MEETINGS & CONFERENCES OF THE AMS SEPTEMBER TABLE OF CONTENTS The Meetings and Conferences section of The most up-to-date meeting and confer- necessary to submit an electronic form, the Notices gives information on all AMS ence information can be found online at: although those who use L ATEX may submit meetings and conferences approved by www.ams.org/meetings/. abstracts with such coding, and all math press time for this issue. Please refer to Important Information About AMS displays and similarily coded material the page numbers cited on this page for Meetings: Potential organizers, (such as accent marks in text) must A more detailed information on each event. speakers, and hosts should refer to be typeset in LTEX. Visit www.ams.org/ Invited Speakers and Special Sessions are page 88 in the January 2016 issue of the cgi-bin/abstracts/abstract.pl/. 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No knowledge of LTEX is MEETINGS IN THIS ISSUE –––––––– 2016 –––––––– September 24–25 Brunswick, Maine p. 984 April 14–15 Nashville, Tennessee p. 998 October 8–9 Denver, Colorado p. 985 April 21–22 Boston, Massachusetts p. 998 October 28–30 Minneapolis, Minnesota p. 986 June 11–14 People's Republic of China p. 999 November 12–13 Raleigh, North Carolina p. 987 –––––––– 2019 –––––––– –––––––– 2017 –––––––– January 16–19 Baltimore, Maryland p. 999 January 4–7 Atlanta, Georgia p. 991 March 10–12 Charleston, South Carolina p. 994 March 29–31 Honolulu, Hawaii p. 999 April 1–2 Bloomington, Indiana p. 995 –––––––– 2020 –––––––– April 22–23 Pullman, Washington p. 995 January 15–18 Denver, Colorado p. 999 May 6–7 New York, New York p. 996 July 24–28 Montréal, Quebec, Canada p. 996 –––––––– 2021 –––––––– September 9–10 Denton, Texas p. 996 January 6–9 Washington, DC p. 999 September 16–17 Buffalo, New York p. 997 September 23–24 Orlando, Florida p. 997 Conferences in Cooperation with the AMS November 4–5 Riverside, California p. 997 Indian Mathematics Consortium –––––––– 2018 –––––––– December 14–17, 2016 January 10–13 San Diego, California p. 998 Banaras Hindu University March 24–25 Columbus, Ohio p. 998 April 14–15 Portland, Oregon p. 998 Varanasi, India See www.ams.org/meetings/ for the most up-to-date information on these conferences. 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; e-mail: [email protected]; 30602-7403, e-mail: [email protected]; telephone: 706- telephone: 608-263-4283. 542-2547. Eastern Section: Steven H. Weintraub, Department of Math- Western Section: Michel L. Lapidus, Department of Mathemat- ematics, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18015-3174; e-mail: ics, University of California, Surge Bldg., Riverside, CA 92521- [email protected]; telephone: 610-758-3717. 0135; e-mail: [email protected]; telephone: 951-827-5910. SEPTEMBER 2016 NOTICES OF THE AMS 983 Meetings & Conferences& Conferences of the AMS of the AMS IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING MEETINGS PROGRAMS: AMS Sectional Meeting programs do not ap- pear 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 . Algebraic and Enumerative Combinatorics, Thomas Brunswick, Maine Lam, University of Michigan, and Thomas McConville, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Bowdoin College Autonomous and Non-autonomous Discrete Dynamical Systems with Applications, M.R.S. Kulenovic´ and O. Me- September 24–25, 2016 rino, University of Rhode Island. Saturday – Sunday Combinatorial Aspects of Nilpotent Orbits, Anthony Meeting #1121 Iarrobino, Northeastern University, Leila Khatami, Union College, and Julianna Tymoczko, Smith College. Eastern Section Combinatorics, at the Crossroads of Algebra, Geometry, Associate secretary: Steven H. Weintraub and Topology, Ivan Martino, University of Fribourg (Swit- Announcement issue of Notices: June 2016 zerland), and Alexander I. Suciu, Northeastern University. Program first available on AMS website: To be announced Convex Cocompactness, Tarik Aougab and Sara Maloni, Issue of Abstracts: Volume 37, Issue 3 Brown University. Deadlines Decomposing 3-manifolds, Tao Li, Boston College, and Scott Taylor, Colby College. For organizers: Expired Financial Mathematics, Maxim Bichuch, Johns Hopkins For abstracts: Expired University, and Stephan Strum and Xuwei Yang, Worces- The scientific information listed below may be dated. ter Polytechnic Institute. For the latest information, see www.ams.org/amsmtgs/ Geometric Aspects of Harmonic Analysis, Matthew Bad- sectional.html. ger and Vasileios Chousionis, University of Connecticut. Geometric Group Theory, Charles Cunningham, Bow- Invited Addresses doin College, Moon Duchin, Tufts University, and Jennifer Tim Austin, New York University, Szemerédi’s Theorem: Taback, Bowdoin College. combinatorics, ergodic theory and algebra. Geometry of Nilpotent Groups, Moon Duchin, Tufts Moon Duchin, Tufts University, Counting in groups: University, Jennifer Taback, Bowdoin College, and Peter Fine asymptotic geometry. Wong, Bates College. Thomas Lam, University of Michigan, Combinatorics of Mathematics and Statistics Applied to Biology and Re- electrical networks. lated Fields, Meredith L. Greer, Bates College. New Developments in Graphs and Hypergraphs, Deepak Special Sessions Bal and Jonathan Cutler, Montclair State University, and If you are volunteering to speak in a Special Session, you Jozef Skokan, London School of Economics. should send your abstract as early as possible via the ab- Noncommutative Ring Theory and Noncommutative Al- stract submission form found at www.ams.org/cgi-bin/ gebra, Jason Gaddis, Wake Forest University, and Manuel abstracts/abstract.pl. Reyes, Bowdoin College. 984 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUmE 63, NUmBER 8 Meetings & Conferences Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations in Material Sci- Algebraic Combinatorics (Code: SS 23A), Anton Betten, ence and Mathematical Biology, Leonid Berlyand, Penn- Colorado State University, Jason Williford, University of sylvania State University, Dmitry Golovaty, University of Wyoming, and Bangteng Xu, Eastern Kentucky University. Akron, and Alex Misiats, New York University. Algebraic Logic (Code: SS 1A), Nick Galatos, University Nonlinear Waves and Dynamical Systems, Christopher of Denver, and Peter Jipsen, Chapman University. Chong, Bowdoin College. Analysis on Graphs and Spectral Graph Theory (Code: Plethysm and Kronecker Products in Representation SS 2A), Paul Horn and Mei Yin, University of Denver. Theory, Susanna Fishel, Arizona State University, and Aspects of PDE Arising from Modeling of the Flows in Sheila Sundaram, Pierrepont School. Porous Media (Code: SS 19A), Akif Ibraguimov, Texas Topological Phases of Matter and Quantum Computa- Tech University, Viktoria Savatorova, University of Ne- vada, Las Vegas, and Aleksey Telyakovskiy, University tion, Paul Bruillard and Carlos Ortiz, Pacific Northwest of Nevada, Reno. National Laboratory, and Julia Plavnik, Texas A&M Uni- Discontinuous Galerkin methods for partial differential versity. equations: Theory and applications (Code: SS 15A), Mah- Undergraduate Research, Christopher Chong and boub Baccouch, University of Nebraska at Omaha. Adam Levy, Bowdoin College. Floer Theoretic Invariants of 3-manifolds and Knots (Code: SS 22A), Jonathan Hanselman, University of Texas at Austin, and Kristen Hendricks, University of California, Denver, Colorado Los Angeles. Foundations of Numerical Algebraic Geometry (Code: SS University of Denver 14A), Abraham Martin del Campo, CIMAT, Guanajuato, Mexico, and Frank Sottile, Texas A&M University. October 8–9, 2016 Groups and Representation Theory (Code: SS 20A), Saturday – Sunday C. Ryan Vinroot, College of William and Mary, Julianne Rainbolt, Saint Louis University, and Amanda Schaeffer Meeting #1122 Fry, Metropolitan State University of Denver. Western Section Integrable Systems and Soliton Equations (Code: SS 17A), Associate secretary: Michel L. Lapidus Anton Dzhamay, University of Northern Colorado, and Announcement issue of Notices: August 2016 Patrick Shipman, Colorado State University. Program first available on AMS website: To be announced Nonassociative Algebra (Code: SS 3A), Izabella Stuhl, Issue of Abstracts: Volume 37, Issue 3 University of Debrecen and University of Denver, and Petr Vojteˇchovsky´, University of Denver. Deadlines Noncommutative Geometry and Fundamental Applica- For organizers: Expired tions (Code: SS 4A), Frederic Latremoliere, University of For abstracts: August 16, 2016 Denver. Nonlinear Wave Equations and Applications (Code: SS The scientific information listed below may be dated. 18A), Mark J.