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/. Final programs for Sectional Meetings will be archived on the AMS website accessible from the stated URL and in an electronic issue of the Notices as noted below for each meeting. Special Sessions Oxford, Mississippi Algebraic Combinatorics, Patricia Hersh, North Caro- University of Mississippi lina State University, and Dennis Stanton, University of Minnesota. March 1–3, 2013 Approximation Theory and Orthogonal Polynomials, Friday – Sunday David Benko, University of South Alabama, Erwin Mina- Diaz, University of Mississippi, and Edward Saff, Vander- Meeting #1087 bilt University. Southeastern Section Banach Spaces and Operators on Them, Qingying Bu Associate secretary: Robert J. Daverman and Gerard Buskes, University of Mississippi, and William Announcement issue of Notices: December 2012 B. Johnson, Texas A&M University. Program first available on AMS website: December 13, Commutative Algebra, Sean Sather-Wagstaff, North 2012 Dakota State University, and Sandra M. Spiroff, University Program issue of electronic Notices: March 2013 of Mississippi. Issue of Abstracts: Volume 34, Issue 2 Connections between Matroids, Graphs, and Geometry, Deadlines Stan Dziobiak, Talmage James Reid, and Haidong Wu, University of Mississippi. For organizers: Expired For consideration of contributed papers in Special Ses- Dynamical Systems, Alexander Grigo, University of sions: Expired Oklahoma, and Saˇsa Kocic´, University of Mississippi. For abstracts: Expired Fractal Geometry and Ergodic Theory, Manav Das, University of Louisville, and Mrinal Kanti Roychowdhury, The scientific information listed below may be dated. University of Texas-Pan American. For the latest information, see www.ams.org/amsmtgs/ Graph Theory, Laura Sheppardson and Bing Wei, Uni- sectional.html. versity of Mississippi, and Hehui Wu, McGill University. Modern Methods in Analytic Number Theory, Nathan Invited Addresses Jones and Micah B. Milinovich, University of Mississippi, Patricia Hersh, North Carolina State University, An and Frank Thorne, University of South Carolina. interplay of combinatorics with topology. Set Theory and Its Applications, Christian Rosendal, Daniel Krashen, University of Georgia, Topology, arith- University of Illinois at Chicago, and Slawomir Solecki, metic, and the structure of algebraic groups. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Washington Mio, Florida State University, Taming shapes and understanding their variation. Slawomir Solecki, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, An abstract approach to Ramsey theory with applications. FEBRUARY 2013 NOTICES OF THE AMS 275 Meetings & Conferences chusetts Institute of Technology, and Yanir A. Rubinstein, Chestnut Hill, Stanford University. Counting and Equidistribution on Symmetric Spaces Massachusetts (Code: SS 5A), Dubi Kelmer, Boston College, and Alex Kontorovich, Yale University. Boston College Discrete Geometry of Polytopes (Code: SS 10A), Barry Monson, University of New Brunswick, and Egon Schulte, April 6–7, 2013 Northeastern University. Saturday – Sunday Financial Mathematics (Code: SS 18A), Hasanjan Sayit and Stephan Sturm, Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Meeting #1088 History and Philosophy of Mathematics (Code: SS 7A), Eastern Section James J. Tattersall, Providence College, and V. Frederick Associate secretary: Steven H. Weintraub Rickey, United States Military Academy. Announcement issue of Notices: January 2013 Homological Invariants in Low-dimensional Topology. Program first available on AMS website: February 21, 2013 (Code: SS 1A), John Baldwin, Joshua Greene, and Eli Program issue of electronic Notices: April 2013 Grigsby, Boston College. Issue of Abstracts: Volume 34, Issue 2 Homology and Cohomology of Arithmetic Groups (Code: SS 13A), Avner Ash, Boston College, Darrin Doud, Deadlines Brigham Young University, and David Pollack, Wesleyan For organizers: Expired University. For consideration of contributed papers in Special Ses- Hopf Algebras and their Applications (Code: SS 9A), sions: Expired Timothy Kohl, Boston University, and Robert Underwood, For abstracts: February 12, 2013 Auburn University Montgomery. Moduli Spaces in Algebraic Geometry (Code: SS 4A), The scientific information listed below may be dated. Dawei Chen and Maksym Fedorchuk, Boston College, For the latest information, see www.ams.org/amsmtgs/ and Joe Harris and Yu-Jong Tzeng, Harvard University. sectional.html. Real and Complex Dynamics of Difference Equations Invited Addresses with Applications (Code: SS 12A), Ann Brett, Johnson and Wales University, and M. R. S. Kulenovic, University of Roman Bezrukavnikov, Massachusetts Institute of Rhode Island. Technology, Canonical bases and geometry. Marston Conder, University of Auckland, Discrete ob- Recursion and Definability (Code: SS 15A), Rachel Ep- jects with maximum possible symmetry. stein, Harvard University, Karen Lange, Wellesley College, Alice Guionnet, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, and Russell Miller, Queens College and City University of Title to be announced. New York Graduate Center. Yanir Rubinstein, University of Maryland, Geometry: Research by Undergraduates and Students in Post- (very) local meets global. Baccalaureate Programs (Code: SS 8A), Chi-Keung Cheung, Boston College, David Damiano, College of the Holy Cross, Special Sessions Steven J. Miller, Williams College, and Suzanne L. Weekes, Algebraic and Geometric Structures of 3-manifolds Worcester Polytechnic Institute. (Code: SS 3A), Ian Biringer, Tao Li, and Robert Meyerhoff, Topology and Generalized Cohomologies in Modern Boston College. Condensed Matter Physics (Code: SS 17A), Claudio Chamon Algorithmic Problems of Group Theory and Applications and Robert Kotiuga, Boston University. to Information Security (Code: SS 14A), Delaram Kahro- baei, City University of New York Graduate Center and New York College of Technology, and Vladimir Shpilrain, Boulder, Colorado City College of New York and City University of New York Graduate Center. University of Colorado Boulder Arithmetic Dynamics and Galois Theory (Code: SS 6A), John Cullinan, Bard College, and Farshid Hajir and Siman April 13–14, 2013 Wong, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Saturday – Sunday Combinatorics and Classical Integrability (Code: SS 16A), Amanda Redlich and Shabnam Beheshti, Rutgers Meeting #1089 University. Western Section Commuting Matrices and the Hilbert Scheme (Code: SS Associate secretary: Michel L. Lapidus 11A), Anthony Iarrobino, Northeastern University, and Announcement issue of Notices: January 2013 Leila Khatami, Union College. Program first available on AMS website: February 28, 2013 Complex Geometry and Microlocal Analysis (Code: SS Program issue of electronic Notices: April 2013 2A), Victor W. Guillemin and Richard B. Melrose, Massa- Issue of Abstracts: Volume 34, Issue 2 276 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 60, NUMBER 2 Meetings & Conferences Deadlines Dynamics and Arithmetic Geometry (Code: SS 2A), Su- For organizers: Expired ion Ih, University of Colorado at Boulder, and Thomas J. For consideration of contributed papers in Special Ses- Tucker, University of Rochester. sions: Expired Elliptic Systems and Their Applications (Code: SS 20A), For abstracts: February 19, 2013 Wenxiong Chen, Yeshiva University, and Congming Li, University of Colorado at Boulder. Extremal Graph Theory (Code: SS 3A), Michael Ferrara, The scientific information listed below may be dated. University of Colorado Denver, Stephen Hartke, University For the latest information, see www.ams.org/amsmtgs/ of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Michael Jacobson, University of sectional.html. Colorado Denver. Invited Addresses Foundations of Computational Mathematics (Code: SS 13A), Susan Margulies, Pennsylvania State University, and Gunnar Carlsson, Stanford University, Title to be an- Jesus De Loera, University of California, Davis. nounced. Geometric Methods in the Representation Theory of Jesus A. De Loera, University of California, Davis, Title Reductive Groups (Code: SS 19A), J. Matthew Douglass, to be announced. University of North Texas, Gerhard Roehrle, Ruhr- Brendan Hassett, Rice University, Title to be announced. Universitaet Bochum, and Rahbar Virk, University of Raphael Rouquier, University of California Los Angeles, Colorado Boulder. Title to be announced. Harmonic Analysis of Frames, Wavelets, and Tilings (Code: SS 12A), Veronika Furst, Fort Lewis College, Keri Special Sessions Kornelson, University of Oklahoma, and Eric Weber, Iowa Advances in Mathematical Biology (Code: SS 16A), Lim- State University. ing Wang, California State University, Los Angeles, and Noncommutative Geometry and Geometric Analysis Jiangguo Liu, Colorado State University. (Code: SS 22A), Carla Farsi and Alexander Gorokhovsky, Algebraic Geometry (Code: SS 14A), Sebastian Casa- University of Colorado, Boulder. laina-Martin, University of Colorado, Renzo Cavalieri, Nonlinear Waves and Integrable Systems (Code: SS 9A), Colorado State University, Brendan Hassett, Rice Univer- Christopher W. Curtis, University of Colorado, Boulder, sity, and Jonathan Wise, University of Colorado. Anton Dzhamay, University of Northern Colorado, Willy Algebras, Lattices and Varieties (Code: SS 5A), Keith Hereman, Colorado School of