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This section contains new announcements of worldwide meet- the initial start towards the complex web of knowledge ings and conferences of interest to the mathematical public, surrounding data analysis, when doing research. including ad hoc, local, or regional meetings, and meetings URL: and symposia devoted to specialized topics, as well as an- ismdhanbad.ac.in/depart/math/courses/Workshop_ nouncements of regularly scheduled meetings of national or 2016.pdf international mathematical organizations. New announce- ments only are published in the print Mathematics Calendar featured in each Notices issue. March 2016 An announcement will be published in the Notices if it contains 2 – 6 Workshop on Function Spaces and High-dimensional Approxi- a call for papers and specifies the place, date, subject (when mation applicable), and the speakers. A second announcement will Location: Centre de Recerca Matemàtica, Bellaterra, Barcelona, be published only if there are changes or necessary addi- Spain tional information. Asterisks (*) mark those announcements The workshop will promote the modern research connecting containing revised information. Fourier analysis, function spaces, and their links to modern In general, print announcements of meetings and confer- ences carry only the date, title of meeting, place of meeting, developments in the high-dimensional approximation theory. names of speakers (or sometimes a brief statement on the The purpose of this meeting is to bring together the leading program), deadlines for abstracts or contributed papers, experts, and disseminate the latest progress in research, and and source of further information. If there is any applica- in the interaction of these fields. The topics of the workshop tion deadline with respect to participation in the meeting, include: · Function spaces and Embedding/Duality/Extension this fact should also be noted. theorems · Smoothness of multivariate functions · Fourier The complete listing of the Mathematics Calendar is available transforms inequalities · Weighted inequalities · Hyperbolic at: www.ams.org/meetings/calendar/mathcal cross approximation · Sparse approximation · Constructive All submissions to the Mathematics Calendar should be done methods of approximation online via: www.ams.org/cgi-bin/mathcal/mathcal- URL: www.crm.cat/en/Activities/Curs_2015-2016/ submit.pl Pages/Function-Spaces.aspx Any questions or difficulties may be directed to mathcal@ams. org. 9 – 11 ANalysis and COntrol on NETworks: Trends and Perspectives Location: Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione Univer- sita’ di Padova via Gradenigo 6A, 35121 Padova, Italy December 2015 Invited speakers B. Andreianov (Université de Tours) G. Bastin 21 – February 29, 2016 New Call Intensive Research Programmes (Université Catholique de Louvain) A. Bressan (Penn State at the CRM University) F. Camilli (Sapienza Università di Roma) G.-Q. G. Location: Centre de Recerca Matemàtica, Bellaterra, Barcelona Chen (University of Oxford) R. M. Colombo (Università di The Centre de Recerca Matemàtica (CRM) invites proposals for Brescia) P. Degond (Imperial College, London) M. Garavello Intensive Research Programmes to be organized preferably (Università di Milano Bicocca) O. Glass (Université Paris- after August 2017. CRM Research Programmes consist of Dauphine) P. Goatin (INRIA Sophia Antipolis—Méditerranée) periods ranging between 1 to 5 months (from September to M. Gugat (F. -A.-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) K. Han (Im- July) of intensive research in any branch of mathematics and perial College, London) M. Herty (RWTH Aachen University) the mathematical sciences. S. P. Hoogendoorn (Delft University of Technology) C. Imbert URL: www.crm.cat/en/Host/SciEvents/IRP/Pages/ (CNRS, Ecole Normal Supérieure Paris) A. Klar (Technis- CallApplication.aspx che Universität Kaiserslautern) C. Lattanzio (Università de L’Aquila) P. Marcati (GSSI, Università de L’Aquila) A. Maritan February 2016 (Università di Padova) K. T. Nguyen (Penn State University) 8 – 11 Workshop on Application on Statistical Tools in Research and M. D. Rosini (Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej Lublin) E. Data Analysis Trélat (Université Pierre et Marie Curie) E. Zuazua (Universidad Location: Department of Applied Mathematics, Indian School Autònoma de Madrid) of Mines, Dhanbad-826004 URL: https://events.math.unipd.it/anconet/node/1 Workshops on Application of Statistical Tools are often well packed with methods and techniques of data analyses, 10 – 13 Gone Fishing 2016, A workshop on Poisson Geometry but with limited understanding of the logic underlying the Location: University of Colorado at Boulder, USA various techniques, methods and research design as a whole. This is the fifth meeting of the annual Gone Fishing event in There exists a lack of logical and conceptual knowledge that North America, for the presentation and discussion of new would be helpful and support us in the research progression. ideas and results in Poisson geometry. Keeping this challenge in mind, the present workshop has URL: math.colorado.edu/gonefishing2016/ been designed. The aim of this workshop is to provide

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11 – 12 Shanks Workshop on Geometric Analysis Location: Centro di Ricerca Matemàtica “Ennio De Giorgi”, Col- Location: Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee legio Puteano, Piazza dei Cavalieri 3, 56126 PISA, Italy The Shanks Workshop on Geometric Analysis will take place The aim of this conference is to start collaboration between March 11-12, 2016, at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN. the “Fractals and Numeration (FAN)” project and the Dy- Confirmed speakers: Michael Anderson (Stony Brook Uni- namical systems team of the Scuola Normale Superiore and versity), Boris Botvinnik (University of Oregon), Ken Knox the University of Pisa. The conference will focus on renor- (University of Tennessee at Knoxville), Michael Lock (Uni- malization schemes, which often enable to understand the versity of Texas Austin), Jie Qing (University of California dynamics of a parabolic or elliptic system in a given family Santa Cruz), Bianca Santoro (CUNY-City College of NY). Finan- through the study of an auxiliary hyperbolic system. cial support is available for travel and local expenses, with URL: crm.sns.it/event/360/ graduate students and recent PhDs especially encouraged to apply. Preference for financial support will be given to those 20 – 23 Boundary Value Problems, Functional Equations and Appli- registered by February 1. More information can be found at: cations 3 https://my.vanderbilt.edu/shanksgeomanalysis/ Location: Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Univer- URL: my.vanderbilt.edu/shanksgeomanalysis/ sity of Rzeszow, Rzeszow, Poland The mathematical communities of Boundary value problems 14 – 18 IMA Annual Program Workshop: Computational Methods and Functional equations have been separately developed for for Control of Infinite-dimensional Systems many years and significant results have been obtained. The Location: IMA Annual Program Workshop: Computational goal of the “Boundary Value Problems, Functional Equations Methods for Control of Infinite-dimensional Systems and Applications” workshops is to develop the theory of There are many challenges and research opportunities these domains in order to find joint points and to apply associated with developing and deploying computational methodologies for problems of control for systems modeled them to applied problems. It is planned to present existing by partial differential equations and delay equations. The joint works, to present modern methods in Boundary value state of these systems lies in an infinite-dimensional space, problems and Functional equations and to discuss their but finite-dimensional approximations must be used. Fun- various applications. The conference is included in the series damental issues in applied and computational mathematics of conferences associated with the International Society for are essential to the development of practical computational Analysis, its Applications and Computation. algorithms. The focus will be on applications, physics-based URL: www.bfa.ur.edu.pl modeling, numerical methods, sensor/actuator location and optimal control. Although computation and optimization May 2016 are the key themes that tie the areas together, topics in 1 – 2 International Conference on Mathematics and Mechanics infinite-dimensional systems theory will be discussed since Location: Venice, Italy, conference hall these are the foundation for all the topics. It is the third ICMM conference. ICMM 2014 took place in URL: www.ima.umn.edu/2015-2016/W3.14-18.16/ Vienna, Austria and ICMM 2015 took place in Paris, France. 18 – 22 Nirenberg Lectures in Geometric Analysis at the CRM: Gun- ICMM 2016, is to bring together innovative academics and ther Uhlmann () industrial experts in the field of Mathematics and Mechanics Location: Centre de recherches mathématiques Université de to a common forum. The aim of the conference is to promote Montréal Pavillon André-Aisenstadt 2920, Chemin de la tour, research in the field of Mathematics and Mechanics. Another 5th floor Montréal (Québec) H3T 1J4 goal is to facilitate exchange of new ideas in these fields and Gunther Uhlmann (University of Washington) will give three to create a dialogue between scientists and practitioners. lectures: Harry Potter’s Cloak via Transformation Optics, URL: mathematics.conference-site.com/ Journey to the Center of the Earth, and Seeing Through Space-Time. 9 – 11 Advanced Course by Jill Pipher URL: www.crm.umontreal.ca/Nirenberg2016 Location: Centre de Recerca Matemàtica, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain April 2016 These advanced courses are devoted to different topics in connection with High-dimensional approximation, Harmonic 3 – 9 Talbot Workshop 2016: Equivariant Analysis, and closed areas, such as PDEs. The courses will and the focus on the problems which have attracted a lot of attention Location: Herriman, UT The 2016 Talbot workshop, aimed toward graduate students in the recent years. and other young researchers, will be about Hill-Hopkins- URL: www.crm.cat/en/Activities/Curs_2015-2016/ Ravenel’s proof of the Kervaire invariant one problem. It will Pages/AdvancedPipher.aspx be mentored by Mike Hill and Douglas Ravenel. The workshop 13 – 15 Midwest Several Complex Variables Conference, 2016 will start with an introduction to equivariant stable homotopy Location: University of Toledo, Toledo, OH theory, and then will delve into the proof in detail. URL: math.mit.edu/conferences/talbot MWSCV 2016 continues the long tradition of Midwest SCV meetings. This time there will be a Mini-Course by Siqi Fu of 4 – 8 RENORMALIZATION IN DYNAMICS - PISA 2016 Organized Rutgers Camden on “Spectral Theory of Complex Laplacians by Centro di Ricerca Matemàtica Ennio De Giorgi with additional fi- and Applications”. nancial support from FAN project and INdAM-GNAMPA URL: sites.google.com/a/umich.edu/mw-scv-16/

March 2016 Notices of the AMS 319 Mathematics Calendar

16 – 18 46th Annual John H. Barrett Memorial Lectures: Modeling (AMNS-2016) in Kathmandu, Nepal, on May 26-29, 2016. and Analysis of Nonlinear PDE Models in Spatial Ecology The conference provides a forum to a diverse group of Location: Department of Mathematics, The University of Ten- scientists in applications of mathematics to natural and nessee, Knoxville, TN health sciences, engineering and finance. Specific areas in- Plenary Speakers (each gives two 50 minute talks): Chris clude analysis, topology, mathematics education, statistics, Cosner, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL; Mark Lewis, big data, optimization, operations research, quantitative fi- University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; Yuan Lou, nance, mathematical biology, biomedical science, biophysics, The Ohio University, Columbus, OH. Invited Speakers (each and public health. The conference intends to bring together gives one 50 minute talk): Anna R. Ghazaryan, Miami Uni- researchers from a variety of disciplines which impact non- versity, Oxford, OH; Judith Miller, Georgetown University, linear analysis and applications in bio- and physical sciences DC; Nancy Rodriguez, University of North Carolina, Chapel from the south-east Asian countries and around the globe. Hill, NC; Wenxian Shen, Auburn University, AL; Michael Win- URL: anmaweb.org/AMNS-2016/ kler, University of Paderborn, Germany; Jin Yu, University 27 – 29 of Nebraska, NE. Registration is available at the conference 92. Arbeitstagung Allgemeine Algebra Location: Prague, Czech Republic website. Slots for contributed talks, and poster session will The AAA series of workshops in the field of general algebra be considered and arranged for participants who submit the has taken place twice a year for more than 40 years, usually titles and abstracts of the talks. This conference is being at universities in Central Europe. Traditional topics include sponsored by The University of Tennessee Mathematics De- universal algebra, lattice theory, ordered algebraic structures, partment, National Institute for Mathematical and Biological and applications in logic and elsewhere. Synthesis (NIMBioS), College of Arts & Sciences, and the Office URL: aaa.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/ of Research & Engagement. URL: www.math.utk.edu/barrett/ 29 – 31 Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics Annual Meeting 16 – 19 Experimental Chaos and Complexity Conference 2016 Travel Location: University of Calgary grants available for new investigators, underserved populations The CSHPM will be holding its 2016 Annual Meeting at the Location: Banff, Alberta, Canada University of Calgary in conjunction with the 2016 Congress The 14th Experimental Chaos and Complexity Conference of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Members are invited (ECC 2016) brings together an international interdisciplinary to present papers on any subject relating to the history group involving physicists, engineers, mathematicians, of mathematics, its use in the teaching of mathematics, chemists, biologists, and neuroscientists focused on various the philosophy of mathematics, or a related topic. Talks in aspects of Experimental Chaos and Complexity. This meeting either English or French are welcome. Graduate students will focus on experimental approaches in physics, engineer- who present are eligible for the CSHPM Student Award. The ing, neuroscience, chemistry, and biology, linked together Call for Papers with submission information is available by modern non-linear dynamics. Travel grants supported at: www.cshpm.org/meeting/2016CSHPMSCHPM_Call_for_ by the US NSF will provide partial to full support including Papers.pdf airfare (US carriers as specified in NSF rules), registration, URL: www.cshpm.org/meeting/ housing, depending upon the number of applications. For more information, or to submit applications, please 30 – June 3 US-Mexico Conference in Representation Theory, Cat- email Harold M. Hastings, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, egorification, and Noncommutative Algebra [email protected]. Location: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA URL: wcm.ucalgary.ca/ecc2016/ This is the second meeting of an annual series of conference alternating between the US and Mexico. The program covers 24 – 27 Algebraic Groups, Quantum Groups and Geometry a broad spectrum of topics in Representation Theory and Location: University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA Noncommutative Algebra. Organizers: Andrea Appel (UCS), The workshop “Algebraic Groups, Quantum Groups and Christof Geiss (UNAM), Aaron Lauda (USC), and Milen Yakimov Geometry” in the Southeastern Lie Theory series will be (LSU). Speakers: Vyjayanthi Chari, Jose-Antonio De la Pena, held at the University of Virginia, May 24-27, 2016. The Eric Friedlander, Sachin Gautam, Gustavo Jasso, Vladislav conference is supported by the National Science Foundation Kharchenko, Alexander Kleshchev, Daniel Labardini-Fragoso, and the Institute of Mathematics Science (UVA). May 26th will Bernard Leclerc, Octavio Mendoza, Susan Montgomery, Jose be a special day in recognition of the work of Brian Parshall. Pablo Pelaez, Nicolai Reshetikhin, Raphael Rouquier, Rita URL: people.virginia.edu/~btw4e/AQG/index.html Jimenez Rolland, Vera Serganova, Joshua Sussan, Valerio Toledano Laredo, Edith Corina Saenz Valadez, Ernesto Vallejo, 26 – 29 International Conference on Applications of Mathematics Monica Vazirani, Weiqiang Wang, Chelsea Walton, Lauren to Nonlinear Sciences (AMNS-2016) Williams, Birge Huisgen-Zimmermann. Location: Nepal Academy of Tourism and Hotel Management, URL: www-bcf.usc.edu/~andreaap/conference2016. Kathmandu, Nepal html The Association of Nepalese Mathematicians in America (ANMA), Nepal Mathematical Society (NMS) and mathemat- 30 – June 4 Advanced Course on Constructive Approximation and ics departments of Tribhuvan University and Kathmandu Harmonic Analysis University are jointly organizing the International Confer- Location: Centre de Recerca Matemàtica, Bellaterra, Barcelona, ence on Applications of Mathematics to Nonlinear Sciences Spain

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These advanced courses are devoted to different topics in engage in hands-on collaborative research under the mentor- connection with High-dimensional approximation, Harmonic ship of experts in the respective fields. Applications are open Analysis, and closed areas, such as PDE’s. The courses will through March 1, 2016, on the program web site. focus on the problems which have attracted a lot of attention URL: www.ams.org/programs/mrc-16 in the recent years. URL: www.crm.cat/en/Activities/Curs_2015-2016/ 6 – 10 Topology Students Workshop Pages/Constructive-Approximation.aspx Location: Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA A combination professional development workshop and topology conference for graduate students. Sessions on writ- 30 – June 11 Seminaire de Mathematiques Superieures 2016: ing/giving lectures, mathematical etiquette, career options, Dynamics of Biological Systems writing grant proposals, etc. Location: UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA FOR PIMS URL: tsw.gatech.edu The purpose of this summer school is to focus on the interplay of dynamical and biological systems, developing the rich 6 – 10 Conference on Harmonic Analysis and Approximation Theory connection between science and mathematics that has been (HAAT 2016) so successful to date. Our focus will be on understanding Location: Centre de Recerca Matemàtica, Bellaterra, Barcelona, the mathematical structure of dynamical systems that come Spain from biological problems, and then relating the mathematical The main goal of the conference HAAT2016, besides present- structures back to the biology to provide scientific insight. ing the recent developments in Constructive Approximation URL: www.msri.org/summer_schools/775 and Harmonic Analysis, is promoting their integration and research exchange. In particular, the conference promotes June 2016 the idea of applying the research tools from one research area for problems in the other area. As a consequence, such 2 – 8 Algebraic Cycles and Moduli an integration will possibly result in solving many applied Location: Centre de recherches mathématiques Université de problems in other areas of science. Montréal Pavillon André-Aisenstadt 2920, Chemin de la tour, URL: www.crm.cat/en/Activities/Curs_2015-2016/ 5th floor Montréal (Québec) H3T 1J4 CANADA Pages/HAAT2016.aspx This workshop will focus on recent advances in moduli theory and algebraic cycles, with a particular emphasis on 7 – 8 It is the second ICMCS conference. First one took place on No- Hodge-theoretic aspects and new connections between these vember 2015. ICMCS 2016, is to bring together innovative academics two subjects. One such point of contact is the representation and industrial experts in the field of Mathematics and Computer Sci- theory of the Mumford-Tate group, which gives a power- ence ful toolbox for classifying variations and degenerations of Location: Vienna, Austria, conference hall Hodge structure, and its interplay with recent activity on com- It is the second ICMCS conference. First one took place on pactifications of moduli stemming from geometric invariant November 2015. ICMCS 2016, is to bring together innovative theory, the minimal model program, and mirror symmetry. academics and industrial experts in the field of Mathematics The normal functions arising from cycles and the interesting and Computer Science to a common forum. The aim of the loci in moduli supporting them, as well as the Hodge Con- conference is to promote research in the field of Mathematics jecture, provide further sources of interactions between the and Computer Science. Another goal is to facilitate exchange two subjects. of new ideas in these fields and to create a dialogue between URL: www.crm.umontreal.ca/2016/Cycles16/venueCRM_ scientists and practitioners. Keynote speaker - Prof. Enoch e.php Opeyemi, Federal University Oye-Ekiti, Nigeria Speech: Proof of Riemann Hypothesis URL: computer.conference-site.com/register.html 5 – 25 Mathematics Research Communities (Research conferences for early-career mathematicians.) 13 – 17 Recent Advances in Commutative Rings and Module Theory Location: Snowbird, Utah Location: Bressanone/Brixen, Alto Adige/South Tirol, Italy A program of the AMS funded principally by the National The goal of this Conference is to present recent progress and Science Foundation, Mathematics Research Communities fos- new trends in the area of commutative ring theory and mod- ter the formation of self-sustaining cohorts of early-career ule theory. It also aims to gather together mathematicians mathematical scientists by supporting summer conferences, sharing similar algebraic interests for a fruitful interaction. collaboration grants, and special sessions at the Joint Mathe- The main subjects include, but not limited to: Spaces of matics Meetings focused around research topics of common valuation domains and applications; Multiplicative Ideal The- interest. In 2016 the summer conferences are: June 5–11, (a) ory, lattices, star and semistar operations; Factorization and Lie Group Representations, Discretization, and Gelfand Pairs divisibility properties in the ideal theory of commutative and (2) Character Varieties-Experiments and New Frontiers; rings; Rings of integer-valued polynomials; Topological and June 12–18, Algebraic Statistics; and June 19–25, Mathemat- algebraic entropy over commutative rings; Almost t-injective ics in Physiology and Medicine. The 2016 program is aimed and fully inert modules over integral domains. The Confer- at mathematicians whose career stage is between two years ence will be held in Bressanone/Brixen, a very pleasant small pre-PhD and three years post-PhD, with interest in one of town, about 40 kilometers North of Bolzano/Bozen, at “Casa these areas, and whose background makes them ready to della Gioventà” (University of Padova at Bressanone).

March 2016 Notices of the AMS 321 Mathematics Calendar

Organizers: Francesca Tartarone (Università degli Studi, Roma 27 – July 1 The 14th International Conference on Permutation Tre) and Paolo Zanardo (Università di Padova) Patterns (PP 2016) URL: www.rings-modules-bressanone2016.blogspot.it Location: Howard University, Washington, DC The scope of this meeting includes all topics related to 16 – 18 International scientific conference Actual Problems in The- patterns in permutations, words, and other combinatorial ory of Partial Differential Equations, dedicated to the centenary of objects. The conference will include invited and contributed Andrey V. Bitsadze talks, as well as poster sessions. There will be no parallel Location: Moscow State University by Lomonosov, Russia, sessions. The invited speakers will be Anders Claesson Moscow (University of Strathclyde; starting 2016, University of Iceland) Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics of the and Ira Gessel (). M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University and the V.A. Steklov URL: permutationpatterns2016.wordpress.com Mathematical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences hold an international scientific conference ‘Actual problems of 27 – July 2 Summer School on Algebra, Statistics and Combinatorics the theory of partial differential equations’, dedicated to the Location: Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland centenary of A.V. Bitsadze. Our goal is to provide an opportunity for graduate students URL: bitsadze2016.cs.msu.ru/en and postdocs to learn current developments on the interac- tion of Algebra, Statistics and Combinatorics. Special lectures 20 – 25 The Fifth International School-Seminar ”NONLINEAR ANAL- will be given by Petter Brändén, Alexander Engström, Pauliina YSIS AND EXTREMAL PROBLEMS”—2016 Ilmonen, Steffen Lauritzen and Bernd Sturmfels. Mini courses Location: Institute for System Dynamics and Control Theory SB are held by Kaie Kubjas, Patrik Norén, Louis Theran and Piotr RAS, Irkutsk, Russia Zwiernik. Application deadlines are on February 29 (funding) The aim of the school-seminar is to introduce young re- and on May 31 (no funding). searchers to some topics of current research in the fields URL: asci.aalto.fi/en/project_funding/big_data/ of: • nonlinear analysis and its applications • dynamical sys- summer_school/ tems • evolution equations and partial differential equations • calculus of variations and optimal control. The main part July 2016 of the school-seminar will consist of series of lectures by leading scientists (P. Krejci (Czech Republic), A. Cellina (Italy), 4 – 7 Analysis and Probability. Conference in honour of Jean-Pierre A. Dontchev (USA), G. Akagi (Japan)) in the above fields, and Kahane the rest of the time will be devoted to short talks of other Location: Orsay and Paris, France participants. The working languages of the school-seminar This conference in analysis and probability is organized in are Russian and English. The city of Irkutsk, the venue of honour of Jean-Pierre Kahane who will celebrate his 90th the conference, is one of the oldest cities in Siberia which birthday in 2016. has many interesting tourist attractions. It is located in an URL: www.mathconf.org/kahane90 immediate vicinity of the famous lake Baikal. A one day trip to the lake will be also organized. 4 – 8 Complex Boundary and Interface Problems: Theoretical models, URL: www.idstu.irk.ru/en/nla-2016 Applications and Mathematical Challenges Location: Centre de recherches mathématiques Université de 20 – July 1 Mixed Integer Nonlinear Programming: Theory, algo- Montréal Pavillon André-Aisenstadt 2920, Chemin de la tour, rithms and applications 5th floor Montréal (Québec) H3T 1J4 Location: IMUS, The Institute of Mathematics of The University Organizers: Jean-Christophe Nave (McGill), Robert Owens of Seville (Montréal), Pascal Poullet (Antilles), Hongkai Zhao (UC Irvine) This school is oriented to the presentation of theory, algo- URL: www.crm.umontreal.ca/Computational2016 rithms and applications for the solution of mixed integer nonlinear problems (MINLP). 4 – 9 Conference on Ulam’s Type Stability URL: www.msri.org/summer_schools/773 Location: Cluj-Napoca, Romania The conference is organized by Department of Mathemat- 22 – 27 8th Conference of the Euro-American Consortium for Pro- ics of Technical University of Cluj-Napoca in cooperation moting the Application of Mathematics in Technical and Natural Sci- with Department of Mathematics of Babeş-Bolyai University, ences (AMiTaNS’16) Department of Mathematics of Pedagogical University of Cra- Location: Black-Sea resort of Albena, Bulgaria cow, and Faculty of Applied Mathematics of AGH University The conference will be scheduled in plenary and keynote of Science and Technology. The participants are invited to lectures followed by special and contributed sessions. The give talks on stability of difference, differential, functional accents of the conference will be on Mathematical Physics, and integral equations; stability of inequalities and other Solitons and Transport Processes, Numerical Methods, Sci- mathematical objects; hyperstability and superstability; var- entific Computing, Continuum Mechanics, Applied Analysis, ious (direct, fixed point, invariant mean, etc.) methods for Applied Physics, Biomathematics, which can be comple- proving Ulam’s type stability results; generalized (in the mented by some specific topics in contributed special sense of Aoki and Rassias, Bourgin and Găvruţa) stability; sessions. stability on restricted domains and in various (metric, Ba- URL: 2016.eac4amitans.eu nach, non-Archimedean, fuzzy, quasi-Banach, etc.) spaces,

322 Notices of the AMS Volume 63, Number 3 Mathematics Calendar relations between Ulam’s type stability and fixed point re- 11 – 17 Foliations 2016 sults, and related topics. Moreover, some special invited Location: The Conference Centre of the Polish Academy of plenary lectures are planned. Sciences, Bedlewo, Poland URL: cuts.up.krakow.pl We are pleased to announce that a conference FOLIATIONS 2016 will held in Bedlewo (Poland) during the period July 11– 4 – 14 2016 CRM Summer School: Spectral Theory and Applications 17, 2016. Our aim is to exchange scientific information about Location: Université Laval Quebec City. most recent results on foliations and related topics. Theory of The goal of the 2016 CRM Summer School in Quebec City is foliations can be considered as geometric theory of integrable to prepare students for research involving spectral theory. systems of partial differential systems (on manifolds). It has The school will give an overview of a selection of topics several aspects: topological, geometrical, dynamical etc. All from spectral theory, interpreted in a broad sense. It will the aspects are supposed to be covered by the lecturers. cover topics from pure and applied mathematics, each of Some of the problems are related to those for nonintegrable which will be presented in a 5-hour mini-course by a leading systems (contact and symplectic structures, confoliations, expert. These lectures will be complemented by supervised Engel and Goursat structures and so on), therefore some computer labs and exercise sessions. At the end of the talks will deal with non-integrable systems. Also, several school, invited speakers will give specialized talks. This rich properties of foliations are reflected by their holonomy subject intertwines several sub-disciplines of mathematics, groups and pseudogroups, some of the talks will be devoted and it will be especially beneficial to students. The subject to group (and pseudogroup) actions on manifolds. is also very timely, as spectral theory is witnessing major URL: foliations2016.math.uni.lodz.pl/ progresses both in its mathematical sub-disciplines and in its applications to technology and science in general. 11 – 22 An Introduction to Character Theory and the McKay Conjec- URL: www.crm.umontreal.ca/2016/Quebec16/index_e. ture php Location: Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley CA 5 – 8 International Workshop on Operator Theory and Operator Character Theory of Finite Groups provides one of the most Algebras - WOAT 2016 powerful tools to study groups. In this course we will give a Location: Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Por- gentle introduction to basic results in the Character Theory, as tugal well as some of the main conjectures in Group Representation The International Workshop on Operator Theory and Opera- Theory, with particular emphasis on the McKay Conjecture. tor Algebras, WOAT 2016, will be held at Instituto Superior URL: www.msri.org/summer_schools/767 Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal, from July 5 to July 8, 2016. WOAT 2016 will consist of talks presented by invited 25 – 29 International Conference “Patterns of Dynamics” speakers and by participants that wish to make a contribution. Location: Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany This workshop continues a series of conferences organized The conference will showcase recent advances of dynamical in Lisbon since 2006 that aim to stimulate communication systems theory and their interplay with a wide range of between researchers in Operator Theory and Operator Alge- applications in the sciences and engineering. The underly- bras. WOAT 2016 will also include two special sessions on ing mathematical theories can help extract structures from Matrix Theory and Applications. A small number of grants experimental observations (real-world dynamics), and con- is available to students and young researchers. Deadline for versely, shed light on the formation, dynamics, and control abstract submission: May 13, 2016. of spatio-temporal patterns in applications. The meeting will URL: https://woat2016.math.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/ bring together speakers who engage with applications, build and develop mathematical techniques, and use mathemati- 5 – 9 Conference on Differential Geometry cal approaches for prediction and control. The conference Location: UQAM (downtown Montréal) Pavillon Sherbrooke will also honor the long-standing contributions of Bernold 200, Sherbrooke St West Room: SH-3420 Fiedler to these topics. The scientific program will consist of Honouring Claude LeBrun’s mathematical contributions, this 45-minute keynote and 30-minute invited lectures, as well as conference aims to foster interaction among various topics of 20-minute contributed presentations. Differential Geometry, Geometric Analysis, and Mathematical URL: Physics, centered around hot areas of current research. conference.mi.fu-berlin.de/patterns-of-dynamics/ Specifically, the conference will explore on the following subjects: Special structures in geometry and physics; Complex 31 – August 6 Computational Methods in Applied Mathematics methods in conformal geometry and twistor theory; Extremal (CMAM-7), 100 years of the Galerkin Method Kähler metrics. The primary aim of the conference is to gather Location: University of Jyväskylä, Finland together leading experts in the above topics, to discuss Celebrating 100 years of Petrov-Galerkin method, the CMAM-7 recent advances and new directions of research in these conference will be held at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, vibrant areas, and to expose graduate students and young in July 31–August 6, 2016. The Conference is organized under mathematicians to these exciting developments. the aegis of the de Gruyter journal Computational Methods in URL: Applied Mathematics (CMAM) and will be focused on various www.crm.umontreal.ca/2016/LeBrunFest16/index_e. aspects of mathematical modeling and numerical methods php for problems arising in natural sciences and engineering. The CMAM-7 conference is organized by the University of

March 2016 Notices of the AMS 323 Mathematics Calendar

Jyväskylä, Finland, and the Steklov Institute of Mathematics, 26 – 28 Workshop on Nonlinear PDEs in Applied Mathematics Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia. The list Location: Izmir Institute of Technology, Izmir, Turkey of confirmed invited speakers includes Carsten Carstensen, This program’s goal is to bring together leading mathemati- Roland Glowinski, Boris Khoromskij, Yuri Kuznetsov, Raytcho cians, researchers and students to exchange and share their Lazarov, Markus Melenk, Roderick Melnik, Stefan Sauter, Rolf scientific experiences and research results about different Stenberg, Ragnar Winther, Jun Zou. Details can be found aspects of Nonlinear PDEs. The workshop also aims to pro- at www.jyu.fi/cmam7 and registration starts November 1, vide a fruitful environment for researchers to present and 2015; a call for minisymposia will follow. discuss the most recent discoveries, methods, problems and URL: www.mit.jyu.fi/scoma/cmam2016/ challenges in the field of Nonlinear PDEs. URL: pde.iyte.edu.tr August 2016 28 – September 4 XIX Geometrical Seminar 1 – 4 22nd Conference on Applications of Computer Algebra Location: Student’s Resting-House “Ratko Mitrović” Kraljeve Location: Kassel University, Kassel, Germany vode bb, 31315 Zlatibor, Serbia The ACA conference series is devoted to promoting all XIX Geometrical seminar is organized by Faculty of Sci- manner of computer algebra applications and encouraging ence, University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac, Serbia Faculty the interaction of developers of computer algebra systems and packages with researchers and users (including scientists, of Mathematics, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia in engineers, educators, and mathematicians). Topics include, collaboration with: Faculty of Science and Mathematics, Uni- but are not limited to, computer algebra in the sciences, versity of Niš, Niš, Serbia Mathematical Institute of the Serbian engineering, communication, medicine, pure and applied Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU), Belgrade, Serbia XIX mathematics, education and computer science. The meeting Geometrical seminar is supported by Ministry of Education, will be run in the standard ACA format where individuals are Science and Technological Development of the Republic Ser- invited to organize special sessions. bia Conference topics Differential Geometry Topology Lie URL: www.mathematik.uni-kassel.de/ACA2016/ Groups Mathematical Physics Discrete Geometry Integrable Systems Visualization 2 – 4 International Conference and Workshop on Mathematical URL: Analysis 2016 (ICWOMA 2016) tesla.pmf.ni.ac.rs/people/geometrijskiseminarxix/ Location: Langkawi, Malaysia index.php The main goal of this conference is to bring together experts and young talented scientists from all over the world to September 2016 discuss the modern and recent aspects of the mathematical 7 – 9 5th IMA Numerical Linear Algebra and Optimization analysis. It is also to ensure exchange of ideas in various ap- Location: University of Birmingham, UK plications of Mathematics in Engineering, Physics, Economics, The success of modern codes for large-scale optimization is Biology, etc. heavily dependent on the use of effective tools of numerical URL: einspem.upm.edu.my/icwoma2016/ linear algebra. On the other hand, many problems in numer- 22 – 26 Master class on “Sums of self-adjoint operators—Kasparov ical linear algebra lead to linear, nonlinear or semidefinite products and applications” optimization problems. The purpose of the conference is to Location: University of Copenhagen, Denmark bring together researchers from both communities and to This master class will introduce the necessary technical find and communicate points and topics of common interest. tools for constructing Kasparov products in the unbounded Mini-symposium proposals and contributed talks are invited picture of KK as well as discussing the many open problems on all aspects of numerical linear algebra and optimization. related to sums of self-adjoint operators, the standard model Mini-symposium proposals should be submitted to confer- in physics, topological insulators and operator spaces. [email protected] by 31 March 2016. A mini-symposium is URL: www.math.ku.dk/english/research/conferences/ limited to at most two sessions on a single topic (maximum 2016/ncg_sums/ eight speakers). Organizers will be advised of acceptance by 11 April 2016. Contributed talks and mini-symposia talks 22 – 26 Putting the Theory Back in Density Functional Theory: A will be accepted on the basis of a one page extended abstract Summer School which should be submitted by 30 April 2016 by email to Location: Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM), [email protected]. UCLA, Los Angeles, CA URL: tinyurl.com/IMANLAO2016 The purpose of this school is to teach the theory behind DFT. Lectures will be pedagogical and range from fundamentals 19 – 23 18th International Workshop on Computer Algebra in Scien- (Hohenberg-Kohn theorem) to the latest approximations, and tific Computing will help connect DFT to other areas of mathematics and Location: University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania theory. The ongoing development of computer algebra systems, in- URL: www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/summer-schools/ cluding their integration and adaptation to modern software putting-the-theory-back-in-density-functional- environments, puts them to the forefront in scientific com- theory/ puting and enables the practical solution of many complex applied problems in the domains of natural sciences and

324 Notices of the AMS Volume 63, Number 3 Mathematics Calendar engineering. The workshop covers all basic areas of scientific theory, numerics and applications. ParaoptXI welcomes pa- computing (see web page for a more detailed list). pers as well as proposals for special sessions on any area in URL: www.casc.cs.uni-bonn.de/2016/ parametric optimization or related topics. URL: paraoptxi.fsv.cuni.cz/ October 2016 14 – 16 International Conference on Statistical Distributions and Applications (ICOSDA 2016) Location: Crowne Plaza, Niagara Falls, Canada This international conference is being organized to provide a platform for researchers and practitioners to share and discuss recent advancements on statistical distributions and their applications, and to provide opportunities for collaborative work. URL: people.cst.cmich.edu/lee1c/icosda2016/

November 2016 14 – 18 Mal’tsev Meeting Location: Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, Novosibirsk, Russia “Mal’tsev Meeting” is a series of annual conferences on alge- bra, mathematical logic, and their applications in computer science. In 2016, the meeting will be dedicated to the 70th birthdays of Professors Nikolai S. Romanovskii and Valerii A. Churkin. The organisers invite specialists in group theory, ring theory, universal algebra and model theory, computabil- ity theory, nonclassical logics, and theoretical computer science to contribute and to participate. URL: math.nsc.ru/conference/malmeet/16/

December 2016 5 – 9 Synergies between Machine Learning and Physical Models Location: Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM), UCLA, Los Angeles, CA AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY This workshop will broadly address the reaches and limita- tions of ML as applied to the modeling of physical systems and highlight examples where physical models can be suc- Do you attend JMM? cessfully combined or even derived from ML algorithms. The application deadline is Monday, October 10, 2016. How about any URL: www.ipam.ucla.edu/mpsws4 AMS Sectional Meetings?

14 – 17 International Conference of The Indian Mathematics Con- Did you know that your sortium (TIMC) in cooperation with American Mathematical Society savings from attending these (AMS) meetings will practically pay Location: DST-Centre for Interdisciplinary Mathematical Sci- ences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi-221005, India for your AMS membership? This is the first major event being organized by TIMC in co-operation with an organization from outside India. Eight With your membership you plenary talks by distinguished mathematicians and about will receive special discounts and 15 Symposia on themes of current interest in mathematical free shipping at any on-site research are being planned for the meeting. These will be AMS exhibit bookstore. supplemented by various other activities. URL: www.bhu.ac.in/seminar/timcams2016/ Sign up to be a member September 2017 of the AMS today! 19 – 22 11th International Conference on Parametric Optimization www.ams.org/membership and Related Topics (ParaoptXI) Location: Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic Parametric optimization is a part of mathematical program- ming and has emerged as an exciting research area in

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