MeetingsMeetings & Conferences & Conferences of the AMS 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 . *THIS ONLINE MEETINGS & CONFERENCES LISTING CONTAINS JMM 2016 UPDATES THAT WERE NOT AVAILABLE AT PRESS-TIME AND SO ARE NOT PRESENT IN THE PRINT VERSION* Peter Sarnak, Princeton University, and IAS Princeton, Chicago, Illinois Markoff Surfaces, Numbers and Strong Approximation (Erdo˝s Memorial Lecture). Loyola University Chicago Special Sessions October 3–4, 2015 If you are volunteering to speak in a Special Session, you Saturday–Sunday should send your abstract as early as possible via the ab- stract submission form found at www.ams.org/cgi-bin/ Meeting #1112 abstracts/abstract.pl. Central Section Associate secretary: Georgia Benkart Algebraic Methods Common to Association Schemes, Announcement issue of Notices: June 2015 Hopf Algebras, Tensor Categories, Finite Geometry, and Program first available on AMS website: August 20, 2015 Related Areas, Harvey Blau, Northern Illinois University, Issue of Abstracts: Volume 36, Issue 4 Sung Y. Song, Iowa State University, and Bangteng Xu, Eastern Kentucky University. Deadlines Algebraic Statistics and its Interactions with Combina- For organizers: Expired torics, Computation, and Network Science, Sonja Petrovic, For abstracts: Expired Illinois Institute of Technology, and Despina Stasi, Univer- sity of Cyprus and Illinois Institute of Technology. The scientific information listed below may be dated. Algebraic and Combinatorial Invariants of Knots, Micah For the latest information, see www.ams.org/amsmtgs/ Chrisman, Monmouth University, Heather Dye, McKen- sectional.html. dree University, Aaron Kaestner, North Park University, Louis Kauffman, University of Illinois at Chicago, and Invited Addresses Emily Peters, Loyola University Chicago. Julia Chuzhoy, Toyota Technological Institute at Chi- Analysis of Partial Differential Equations and Fluid Dy- cago, Excluded Grid Theorem: Improved and Simplified. namics, Mimi Dai, University of Illinois at Chicago, Vera Andrew Neitzke, The University of Texas at Austin, Mikyoung Hur, University of Illinois at Urbana-Cham- Some new geometric applications of quantum field theory. paign, and Yao Yao, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Sebastien Roch, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Automorphic Forms and Representations, Moshe Mathematics of the Tree of Life—From Genomes to Phylo- Adrian, University of Toronto, and Shuichiro Takeda and genetic Trees and Beyond. Aaron Wood, University of Missouri-Columbia. 1112 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 62, NUMBER 9 Meetings & Conferences Automorphisms of Riemann Surfaces and Related Top- Mathematical Analysis and Computation of Nematic ics, S. Allen Broughton, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technol- Liquid Crystals, Patricia Bauman, Daniel Phillips, and ogy, Peter Turbek, Purdue University Calumet, Anthony Changyou Wang, Purdue University. Weaver, Bronx Community College, the City University Mathematics of Evolution, Ruth Davidson, University of New York, and Aaron Wootton, University of Portland. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Ruriko Yoshida, Uni- Coding Theory and Its Applications, W. Cary Huffman, versity of Kentucky. Loyola University Chicago. Metric Spaces: Geometry, Group Theory, and Dynam- Cohomology of Algebras and Deformation Theory, ics, Tullia Dymarz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Anthony Giaquinto, Loyola University Chicago, Mihai D. Anton Lukyanenko, University of Michigan. Staic, Bowling Green State University, and Alin Stancu, Model Theory, Uri Andrews, University of Wisconsin- Columbus State University. Madison, Isaac Goldbring, University of Illinois at Chicago, Combinatorial and Computational Algebra, David Cook and Maryanthe Malliaris, University of Chicago. Nonlinear PDEs and Calculus of Variations, Emmanuel II, Eastern Illinois University, and Sonja Mapes, University Barron, Marian Bocea, and Robert Jensen, Loyola Univer- of Notre Dame. sity Chicago. Combinatorial and Geometric Representation Theory, Nonlocal Diffusions, Jinqiao Duan, Xiaofan Li, and Ben Salisbury, Central Michigan University, and Peter Xiaoxia Xie, Illinois Institute of Technology. Tingley, Loyola University Chicago. Probability Theory, Antonio Auffinger, Northwestern Commutative Algebra, Youngsu Kim and Paolo Man- University, Jian Ding, University of Chicago, and Sebastien tero, University of California, Riverside, and Jonathan Roch, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Montano, Purdue University. Recent Advances in Non-Commutative Analysis, Hari Computability Theory and Applications, Denis Bercovici, Indiana University, and John Williams, Univer- Hirschfeldt, University of Chicago, and Steffen Lempp, sitát des Saarlandes. University of Wisconsin-Madison. Recent Developments in Graph and Matroid Theory, Ser- Enumerative Algebraic and Geometric Combinatorics, gei Bezrukov, University of Wisconsin-Superior, Dalibor Kyle Petersen, DePaul University, and Steven Klee, Seattle Froncek, University of Minnesota Duluth, and Xiaofeng Gu University. and Steven Rosenberg, University of Wisconsin-Superior. Enumerative Combinatorics and Graph Theoretic Ap- Recent Developments in the Theory and Applications of plications, Adam Goyt, Minnesota State University, and Reaction Network Models, Carsten Conradi, Max Planck Lara Pudwell, Valparaiso University. Institute, and Casian Pantea, West Virginia University. Ergodic and Symbolic Actions of Amenable Groups, Singularities in Algebra, Geometry and Topology, Ays¸e ¸ahinS and Ilie Ugarcovici, DePaul University. Manuel Gonzalez Villa and Laurentiu Maxim, University Frontiers in Computational Mathematics, Sou-Cheng of Wisconsin-Madison. (Terrya) Choi, NORC at the University of Chicago, and Stochastic Analysis With Applications to Quantitative Illinois Institute of Technology. Finance, Igor Cialenco and Ruoting Gong, Illinois Institute Generalized Derivatives, J. Marshall Ash, DePaul Uni- of Technology. versity, and Paul Musial, Chicago State University. The Langlands Program and Related Topics, Andrei Geometric Partial Differential Equations, Morgan Sher- Jorza, University of Notre Dame, and Martin Luu, Univer- man, California Polytechnic State University, and Valen- sity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. tino Tosatti and Ben Weinkove, Northwestern University. Topics in Graph Theory, Hypergraphs and Set Systems, Geometric Perspectives in Knot Theory, David Krcato- John Engbers, Marquette University, and David Galvin, vich and Allison Moore, Rice University. University of Notre Dame. Variational Analysis, Optimization, and Control (Dedi- Graduate Student Perspectives on Undergraduate cated to Terry Rockafellar on the occasion of his 80th Research, Mindy Capaldi and Zsuzsanna Szaniszlo, Val- birthday), Rafal Goebel, Loyola University Chicago. paraiso University. Groups, Rings, Group Rings, and Hopf Algebras (cel- ebrating the 75th birthday of Donald S. Passman), Jef- frey Bergen, Stefan Catoiu, and William Chin, DePaul Memphis, Tennessee University. University of Memphis History of Mathematics, Steven Jordan, Loyola Univer- sity Chicago. October 17–18, 2015 Hopf Algebraic Combinatorics, Marcelo Aguiar, Cornell Saturday–Sunday University, and Aaron Lauve, Loyola University Chicago. K-loops, Neardomains, Loops, and Nonassociative Divi- Meeting #1113 sion Algebras, Alper Bulut, American University of the Southeastern Section Middle East, C. E. Ealy Jr., Western Michigan University, Associate secretary: Brian D. Boe Hubert Kiechle, University of Hamburg, Benjamin Phil- Announcement issue of Notices: August 2015 lips, University of Michigan Dearborn, and J. D. Phillips, Program first available on AMS website: September 3, 2015 Northern Michigan University. Issue of Abstracts: Volume 36, Issue 3 OCTOBER 2015 NOTICES OF THE AMS 1113 Meetings & Conferences Deadlines Recent Advances in Commutative Algebra, Sandra Spi- For organizers: Expired roff, University of Mississippi, and Lance Miller, University For abstracts: Expired of Arkansas. Recent Developments in the Statistical Analysis of Large Clustered Data, E. Olusegun George, University of The scientific information listed below may be dated. Memphis. For the latest information, see www.ams.org/amsmtgs/ Spectra of Graphs and Hypergraphs, Vladimir Nikifo- sectional.html. rov, University of Memphis. Invited Addresses Stabilization, Control, and Analysis of Evolutionary Partial Differential Equations, George Avalos, University Mark van Hoeij, Florida State University, Solving prob- of Nebraska Lincoln, Scott Hansen, Iowa State University, lems with the LLL algorithm. and Justin Webster, North Carolina State University & Vaughan Jones, Vanderbilt University, Are all subfac- College of Charleston. tors related to quantum field theory? The Analysis, Geometry, and Topology of Groupoids, Mette Olufsen, North Carolina State University, Patient Emily Proctor, Middlebury College, and Christopher specific modeling of cardiovascular system dynamics. Seaton, Rhodes College. Topological Combinatorics, Eric Gottlieb, Rhodes Col- Special Sessions lege, and Russ Woodroofe, Mississippi State University. If you are volunteering to speak in a Special Session, you von Neumann Algebras, Vaughan Jones,