Dynamics Days in an annual conference on chaos and nonlinear dynamics. Sessions will cover a broad range of topics, including (but not limited to): Plasma Physics and Complex Flows; Materials Science and Mechanics; Biology, Medicine and Ecology; Combustion and Chemical Systems; Econophysics; and Geophysical Processes.

http://ddays2009.ucsd.edu

Following the seminal work on the non-linear theory of Banach spaces in the 1970s and 1980s, we have witnessed a recent revival of interest in the rich structure and profound properties of metric spaces. Much contemporary research on metric geometry is motivated by the discovery of unexpected connections linking fundamental questions in gemoetry and analysis with combinatorial optimization, computational complexity, and statistics. This has led to the emergence of an impressive and growing repertoire of common problems and techniques.

Our workshop will focus on the theory of metric embedding and its wide-ranging impact on geometric functional analysis, theory of algorithms, geometric group theory, mining massive data sets, distributed computing, pseudo-randomness, and other areas.

http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/mg2009/

Adaptivity is the combined use of a posteriori error estimators with suitable marking and refinement strategies to optimize the computational effort. This course will review recent developments in the theory of convergence and complexity of adaptive FEM, both continuous and discontinuous, as well as applications to geometric PDE governed by the Laplace-Beltrami operator. The latter include surface diffusion, shape optimization, and fluid biomembranes with and without constraints, as well as the concept of geometrically consistent mesh modification of surfaces - a new paradigm in adaptivity.

http://www.hcm.uni-bonn.de/event/2009/lipschitz-nochetto

It is the aim of this workshop to bring together an interdisciplinary group of researchers from mathematics, physics, quantum information, computer science, and other related disciplines, to discuss advances in the computational description of quantum many-body systems.

The workshop will consist of two parts: During the first three days we will have a short course for young researchers with lectures and hands-on tutorials on state-of-the-art numerical techniques. In the second week, there will be a more regular workshop with 5 days of lectures and discussions by experts in the field.

http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/qs2009/

The Conference will give outstanding undergraduate women the opportunity to discuss their own research and to meet other women who share their interest in the mathematical sciences. Conference activities on Friday will occur on the university's city campus, and on Saturday and Sunday at the Lincoln Downtown Holiday Inn, a short walk from downtown Lincoln.

Conference participants will also have a chance to learn about life in graduate school from the perspective of current women graduate students representing math departments from across the country. Although we do not regard this Conference as an appropriate venue for faculty representatives to recruit applicants for their graduate programs, we would like to encourage departments to contact us about sponsoring women graduate students from their programs at the Conference.

http://www.math.unl.edu/~ncuwm