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. Ralph McKenzie, Vanderbilt University, A perspective Louisville, Kentucky on fifty years of work, delight and discovery in general algebra. University of Louisville Victor Moll, Tulane University, 2-adic valuations of classical sequences: A collection of examples. October 5–6, 2013 Saturday – Sunday Special Sessions Algebraic Coding Theory, Steve Szabo, Eastern Ken- Meeting #1092 tucky University, and Heide Gluesing-Luerssen, University Southeastern Section of Kentucky. Associate secretary: Brian D. Boe Algebraic Cryptography, Daniel Smith, University of Announcement issue of Notices: June/July 2013 Louisville. Program first available on AMS website: August 22, 2013 Applied Analysis and Inverse Problems, Peijun Li, Program issue of electronic Notices: October 2013 Purdue University, Jiguang Sun, Michigan Technological Issue of Abstracts: Volume 34, Issue 3 University, and Yongzhi Steve Xu, University of Louisville. Combinatorial Commutative Algebra, Juan Migliore, Deadlines University of Notre Dame, and Uwe Nagel, University of For organizers: Expired Kentucky. For abstracts: Expired Commutative Rings, Ideals, and Modules, Ela Celikbas and Olgur Celikbas, University of Missouri-Columbia. The scientific information listed below may be dated. Extremal Graph Theory, Jozsef Balogh, University of For the latest information, see www.ams.org/amsmtgs/ Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Louis DeBiasio and sectional.html. Tao Jiang, Miami University, Oxford, OH. Finite Universal Algebra, Ralph McKenzie, Vanderbilt Invited Addresses University, and Matthew Valeriote, McMaster University. Michael Hill, University of Virginia, Framed manifolds Fixed Point Theorems and Applications to Integral, and equivariant homotopy: A solution to the Kervaire In- Difference, and Differential Equations, Jeffrey W. Lyons, variant One problem. Nova Southeastern University, and Jeffrey T. Neugebauer, Suzanne Lenhart, University of Tennessee and NIMBioS, Eastern Kentucky University. Using optimal control of PDEs to investigate population Harmonic Analysis and Partial Differential Equations, questions. Russell Brown and Katharine Ott, University of Kentucky. SEPTEMBER 2013 NOTICES OF THE AMS 1123 Meetings & Conferences History of Mathematics and Its Use in Teaching, Daniel The scientific information listed below may be dated. J. Curtin, Northern Kentucky University, and Daniel E. For the latest information, see www.ams.org/amsmtgs/ Otero, Xavier University. sectional.html. Homogenization of Partial Differential Equations, Zhongwei Shen, University of Kentucky, and Yifeng Yu, Invited Addresses University of California, Irvine. Patrick Gerald Brosnan, University of Maryland, Nor- Mathematical Analysis of Complex Fluids and Flows, mal functions. Xiang Xu, Carnegie Mellon University, and Changyou Xiaojun Huang, Rutgers University at New Brunswick, Wang, University of Kentucky. Equivalence problems in several complex variables. Mathematical Issues in Ecological and Epidemiological Barry Mazur, Harvard University, Arithmetic statistics: Modeling, K. Renee Fister, Murray State University, and Elliptic curves and other mathematical objects (Erdo˝s Me- Suzanne Lenhart, University of Tennessee. morial Lecture). Mathematical Models in Biology and Physiology, Yun Robert Strain, University of Pennsylvania, On the Kang, Arizona State University, and Jiaxu Li, University Boltzmann equation without angular cut-off. of Louisville. Partial Differential Equations from Fluid Mechanics, Special Sessions Changbing Hu, University of Louisville, and Florentina Analysis and Computing for Electromagnetic Waves Tone, University of West Florida. (Code: SS 10A), David Ambrose and Shari Moskow, Drexel Partially Ordered Sets, Csaba Biro and Stephen J. University. Young, University of Louisville. Combinatorial Commutative Algebra (Code: SS 12A), Recent Advances on Commutative Algebra and Its Ap- Tái Huy Há, Tulane University, and Fabrizio Zanello, plications, Hamid Kulosman and Jinjia Li, University of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Michigan Louisville, and Hamid Rahmati, Miami University. Technological University. Set Theory and Its Applications, Paul Larson, Miami Contact and Symplectic Topology (Code: SS 5A), Joshua University, Justin Moore, Cornell University, and Grigor M. Sabloff, Haverford College, and Lisa Traynor, Bryn Sargsyan, Rutgers University. Mawr College. Spreading Speeds and Traveling Waves in Spatial- Difference Equations and Applications (Code: SS 9A), Temporal Evolution Systems, Bingtuan Li, University of Michael Radin, Rochester Polytechnic Institute, and Faina Louisville, and Roger Lui, Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Berezovskaya, Howard University. The Work of Mathematicians and Mathematics Depart- Geometric Aspects of Topology and Group Theory ments in Mathematics Education, Benjamin Braun, Carl (Code: SS 17A), David Futer, Temple University, and Ben Lee, and David Royster, University of Kentucky. McReynolds, Purdue University. Topological Dynamics and Ergodic Theory, Alica Miller, University of Louisville, and Joe Rosenblatt, University of Geometric Topology of Knots and 3-manifolds (Code: SS Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 16A), Abhijit Champanerkar, Ilya Kofman, and Joseph Weak Convergence in Probability and Statistics, Cristina Maher, College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center, Tone, Ryan Gill, and Kiseop Lee, University of Louisville. City University of New York. Geometric and Spectral Analysis (Code: SS 3A), Thomas Krainer, Pennsylvania State Altoona, and Gerardo A. Men- doza, Temple University. Philadelphia, Higher Structures in Algebra, Geometry and Physics (Code: SS 2A), Jonathan Block, University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Vasily Dolgushev, Temple University, and Tony Pantev, Temple University University of Pennsylvania. History of Mathematics in America (Code: SS 4A), October 12–13, 2013 Thomas L. Bartlow, Villanova University, Paul R. Wolfson, Saturday – Sunday West Chester University, and David E. Zitarelli, Temple University. Meeting #1093 Mathematical Biology (Code: SS 8A), Isaac Klapper, Eastern Section Temple University, and Kathleen Hoffman, University of Associate secretary: Steven H. Weintraub Maryland, Baltimore County. Announcement issue of Notices: June/July 2013 Meshfree, Particle, and Characteristic Methods for Par- Program first available on AMS website: August 29, 2013 tial Differential Equations (Code: SS 21A), Toby Driscoll Program issue of electronic Notices: October 2013 and Louis Rossi, University of Delaware, and Benjamin Issue of Abstracts: Volume 34, Issue 3 Seibold, Temple University. Modular Forms and Modular Integrals in Memory of Deadlines Marvin Knopp (Code: SS 20A), Helen Grundman, Bryn For organizers: Expired Mawr College, and Wladimir Pribitkin, College of Staten Is- For abstracts: August 20, 2013 land and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. 1124 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 60, NUMBER 8 Meetings & Conferences Multiple Analogues of Combinatorial Special Numbers Effie Kalfagianni, Michigan State University, Title to be and Associated Identities (Code: SS 11A), Hasan Coskun, announced. Texas A&M University Commerce. Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University, Title to be announced. Nonlinear Elliptic and Wave Equations and Applications Vladimir Sverak, University of Minnesota, Title to be (Code: SS 15A), Nsoki Mavinga, Swarthmore College, and announced. Doug Wright, Drexel University. Parabolic Evolution Equations of Geometric Type (Code: Special Sessions SS 18A), Xiaodong Cao, Cornell University, Longzhi Lin, Advances in Difference, Differential, and Dynamic Rutgers University, and Peng Wu, Cornell University. Equations with Applications (Code: SS 12A), Elvan Akin, Partial Differential Equations, Stochastic Analysis, and Missouri S&T University, Youssef Raffoul, University of Applications to Mathematical Finance (Code: SS 14A), Paul Dayton, and Agacik Zafer, American University of the Feehan and Ruoting Gong, Rutgers University, and Cam- Middle East. elia Pop, University of Pennsylvania. Advances in Mathematical Methods for Disease Modeling Recent Advances in Harmonic Analysis and Partial Dif- (Code: SS 21A), Jimin Ding, Washington University in St. ferential Equations (Code: SS 1A), Cristian Gutiérrez and Louis, Necibe Tuncer, University of Tulsa, and Naveen K. Irina Mitrea, Temple University. Vaidya, University of Missouri-Kansas City. Recent Developments in Noncommutative Algebra Algebraic Cycles and Coherent Sheaves (Code: SS 19A), (Code: SS 6A), Edward Letzter and Martin Lorenz, Temple Roya Beheshti, Matt Kerr, and N. Mohan Kumar, Wash- University. ington University, St. Louis. Representation Theory, Combinatorics and Categorifi- Algebraic and Combinatorial Invariants of Knots (Code: cation (Code: SS 19A), Corina Calinescu, New York City SS 1A), Heather Dye, McKendree University, Allison College of Technology, City University of New York, An- Henrich, Seattle University, Aaron Kaestner, North Park drew Douglas, New York City College of Technology and University, and