Maria-Carme Calderer of the University of Minnesota will deliver a lecture series on "Mathematical models and analysis of liquid crystals and gels."

Invited Speakers:
Dmitry Golovaty, University of Akron
Ming Chen, University of Minnesota

http://www.math.nmsu.edu/~tgiorgi/11nmas/11thnmas.htm

A series of five lectures by Sun-Yung Alice Chang of Princeton University.

Invited speakers:
C-C. Chen (National Taiwan U.)
S. Chen (UC Berkeley)
M. Del Mar Gonzalez (UT Austin)
R. Graham (U. Washington)
M. Gursky (Notre Dame)
F. Hang (Princeton)
E. Hebey (U. Cergy-Pontoise)
K. Okikiolu (UC San Diego)
N. Trudinger (ANU)
J. Qing (UC Santa Cruz)

Soap Bubbles and Mathematics (Thursday, April 10): A Special Public Lecture by Frank Morgan (Williams College)

http://comp.uark.edu/~lcapogna/SpringLectureSeries/Welcome.html

This conference is for graduate students and their research in combinatorics and related fields. Any graduate student is eligible to give a 20-minute talk on their research or on any topic they find interesting. The conference will also include social gatherings as a chance for graduate students from around North America to get to know others in their field.

In addition to the graduate student talks, the conference will feature two keynote speakers this year: Ron Graham, of UC San Diego, and Arun Ram, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

All students are encouraged to speak in the friendly environment of GSCC; however, it is not necessary that you give a talk in order to attend. Support is available for travel to the conference, and we encourage students to not let lack of funding be a barrier to their attendance.

http://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~gscc2008/

MIT Women in Mathematics: A Celebration will be held on the weekend of April 12-13, 2008, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The conference was created for the purpose of recognizing both the great number and quality of women who graduated from MIT in mathematics and for showcasing women in mathematics.

http://www-math.mit.edu/womeninmath/

The purpose of this workshop is to bring together a diverse group of mathematicians and other scientists to discuss dynamical and numerical aspects of optimal transport. Optimal transport provides a natural geometry for characterizing and studying many evolutionary partial differential equations. In particular, their dynamics is seen to possess either a gradient flow or Hamiltonian structure when viewed on a manifold endowed with an optimal transport metric. These connections have found diverse applications, ranging from fluid mechanics to materials microstructure evolution and Ricci flow.

Algorithms for numerical transport optimization have applications in a variety of areas such as image processing, medicine, computational cosmology, geosciences, or urban transport. Numerical transport optimization methods have not yet reached their full capacity where they can meet the most demanding practical applications. For example, in cosmology, effective handling of galaxy catalogues with millions of entries for reconstruction of early velocities according to the Zeldovich model is a big challenge. Up to now, there are two principal numerical approaches to optimal transport: In one approach, one chooses a suitable numerical discretization, and optimal transport becomes a large scale combinatorial optimization problem. Alternatively, transport plans can be generated by solutions to suitable partial differential equations. Both cases and their comparison with recent second order cone programming (SOCP) methods that are particularly popular in image processing will be discussed.

http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/otws2/

This symposium will bring together leading researchers devoted to advancing interdisciplinary efforts at the interface of the quantitative, biological, and biomedical sciences to address key challenges in biology and biomedicine. A follow-up to the successful First Atlantic Coast Conference on Mathematics in the Life and Biological Sciences held at Virginia Tech in May 2007, the symposium will feature plenary lectures focused on "big picture" ideas by seven distinguished scientists as well as invited lectures by a host of researchers representing a diverse range of disciplines. The conference will follow a single-session format, with no parallel presentations, to promote discussion and interaction among all attendees. Participation by mathematical scientists, including applied mathematicians, biomathematicians, and statisticians; engineers; and biological and medical scientists interested in exploring the role of quantitative principles in biology and biomedicine is strongly encouraged.

http://www.ncsu.edu/cqsb/acs08.html

Invited Speakers:
Michael Anderson (SUNY at Stony Brook)
Robert Bryant (MSRI on leave from Duke)
Greg Galloway (University of Miami)
Marcus Khuri (SUNY at Stony Brook)
John Lott (University of Michigan)
Duong Phong (Columbia University)
William Minicozzi (Johns Hopkins University)
Jeff Viaclovsky (University of Wisconsin, Madison) 

http://www.math.duke.edu/conferences/geomfest08/

Objectives: To foster scientific exchanges within the scientific computing community; to train senior undergraduate and graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and young researchers in the form of three minicourses given by world recognized experts in the general areas of scientific computing in Science, Engineering, and Medicine; to maximize interactions between the students, the senior participants, and the main speakers by reserving up to half the time for student presentations; to encourage the participation of non-academic (private or public sector) research or other organizations.

http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/Comp08/index_e.shtml