Confirmed Speakers:
Martin Bridson, University of Oxford
Gunnar Carlsson, Stanford University
Tobias Colding, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Yakov Eliashberg, Stanford University
David Gabai, Princeton University
Sœren Galatius, Stanford University
Lars Hesselholt, Nagoya University
Nigel Higson, Pennsylvania State University
Mike Hopkins, Harvard University
Helmut Hofer, New York University
Ilya Kapovich, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Matthias Kreck, Hausdorff Research Institute for Mathematics
John Lott, University of Michigan
Ib Madsen, University of Copenhagen
Nicolas Monod, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
Pedro Ontaneda, University of Binghamton
Stefan Schwede, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
Ronald Stern, University of California at Irvine
Stephan Stolz, University of Notre Dame
Peter Teichner, University of California at Berkeley
Karen Vogtmann, Cornell University
Michael Weiss, University of Aberdeen

http://www.math.ku.dk/~erik/muenster/

A birthday celebration for Pierre Bérnard and Sylvestre Gallot.

http://www.math.ku.dk/~erik/muenster/

CSSS was founded in 1999 to galvanize research and teaching on the interface between statistics and the social sciences, and was the first center of its kind in the United States. To celebrate its 10th Anniversary, a conference has been organized for June 4-5, 2009, to be held at the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington in the Walker-Ames Room, Kane Hall, room 225.

Registration is required.

http://www.csss.washington.edu/Anniversary/

The aim of the school is to offer an outline of the present state of research concerning geometric measure theory on Carnot-Caratheodory groups and on more general metric spaces. Analysis and Geometry on these structures has been object of extensive research in the last few years, with applications ranging from degenerate elliptic equations to optimal control theory and differential geometry.

It is intention of the organizers to put together young researchers and well-known researchers active in the field and to encourage informal discussion on current research trends and developments in the area. Young researchers are encouraged to participate: it is possible to support some of them upon request.

http://www.csss.washington.edu/Anniversary/

The conference will be a celebration of the work and achievement of Prof. W. Charles Holland. The main themes of the conference will center around the theories of lattice-ordered groups and MV-algebras.

http://personal.bgsu.edu/~warrenb/Workshop/Conference09.html

A Program of the Institute for Advanced Study and Princeton University

The program brings together research mathematicians with undergraduate and graduate students for an intensive 11-day workshop on the campus of the Institute for Advanced Study which is designed to address issues of gender imbalance in mathematics. Founded in 1994, the program includes lectures and seminars on a focused mathematical topic, mentoring, discussions on peer relations, an introduction to career opportunities and a women in sciences seminar.

Application Deadline: February 20, 2008.
Program support provided by the National Science Foundation and The Starr Foundation.

http://www.math.ias.edu/wam

There is a long tradition of fruitful interaction between philosophy and the sciences. Logic and statistics emerged, historically, from combined philosophical and scientific inquiry into the nature of mathematical and scientific inference; and the modern conceptions of psychology, linguistics, and computer science are the results of sustained reflection on the nature of mind, language, and computation. In today's climate of disciplinary specialization, however, foundational reflection is becoming increasingly rare. As a result, developments in the sciences are often conceptually ill-founded, and philosophical debates often lack scientific substance.

In 2009, the Department of Philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University will hold a three-week summer school in logic and formal epistemology for promising undergraduates in philosophy, mathematics, computer science, linguistics, and other sciences. The goals are to introduce promising students to cross-disciplinary fields of research at an early stage in their career; and forge lasting links between the various disciplines.

The summer school will be held from Monday, June 8 to Friday, June 26, 2009. There will be morning and afternoon lectures and daily problem sessions, as well as planned outings and social events.

Registration deadline: March 15, 2009

http://www.phil.cmu.edu/summerschool

The summer school will consist of two advanced graduate courses. The courses will be as follows:

Stochastic Population Systems - Don Dawson
Statistical Mechanics and the Renormalisation Group - David Brydges

Each course will include 30 hours of lectures. Course credit will be available for graduate students in Western Canada through the Western Deans' Protocol. Those interested in attending (graduate students, postdocs and faculty members) should fill in the online registration form, as space will be limited.

Registration Deadline: December 31, 2008

http://www.math.ubc.ca/~db5d/SummerSchool09/index.html

Organizers:
Mihalis Dafermos (University of Cambridge);
Alexandru Ionescu (University of Wisconsin, Madison);
Sergiu Klainerman (Princeton University), Chair;
Richard Schoen (Stanford University)

Application Deadline: March 2, 2009

http://www.ams.org/amsmtgs/mrc.html

This one-week conference, which is being organized to honor the 60th birthday of Prof. Corrado De Concini, intends to present some of the most important and recent developments in the following fields:

• Complete symmetric varieties and wonderful compactifications;
• Models of subspace arrangements and box splines;
• Quantum groups;
• Representation theory and Invariant theory;
• Cohomology of Artin and braid groups.

http://www.dm.unipi.it/cortona2009

The aim is to present recent developments in optimal transportation and also its applications in biology, mathematical physics, and information theory.

http://www-fourier.ujf-grenoble.fr/-2009-.html

Many advances on the algebraic side of number theory in the last 15 years (such as the solutions of the Shimura-Taniyama conjecture, Sato-Tate conjecture and Serre's conjecture, as well as decisive progress on the Fontaine-Mazur conjecture and Main Conjectures for modular forms) have relied in an essential way on improvements in the theory of Galois representations. For example, such improvements have enabled the local and global aspects of modularity lifting theorems to be extended far beyond the traditional 2-dimensional case over the rational numbers, and have led to generalizations of the "classical" theory of p-adic modular forms in a way that makes more effective use of representation theory and geometry to obtain results on the arithmetic of L-values.

The aim of the tree main courses is to present an overview of many of these ideas and applications, aimed at advanced graduate students and postdocs with a strong background in number theory, Galois cohomology, and basic algebraic geometry. One course will focus entirely on local problems (p-adic representations of Galois groups of p-adic fields), a second course will have a more global flavor (Galois deformation theory and global applications), and a third (on L-values) will rely on the other two courses. During the final week of the school there will be mini-courses on some more specialized topics.

Application Deadline: February 15, 2009

http://www.claymath.org/summerschool

Cluster algebras were invented by S. Fomin and A. Zelevinsky at the beginning of this decade in a projet whose aim it was to develop a combinatorial framework for the study of total positivity in algebraic groups and of canonical bases in quantum groups. It was soon recognized that the combinatorics of cluster algebras also appeared in a large spectrum of other subjects, for example in Poisson geometry, higher Teichmuller theory, discrete dynamical systems, algebraic geometry, in combinatorics and notably the study of combinatorial polyhedra and, last not least, in the representation theory of quivers and finite-dimensional algebras.

In these lectures, we will give an introduction to cluster algebras and some of the many links to other subjects. We will then concentrate on the (additive) categorification of cluster algebras via cluster categories. These are certain triangulated Calabi-Yau categories obtained from categories of quiver representations. They can be constructed as orbit categories or as subquotients of derived categories of certain dg algebras, the Ginzburg algebras. Cluster categories allow one to give explicit solutions to the recurrence equations defining cluster algebras and thus to obtain conceptual proofs of some purely combinatorial conjectures about them. We will illustrate this by sketching a proof of the so-called perodicity conjecture, which originates in A. Zamolodchikov’s work in mathematical physics in the early nineties.

http://www.hausdorff-center.uni-bonn.de/event/2009/felix_klein_lectures/

Organizers:
Guillaume Bal (Columbia University);
Allan Greenleaf (University of Rochester);
Todd Quinto (Tufts University);
Gunther Uhlmann (University of Washington), Chair

Application Deadline: March 2, 2009

http://www.ams.org/amsmtgs/mrc.html

The aim of this workshop is to approach Singularity Theory the way Professor Libgober has envisioned it. Algebraic topology, algebraic geometry, differential topology, representation theory, knot theory, mirror symmetry, and combinatorics combine their efforts to study the structure of singular objects.

The conference will take place in Jaca (Huesca, Spain) in the Pyrenees from the 22 to the 26 of June, 2009. The strategic singular location of this ancient city in the Pyrenees will allow us to enjoy the talks as well as the landscape.

The main topics are: Topology of singularities and related invariants, braid groups, braid monodromy, hyperplane arrangements, mirror symmetry, mathematical physics, singularities and algebraic geometry, knot theory, and fundamental groups of curve complements.

http://www.math.uic.edu/~jaca2009/

In the past decades, tremendous progress has been made in the fields of applied analysis and scientific computation. Various new theories, new methods, and new algorithms have been proposed or established recently, which have already been demonstrated to be powerful tools for many branches of science and engineering and have helped to solve many important problems which previously were thought to be intractable.
This conference will provide a forum for experts in the fields of applied analysis and scientific computation to discuss the recent advances and exchange research ideas. It also aims to promote the interaction between applied analysis and scientific computation.

The conference consists of plenary lectures, invited talks, minisymposium presentations and contributed talks. The topics of this conference include:
1. Asymptotic analysis;
2. Analysis and computations for applied nonlinear PDEs;
3. Mathematical modeling in material science, biology and informatics;
4. Dynamical systems and numerical simulations;
5. New mathematical framework for the finite/boundary element methods;
6. Spectral methods, analysis and applications.

http://mathsc.shnu.edu.cn/conference/index.htm

Dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the "father" of the Slovenian graph theory and our dear friend Professor Tomaž Pisanski.

Registration deadline: June 15, 2009 (extended)
Abstract submission deadline: June 15, 2009 (extended)

http://tomoissixty.imfm.si

Organizers:
Persi Diaconis (Stanford University), Chair;
Jim Hobert (University of Florida);
Susan Holmes (Stanford University)

Application Deadline: March 2, 2009

http://www.ams.org/amsmtgs/mrc.html

Research Topic: Arithmetic L-functions

Education Theme: Making Mathematical Connections

Application Deadline: January 28, 2009

http://pcmi.ias.edu/current/program.php

Global analysis is a classical area of mathematics with a number of fundamental achievements to its credit. Noncommutative geometric methods, such as bivariant K-theory and cyclic cohomology, provided effective tools to analyze both classical and nonstandard spaces arising naturally in various parts of mathematics. In the earlier stages these methods found a number of important applications in global analysis, topology and representation theory. Very recent developments led to interactions with a number of other disciplines, including number theory and mathematical physics. Currently Noncommutative Geometry undergoes a period of vigorous growth and has been the breeding ground of interesting new ideas and developments.

The conference will honor Henri Moscovici on the occasion of his 65th anniversary, and in particular his fundamental contributions to the Noncommutative Geometry, Global Analysis and Representation Theory.

The conference will feature lectures by the leading experts in the area. There will be a special emphasis on the interactions between Global Analysis and Noncommutative Differential Geometry as well as connections with the other parts of mathematics, covering both the traditional directions and the newest trends in the subject.

http://www.hausdorff-center.uni-bonn.de/event/2009/henrifest/