates and Students in Post- proximately 50 minutes by by public transportation (“T”). 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