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/. Programs and abstracts will continue to be displayed on the AMS website in the Meetings and Conferences section until about three weeks after the meeting is over. Final programs for Sectional Meetings will be archived on the AMS website in an electronic issue of the Notices as noted below for each meeting. Arrangements of Hyperplanes, Daniel C. Cohen, Louisiana Madison, Wisconsin State University, Peter Orlik, University of Wisconsin- Madison, and Anne Shepler, University of California Santa University of Wisconsin-Madison Cruz. October 12–13, 2002 Biological Computation and Learning in Intelligent Sys- tems, Shun-ichi Amari, RIKEN, Amir Assadi, University of Meeting #980 Wisconsin-Madison, and Tomaso Poggio, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Central Section Associate secretary: Susan J. Friedlander Characters and Representations of Finite Groups, Martin Announcement issue of Notices: August 2002 Isaacs, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Mark Lewis, Program first available on AMS website: August 29, 2002 Kent State University. Program issue of electronic Notices: October 2002 Combinatorics and Special Functions, Richard Askey and Issue of Abstracts: Volume 23, Issue 4 Paul Terwilliger, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dynamical Systems, Sergey Bolotin and Paul Rabinowitz, Deadlines University of Wisconsin-Madison. For organizers: Expired Effectiveness Questions in Model Theory, Charles McCoy, For consideration of contributed papers in Special Sessions: Reed Solomon, and Patrick Speissegger, University of Expired Wisconsin-Madison. For abstracts: Expired Geometric Methods in Differential Equations, Gloria Mari Invited Addresses Beffa, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Peter Olver, University of Minnesota. Lawrence Ein, University of Illinois at Chicago, Singular- Group Cohomology and Homotopy Theory, Alejandro ities of pairs and birational geometry. Adem, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Jesper Grodal, Eleny Ionel, University of Wisconsin, Relations between Institute for Advanced Study. Gromov-Witten invariants. Harmonic Analysis, Alex Ionescu and Andreas Seeger, Mikhail Safonov, University of Minnesota, General prop- University of Wisconsin-Madison. erties of solutions to second order elliptic and parabolic equa- Hyperbolic Differential Equations and Kinetic Theory, tions. Shi Jin, Marshall Slemrod, and Athanassios Tzavaras, John M. Sullivan, University of Illinois, Urbana, Optimal University of Wisconsin-Madison. geometry in topology. Lie Algebras and Related Topics, Georgia Benkart and Arun Ram, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Special Sessions Lie Groups and Their Representations, R. Michael Howe, Arithmetic Algebraic Geometry, Ken Ono and Tonghai University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, and Gail D. Ratcliff, East Yang, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Carolina University. 1338 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 49 NUMBER 10 Meetings & Conferences Optimal Geometry of Curves and Surfaces, Jason H. Nonlinear Elliptic Partial Differential Equations, David A. Cantarella, University of Georgia, and John M. Sullivan, Hartenstine, University of Utah, and Jon T. Jacobsen, University of Illinois, Urbana. Harvey Mudd College. Partial Differential Equations and Geometry, Sigurd Numerical Solutions of Modeling Problems, Sun Chow, Angenent and Mikhail Feldman, University of Wisconsin- Brigham Young University, and Joseph V. Koebbe, Utah Madison. State University. Probability, David Griffeath and Timo Seppalainen, Uni- Recent Trends in Algebraic Geometry, Aaron J. Bertram, versity of Wisconsin-Madison. University of Utah, and Christopher Derek Hacon, Uni- versity of California Riverside. Ring Theory and Related Topics, Don Passman, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Representation Theory of Semisimple Lie Groups, Dragan Milicic and Peter Trapa, University of Utah. Several Complex Variables, Pat Ahern, Xianghong Gong, Time Series, Heavy Tails, and Applications, Davar Khosh- Alex Nagel, and Jean-Pierre Rosay, University of Wisconsin- nevisan, University of Utah, and Piotr Kokozska, Utah State Madison. University. Salt Lake City, Utah Orlando, Florida University of Utah University of Central Florida October 26–27, 2002 November 9–10, 2002 Meeting #981 Meeting #982 Western Section Southeastern Section Associate secretary: Michel L. Lapidus Associate secretary: John L. Bryant Announcement issue of Notices: September 2002 Announcement issue of Notices: September 2002 Program first available on AMS website: September 16, Program first available on AMS website: September 26, 2002 2002 Program issue of electronic Notices: October 2002 Program issue of electronic Notices: November 2002 Issue of Abstracts: Volume 23, Issue 4 Issue of Abstracts: Volume 23, Issue 4 Deadlines Deadlines For organizers: Expired For organizers: Expired For consideration of contributed papers in Special Sessions: For consideration of contributed papers in Special Sessions: Expired Expired For abstracts: Expired For abstracts: Expired Invited Addresses Invited Addresses Yakov Eliashberg, Stanford University, Comparing sym- Steven J. Cox, Rice University, Decoding the dance of your plectic and contact topologies. dendritic spines. Hart F. Smith, University of Washington, Seattle, The wave James Haglund, University of Pennsylvania, The q,t- equation and harmonic analysis. Catalan numbers and the space of diagonal harmonics. Michael Ward, University of British Columbia, The Marius Mitrea, University of Missouri-Columbia, Elliptic and dynamics and stability of localized patterns for a reaction- parabolic boundary problems in Sobolev-Besov spaces on diffusion system. nonsmooth domains. Amie Wilkinson, Northwestern University, Partially Ricardo H. Nochetto, University of Maryland, College Park, Title to be announced. hyperbolic dynamics on 3-manifolds. Special Sessions Special Sessions Algebraic and Enumerative Combinatorics, James Haglund, Analytic Number Theory, Roger Baker, Xian-Jin Li, and University of Pennsylvania, and Jeff B. Remmel, Univer- Andrew D. Pollington, Brigham Young University. sity of California San Diego. Area-Minimization and Minimal Surfaces, Michael Dorff, Asymptotics of Integrable Partial Differential Equations, Denise Halverson, and Gary R. Lowler, Brigham Young Riemann-Hilbert Problem and Related Topics, Ken T. R. University. McLaughlin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Geometry and Topology, Mladen Bestvina, Michael University of Arizona, and Alexander Tovbis, University Kapovich, and Grigory Mikhalkin, University of Utah. of Central Florida. NOVEMBER 2002 NOTICES OF THE AMS 1339 Meetings & Conferences Commutative Algebra, Heath M. Martin, University of For consideration of contributed papers in Special Sessions: Central Florida, and Stephanie A. Fitchett, Florida Atlantic Expired University. For abstracts: Expired Computational Mathematics, Ricardo H. Nochetto, Uni- For summaries of papers to MAA organizers: Expired versity of Maryland, and Bernardo Cockburn, University Baltimore Program Updates of Minnesota. Computational Methods in Analysis, George A. Anastassiou, Joint AMS-MAA Sessions University of Memphis. What It’s Like to Serve as an NSF Program Director, Financial Mathematics, Craig A. Nolder and Alec N. Thursday, 1:00 p.m.–2:00 p.m., organized by Henry A. Kercheval, Florida State University. Warchall, National Science Foundation. There will be two Function Spaces, Singular Integrals and Applications to 15-minute presentations by former DMS program directors PDEs, Marius Mitrea and Dorina Mitrea, University of Maria Helena Noronha, California State University, North- Missouri-Columbia. ridge; and Lynne H. Walling, Department of Mathematics, Functional and Harmonic Analysis of Wavelets, Frames and University of Colorado, Boulder, followed by a 30-minute Their Applications, Deguang Han, University of Central question-and-answer period. Participants will discuss the Florida, and Manos I. Papadakis, University of Houston. experience of serving as a program director in the NSF Division of Mathematical Sciences. Graph Theory, Robert C. Brigham, University of Central The Math Life, Friday, 2:30 p.m.–3:30 p.m. What goes Florida, Cun-Quan Zhang, West Virginia University, and Yue on inside the head of a mathematician? Did A Beautiful Zhoa, University of Central Florida. Mind get it right? The Math Life is a 50-minute documen- Homotopy Theory and Geometric Topology, Alexander N. tary film funded by the National Science Foundation that Dranishnikov, James E. Keesling, and Yuli B. Rudyak, gives a window into the people, problems, and process of University of Florida. mathematical thinking and research. Coproduced by film- Invariants of Knots and Low-Dimensional Manifolds, J. Scott makers Wendy Conquest and Bob Drake, and Dartmouth Carter, University of South Alabama, and Masahico Saito, College mathematics/computer science professor Dan University of South Florida. Rockmore, The Math Life is aimed at a general audience Mathematical Neuroscience, Steve J. Cox, Rice University, and through animation, interview, and artistic metaphor and Richard Bertram, Florida State University. promises to reveal everything you always wanted to know about mathematics and mathematicians but were afraid Nonlinear