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No knowledge of LTEX is MEETINGS IN THIS ISSUE –––––––– 2016 –––––––– September 24–25 Brunswick, Maine p. 844 April 14–15 Nashville, Tennessee p. 862 October 8–9 Denver, Colorado p. 845 April 21–22 Boston, Massachusetts p. 862 October 28–30 Minneapolis, Minnesota p. 849 November 12–13 Raleigh, North Carolina p. 854 June 11–14 People's Republic of China p. 862 –––––––– 2019 –––––––– –––––––– 2017 –––––––– January 16–19 Baltimore, Maryland p. 863 January 4–7 Atlanta, Georgia p. 855 March 10–12 Charleston, South Carolina p. 858 March 29–31 Honolulu, Hawaii p. 863 April 1–2 Bloomington, Indiana p. 859 –––––––– 2020 –––––––– April 22–23 Pullman, Washington p. 859 May 6–7 New York, New York p. 860 January 15–18 Denver, Colorado p. 863 July 24–28 Montréal, Quebec, Canada p. 860 –––––––– 2021 –––––––– September 9–10 Denton, Texas p. 860 January 6–9 Washington, DC p. 863 September 16–17 Buffalo, New York p. 861 September 23–24 Orlando, Florida p. 861 Conferences in Cooperation with the AMS November 4–5 Riverside, California p. 861 Indian Mathematics Consortium –––––––– 2018 –––––––– December 14–17, 2016 January 10–13 San Diego, California p. 861 Banaras Hindu University March 24–25 Columbus, Ohio p. 862 April 14–15 Portland, Oregon p. 862 Varanasi, India See www.ams.org/meetings/ for the most up-to-date information on these conferences. ASSOCIATE SECRETARIES OF THE AMS Central Section: Georgia Benkart, University of Wisconsin- Southeastern Section: Brian D. Boe, Department of Mathemat- Madison, Department of Mathematics, 480 Lincoln Drive, ics, University of Georgia, 220 D W Brooks Drive, Athens, GA Madison, WI 53706-1388; e-mail: [email protected]; 30602-7403, e-mail: [email protected]; telephone: 706- telephone: 608-263-4283. 542-2547. Eastern Section: Steven H. Weintraub, Department of Math- Western Section: Michel L. Lapidus, Department of Mathemat- ematics, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18015-3174; e-mail: ics, University of California, Surge Bldg., Riverside, CA 92521- [email protected]; telephone: 610-758-3717. 0135; e-mail: [email protected]; telephone: 951-827-5910. AUGUST 2016 NOTICES OF THE AMS 843 Meetings & Conferences Meetings & Conferences of the AMS IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING MEETINGS PROGRAMS: AMS Sectional Meeting programs do not ap- pear 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 www.ams.org/meetings/. Final programs for Sectional Meetings will be archived on the AMS website accessible from the stated URL . Special Sessions Brunswick, Maine If you are volunteering to speak in a Special Session, you should send your abstract as early as possible via the ab- Bowdoin College stract submission form found at www.ams.org/cgi-bin/ abstracts/abstract.pl. September 24–25, 2016 Saturday – Sunday Algebraic and Enumerative Combinatorics (Code: SS 12A), Thomas Lam, University of Michigan. Meeting #1121 Autonomous and Non-autonomous Discrete Dynamical Eastern Section Systems with Applications (Code: SS 2A), M.R.S. Kulenovic´ Associate secretary: Steven H. Weintraub and O. Merino, University of Rhode Island. Combinatorial Aspects of Nilpotent Orbits (Code: Announcement issue of Notices: June 2016 SS 18A), Anthony Iarrobino, Northeastern University, Program first available on AMS website: To be announced Leila Khatami, Union College, and Julianna Tymoczko, Issue of Abstracts: Volume 37, Issue 3 Smith College. Combinatorics, at the Crossroads of Algebra, Geometry, Deadlines and Topology (Code: SS 11A), Ivan Martino, University of For organizers: Expired Fribourg (Switzerland), and Alexander I. Suciu, North- For abstracts: July 19, 2016 eastern University. Convex Cocompactness (Code: SS 14A), Tarik Aougab The scientific information listed below may be dated. and Sara Maloni, Brown University. For the latest information, see www.ams.org/amsmtgs/ Decomposing 3-manifolds (Code: SS 8A), Tao Li, Boston Scott Taylor sectional.html. College, and , Colby College. Financial Mathematics (Code: SS 13A), Maxim Bichuch, Invited Addresses Johns Hopkins University, and Stephan Strum and Xuwei Yang, Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Tim Austin, New York University, Szemerédi’s Theorem: Geometric Aspects of Harmonic Analysis (Code: SS 6A), combinatorics, ergodic theory and algebra. Matthew Badger and Vasileios Chousionis, University of Moon Duchin, Tufts University, Counting in groups: Connecticut. fine asymptotic geometry. Geometric Group Theory (Code: SS 4A), Charles Cun- Thomas Lam, University of Michigan, Combinatorics of ningham, Bowdoin College, Moon Duchin, Tufts Univer- electrical networks. sity, and Jennifer Taback, Bowdoin College. 844 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUmE 63, NUmBER 7 Meetings & Conferences Geometry of Nilpotent Groups (Code: SS 5A), Moon Special Sessions Duchin, Tufts University, Jennifer Taback, Bowdoin Col- If you are volunteering to speak in a Special Session, you lege, and Peter Wong, Bates College. should send your abstract as early as possible via the ab- Mathematics and Statistics Applied to Biology and Re- stract submission form found at www.ams.org/cgi-bin/ lated Fields (Code: SS 7A), Meredith L. Greer, Bates College. abstracts/abstract.pl. New Developments in Graphs and Hypergraphs (Code: Above and Beyond Fluid Flow studies: In celebration of SS 16A), Deepak Bal and Jonathan Cutler, Montclair State the 60th birthday of Prof. William Layton (Code: SS 12A), University, and Jozef Skokan, London School of Econom- Traian Iliescu, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State ics. University, Alexander Labovsky, Michigan Technological Noncommutative Ring Theory and Noncommutative Al- University, Monika Neda, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, gebra (Code: SS 1A), Jason Gaddis, Wake Forest University, and Leo Rebholz, Clemson University. and Manuel Reyes, Bowdoin College. Algebraic Combinatorics (Code: SS 23A), Anton Betten, Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations in Material Colorado State University, Jason Williford, University of Science and Mathematical Biology (Code: SS 3A), Leonid Berlyand, Pennsylvania State University, Dmitry Golo- Wyoming, and Bangteng Xu, Eastern Kentucky University. vaty, University of Akron, and Alex Misiats, New York Algebraic Logic (Code: SS 1A), Nick Galatos, University University. of Denver, and Peter Jipsen, Chapman University. Nonlinear Waves and Dynamical Systems (Code: SS 9A), Analysis on Graphs and Spectral Graph Theory (Code: Christopher Chong, Bowdoin College. SS 2A), Paul Horn and Mei Yin, University of Denver. Plethysm and Kronecker Products in Representation Aspects of PDE Arising from Modeling of the Flows in Theory (Code: SS 17A), Susanna Fishel, Arizona State Porous Media (Code: SS 19A), Akif Ibraguimov, Texas University, and Sheila Sundaram, Pierrepont School. Tech University, Viktoria Savatorova, University of Ne- Topological Phases of Matter and Quantum Computa- vada, Las Vegas, and Aleksey Telyakovskiy, University tion (Code: SS 15A), Paul Bruillard and Carlos Ortiz, Pacific of Nevada, Reno. Northwest National Laboratory, and Julia Plavnik, Texas Discontinuous Galerkin methods for partial differential A&M University. equations: Theory and applications (Code: SS 15A), Mah- Undergraduate Research (Code: SS 10A), Christopher boub Baccouch, University of Nebraska at Omaha. Chong and Adam Levy, Bowdoin College. Floer Theoretic Invariants of 3-manifolds and Knots (Code: SS 22A), Jonathan Hanselman, University of Texas at Austin, and Kristen Hendricks, University of California, Denver, Colorado Los Angeles. Foundations of Numerical Algebraic Geometry (Code: SS University of Denver 14A), Abraham Martin del Campo, CIMAT, Guanajuato, Mexico, and Frank Sottile, Texas A&M University. October 8–9, 2016 Groups and Representation Theory (Code: SS 20A), Saturday – Sunday C. Ryan Vinroot, College of William and Mary, Julianne Meeting #1122 Rainbolt, Saint Louis University, and Amanda Schaeffer Fry, Metropolitan State University of Denver. Western Section Integrable Systems and Soliton Equations (Code: SS 17A),