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 www.ams.org/meetings/. Final programs for Sectional Meetings will be archived on the AMS website accessible from the stated URL . Jill Pipher, Brown University, Harmonic analysis and New Brunswick, New elliptic boundary value problems. David Vogan, Department of Mathematics, MIT, Matri- Jersey ces almost of order two. Wei Zhang, Columbia University, The Euler product and Rutgers University the Taylor expansion of an L-function. November 14–15, 2015 Special Sessions Saturday – Sunday If you are volunteering to speak in a Special Session, you Meeting #1115 should send your abstract as early as possible via the ab- Eastern Section stract submission form found at www.ams.org/cgi-bin/ Associate secretary: Steven H. Weintraub abstracts/abstract.pl. Announcement issue of Notices: September 2015 Advances in Valuation Theory, Samar El Hitti, New York Program first available on AMS website: October 1, 2015 City College of Technology, City University of New York, Issue of Abstracts: Volume 36, Issue 4 Franz-Viktor Kuhlmann, University of Saskatchewan, and Deadlines Hans Schoutens, New York City College of Technology, For organizers: Expired City University of New York. For abstracts: Expired Algebraic Geometry and Combinatorics, Elizabeth Drel- lich, University of North Texas, Erik Insko, Florida Gulf The scientific information listed below may be dated. Coast University, Aba Mbirika, University of Wisconsin- For the latest information, see www.ams.org/amsmtgs/ Eau Claire, and Heather Russell, Washington College. sectional.html. Applications of CAT(0) Cube Complexes, Sean Cleary, Invited Addresses City College of New York and the City University of New Lee Mosher, Rutgers University, Newark, The geometry York Graduate Center, and Megan Owen, Lehman College of the outer automorphism group of a free group. of the City University of New York. 1414 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 62, NUMBER 11 Meetings & Conferences Aspects of Minimal Surfaces in Riemannian Manifolds, Representation Theory, Vertex Operator Algebras, and Zheng Huang and Marcello Lucia, City University of New Related Topics, Corina Calinescu, New York City College of York, Staten Island and Graduate Center. Technology, City University of New York, Andrew Doug- Aspects of Resolutions and Syzygies in Commutative las, New York City College of Technology and Graduate Algebra, Courtney Gibbons, Hamilton College, and Denise Center, City University of New York, and Joshua Sussan, Rangel Tracy, Syracuse University. Medgar Evers College, City University of New York. Commutative Algebra, Laura Ghezzi, New York City Representations of Reductive Groups, Jeffrey Adams, College of Technology, City University of New York, and University of Maryland, Stephen D. Miller, Rutgers Uni- Jooyoun Hong, Southern Connecticut State University. versity, and David Vogan, Massachusetts Institute of Difference Equations and Applications, Manos Drymo- Technology. nis, Providence College, Evelina Lapierre, Johnson and Smooth and Symbolic Ergodic Theory, Andrey Gogolev, Wales University, and Michael Radin, Rochester Institute State University of New York at Binghamton, and Federico of Technology. Rodriguez Hertz and Zhiren Wang, Pennsylvania State Geometric Analysis, Paul Feehan, Manos Maridakis, and University. Natasa Sesum, Rutgers University. Topological Data Analysis: Computations, Statistics, Geometric Topology: A Celebration of Jim West’s 70th and Applications, Miroslav Kramar and Rachel Levanger, Birthday, Alexandre Dranishnikov, University of Florida, Rutgers University. Steve Ferry, Rutgers University, and Boris Goldfarb, State University of New York at Albany. Geometry and Combinatorics of Polytopes, Egon Schulte, Seattle, Washington Northeastern University, and Asia Ivic´ Weiss, York Uni- versity. Washington State Convention Center Geometry of Groups, Surfaces and 3-manifolds, Abhijit and the Sheraton Seattle Hotel Champanerkar, College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center, City University of New York, Feng Luo, Rutgers January 6–9, 2016 University, and Joseph Maher, College of Staten Island Wednesday – Saturday and The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Meeting #1116 Invariants of Knots, Links and 3-Manifolds,I, Ilya Kof- Joint Mathematics Meetings, including the 122nd Annual man, College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center, Meeting of the AMS, 99th Annual Meeting of the Math- City University of New York, and Adam Lowrance, Vassar ematical Association of America (MAA), annual meetings College. of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) and Modern Schubert Calculus, Anders Buch and Chris the National Association of Mathematicians (NAM), and the Woodward, Rutgers University. winter meeting of the Association of Symbolic Logic (ASL), Multiple Combinatorial Numbers and Associated Identi- with sessions contributed by the Society for Industrial and ties, Hasan Coskun, Texas A & M University-Commerce. Applied Mathematics (SIAM). Multiscale Methods in Cell and Developmental Biology, Associate secretary: Michel L. Lapidus Anastasios Matzavinos, Brown University, and Chuan Announcement issue of Notices: October 2015 Xue, Ohio State University. Program first available on AMS website: November 1, 2015 Nonlinear Waves in Differential Equations, Linghai Issue of Abstracts: Volume 37, Issue 1 Zhang, Lehigh University. Number Theory, Spectral Theory, and Homogeneous Deadlines Dynamics, Dubi Kelmer, Boston College, and Alex Kon- For organizers: Expired torovich, Rutgers University. For abstracts: Expired Partial Differential Equations in Geometric Analysis, The scientific information listed below may be dated. Jeffrey Case and Alice Chang, Princeton University, and For the latest information, see www.ams.org/amsmtgs/ Yi Wang, Johns Hopkins University and Institute for Ad- national.html. vanced Study. Probability, Combinatorics and Statistical Mechanics, Joint Invited Addresses Nayantara Bhatnagar, University of Delaware, Brian Rider, Jennifer Chayes, Microsoft Research, Network Science: Temple University, and Douglas Rizzolo, University of From the Online World to Cancer Genomics (MAA-AMS- Delaware. SIAM Gerald and Judith Porter Public Lecture). DECEMBER 2015 NOTICES OF THE AMS 1415 Meetings & Conferences Kristin Estella Lauter, Microsoft Research, How to Keep Montgomery, and Ratnasingham Shivaji, University of your Genome Secret (AMS-MAA Invited Address). North Carolina, Greensboro. Xiao-Li Meng, Harvard University, Statistical Paradises Algebraic Theory of Differential and Functional Equa- and Paradoxes in Big Data (AMS-MAA Invited Address). tions, Taylor Dupuy, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Karen E. Smith, University of Michigan, The Power of University of Vermont, and Alexey Ovchinnikov, CUNY Noether’s Ring Theory in Understanding Singularities of Queens College, New York. Complex Algebraic Varieties (AWM-AMS Noether Lecture). Algebraic and Topological Methods in Combinatorics, Andrew Berget, Western Washington University, Steven AMS Invited Addresses Klee, Seattle University, and Isabella Novik, University of Panagiota Daskalopoulos, Columbia University, An- Washington, Seattle. cient solutions to parabolic partial differential equations. Analysis and Geometry in Nonsmooth Metric Measure Alex Eskin, University of Chicago, The S​L(2, ​R) action Spaces, Luca Capogna, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, on moduli space. and Jeremy Tyson, University of Illinois at Urbana- W. Timothy Gowers, University of Cambridge, UK, Champaign. Quasirandom sets, quasirandom graphs, and applications Analysis, Geometry, and Data, Kevin R. Vixie, Washing- (AMS Colloquium Lectures: Lecture I). ton State University, Pullman, and Bala Krishnamoorthy, W. Timothy Gowers, University of Cambridge, UK, Washington State University, Vancouver. Arithmetic progressions of length 4, quadratic Fourier Analytic Function Spaces and Operators on Them, Tim analysis, and 3-uniform hypergraphs (AMS Colloquium Ferguson and Hyun Kwon, University of Alabama, Tus- caloosa. Lectures: Lecture II). Analytic Methods in Geometry, Eric Bahuaud and Dylan W. Timothy Gowers, University of Cambridge, UK, Helliwell, Seattle University. Fourier analysis on general finite groups (AMS Colloquium Applications of Logic, Model Theory, and Theoreti- Lectures: Lecture III). cal Computer Science to Systems Biology, James Lynch, Marta Lewicka, University of Pittsburgh, Prestrained Clarkson University, and Leo Marcus, Santa Monica, CA elasticity: curvature constraints and differential geometry (AMS-ASL). with low regularity. Applied and Computational Topology, Pawel Dlotko, Daniel Alan Spielman, Yale University, Graphs, Vectors, INRIA Saclay, France, Nicholas Scoville, Ursinus College, and Matrices (AMS Josiah Willard Gibbs Lecture). and Matthew Wright, IMA University of Minnesota. David Vogan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Arithmetic Dynamics, Matthew Baker, Georgia Institute Conjugacy classes and group representations (AMS Retiring of Technology, and Joseph Silverman, Brown University. Presidential Address). Big Demand for Big Data: How Do We Create the Big Steve Zelditch, Northwestern University, Chaotic bil- Supply?, Rick Cleary, Babson College, and Xiao-Li Meng, liards and vibrations of drums. Harvard University.