Mathematics Calendar Please submit conference information for the Mathematics Calendar through the Mathematics Calendar submission form at http:// www.ams.org/cgi-bin/mathcal-submit.pl. The most comprehensive and up-to-date Mathematics Calendar information is available on the AMS website at http://www.ams.org/mathcal/. April 2014 versity; Mihalis Dafermos, Princeton University; Kenji Fukaya, SCGP and Stony Brook University; Matthew Gursky, Notre Dame Univer- * 7 PIMS Marsden Memorial Lecture: Mathieu Desbrun, Instituto Na- sity; Robert Haslhofer, New York University; Andre Neves, Imperial cional de Matematica Pura e Aplicada (IMPA), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Description: Geometric discretization for computational modeling College; Song Sun, SCGP and Stony Brook University. The conference This talk will review a number of structure-preserving discretizations will begin late Friday afternoon with a special colloquium by Robert of space and time, from discrete counterparts of differential forms Bryant. Five more talks will be held on Saturday. The conference will and symmetric tensors on surfaces, to finite-dimensional approxi- then conclude with two final talks on Sunday morning. The confer- mation to the diffeomorphism group and its Lie algebra. A variety ence will take place in the recently opened Simons Center for Geom- of applications (from masonry to magnetohydrodynamics) will be etry and Physics (SCGP). Participants will be accommodated in our used throughout the talk to demonstrate the value of a geometric new on-campus hotel, located within easy walking distance of the approach to computations. The Marsden Memorial Lecture Series is conference site. Our conference banquet will be held at the SCGP on dedicated to the memory of Jerrold E Marsden (1942-2010), a world- Saturday evening. For more details, visit our web-site: http://www. renowned Canadian applied mathematician. math.sunysb.edu/geomfest14/. We believe this conference will Information: http://www.pims.math.ca/scientific-event/ be of the very greatest interest to mathematicians working in Dif- 140407-pmmlmd. ferential Geometry and related fields. Please mark your calendars! * 10–12 39th University of Arkansas Spring Lecture Series in the May 2014 Mathematical Sciences: Multiparameter Geometry and Analysis, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas. * 8–10 Student Tropical Algebraic Geometry Seminar, Yale Univer- Main speaker: Alexander Nagel (University of Wisconsin-Madison). sity, New Haven, Connecticut. The list of plenary speakers and additional information is available Description: The Student Tropical Algebraic Geometry Seminar is at: http://math.uark.edu/3723.php. The conference is sup- a conference about tropical geometry (broadly defined) and nearby ported by the National Science Foundation and by the University of areas. Our target participants are graduate students and early post- Arkansas. Funds are available to help defray participants’ expenses, doctoral fellows. We hope that most participants will be able to give though priority in funding goes to graduate students and junior talks. Our primary objective is for everyone to learn about their mathematicians. Underrepresented minorities in the mathematical colleagues’ work, or the areas of research they are interested in. In sciences are strongly encouraged to apply. Call for contributed talks: general, an inherent difficulty in stimulating discussion between We welcome short contributed talks and poster presentations. In par- mathematicians seems to be that different researchers are accus- ticular we encourage graduate students and recent Ph.D.’s to apply. tomed to different approaches, and speak different languages. We Information: http://math.uark.edu/3723.php. aim to promote conversation between people that are fluent, for * 11–13 29th Geometry Festival (UPDATE), Stony Brook University, example, in weighted polyhedral complexes, tropicalization, as well Stony Brook, New York. as Berkovich skeleta. We would like to expose the participants to Description: This year’s conference speakers will be: Robert Bryant, topics of recent research interest, such as the study of limit linear Duke University [Colloquium Speaker]; Alice Chang, Princeton Uni- series on curves, moduli spaces, tropical intersection theory, con- This section contains announcements of meetings and conferences in the mathematical sciences should be sent to the Editor of the Notices in of interest to some segment of the mathematical public, including ad care of the American Mathematical Society in Providence or electronically hoc, local, or regional meetings, and meetings and symposia devoted to notices@ams.org or mathcal@ams.org. to specialized topics, as well as announcements of regularly scheduled In order to allow participants to arrange their travel plans, organizers of meetings of national or international mathematical organizations. 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APRIL 2014 NOTICES OF THE AMS 427 Mathematics Calendar nections to logarithmic geometry, connections to matroid theory, Description: “Frontier Probability Days 2014” (FPD’14) is a regional and many others. workshop. Its purpose is to bring together mathematicians, both Information: http://sites.google.com/site/yalestags/. regionally and globally, who have an interest in probability and its * 10–11 73rd Midwest PDE Seminar, Northwestern University, Evan- applications. Information: http://www.math.arizona.edu/~fpd ston, Illinois. Description: The Midwest Partial Differential Equations Seminar is * 19–21 Riemannian Geometry and Applications “RIGA” 2014, Tech- a semiannual meeting on recent developments in partial differen- nical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest, Romania University tial equations, which goes back to 1977. Northwestern will host the of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania. 73rd meeting of the series. The weekend conference will feature 8 Description: This is the 4th Conference Riemannian Geometry and speakers in PDE. Some travel funding is available for participants. Applications (RIGA), which is devoted to the geometry of Riemannian Graduate students, recent Ph.D’s and members of underrepresented and pseudo-Riemannian manifolds, submanifold theory, structures groups are encouraged to apply. Please visit the website for registra- on manifolds, complex geometry and contact geometry, Finsler, La- tion and more information. grange and Hamilton geometries, mathematical modeling in engi- Information: http://www.math.northwestern.edu/ neering, applications to economics. midwestpde/. Organizing committee: Adela Mihai (Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest and University of Bucharest), Ion Mihai (Uni- * 11–16 International Conference “Topological and geometric versity of Bucharest), Andrei Olteanu, Madalina Stoian (Technical methods in low-dimensional dynamical systems”, Moscow Center University of Civil Engineering Bucharest). for Continuous Mathematical Education. 119002, Bolshoy Vlasyevs- Scientific Committee: Radu Miron (Romanian Academy), David Blair kiy Pereulok 11, Moscow, Russia. (Michigan State University), Radu Sarghiuta, Manole Stelian Serbulea Description: The conference is co-organized by the National Re- (Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest), Gheorghe Pitis search University Higher School of Economics, Laboratory of Alge- (Transilvania University of Brasov). braic Geometry and its Applications, Baltic Institute of Mathematics,