MEETINGS & CONFERENCES OF THE AMS MARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS The Meetings and Conferences section of The most up-to-date meeting and confer- necessary to submit an electronic form, the Notices gives information on all AMS ence information can be found online at: although those who use L ATEX may submit meetings and conferences approved by www.ams.org/meetings/. abstracts with such coding, and all math press time for this issue. Please refer to Important Information About AMS displays and similarily coded material the page numbers cited on this page for Meetings: Potential organizers, (such as accent marks in text) must more detailed information on each event. speakers, and hosts should refer to be typeset in LATEX. Visit www.ams.org/ Invited Speakers and Special Sessions are page 88 in the January 2018 issue of the cgi-bin/abstracts/abstract.pl/. 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No knowledge of LTEX is MEETINGS IN THIS ISSUE –––––– 2018 –––––––– –––––––– 2019 –––––––– January 16–19 Baltimore, Maryland p. 380 March 17–18 Columbus, Ohio p. 373 March 15–17 Auburn, Alabama p. 381 March 22–24 Honolulu, Hawaii p. 381 April 14–15 Nashville, Tennesse p. 374 April 13–14 Hartford, Connecticut p. 381 June 10–13 Quy Nhon City, Vietnam p. 381 April 14–15 Portland, Oregon p. 375 October 12–13 Binghamton, New York p. 382 November 2–3 Gainesville, Florida p. 382 April 21–22 Boston, Massachusetts p. 376 June 11–14 Shanghai, People's Republic –––––––– 2020 –––––––– January 15–18 Denver, Colorado p. 382 of China p. 378 September 29–30 Newark, Delaware p. 378 –––––––– 2021 –––––––– January 6–9 Washington, DC p. 382 October 20–21 Ann Arbor, Michigan p. 379 October 27–28 San Francisco, California p. 379 November 3–4 Fayetteville, Arkansas p. 380 See www.ams.org/meetings/ for the most up-to-date information on the meetings and conferences that we offer. 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; email: [email protected]; 30602-7403, email: [email protected]; telephone: 706-542- telephone: 608-263-4283. 2547. Eastern Section: Steven H. Weintraub, Department of Math- Western Section: Michel L. Lapidus, Department of Mathemat- ematics, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18015-3174; email: ics, University of California, Surge Bldg., Riverside, CA 92521- [email protected]; telephone: 610-758-3717. 0135; email: [email protected]; telephone: 951-827-5910. MARCH 2018 NOTICES OF THE AMS 371 MEETINGS & CONFERENCES 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 informa- tion 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 . Algebraic Coding Theory and Applications, Heide Columbus, Ohio Gluesing-Luerssen, University of Kentucky, Christine A. Kelley, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Steve Szabo, Ohio State University Eastern Kentucky University. Algebraic Combinatorics: Association Schemes, Finite March 17–18, 2018 Geometry, and Related Topics, Sung Y. Song, Iowa State Saturday – Sunday University, and Bangteng Xu, Eastern Kentucky University. Algebraic Curves and Their Applications, Artur Meeting #1136 Elezi, American University, Monika Polak, Maria Curie- Central Section Sklodowska University (Poland) and University of Infor- Associate secretary: Georgia Benkart mation Science and Technology (Mac, and Tony Shaska, Announcement issue of Notices: December 2017 Oakland University. Program first available on AMS website: January 31, 2018 Algebraic and Combinatorial Aspects of Tropical Geom- Issue of Abstracts: Volume 39, Issue 2 etry, Maria Angelica Cueto, Ohio State University, Yoav Len, University of Waterloo, and Martin Ulirsch, University Deadlines of Michigan. For organizers: Expired Algebraic, Combinatorial, and Quantum Invariants of For abstracts: Expired Knots and Manifolds, Cody Armond, Ohio State University, Mansfield, Micah Chrisman, Monmouth University, and The scientific information listed below may be dated. Heather Dye, McKendree University. For the latest information, see www.ams.org/amsmtgs/ Analytical and Computational Advances in Mathemati- sectional.html. cal Biology Across Scales, Veronica Ciocanel and Alexan- dria Volkening, Mathematical Biosciences Institute. Invited Addresses Categorical, Homological and Combinatorial Methods in Aaron Brown, University of Chicago, Recent progress Algebra (Celebrating the 80th birthday of S. K. Jain), Pedro in the Zimmer program. A. Guil Asensio, University of Murcia, Ivo Herzog, Ohio Tullia Dymarz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Bi- State University, Andre Leroy, University of Artois, and Lipschitz vs Quasi-isometric equivalence. Ashish K. Srivastava, Saint Louis University. June Huh, Institute for Advanced Study, The correlation Coherent Structures in Interfacial Flows, Benjamin constant of a field. Akers and Jonah Reeger, Air Force Institute of Technol- ogy. Special Sessions Commutative and Combinatorial Algebra, Jennifer Bier- If you are volunteering to speak in a Special Session, you mann, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, and Kuei-Nuan should send your abstract as early as possible via the ab- Lin, Penn State University, Greater Allegheny. stract submission form found at www.ams.org/cgi-bin/ Convex Bodies in Algebraic Geometry and Representa- abstracts/abstract.pl. tion Theory, Dave Anderson, Ohio State University, and Kiumars Kaveh, University of Pittsburgh. Advances in Integral and Differential Equations, Jeffrey Differential Equations and Applications, King-Yeung T. Neugebauer, Eastern Kentucky University, and Min Lam and Yuan Lou, Ohio State University, and Qiliang Wang, Rowan University. Wu, Michigan State University. MARCH 2018 NOTICES OF THE AMS 373 MEETINGS & CONFERENCES Function Spaces, Operator Theory, and Non-Linear Stochastic Analysis in Infinite Dimensions, Parisa Differential Operators, David Cruz-Uribe, University of Fatheddin, Air Force Institute of Technology, and Arnab Alabama, and Osvaldo Mendez, University of Texas. Ganguly, Louisiana State University. Geometric Methods in Shape Analysis, Sebastian Kurtek Structure and Representation Theory of Finite Groups, and Tom Needham, Ohio State University. Justin Lynd, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, and Graph Theory, John Maharry, Ohio State University, Hung Ngoc Nguyen, University of Akron. Yue Zhao, University of Central Florida, and Xiangqian Symmetry in Differential Geometry, Samuel Lin, Dart- Zhou, Wright State University. mouth College, Barry Minemyer, Bloomsburg University, Homological Algebra, Ela Celikbas and Olgur Celikbas, and Ben Schmidt, Michigan State University. West Virginia University. The Mathematics of Phylogenetics, Colby Long, Math- Homotopy Theory, Ernest Fontes, John E. Harper, ematical Biosciences Institute. Crichton Ogle, and Gabriel Valenzuela, Ohio State Uni- Topology and Geometry in Data Analysis, Sanjeevi versity. Krishnan and Facundo Memoli, Ohio State University. Lefschetz Properties, Juan Migliore, University of Notre Dame, and Uwe Nagel, University of Kentucky. Mathematical Modeling of Neuronal Networks, Janet Nashville, Tennessee Best, Ohio State University, Alicia Prieto Langarica, Youngstown State University, and Pamela B. Pyzza, Ohio Vanderbilt University Wesleyan University. April 14–15, 2018 Multiplicative Ideal Theory and Factorization (in honor of Tom Lucas retirement), Evan Houston, University of Saturday – Sunday North Carolina, Charlotte, and Alan Loper, Ohio State Meeting #1138 University. Southeastern Section Noncommutative Algebra and Noncommutative Al- Associate secretary: Brian D. Boe gebraic Geometry, Jason Gaddis, Miami University, and Announcement issue of Notices: January 2018 Robert Won, Wake Forest University. Program first available on AMS website: February 22, 2018 Nonlinear Evolution Equations, John Holmes and Feride Issue of Abstracts: Volume 39, Issue 2 Tiglay, Ohio State University. Nonlinear Waves and Patterns, Anna Ghazaryan, Miami Deadlines University, Stephane Lafortune, College of Charleston, For organizers: Expired and Vahagn Manukian and Alin Pogan, Miami University. For abstracts: February 13, 2018 Parameter Analysis and Estimation in Applied Dynami- cal Systems, Adriana Dawes, The Ohio State University, The scientific information listed below may be dated. and Reginald L. McGee, Mathematical Biosciences Insti- For the latest information, see www.ams.org/amsmtgs/ tute. sectional.html. Probabilistic and Extremal Graph Theory, Louis DeBia- sio and Tao Jiang, Miami University. Invited Addresses Probability in Convexity