The school is intended as a forum to discuss new developments in probability and related areas, an occasion to detect new directions of research and to establish new collaborations and an opportunity for the students to begin their scientific life.

This is the 13th edition of the school. By a happy coincidence, in 2009, São Paulo's probability seminar will be 31 years old.

This year the school will take place in Maresias, a beautiful place between the ocean and the rain forest, located in São Sebastião, in the state of São Paulo.

To celebrate this 31st birthday we will make an special effort to have the scientific subjects we have been working all these years, from interacting particle systems to the statistical analysis of chains of infinite order, discussed in the school.

http://www.ime.usp.br/ebp/ebp13/

Topics covered are all of interest to IMACS members including, but not exclusively, Computational and Applied Mathematics, Numerical Analysis, Modeling and Simulation, Applications in most areas of Science and Engineering, Physics, Fluid Dynamics, the Environmental and Biological Sciences.

http://www.uga.edu/imacs/

Topics covered are all of interest to IMACS members including, but not exclusively, Computational and Applied Mathematics, Numerical Analysis, Modeling and Simulation, Applications in most areas of Science and Engineering, Physics, Fluid Dynamics, the Environmental and Biological Sciences.

http://www.uga.edu/imacs/

This CBMS Conference on Algebraic Topology in Applied Mathematics will present 10 lectures by Robert Ghrist focusing on very recent applications of algebraic topology and its methods to problems in modern technological areas. Specific applications include (1) coverage problems in sensor networks; (2) sensor fusion and data aggregation over networks; (3) statistics of (large) data sets with coarse (or coordinate-free) geometric correlation; (4) synchronization and consensus of systems; (5) robot motion planning and coordination; and (6) rigorous interpretation of experimental dynamics. Many of these problems are imperative systems–engineering challenges of direct impact in security, defense, manufacturing, and commerce.

The series will be structured in a manner that prepares students with regards to the algebraic topology, the various direct applications, and, most importantly, the global perspectives that will allow and encourage students to find new applications.

http://academic.csuohio.edu/bubenik_p/cbms2009/

The two week program will consist of seven mini-courses during the first week and advanced research talks during the second week. The courses will bring junior researchers up-to-speed in the more specialized topics that will be the focus of the advanced lectures and will contribute to the training of young researchers from North and South America in a timely atmosphere of international collaboration.

Week One, Advanced School: August 3-7, 2009
The school is aimed at mathematicians from the Americas at the peridoctoral stage. Their participation is supported through funds made available by the NSF, via the PASI program.

Week Two, International Workshop: August 10-14, 2009
The international workshop will showcase recent developments in commutative algebra, emphasizing connections to algebraic geometry, computer algebra and combinatorics.

http://www.ms.uky.edu/~pasi2009/

In exploration or reflection seismology, seismic imaging creates images of the Earth's upper crust using seismic waves generated by artificial sources and recorded into extensive arrays of sensors (geophones or hydrophones). The technology is based on a complex, and rapidly evolving, mathematical theory that employs advanced solutions to a wave equation as tools to solve the general seismic inverse problem. The economic need for better images fuels research into improved imaging methods.

The workshop will consist of several minicourses addressing a broad range of theoretical and practical issues arising in seismic imaging including the use of curvelets and other frames in seismic imaging, compressed sensing applied to seismic imaging, velocity estimation and inverse wave imaging. Each minicourse will consist of 3 one hour lectures. There will be computer labs associated with the lectures.

http://www.math.washington.edu/~hyliu/SummerSchool.htm

Plenary Speakers:
James Arthur (University of Toronto)
Xavier Gomez-Mont (CIMAT)
Onesimo Hernandez-Lerma (CINVESTAV)
Niky Kamran (McGill University)
Rachel Kuske (University of British Columbia)
Alberto Verjovsky (UNAM-Cuernavaca)

http://www.cms.math.ca/Events/CMS-SMM-2009/

This symposium marks the 60th anniversary of the Zeroth Symposium organized by the Cowles Commission at the University of Chicago in June, 1949. The meeting will be held at the University of Chicago's Gleacher Center and the Marriott Downtown Chicago Magnificent Mile Hotel. Planned festivities include the opening session in Orchestra Hall at Chicago's Symphony Center, the conference banquet at the Field Museum, and a celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Zeroth Symposium.

http://ismp2009.org

The workshop is intended to broaden the scientific perspective of young researchers in mathematical biology and to encourage the interactions with other scientists. Workshop activities include plenary talks and poster sessions, as well as group discussions on issues relevant to mathematical biologists. Several abstracts will be chosen for short talks as well as to be presented as a poster. We cordially invite young mathematical biologists to participate.

Application Deadline (extended): May 1, 2009

http://mbi.osu.edu/wyrmb/wyrmb2009.html

The goal of this workshop is to bring together selected experts in this field, and facilitate both formal and informal discussions that cut across the traditional boundaries of X-ray astronomy, radio astronomy, accretion theory, gravity theory, numerical relativity and gravitational wave astrophysics. Specific topics to be addressed include: (1) theory and observations of black hole accretion disks, (2) future tests of strong gravity, (3) plasma physics in curved spacetime, (4) interaction of dynamical spacetime with matter and fields.

http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/programs/fsg09/

The role of energy is fundamental in driving dynamics and structure in a spectrum of models from materials science, fluid mechanics, and mathematical biology. This workshop will address a variety of aspects of complex energy-driven systems, ranging from fundamental questions of mathematical analysis to modeling and computer simulation. Researchers using a variety of tools (analysis of PDE, calculus of variations, stochastic analysis, numerical simulation) will have an opportunity to interact and exchange ideas. Furthermore, the workshop will present an opportunity for young researchers to learn about the exciting advances in this rapidly developing field.

Graduate students or scientists with a recent Ph.D. degree are encouraged to contribute a presentation or poster for this workshop. The deadline for submission of contributed abstracts and financial aid is June 1, 2009.

http://www.math.cmu.edu/CNA/energy09/index.html

The key topics of the conference are W-algebras, invariants of subalgebras, nilpotent orbits, and geometric representation theory.

There will be three mini-courses:
V. Ginzburg, Chicago: Quivers in representation theory and geometry
A. Joseph, Weizmann Institute: The geometry of invariants in biparabolic and centralizer subalgebras
A. Premet, Manchester: Generalised Gelfand-Graev modules and finite W-algebras

Speakers:
Stephen Donkin, Michel Duflo, Florence Fauquant-Millet, Victor Kac, Sasha Kleshchev, Bertram Kostant, Hanspeter Kraft, Peter Littelmann, George McNinch, Jean-Pierre Serre, Kari Vilonen, Nolan Wallach.

http://www.math.ethz.ch/~baur/AGIT/