Mathematics Calendar Please submit conference information for the Mathematics Calendar through the Mathematics Calendar submission form at http:// www.ams.org/cgi-bin/mathcal-submit.pl. The most comprehensive and up-to-date Mathematics Calendar information is available on the AMS website at http://www.ams.org/mathcal/. September 2011 Registration: Participants are required to register by August 1, 2011. See http://www.maths.gla.ac.uk/~ajb/btop/ 1–3 Algebraic Representation Theory Conference, Uppsala Uni- btop-meetings.html| for a list of previous British Topology versity, Uppsala, Sweden. (Mar. 2011, p. 496) Meetings. Invited speakers: Henning Haahr Andersen (Århus); Igor Burban Organizer: Jim Howie (Heriot-Watt) and Andrew Ranicki (Edinburgh). (Bonn); Maud De Visscher (London); Berhnard Keller (Paris); Paul Information: http://www.icms.org.uk/workshops/btm. Martin (Leeds); Vanessa Miemietz (UEA); Sergey Mozgovoy (Oxford); Steffen Oppermann (Trondheim). 2–6 Polynomial Identities in Algebras. II., Memorial University of Organizer: Volodymyr Mazorchuk (Uppsala) Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL, Canada. (Aug. 2011, p. 1010) Information: http://www.math.uu.se/Conference/. Description: The workshop is organized by Atlantic Algebra Centre 1–3 Elementary Geometry from an Advanced Point of View, Uni- and financially supported by Atlantic Association for Research in the versity of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal. (Jun/Jul. 2011, p. 856) Mathematical Sciences and Memorial University of Newfoundland. Description: The general aim of the conference is to present several The first workshop under the same title was held at Memorial Uni- contemporary perspectives on Geometry including, among others, versity of Newfoundland in August – September 2002. Since then the talks on visualization, applications and surveys, both at elementary theory of polynomial identities in algebra has experienced a strong and more advanced levels. The goal is to contribute to the current in- development. A number of problems have been solved. New methods ternational reflection on the ICMI/IMU Klein Project concerning cen- have been introduced, in particular, the methods developed in the tral topics on Geometry, its contents, interdisciplinary connections theory of group gradings of associative, Lie and Jordan algebras. In and approaches for the teaching of this mathematics discipline at addition to traditional combinatorial methods, people working on senior secondary school and first years at University level. The con- polynomial identities make more frequent use of the representation ference includes the Workshop “EnsGeo I” to be held on September theory, the theory of Hopf algebras, and techniques involving com- 3 (last day of the conference), focused on dissertation works in Ge- puters. The aim of this workshop is to survey the main achievements ometry carried out on Graduate courses in Mathematics for Teaching. in the area for the last 9 years, discuss the current progress and to Information: http://c3.glocos.org/egapv2011/. determine future directions and outstanding problems. Information: http://www.mun.ca/aac/Workshops/ 1–3 26th British Topology Meeting, ICMS, South College Street, NextWork/. Edinburgh, England. (Aug. 2011, p. 1010) Description: The 26th annual British Topology Meeting will take 3–9 10th International Conference on Geometry and Applica- place at ICMS in Edinburgh September 1-3, 2011. tions, Geometrical Society “Boyan Petkanchin”, Sofia, Bulgaria. (Apr. Invited speakers: Javier Aramayona (Galway), Stefan Friedl (Co- 2011, p. 628) logne), Jacob Rasmussen (Cambridge), Saul Schleimer (Warwick), Description: 10th International Conference on Geometry and Appli- Catharina Stroppel (Bonn), Ulrike Tillmann (Oxford) and Karen cations is organized from Geometrical Society “Boyan Petkanchin” Vogtmann (Cornell). in Bulgaria. 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All communications on meetings and conferences www.ams.org/. 1170 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 58, NUMBER 8 Mathematics Calendar finite geometries, computer methods in geometry, algebra and analy- Mathematics at University College Cork. Topics of this conference sis, education in the school and university by computers, didactic will reflect the diversity of Alexei’s contribution to science and of mathematics. will include nonlinear dynamical systems, systems with hysteresis, Information: Please contact: Prof. Dr. Grozio Stanilov; stanilov@ chaos and complexity, stochastic systems, control theory, nonlinear fmi.uni-sofia.bg and Chavdar Lozanov; lozanov@fmi. functional analysis, singularly perturbed systems and mathemati- uni-sofia.bg. cal modeling for applications in engineering, physics, biology and * 4–8 International Symposium of Geometric Function Theory and economics. Sponsors: KE Consulting Group (Cork), Tyndall National Applications, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Institute (Cork). Description: The aim of the conference is to bring together lead- Information: http://www.ucc.ie/en/euclid/ ing experts as well as young researchers working on topics mainly NonlinearDynamicsConferenceinMemoryofAlexeiPok- related to Univalent Functions and Geometric Function Theory with rovskii/. applications in various areas of mathematics and to present their 5–9 RSME2011 Congress of Young Researchers, Campus Duques recent work to the mathematical community. The conference is de Soria Universidad de Valladolid soria, Spain. (Jun/Jul. 2011, mainly dedicated to the 80th birthday of Professor Petru T. Mocanu. p. 857) Topics: Univalent and multivalent functions, special functions and Description: Congress devoted to young researchers in mathemat- series, differential subordinations, conformal and quasiconformal ics in ocasion of the Spanish Royal Mathematical Society centenary. mappings, geometric function theory in several complex variables, Information: http://www.jirsme.uva.es/. potential analysis and applications, other areas related to GFTA. 5–10 Toric Topology and Automorphic Functions, Pacific National Information: http://www.uab.ro/conference/gfta/. University, Khabarovsk, Russia. (May 2011, p. 743) 5–9 AGMP&MP2 Summer School: Mathematical Topics in Quantum Program Committee: Victor Buchstaber (Steklov Mathematical Mechanics and Quantum Information, Tjärnö, Sweden. (May 2011, Institute, Moscow, chairman); Mikhail Guzev (Institute of Applied p. 743) Mathematics, Vladivostok, vice-chairman); Frederic Cohen (Roches- Description: The aim of the Summer School is to introduce Ph.D. ter University, USA); Mikiya Masuda (Osaka City University, Japan); students and junior researchers of mathematical and physical spe- Taras Panov (Moscow State University); Iskander Taimanov (Sobo- cialities to mathematical methods of quantum mechanics and quan- lev Institute of Mathematics); Alexander Podgaev (Pacific National tum information. University).