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. Mihnea Popa, University of Illinois at Chicago, Vanish- Alba Iulia, Romania ing theorems and holomorphic one-forms. Dan Timotin, Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian University of Alba Iulia Academy, Horn inequalities: Finite and infinite dimensions. June 27–30, 2013 Special Sessions Thursday – Sunday Algebraic Geometry, Marian Aprodu, Institute of Meeting #1091 Mathematics of the Romanian Academy, Mircea Mustata, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and Mihnea Popa, First Joint International Meeting of the AMS and the Ro- University of Illinois, Chicago. manian Mathematical Society, in partnership with the “Simion Stoilow” Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Articulated Systems: Combinatorics, Geometry and Academy. Kinematics, Ciprian S. Borcea, Rider University, and Ileana Associate secretary: Steven H. Weintraub Streinu, Smith College. Announcement issue of Notices: January 2013 Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations, Program first available on AMS website: Not applicable Marian Bocea, Loyola University, Chicago, Liviu Ignat, Program issue of electronic Notices: Not applicable Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy, Mihai Issue of Abstracts: Not applicable Mihailescu, University of Craiova, and Daniel Onofrei, University of Houston. Deadlines Commutative Algebra, Florian Enescu, Georgia State For organizers: Expired University, and Cristodor Ionescu, Institute of Mathemat- For abstracts: Expired ics of the Romanian Academy. Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science, The scientific information listed below may be dated. Sebastian Cioaba, University of Delaware, Gabriel Istrate, For the latest information, see www.ams.org/amsmtgs/ Universitatea de Vest, Timisoara, Ioan Tomescu, Univer- internmtgs.html. sity of Bucharest, and Marius Zimand, Towson University. Invited Addresses Domain Decomposition Methods and their Applications in Mechanics and Engineering, Lori Badea, Institute of Viorel Barbu, Universitatea Al. I. Cuza, Stabilization of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy, and Marcus Sar- Navier-Stokes equations by boundary and point feedback controllers. kis, Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Sergiu Klainerman, Princeton University, Are black Geometry and Topology of Arrangements of Hyper- holes real? surfaces, Daniel Matei, Institute of Mathematics of the George Lusztig, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Romanian Academy, and Alexandru I. Suciu, Northeastern On conjugacy classes in the Lie group E8. University. Stefan Papadima, Institute of Mathematics of the Ro- Harmonic Analysis and Applications, Ciprian Demeter, manian Academy, Geometry of homology jump loci and Indiana University, Bloomington, and Camil Muscalu, topology. Cornell University. 808 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 60, NUMBER 6 Meetings & Conferences Hopf Algebras, Coalgebras, and their Categories of Representations, Miodrag C. Iovanov, University of Louisville, Kentucky Bucharest and University of Iowa, Susan Montgomery, University of Southern California, and Siu-Hung Ng, Iowa University of Louisville State University. October 5–6, 2013 Local and Nonlocal Models in Wave Propagation and Diffusion, Anca V. Ion, Institute of Mathematical Statis- Saturday – Sunday tics and Applied Mathematics of the Romanian Academy, Meeting #1092 Petronela Radu, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and Southeastern Section Lorena Bociu, North Carolina State University. Associate secretary: Brian D. Boe Mathematical Finance, Stochastic Analysis, and Partial Announcement issue of Notices: June/July 2013 Differential Equations, Lucian Beznea, Institute of Math- Program first available on AMS website: August 22, 2013 ematics of the Romanian Academy, Paul Feehan, Rutgers Program issue of electronic Notices: October 2013 University, Victor Nistor, Pennsylvania State University, Issue of Abstracts: Volume 34, Issue 3 Camelia Pop, University of Pennsylvania, and Mihai Sirbu, University of Texas, Austin. Deadlines Mathematical Models in Life and Environment, Gabriela For organizers: Expired Marinoschi, Institute of Mathematical Statistics and Ap- For abstracts: August 13, 2013 plied Mathematics of the Romanian Academy, and Fabio Augusto Milner, Arizona State University. The scientific information listed below may be dated. Mathematical Models in Materials Science and Engineer- For the latest information, see www.ams.org/amsmtgs/ ing, Marian Bocea, Loyola University, Chicago, and Bogdan sectional.html. Vernescu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Noncommutative Ring Theory and Applications, Toma Invited Addresses Albu, Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy, Michael Hill, University of Virginia, Framed manifolds and Lance W. Small, University of California, San Diego. and equivalent homotopy: A solution to the Kervaire Invari- Nonlinear Evolution Equations, Daniel Tataru, Univer- ant One problem. sity of California, Berkeley, and Monica Visan, University Suzanne Lenhart, University of Tennessee and NIMBioS, of California, Los Angeles. Using optimal control of PDEs to investigate population Operator Algebra and Noncommutative Geometry, questions. Marius Dadarlat, Purdue University, and Florin Radulescu, Ralph McKenzie, Vanderbilt University, A perspective Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy and on fifty years of work, delight and discovery in general University of Rome Tor Vergata. algebra. Operator Theory and Function Spaces, Aurelian Gheon- Victor Moll, Tulane University, 2-adic valuations of dea, Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy classical sequences: A collection of examples. and Bilkent University, Mihai Putinar, University of Special Sessions California, Santa Barbara, and Dan Timotin, Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy. Algebraic Coding Theory (Code: SS 5A), Steve Szabo, Eastern Kentucky University, and Heide Gluesing-Luers- Probability and its Relation to Other Fields of Mathemat- sen, University of Kentucky. ics, Krzysztof Burdzy, University of Washington, and Algebraic Cryptography (Code: SS 12A), Daniel Smith, Mihai N. Pascu, Transilvania University of Bras¸ov. University of Louisville. Random Matrices and Free Probability, Ioana Dumitriu, Applied Analysis and Inverse Problems (Code: SS 9A), University of Washington, and Ionel Popescu, Georgia Peijun Li, Purdue University, Jiguang Sun, Michigan Tech- Institute of Technology and Institute of Mathematics of nological University, and Yongzhi Steve Xu, University of the Romanian Academy. Louisville. Several Complex Variables, Complex Geometry and Combinatorial Commutative Algebra (Code: SS 4A), Dynamics, Dan Coman, Syracuse University, and Cezar Juan Migliore, University of Notre Dame, and Uwe Nagel, Joita, Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy. University of Kentucky. Topics in Geometric and Algebraic Topology, Stefan Commutative Rings, Ideals, and Modules (Code: SS 3A), Papadima, Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Acad- Ela Celikbas and Olgur Celikbas, University of Missouri- emy, and Alexandru I. Suciu, Northeastern University. Columbia. Extremal Graph Theory (Code: SS 2A), Jozsef Balogh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Louis DeBiasio and Tao Jiang, Miami University, Oxford, OH. Finite Universal Algebra (Code: SS 6A), Ralph McKenzie, Vanderbilt University, and Matthew Valeriote, McMaster University. JUNE/JULY 2013 NOTICES OF THE AMS 809 Meetings & Conferences Fixed Point Theorems and Applications to Integral, Dif- nights, October 4 and 5, 2013; rates may be extended to ference, and Differential Equations (Code: SS 8A), Jeffrey one day before or after these dates if rooms are avail- W. Lyons, Nova Southeastern University, and Jeffrey T. able; please ask when you make your reservation. When Neugebauer, Eastern Kentucky University. making reservations participants should state that they Harmonic Analysis and Partial Differential Equations are with the American Mathematical Society (AMS) (Code: SS 10A), Russell Brown and Katharine Ott, Uni- meeting on campus, unless noted otherwise. Hotels versity of Kentucky. have varying cancellation or early checkout penalties; History of Mathematics and Its Use in Teaching (Code: be sure to ask for details when making your reserva- SS 20A), Daniel J. Curtin, Northern Kentucky University, tion. The room rates listed do not include applicable and Daniel E. Otero, Xavier University. taxes; the current tax rate on hotel rooms is 15.01%. Homogenization of Partial Differential Equations (Code: All properties are smoke free. SS 14A), Zhongwei Shen, University of Kentucky, and Yifeng Yu, University of California, Irvine. Downtown hotels: Mathematical Analysis of Complex Fluids and Flows The Seelbach Hilton, 500 Fourth St., Louisville, KY (Code: SS 15A), Xiang Xu, Carnegie Mellon University, and 40202; 502-585-3200 (phone), US$149 for single or double Changyou Wang, University of Kentucky. (king or two queen beds); special rate can be extended Mathematical Issues in Ecological and Epidemiological beyond the meetings dates. 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