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/. September 2008 Information: http://www.math.upatras.gr/numan2008/. 1–5 Combinatorics and Representation Theory (The 8th Interna- 1–5 Summer School on Functional Analytic Methods in PDEs, tional Conference by the Graduate School of Mathematics, Nagoya Leibniz University Hannover, Hannover, Germany. (Jun./Jul./ 2008, University), Graduate School of Mathematics, Nagoya University, Na- p. 736) goya, Japan. (Jun./Jul./ 2008, p. 736) Description: The Summer School is devoted to recent developments Description: The main theme is combinatorics and representation in the field of functional analytic methods in partial differential equa- theory, and we will emphasize their interactions and their connections tions. This school addresses young scholars working toward a mas- to other fields such as mathematical physics, probability theory, geom- ter or Ph.D. degree. Distinguished experts will each give three talks etry, etc. Invited speakers: Francesco Brenti, Vyjayanthi Chari, Philippe on new research results and the underlying mathematical methods Di Francesco, Takeshi Ikeda, Masao Ishikawa, Noriaki Kawanaka, Rinat and techniques. Kedem, Ronald C. King, Anatol N. Kirillov, Alexander Kleshchev, Atsuo Topics: Include nonlinear evolutions, maximal regularity, H-infinity Kuniba, Thomas Lam, Cedric Lecouvey, Sho Matsumoto, Jorn B. Olsson, calculus, pseudodifferential operators, moving boundaries, and weak Arun Ram, Piotr Sniady, John Stembridge, Takeshi Suzuki. compactness methods. Organizers and Information: Soichi Okada (Chair), Akihito Hora, Hi- Organizers: Christoph Walker, Jörg Seiler, Elmar Schrohe, Joachim royuki Ochiai, Masato Okado, Hiro-Fumi Yamada. http://www.math. Escher. nagoya-u.ac.jp/en/research/conference/2008/nagoya. Speakers: Dieter Bothe, Adrian Constantin, Robert Denk, Giovanni html. Dore, Joachim Escher, Philippe Laurencot, Elmar Schrohe, Lutz Weis. 1–5 Conference in Numerical Analysis (NumAn 2008) recent ap- Information: http://www.math-conf.uni-hannover. proaches to numerical analysis: Theory, methods and applications de/pde08; email: [email protected]. honoring Richard S. Varga on his 80th birthday, Kalamata, Greece. (Feb. 2008, p. 308) 1–6 School (and Workshop) on the Geometry of Algebraic Stacks, Description: The aims of the conference are: (1) to bring together and Fondazione Bruno Kessler-IRST, Povo, Trento, Italy. (Jun./Jul./ 2008, bequeath scientific activities, directions and pursuits of scientists on p. 736) subjects that pertain to the conference, (2) to foster an exchange of Description: The meeting is articulated in a School and in a Work- views and ideas, (3) to study the theoretical background required for shop. The school will give the students and young researchers the methods, algorithms and techniques used in applications, (4) to search opportunity of learning the subject from experts in the area. Profes- directions of theoretical results towards applications, (5) to highlight sors B. Fantechi (SISSA Trieste) and A. Kresch (Zuerich) will deliver a open problems and future directions of numerical analysis. short course of five lessons of one hour-and-a-half on the subject. 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SEPTEMBER 2008 NOTICES OF THE AMS 1017 Mathematics Calendar E. Mann (SISSA Trieste) will deliver some exercises and complements minicourses, covering topics in spectral and scattering theory, index classes coordinating himself with Professors Fantechi and Kresch. theory, and L2​-cohomology, as well as developing the technical tools The workshop on the state of art gives the opportunity to senior re- needed as background. searchers to compare each other. Organizers: Gilles Carron, Eugénie Hunsicker, Richard Melrose, Mi- Confirmed invited speakers are: F. Catanese (Bayreuth), G. Farkas chael Taylor, Andras Vasy and Jared Wunsch. (Berlin), E. Sernesi (Roma Tre), A. Verra (Roma Tre), A. Vistoli (Pisa). Information: http://www.msri.org/calendar/workshops/ Scientific Organizers: G. Casnati, C. Fontanari, R. Notari, M.L. Spre- WorkshopInfo/443/show_workshop. afico (Torino). 2–5 X Spanish Meeting on Cryptology and Information Security (X Information: http://calvino.polito.it/~geometri/2008- RECSI), Hospederia Fonseca, Salamanca, Spain. (Dec. 2007, p. 1536) 1.htm; email: [email protected]. Description: The Spanish Meeting on Cryptology and Information 1–6 Workshop on Random Tilings, Random Partitions and Stochas- Security is a biennial conference that can be considered as the most tic Growth Processes, Centre de recherches mathématiques, Univer- important Spanish conference that works on Cryptology and Infor- sité de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada. (Jan. 2008, p. 78) mation Security. X RECSI will be the tenth of a series. The main goals Information: http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/Mathphys2008. of X RECSI are two: To show the most important and recent advances Description: Tiling problems have a long tradition in combinator- in the design, development, implementation, realisation and applica- ics and in statistical mechanics. One of the central problems is un- tion of efficient and secure cryptographic algorithms, and to review derstanding the statistical structure of the patterns obtained when the first two years of the establishment of the DNI-e. Three lectures randomly tiling a large domain. As noticed by N. Elkies and J. Propp will be presented by international researchers of prestige as for the a decade ago, random tilings of a large planar domain may exhibit Cryptology and Information Security community. Also people from phase segregation; the density of tiles has a smooth (non-constant) Spanish government and private sector will present another four lec- variation in some regions of the domain in coexistence with a frozen tures. Moreover several contributions will be presented in two paral- region where the density of tiles is constant. In the corresponding lel sessions (Cryptology and Information Security) and a roundtable surface picture the frozen region corresponds to a facet of constant will be organized whose participants belong to the most important slope while in the complement one has a rounded surface. Spanish security companies. 1–12 School on Algebraic Topics of Automata, Complexo Interdis- Information: http://www.usal.es/xrecsi/english/main. ciplinar da Universidade de Lisboa Av. Prof. Gama Pinto, 2 1649-003, htm. Lisboa, Portugal. (May 2008, p. 634) 2–7 International Conference “Geometry, Dynamics, Integrable Description: This school aims to present to the scientific