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No knowledge of LTEX is MEETINGS IN THIS ISSUE –––––– 2018 –––––––– –––––––– 2020 –––––––– January 15–18 Denver, Colorado p. 894 September 29–30 Newark, Delaware p. 869 March 13–15 Charlottesville, Virginia p. 894 May 2–3 Fresno, California p. 894 October 20–21 Ann Arbor, Michigan p. 870 –––––––– 2021 –––––––– October 27–28 San Francisco, California p. 877 January 6–9 Washington, DC p. 894 July 5–9 Grenoble, France p. 894 November 3–4 Fayetteville, Arkansas p. 883 July 19–23 Buenos Aires, Argentina p. 895 –––––––– 2019 ––––––– –––––––– 2022 –––––––– January 16–19 Baltimore, Maryland p. 887 January 5–8 Seattle, Washington p. 895 March 15–17 Auburn, Alabama p. 891 March 22–24 Honolulu, Hawaii p. 891 April 13–14 Hartford, Connecticut p. 892 –––––––– 2023 –––––––– June 10–13 Quy Nhon City, Vietnam p. 892 January 4–7 Boston, Massachusetts p. 895 September 14–15 Madison, Wisconsin p. 892 October 12–13 Binghamton, New York p. 893 November 2–3 Gainesville, Florida p. 893 November 9–10 Riverside, California p. 893 See www.ams.org/meetings for the most up-to-date information on the meetings and conferences that we offer. ASSOCIATE SECRETARIES OF THE AMS Central Section: Georgia Benkart, University of Wisconsin- Southeastern Section: Brian D. Boe, Department of Mathemat- Madison, Department of Mathematics, 480 Lincoln Drive, ics, University of Georgia, 220 D W Brooks Drive, Athens, GA Madison, WI 53706-1388; email: [email protected]; 30602-7403, email: [email protected]; telephone: 706-542- telephone: 608-263-4283. 2547. Eastern Section: Steven H. Weintraub, Department of Math- Western Section: Michel L. Lapidus, Department of Mathemat- ematics, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18015-3174; email: ics, University of California, Surge Bldg., Riverside, CA 92521- [email protected]; telephone: 610-758-3717. 0135; email: [email protected]; telephone: 951-827-5910. 868 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 65, NUMBER 8 MEETINGS & CONFERENCES 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 informa- tion 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 . Applied Algebraic Topology (Code: SS 2A), Chad Giusti, Newark, Delaware University of Delaware, and Gregory Henselman, Princ- eton University. University of Delaware Billiard Dynamics: Standard and Alternative Collision September 29–30, 2018 Models (Code: SS 15A), Tim Chumley, Mount Holyoke College, Chris Cox, University of Delaware, and Renato Saturday – Sunday Feres, Washington University in St. Louis. Meeting #1141 Commutative Algebra (Code: SS 19A), Ela Celikbas, Eastern Section West Virginia University, Sema Gunturkun, University Associate secretary: Steven H. Weintraub of Michigan, and Oana Veliche, Northeastern University. Announcement issue of Notices: June 2018 Convex Geometry and Functional Inequalities (Code: SS Program first available on AMS website: August 9, 2018 3A), Mokshay Madiman, University of Delaware, Elisabeth Program issue of electronic Notices: To be announced Werner, Case Western Reserve University, and Artem Issue of Abstracts: Volume 39, Issue 3 Zvavitch, Kent State University. Fixed Point Theory with Application and Computation Deadlines (Code: SS 7A), Clement Boateng Ampadu, Boston, MA, For organizers: Expired Penumarthy Parvateesam Murthy, Guru Ghasidas Vish- For abstracts: July 31, 2018 wavidyalaya, Bilaspur, India, Naeem Saleem, University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan, Yaé Ulrich The scientific information listed below may be dated. Gaba, Institut de Mathématiques et de Sciences Physiques For the latest information, see www.ams.org/amsmtgs (IMSP), Porto-Novo, Bénin, and Xavier Udo-utun, University /sectional.html. of Uyo, Uyo, Nigeria. Invited Addresses Graph Theory (Code: SS 12A), Sebastian M. Cioaba˘, University of Delaware, Brian Kronenthal, Kutztown Leslie Greengard, New York University, Linear and nonlinear inverse problems in imaging. University of Pennsylvania, Felix Lazebnik, University of Elisenda Grigsby, Boston College, Braids, surfaces, and Delaware, and Wing Hong Tony Wong, Kutztown Univer- homological invariants. sity of Pennsylvania. Davesh Maulik, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Interplay between Analysis and Combinatorics (Code: Title to be announced. SS 5A), Mahya Ghandehari and Dominique Guillot, Uni- versity of Delaware. Special Sessions Modern Quasiconformal Analysis and Geometric Func- If you are volunteering to speak in a Special Session, you tion Theory (Code: SS 6A), David Herron, University of should send your abstract as early as possible via the ab- Cincinnati, and Yuk-J Leung, University of Delaware. stract submission form found at www.ams.org/cgi-bin Nonlinear Water Waves and Related Problems (Code: SS /abstracts/abstract.pl. 9A), Philippe Guyenne, University of Delaware. Operator and Function Theory (Code: SS 4A), Kelly Advances in Numerical Approximation of Partial Dif- Bickel, Bucknell University, Michael Hartz, Washington ferential Equations (Code: SS 8A), Constantin Bacuta and University, St. Louis, Constanze Liaw, University of Dela- Jingmei Qiu, University of Delaware. ware, and Alan Sola, Stockholm University. AUGUST 2018 NOTICES OF THE AMS 869 MEETINGS & CONFERENCES Probability, Combinatorics, and Statistical Mechanics stract submission form found at www.ams.org/cgi-bin (Code: SS 18A), Nayantara Bhatnagar and Douglas Riz- /abstracts/abstract.pl. zolo, University of Delaware. Quantum Correlation Sets in Quantum Information Advances in Commutative Algebra (Code: SS 15A), Jack Theory (Code: SS 13A), Elie Alhajjar and Travis B. Russell, Jeffries, University of Michigan, Linquan Ma, Purdue Uni- US Military Academy. versity, and Karl Schwede, University of Utah. Recent Advances in Nonlinear Schrödinger Equations Advances on Analytical and Geometric Aspects of Dif- (Code: SS 1A), Alexander Pankov, Morgan State University, ferential Equations (Code: SS 24A), Alessandro Arsie, Junping Shi, College of William and Mary, and Jun Wang, Chunhua Shan, and Ekaterina Shemyakova, University Jiangsu University. of Toledo. Recent Analytic and Numeric Results on Nonlinear Evo- Analytical and Numerical Aspects of Turbulent Trans- lution Equations (Code: SS 10A), Xiang Xu, Old Dominion port (Code: SS 23A), Michele Coti Zelati, Imperial College University, and Wujun Zhang, Rutgers University. London, and Ian Tobasco and Karen Zaya, University of Representations of Infinite Dimensional Lie Algebras and Michigan. Applications (Code: SS 16A), Marco Aldi, Virginia Com- Aspects of Geometric Mechanics and Dynamics (Code: monwealth University, Michael Penn, Randolph College, SS 13A), Anthony M Bloch and Marta Farre Puiggali, and Juan Villarreal, Virginia Commonwealth University. University of Michigan. Stochastic Processes in Mathematical Biology (Code: SS Bio-inspired Mechanics and Propulsion (Code: SS 16A), 14A), Yao Li, University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Silas Alben, University of Michigan, and Longhua Zhao, Abhyudai Singh, University of Delaware. Case Western Reserve University. The Mathematics of Swimmers and Active Particles Canonical Operators in Several Complex Variables and (Code: SS 11A), Louis Rossi, University of Delaware, and Related Topics (Code: SS 21A), David Barrett and Luke Enkeleida Lushi, Flatiron Institute. Edholm, University of Michigan, and Yunus Zeytuncu, University of Michigan, Dearborn. Cell Motility: Models and Applications (Code: SS 20A), Ann Arbor, Michigan Magdalena Stolarska, University of St. Thomas, and Ni- coleta Tarfulea, Purdue University Northwest. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Cluster Algebra, Poisson Geometry, and Related Topics (Code: SS 9A), Eric Bucher, Michigan State University, and October 20–21, 2018 Maitreyee Kulkarni and Bach Nguyen, Louisiana State Saturday – Sunday University. Combinatorics in Algebra and Algebraic