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/. Programs and abstracts will continue to be displayed on the AMS website in the Meetings and Conferences section until about three weeks after the meeting is over. Final programs for Sectional Meetings will be archived on the AMS website in an electronic issue of the Notices as noted below for each meeting. Giovanni Gallavotti, University of Rome I, Title to be an- Pisa, Italy nounced. Sergiu Klainerman, Princeton University, Title to be an- June 12–16, 2002 nounced. Meeting #977 Rahul V. Pandharipande, California Institute of Technol- ogy, Title to be announced. First Joint International Meeting between the AMS and the Unione Matematica Italiana. Claudio Procesi, University of Roma, Title to be announced. Associate secretary: Lesley M. Sibner Special Sessions Announcement issue of Notices: March 2002 Program first available on AMS website: Not applicable Advances in Complex, Contact and Symplectic Geometry, Program issue of electronic Notices: Not applicable Paolo De Bartolomeis, University of Firenze, Yakov Eliash- Issue of Abstracts: Not applicable berg, Stanford University, Gang Tian, MIT, and Giuseppe Tomassini, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa. Deadlines Advances in Differential Geometry of PDEs and Applications, For organizers: Expired Valentin Lychagin, New Jersey Institute of Technology, and For consideration of contributed papers in Special Sessions: Agostino Prastaro, University of Roma, La Sapienza. To be announced Algebraic Logic and Universal Algebra, Paolo Agliano, For abstracts: Expired University of Siena, Keith A. Kearnes, University of Col- orado, Franco Montagna, University of Siena, Don Pigozzi, Invited Addresses Iowa State University, and Aldo Ursini, University of Siena. Luigi Ambrosio, Scuola Normale Superiore, Title to be an- Algebraic Vector Bundles, Vincenzo Ancona, University of nounced. Firenze, Mohan Kumar, Washington University, Giorgio Maria Ottaviani, University of Firenze, Christopher Pe- Luis A. Caffarelli, University of Texas at Austin, Title to terson, Colorado State University, and Prabhakar Rao, be announced. University of Missouri. Claudio Canuto, Politecnico of Torino, Title to be an- Analytic Aspects of Convex Geometry, Stefano Campi, Uni- nounced. versity of Modena, Richard Gardner, Western Washington L. Craig Evans, University of California Berkeley, Title to University, Erwin Lutwak, Polytechnic University Brook- be announced. lyn, and Alijosa Volcic, University of Trieste. JUNE/JULY 2002 NOTICES OF THE AMS 735 Meetings & Conferences Classification Theory and Topology of Algebraic Varieties, Inverse Boundary Problems and Applications, Giovanni Fabrizio Catanese, University of Gottingen, Janos Kollar, Alessandrini, University of Trieste, and Gunther Uhlmann, Princeton University, and Shing-Tung Yau, Harvard Uni- University of Washington. versity. Jump Processes in Option Pricing Theory, Claudio Albanese, Commutative Algebra and the Geometry of Projective Va- University of Toronto, and Marco Isopi, University of Bari. rieties, Ciro Ciliberto, University of Roma II, Anthony Kolmogorov Equations, Giuseppe Da Prato, Scuola Normale Geramita, University of Genova, Rick Miranda, Colorado Superiore, Pisa, and Nicolai V. Krylov, University of Min- State University, and Ferruccio Orecchia, University of nesota. Napoli. Logarithmic De Rham Cohomology and Dwork Cohomol- Commutative Algebra: Hilbert Functions, Homological Meth- ogy, Alan Adolphson, Oklahoma State University, Still- ods and Combinatorial Aspects, Aldo Conca, University of water, Francesco Baldassarri, University of Padova, Arthur Genova, Anna Guerrieri, University of L’Aquila, Claudia Ogus, University of California Berkeley, and Steven Sper- Polini, University of Oregon, and Bernd Ulrich, Michigan ber, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. State University. Mathematical Problems in Soft Matter Modelling, Eugene C. Commutative Rings and Integer-valued Polynomials, Ste- Gartland, Kent State University, and Epifanio Virga, fania Gabelli, University of Roma III, and Thomas G. Lucas, University of Pavia. University of North Carolina Charlotte. Mathematical Problems in Transport Theory, Carlo Cer- Complex, Contact and Quaternionic Geometry, David E. cignani, Politecnico of Milano, and Irene Gamba, Univer- Blair, Michigan State University, and Stefano Marchiafava, sity of Texas. University of Roma, La Sapienza. Mathematical Schools: Italy and the United States at the Turn Contemporary Developments in Partial Differential Equa- of the Twentieth Century, Umberto Bottazzini, University tions and in the Calculus of Variations, Irene Fonseca, of Palermo, and Karen Hunger Parshall, University of Vir- Carnegie Mellon University, and Paolo Marcellini, Univer- ginia. sity of Firenze. Mathematics in Polymer Science, Antonio Fasano, Univer- Didattica della Dimostrazione, Ferdinando Arzarello, Uni- sity of Firenze, and Kumbakonam R. Rajagopal, Texas A&M versity of Torino, Guershon Harel, Purdue University, and University. Vinicio Villani, University of Pisa. Microlocal Analysis and Applications to PDE, Daniele Del Dynamical Systems, Antonio Giorgilli, University of Milano- Santo, University of Trieste, M. K. Venkatesha Murthy, Uni- Bicocca, Stefano Marmi, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, versity of Pisa, and Daniel Tataru, Northwestern Univer- and John Norman Mather, Princeton University. sity. Elliptic Partial Differential Equations, Angelo Alvino, Uni- Nonlinear Analysis, Antonio Ambrosetti, SISSA, Trieste, versity of Napoli, Luis Caffarelli, University of Texas, Gior- Vieri Benci, University of Pisa, Haim Brezis, Rutgers Uni- gio Talenti, University of Firenze, and Vladimir Oliker, versity, and Paul Rabinowitz, University of Wisconsin. Emory University. Nonlinear Elliptic and Parabolic Equations and Systems, Equazioni di Evoluzione Nonlineari, Alberto Tesei, Uni- Gary Lieberman, Iowa State University, and Antonio versity of Roma, La Sapienza, and Wei-Ming Ni, University Maugeri, University of Catania. of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Nonstandard Methods and Applications in Mathematics, Free Boundary Problems, Ricardo Horacio Nochetto, Uni- Alessandro Berarducci, University of Pisa, Nigel Cutland, versity of Maryland, College Park, and Augusto Visintin, University of Hull, Mauro Di Nasso, University of Pisa, and University of Trento. David Ross, University of Hawaii. Geometric Properties of Solutions to PDEs, Donatella Operator Algebras, Sergio Doplicher, University of Roma, Danielli, Purdue University, and Sandro Salsa, Politecnico La Sapienza, and Edward George Effros, University of of Milano. California Los Angeles. Harmonic Analysis, Fulvio Ricci, Scuola Normale Superi- Optimization and Control, Roberto Triggiani, University ore, Pisa, and Elias M. Stein, Princeton University. of Virginia, and Tullio Zolezzi, University of Genova. Higher Dimensional Algebra, John Baez, University of Cal- Partial Differential Equations of Mixed Elliptic-Hyperbolic ifornia, Riverside, and Giuseppe Rosolini, University of Type and Applications, Daniela Lupo, Politecnico of Milano, Genova. Cathleen S. Morawetz, Courant Institute, and Kevin R. History of Mathematics, Piers Bursil-Hall, Cambridge Uni- Payne, University of Milano. versity, Enrico Giusti, University of Firenze, and James J. Periodic Solutions of Differential and Difference Equations, Tattersall, Providence College. Massimo Furi, University of Firenze, and Mario Umberto Hyperbolic Equations, Sergiu Klainerman, Princeton Uni- Martelli, Claremont McKenna College. versity, and Sergio Spagnolo, University of Pisa. Poisson Geometry and Integrable Systems, Franco Magri, Hyperbolic Systems of Conservation Laws, Alberto Bressan, University of Milano, and Ping Xu, Pennsylvania State Uni- SISSA, Trieste, and Shi Jin, University of Wisconsin. versity. 736 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 49, NUMBER 6 Meetings & Conferences Quantum Cohomology and Moduli Spaces, Angelo Vistoli, Joint Invited Addresses University of Bologna, and Aaron Bertram, University of Kenneth A. Ribet, University of California Berkeley, Title Utah. to be announced (AMS-MAA Invited Address). Scaling Limits and Homogenization Problems in Physics and Applied Sciences, Mario Pulvirenti, University of Roma, AMS Invited Addresses and George Papanicolaou, Stanford University. Richard W. Montgomery, University of California Santa Semigroups of Operators and Applications, Francesco Al- Cruz, Variational methods for the N-body problem. tomare, University of Bari, and Frank Neubrander, Louisiana State University. Edriss S. Titi, University of California Irvine, The Navier–Stokes and Other Related Equations. Semigroups, Automata and Formal Languages, Alessandra Cherubini, Politecnico of Milano, and John Meakin, Uni- Michael Wolf, Rice University, Minimal surfaces, flat struc- versity of Nebraska-Lincoln. tures, and moduli spaces. Some Mathematics Around Composites, Robert V. Kohn, MAA Invited Addresses Courant Institute, and Vincenzo Nesi, University of Roma, La Sapienza. Edward B. Burger, Williams College, Innovative Experi- Structured Matrix Analysis with Applications, Dario Andrea ments...and How I Survived Them. Bini, University of Pisa, and Thomas Kailath, Stanford Tina H. Straley, Mathematical Association of America,