MeetingsMeetings && ConferencesConferences ofof the AMSAMS 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 www.ams.org/meetings/. Final programs for Sectional Meetings will be archived on the AMS website accessible from the stated URL . Special Sessions Memphis, Tennessee If you are volunteering to speak in a Special Session, you University of Memphis should send your abstract as early as possible via the ab- stract submission form found at www.ams.org/cgi-bin/ October 17–18, 2015 abstracts/abstract.pl. Saturday – Sunday Advances in Operator Theory and Applications, in Meeting #1113 memory of James Jamison, Fernanda Botelho, University Southeastern Section of Memphis, and T.S.S.R.K. Rao, Indian Statistical Institute Associate secretary: Brian D. Boe Bangalore. Announcement issue of Notices: August 2015 Analysis of Differential and Integral Equations, D.P. Program first available on AMS website: September 3, 2015 Dwiggins and T. Hagen, University of Memphis. Issue of Abstracts: Volume 36, Issue 3 Banach Spaces and Applications, Anna Kaminska, Pei- kee Lin, and Bentuo Zheng, University of Memphis. Deadlines Cahn-Hilliard and Related Equations and Applications, For organizers: Expired Giséle Ruiz Goldstein, University of Memphis, and Alain For abstracts: Expired Miranville, Université de Poitiers. Computational Analysis, George Anastassiou, Univer- The scientific information listed below may be dated. sity of Memphis. For the latest information, see www.ams.org/amsmtgs/ Control and Inverse Problems for Partial Differential sectional.html. Equations, Matthias Eller, Georgetown University, Shitao Liu, Clemson University, and Roberto Triggiani, University Invited Addresses of Memphis. Mark van Hoeij, Florida State University, Solving prob- Difference Equations and Applications, Michael A. lems with the LLL algorithm. Radin, Rochester Institute of Technology, and Youssef Vaughan F.R. Jones, Vanderbilt University, Do all sub- Raffoul, University of Dayton. factors come from conformal field theory?. Ergodic Theory, James T. Campbell and Mate Wierdl, Mette S. Olufsen, Department of Mathematics, North University of Memphis. Carolina State University, Patient specific modeling of car- Evolution Equations and Partial Differential Equations, diovascular system dynamics. Jerome A. Goldstein, University of Memphis, Rainer NOVEMBER 2015 NOTICES OF THE AMS 1289 Meetings & Conferences Nagel, Universitaet Tuebingen, and Guillermo Reyes, Zhiwei Yun, Stanford University, Rigid automorphic University of Southern California. forms and applications. Extremal Graph Theory (in memory of Ralph Faudree), Paul Balister, University of Memphis, Béla Bollobás, Uni- Special Sessions versity of Cambridge UK, and University of Memphis, and If you are volunteering to speak in a Special Session, you Vladimir Nikiforov, University of Memphis. should send your abstract as early as possible via the ab- Fractal Geometry and Dynamical Systems, Mrinal Kanti stract submission form found at www.ams.org/cgi-bin/ Roychowdhury, University of Texas Rio Grand Valley. abstracts/abstract.pl. Probabilistic Combinatorics, Paul Balister, University of Memphis, and Béla Bollobás, University of Cambridge UK, Algebraic and Combinatorial Structures in Knot Theory, and University of Memphis. Allison Henrich, Seattle University, Aaron M. Kaestner, Recent Advances in Commutative Algebra, Sandra Spi- North Park University, Sam Nelson, Claremont McKenna roff, University of Mississippi, and Lance Miller, University College, and Matt Rathbun, California State University, of Arkansas. Fullerton. Spectra of Graphs and Hypergraphs, Vladimir Nikifo- Analysis on Metric Spaces (in honor of Fred Gehring on rov, University of Memphis. the occasion of his 90th birthday), Zair Ibragimov, Cali- Stabilization, Control, and Analysis of Evolutionary fornia State University, Fullerton. Partial Differential Equations, George Avalos, University Applied Mathematics in Industry: In Memory of Profes- of Nebraska Lincoln, Scott Hansen, Iowa State University, sor John G. Pierce (1942-2015), Charles H. Lee, Angel R. and Justin Webster, College of Charleston. Pineda, Manhattan College, California State University, The Analysis, Geometry, and Topology of Groupoids, Fullerton. Emily Proctor, Middlebury College, and Christopher Fixed Point Theory and Applications, Clement B Am- Seaton, Rhodes College. padu, Talat Nazir, Malardalen University, and Xavier A Topological Combinatorics, Eric Gottlieb, Rhodes Col- Udo-Utun, University of Uyo. lege, and Russ Woodroofe, Mississippi State University. Geometric Analysis, John Lott, University of California, von Neumann Algebras, Vaughan Jones, Vanderbilt Berkeley, and Aaron Naber, Northwestern University. University, and David Penneys, University of California History and Philosophy of Mathematics, Jim Tattersall, Los Angeles. Providence College, and Shawn McMurran, California State University, San Bernardino. Homological Methods in Commutative Algebra, Amanda Fullerton, California Croll, Concordia University, Irvine, and Jack Jeffries, Uni- versity of Michigan. California State University, Fullerton Humanistic Mathematics, Mark Huber, Claremont McK- enna College, and Gizem Karaali, Pomona College. October 24–25, 2015 Mathematical Techniques in Quantum Theories and Saturday – Sunday Quantum Finance, with applications, Alfonso F Agnew, California State University at Fullerton, and David Carfi, Meeting #1114 University of Messina, Italy. Western Section Mathematical/Statistical Modeling and Its Applications Associate secretary: Michel L. Lapidus to Science and Engineering, Kanadpriya Basu, Occidental Announcement issue of Notices: August 2015 College. Program first available on AMS website: September 10, Mathematicians and Outreach Programs, Olga Radko, 2015 University of California Los Angeles, and Bogdan D. Issue of Abstracts: Volume 36, Issue 4 Suceava˘, California State University, Fullerton. Recent Advances in Computational and Mathematical Deadlines Biology, Fengzhu Sun, University of Southern California, For organizers: Expired and Jianjun Paul Tian and Mary Ballyk, New Mexico State For abstracts: Expired University. Recent Advances in Finite Groups and their Representa- The scientific information listed below may be dated. tions, Adam Glesser, California State University, Fullerton, For the latest information, see www.ams.org/amsmtgs/ and Mandi Schaeffer Fry, Metropolitan State University sectional.html. of Denver. Recent Advances in Number Theory, Christopher Lyons, Invited Addresses California State University, Fullerton, and Karl Rubin and Mina Aganagic, University of California, Berkeley, Re- Alice Silverberg, University of California, Irvine. fined Chern-Simons Index and Knot Homology. Recent Developments in Nonlinear Partial Differential John Lott, University of California - Berkeley, 3D Ricci Equations, Changyou Wang, Purdue University, and Yifeng flow since Perelman. Yu, University of California at Irvine. Eyal Lubetzky, Courant Institute (NYU), Random walks Recent Results in Operator Theory and Operator Al- on the random graph. gebras, Asuman G. Aksoy, Claremont McKenna College, 1290 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 62, NUMBER 10 Meetings & Conferences Don Hadwin, University of New Hampshire, and Hassan Special Sessions Yousefi, California State University, Fullerton. If you are volunteering to speak in a Special Session, you Research in Mathematics by Early Career Graduate Stu- should send your abstract as early as possible via the ab- dents, Tamas Forgacs, Carmen Caprau, and Oscar Vega, stract submission form found at www.ams.org/cgi-bin/ California State University, Fresno. abstracts/abstract.pl. Spatial Graphs, Erica Flapan, Pomona College, Thomas Mattman, California State University, Chico, Blake Mellor, Advances in Valuation Theory, Samar El Hitti, New York Loyola Marymount University, Ramin Naimi, Occidental City College of Technology, City University of New York, College, and Ryo Nikkuni, Tokyo Women’s Christian Franz-Viktor Kuhlmann, University of Saskatchewan, and University. Hans Schoutens, New York City College of Technology, Spatio-Temporal Modeling of Neuronal Data, Reza City University of New York. Ramezan and Sam Behseta, California State University, Algebraic Geometry and Combinatorics, Elizabeth Drel- Fullerton. lich, University of North Texas, Erik Insko, Florida Gulf Spectral Asymptotics of Large Matrices, Alain Bourget Coast University, Aba Mbirika, University of Wisconsin- and Tyler McMillen, California State University, Fullerton. Eau Claire, and Heather Russell, Washington College. Spectral Theory of Ergodic Schrödinger Operators and Applications of CAT(0) Cube Complexes, Sean Cleary, related models, S. Jitomirskaya, University of California, City College of New York and the City University of New Irvine, and Christoph Marx, Oberlin College. York Graduate Center, and Megan Owen, Lehman College Stochastic modeling and statistical inference, Qidi Peng, of the City University of New York. Claremont Graduate University. Aspects of Minimal Surfaces in Riemannian Manifolds, Strategies of Training Pre-Service Teachers, Margaret Zheng Huang and Marcello Lucia, City University of New Kidd, Cherie Ichinose, David Pagni, and Bogdan D. York, Staten Island and Graduate Center. Suceava˘, California State University,