Some funding is available to support graduate student participation. The deadline to apply for this funding is Friday March 23.

The confirmed speakers to date are:

• Jeremy Van Horn-Morris
• Cagatay Kutluhan
• Steven Sivek
• Michael Brad Henry
• Josh Sabloff
• Vera Vertesi
• Thomas Mark
• Ken Baker
• Yi Ni
• Michael Sullivan
• Jesse Johnson
• Ron Fintushel
• Tara Holm

Please register at the conference website.

This is a NSF/CBMS Regional Conference in the Mathematical Sciences.

The principal speaker is Wilhelm Winter (Muenster). Other invited speakers are:

• Ilijas Farah (York)
• David Kerr (Texas A&M)
• Ian Putnam (Victoria)

Organizers: Gary Birkenmeier (ULL), Nate Brown (Penn State), Daniel Davis (ULL), Thierry Giordano (Ottawa), P. W. Ng (ULL), Leonel Robert (ULL).

We have limited support for travel and lodging for participants. Please apply by February 1, 2012 at the conference website. While we cannot support everyone, everyone is welcomed to come and we request everyone to register (and registration is free).

2012 TALBOT WORKSHOP: CALCULUS OF FUNCTORS
May 14-18, 2012
Garden City, Utah

(mentored by Gregory Arone and Michael Ching)

Topic: The workshop, aimed toward graduate students and other young researchers, will focus on understanding the foundations and applications of Goodwillie's calculus of functors. We will begin with definitions and first examples, including the construction of the Taylor tower, studying the operad and module structures on derivatives, and classifying homogeneous and polynomial functors. We will discuss homotopy calculus, manifold calculus, and orthogonal calculus, studying the interplay between them, and we will also study applications to homotopy theory, algebraic K-theory and geometric topology.

Format: The workshop discussions will have an expository character and the talks will be given by the participants of the workshop. The afternoon schedule will be kept clear for informal discussions and collaborations.

Timeline: Interested participants should fill out the application form at the website below by noon on Tuesday, January 3, 2012. Due to funding and space constraints, we may be unable to host all applicants--the organizers will notify applicants by January 12, 2012, if we are unable to accommodate them. We will then solicit volunteers among the participants to give the workshop's talks.

Funding: We will cover all local expenses including lodging and food. We also have limited funding available for participants' travel costs.

Who should apply: Talbot is meant to encourage collaboration among young researchers, particularly graduate students. To this end, the workshop aims to gather participants with a diverse array of knowledge and interests, so applicants need not be an expert in the field. In particular, students at all levels of graduate education are encouraged to apply.

Information: Further information about the workshop (and the application) is available at:

http://math.mit.edu/talbot

The website also contains information about--and notes collected from--past Talbot workshops.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to e-mail the organizers at talbotworkshop (at) gmail.com.

Organizers:
Sheel Ganatra
Saul Glasman
Owen Gwilliam
Hiro Lee Tanaka

This week-long summer school will consist of lectures and group problem solving activities aimed at introducing undergraduates to basic ideas from low-dimensional topology. Topology is the mathematical study of shapes, and low-dimensional topology is the study of shapes that we can (or almost can) "see". Central objects of study are knots (like those tied by scouts) and surfaces (like the "edge" of a donut). In addition to introducing students to basic objects in low-dimensional topology, the program will seek to inspire participants with a glimpse of recent developments at the frontier of research in this area. Participants should have completed courses in linear algebra and multivariable calculus, and will ideally have had exposure to some abstract algebra, although we will consider all applications.

The main lecturers will be: Margaret Doig (Indiana University) Joshua Greene (Boston College) Matthew Hedden (Michigan State University)

The seminar is intended for PhD students and recent postdocs. In due course, the Oberwolfach website will take online applications. However, if you are interested in applying to attend the Seminar please let one of us know now, to give us an idea of the numbers. It should be noted that space at Oberwolfach is limited.

Diarmuid Crowley (MPIM, Bonn),
Tibor Macko (Bonn),
Andrew Ranicki (Edinburgh)

NINETEENTH GÖKOVA GEOMETRY / TOPOLOGY CONFERENCE

May 28 - June 2 (2012)
Gökova, Turkey

Preliminary list of invited speakers/participants: M. Kapranov, C. Leung, C. Kutluhan, M. Lipyanskiy, J. Bloom, R. Kirby, G. Mikhalkin, F. Arikan, C. Karakurt, Y. Lekili, J. Williams, S. Sivek, S. Kocak, S. Salur, B. Ozbagci, C. Manolescu,

Scientific Committee : D. Auroux, Y. Eliashberg, I. Itenberg, G. Mikhalkin, S. Akbulut

Organizing Commitee : T. Önder, S. Koçak, A. Degtyarev, M. Korkmaz, Y. Ozan, T. Etgü, B.Coskunuzer

Supporting Organizations: NSF (National Science Foundation) and TUBITAK (pending).

Deadline for applications is January 23, 2012.

This workshop will be held in honour of Yves Félix's 60th birthday (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium). We wish to pay tribute to his exceptional career and hugely influential contribution to this field of research.

Featured speakers:

Sergei Gukov (Cal Tech) - Lectures on Quantization and Categorification.

André Henriques (Utrecht, Netherlands) - Three-tier CFT's from Frobenius algebras.

Jacob Lurie (Harvard) - Finiteness and Ambidexterity in K(n)-Local Stable Homotopy Theory.

Chris Schommer-Pries (MIT) - Dualizability in Low Dimensional Higher Category Theory.

The MOAB TOPOLOGY CONFERENCE will be held May 30 through June 1, 2012, in Moab, Utah. The conference will focus on interactions between quantum and geometric topology.

Invited speakers:

• Ian Agol, UC Berkeley
• Francis Bonahon, USC
• Oliver Dasbach, LSU
• Ilya Kofman, CUNI
• Heather Russell, USC
• Abigail Thompson, UC Davis
• Roland Van der Veen, UC Berkeley
• Helen Wong, Carleton College

There are a few open speaking slots which will be filled by other participants who submit abstracts. We are especially interested in speakers who are graduate students and recent PhDs.

Moab is an incredibly beautiful place surrounded by desert, red rocks and mountains. There are several national parks in the area including Arches and Canyonlands.

Registration and information:

http://www.math.usu.edu/~geer/conference/

Please distribute this email announcement to anyone who might be interested in coming to the conference. We are especially interested in getting this notice to graduate students and post docs.

Sincerely yours, the organizers, Nathan Geer and Jessica Purcell

Invited Speakers: David Ayala (Harvard), Ulrich Bunke (University of Regensburg, Germany), Kevin Costello (Northwestern), Sergei Gukov (Cal Tech), André Henriques (Utrecht, Netherlands), Mike Hopkins* (Harvard), Jacob Lurie (Harvard), Chris Schommer-Pries (MIT), Dennis Sullivan (CUNY and SUNY at Stony Brook)

Organizers : Athanase Papadopoulos and Vladimir Turaev

Invited speakers :

Norbert A’Campo (Basel), Joergen Ellegaard Andersen (Aarhus), Anna Baliakova (Zürich), Francesco Costantino (Strasbourg), Etera Livine (ENS Lyon), Julien Marché (Ecole Polytechnique), Rinat Kashaev (Genève), Thomas Krajewski (CPT Marseille), Vladimir Matveev (Cheliabinsk), Gwenael Massuyeau (Strasbourg), Majid Narimannejad (Basel),

The talks will be in English. Some of the talks will be survey talks intended for a general audience.

Graduate students and young mathematicians are welcome.

Aims of the school: The school's lectures will be mainly aimed at Ph. D. students and young researchers, and should be of interest for all researchers in this area of mathematics, as it should cover many of the combinatorial, topological, algebraic and geometric aspects of the topic. Participants are encouraged to propose contributed talks of 30 minutes.

Deadlines: Registration is required by April 15. Applications for funding and for contributed talks will be considered until March 15th. See the conference homepage for more details.

Organizing Committee:

• Daniele Faenzi (Université de Pau)
• Vincent Florens (Université de Pau)
• Daniel Matei (IMAR Bucharest)
• Jean Vallès (Université de Pau)

Scientific Committee:

• Anatoly Libgober (University of Illinois at Chicago)
• Stefan Papadima (IMAR Bucharest)
• Mario Salvetti (Università di Pisa)

Organizer: Dan Margalit

In addition to research talks by leading mathematicians in geometry and topology, we will have hands-on training and panel discussions on professional development topics such as:

• Creating and delivering research presentations
• Writing grant proposals
• Careers in and out of academia
• Teaching effectively and efficiently
• Applying for jobs

The workshop is geared towards beginning graduate students in the areas of geometry and topology. Accepted students will receive funding for travel and accommodations. For application information, see the web site.

Students from underrepresented backgrounds are especially encouraged to apply.

Application deadline: April 15, 2012.

Sponsored by the National Science Foundation.

Virginia Conference on Algebraic Topology

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia

Topics of the conference

• Interactions between functor calculus, operad theory, higher category theory, and periodic homotopy.

• Generalized homology and cohomology operations and their connections to commutative ring theory, number theory, and group cohomology.

See the conference homepage for a list of speakers and organizers.

Closer to the start of the conference, information will be posted on the webpage about travel, accomodations, dining, and reimbursement. There will be some additional spaces for speakers. Graduate students and young researchers are especially encouraged to attend. If you might be interested in giving a talk, please indicate a tentative title when registering.

Funding for the conference comes from NSF Focused Research Group grant 0967649 "The Calculus of Functors and the theory of Operads: Interactions and Applications", with some additional funding being provided by UVA Department of Mathematics and the UVA College of Arts and Sciences.

Please feel free to contact any of the organizers for more information. We hope you will consider attending.

This year we are pleased to announce an expanded set of events that will be co-located with the 28th Annual Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG). The activities span 4 full days (Sun-Wed), with an initial welcoming reception on Saturday evening, June 16. Mornings will be devoted to SoCG paper presentations; afternoons will be devoted to activities that collectively go under the title Computational Geometry: Applications, Practice, and Theory (CG:APT). Together, these activities constitute “CG Week 2012″.

This is a CBMS Conference featuring Phillip Griffiths (Institute for Advanced Study) as principal speaker.

Prof. Griffiths will describe recent progress on automorphic cohomology beyond the classical cases. The material involved is at the confluence of several parts of mathematics: Hodge theory, representation theory, and complex geometry. The main lectures will describe new breakthroughs due to Carayol and others and will build upon the recent work of Griffiths and his collaborators on Mumford-Tate groups and domains. The lectures will focus on two main examples and are intended to be accessible to a wide range of participants.

The conference will also feature several other speakers, including a series of introductory talks aimed at graduate students.

The Summer school is from June 18th - 22nd, followed by a conference from June 25th - 29th.

Coordinators: Mark Dennis, William Irvine, Randall Kamien, Robert Kusner

To tie a shoelace into a knot is a relatively simple affair. Tying a knot in a field is a different story, because the whole of space must be filled in a way that matches the knot being tied at the core. The possibility of such localized “knottedness” in a space-filling field has fascinated physicists and mathematicians ever since Kelvin’s “vortex atom” hypothesis, in which the atoms of the periodic table were hypothesized to correspond to closed vortex loops of different knot types in a perfect Eulerian fluid.

In recent years, the idea of knotted fields has gained a renewed interest, as the role of topology has been appreciated in a range of physical systems, including nonlinear field theories, liquid crystals, quantum wavefunctions, condensates, and optical fields. Crucially, experimental techniques are at a stage now where knotted and linked topological defect filaments have been engineered in laser light and in liquid crystals. In these cases, the field is some function of 3D space (complex scalar optical amplitude, or a liquid crystal nematic director, in which the defects are nodal and disclination lines, respectively). Meanwhile, there has been continued interest in topological fluid dynamics, as well as developments in relevant branches of abstract knot theory, including knotted solutions of PDEs and fibered knot theory. At the same time, topological braiding has become a cornerstone of quantum computing and addresses similar questions of manipulation and measurement of entangled fields. Collectively, these manifestations create a rich and substantive landscape for the exploration of unifying ideas.

This program will bring together experts in these diverse fields; in particular, physicists working on knotted fields in the laboratory, mathematicians interested in applying tools of topology, and theorists interested in proposing new phases of matter and light.

An international conference to celebrate the 60th birthday of Yves Felix.

Persons who are interested in attending or giving a talk are welcomed to contact one member of the organizing committee before May 2011. The organizers will then transmit these names to the scientific committee which will decide the program.

                                                                               ATMCS 2012

There will be a meeting entitled “Algebra and Topology: Methods, Computation, and Science”, at the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences in Edinburgh, during the week July 2-6, 2012. The goal of the meeting is to provide a forum for discussion of applications of topological methods in science and engineering. It is the fifth in the series, earlier meeting were held in Stanford, London, Ontario, Paris, and Münster. The following speakers have confirmed their participation.

J.D. Boissonnat (INRIA Sophia Antipolis)
R. Van de Weijgaert (Groningen)
N. Linial (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)
S. Weinberger (University of Chicago)
S. Smale (City University of Hong Kong)
H. Edelsbrunner (IST, Austria)
E. Goubault (Commissariat à l’énergie atomique, Paris) S. Krishnan (University of Pennsylvania)
M. Kahle (The Ohio State University)
L. Guibas (Stanford University)
R. Macpherson (IAS Princeton) (tentative) A. Szymczak (Colorado School of Mines)
P. Skraba/ M. Vejdemo-Johansson (Ljubljana/St. Andrews)
Y. Mileyko (Duke University)

Additional speakers will likely be invited, and there will be opportunities for contributed talks. Please look at the webpage http://www.icms.org.uk/workshop.php?id=205 or contact info@icms.org.uk. There will be more information within the near future.

Gunnar Carlsson

The Young Topologists Meeting is meant as an opportunity for graduate students, recent PhDs, and other junior researchers in topology to meet each other and share their work. In addition to short talks by the participants, the program for the meeting will include lectures by Søren Galatius (Stanford) and Michael Hopkins (Harvard).

Registration for the meeting will open on the meeting's website on February 1, 2012. Some support for local expenses will be available, with preference given to those without access to other sources of funding. The meeting is sponsored by the Centre for Symmetry and Deformation (http://sym.math.ku.dk/).

For questions about the meeting, please write to the organizers at ytm@math.ku.dk .

Organizers: Daniela Egas, Casper Guldberg, Angela Klamt, Anssi Lahtinen and Toke Nørgård-Sørensen

The workshop will consist of mini-courses given by the invited speakers plus a small number of shorter talks given by participants.

See homepage for further details and registration information. The deadline for registration is 15 June 2012

This is the first announcement of a conference to be held at Stanford, CA, July 23-27, 2012, in honour of Gunnar Carlsson, Ralph Cohen and Ib Madsen to celebrate their 60th and 70th birthdays.

(Also note that the West Coast Algebraic Topology Summer School will take place at Stanford in the preceding week.)

Dear Colleague,

I would like to communicate to you the coordinates of the Poisson 2012 meeting: Poisson 2012: Poisson Geometry in Mathematics and Physics, (Summer School and Conference) Utrecht University, The Netherlands, July 30 - August 3, 2012.

This will be a 2-weeks event: the first week is a "Summer School", and the second one is a "Conference". This is the 8th event of a series of biennial meetings that have previously taken place in Warsaw (1998), Luminy (2000), Lisbon (2002), Luxembourg (2004), Tokyo (2006), Lausanne (2008) and Rio de Janeiro (2010) (see http://poissongeometry.org/). For more information (list of speakers, poster, etc), please consult: http://www.uu.nl/poisson2012

For junior participants, we plan to offer financial assistance towards living expenses. We also expect to offer several merit-based fellowships that will also provide travel support.

IMPORTANT DEADLINES: - financial support deadline: May 14 - hotel deadline: to use our deal with the conveniently located/priced Mitland Hotel, the reservations should be made before June 9. - general registration deadline: June 15.

We would appreciate it if you forward this message to anyone who may be interested in participating. In case you recommend it to your PhD or Master students, please add the following information: if financial support is needed, we very strongly encourage early applications (the absolute deadline being May 14, 2012).

Looking forward to seeing you in Utrecht,

Marius Crainic (chair of the organizing committee) Eckhard Meinrenken (chair of the scientific committee)

The theme of this two week event will be a survey of the state of the art in the use of cohomology and supports in the study of representation theory, commutative algebra, triangulated categories, and various related topics. The first week (July 27-30) will be a preparatory summer school intended for graduate students and recent doctoral recipients. The summer school will consist of three mini-courses accompanied by problem-solving sessions:

(1). Paul Balmer (U. of California, Los Angeles), "Descent techniques in modular representation theory"

(2). Dave Benson (U. of Aberdeen), "Modules of constant Jordan type and vector bundles on projective spaces"

(3). Srikanth Iyengar (U of Nebraska, Lincoln), "Commutative algebra for modular representations of finite groups"

The second week (August 1 - 5) will be a workshop consisting of talks on the latest developments in the field. Funding is available to support the participation of graduate students and recent PhDs. The deadline to apply for funding is March 19, 2012.

With best regards,

Organizing committee:
Chris Bendel,
Henning Krause,
Dan Nakano (summer school only),
Julia Pevtsova

The 18th Brazilian Topology Meeting will take place in the region Circuito das Aguas in the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil, from Sunday July 29 - Friday, August 3, 2012.

The members of the Scientific Committee are :

• Daciberg Lima Goncalves (Chair),
• John Guaschi,
• Pedro Pergher,
• Nicolau Saldahna,
• Peter Wong, and
• Peter Zvengrowski.

The Organizing Committee consists of

• Daniel Vedruscolo (Coordinator),
• Tomas Edson Barros,
• Natalia Bedoya,
• Lucilia Borsari,
• Alice Kimie Miwa Libardi,
• Luciana Martins,
• Sadao Massago,
• Denise de Mattos,
• Thiago de Melo,
• Oziride Manzoli Neto,
• Dirceu Ponteado, and
• Joao Peres.

Further details will be posted on the web site as they become available.

Contact : Daniel Vedruscolo, ebt2012@dm.ufscar.br

web site : www.dm.ufscar.br/~ebt2012/

Organizers: S. Akbulut (MSU) , A. Akhmedov (UMN), D. Auroux (Berkeley), Y. Eliashberg (Stanford), K. Honda (USC), C. Karakurt (UT Austin), P. Ozsváth (Princeton)

The main focus of this workshop will be on holomorphic curve techniques in low-dimensional topology and symplectic geometry. There will be one week of mini-courses, primarily for graduate students, followed by a conference during the second week.

Mini-course speakers:

• Selman Akbulut (Michigan State)
• Yasha Eliashberg (Stanford)
• Sergei Gukov (Caltech)
• Ko Honda (USC)
• Robert Lipshitz (Columbia)
• Katrin Wehrheim (MIT)

Registration:

Thanks to the generous support of the National Science Foundation and the Stanford University Mathematics Research Center, funds are available for partial support of participant expenses. To register or apply for funding, go to the conference website.

To apply for funding, you must register by Tuesday, May 15, 2012. Students, recent Ph.D.'s, women, and members of underrepresented minorities are particularly encouraged to apply. Requests received after the funding deadline are considered only if additional funds become available.

Note that during the prior week July 23-27, 2012 at Stanford there will be another conference Algebraic Topology: applications and new directions

This is a satellite conference to the 4th Latin American Congress of Mathematicians (CLAM, Cordoba, Argentina, August 2012).

The aim of this workshop is to create a space of diffusion, research and work on current topics of differential geometry and its applications.

The conference focuses on the topological aspects of the series of String-Math meetings. It aims to engage the growing number of mathematicians working on the new interactions of topology with string geometry in mathematical physics and algebraic geometry. Its main topics include topological automorphic forms, conformal field theories, the string group and topological algebraic geometry.

Topics of the meeting: Differential Geometry, PDE in Geometry, Geometric Analysis, Singular spaces, Polyhedra, Applications of Geometry

Registration for the meeting can be done from the conference homepage.

The deadline for registration is May 15, 2012. Later registrations may also be possible. Nowever, please, take into account that getting visa is a time consuming process and we kindly ask you to proceed with the registration at your earliest convenience so that we could provide a visa support document for you well in advance.

We are pleased to announce the 2012 Arolla Conference, which will feature the following invited speakers:

• Arthur Bartels
• Mark Behrens
• Gunnar Carlsson
• Michael Ching
• Daniel Dugger
• Teena Gerhardt
• Ian Leary
• Ib Madsen
• Niko Naumann
• Angelica Osorno
• Kari Ragnarsson
• Goncalo Tabuada
• Antoine Touze.

Further information is available on the conference website.

We hope to see you in Arolla!

The organizers:
Christian Ausoni, Kathryn Hess, Brenda Johnson, Wolfgang Luck and Jerome Scherer.

Further details and registration are available at the workshop webpage. Registration deadline is February 22.

• Minicourse Aug. 28 -- 29
• Lecture Series Aug. 30 -- Sept. 1

See homepage for more details.

AGMP is the traditional scientific meeting on contemporary topics in Algebra, Geometry and Mathematical Physics, with an emphasis on the interface between them. The meeting is organized in Brno - the city in the geographical center of Europe.

This will be the 90th Encounter between Mathematicians and Theoretical Physicists. It will take place at Institut de Recherche Mathématique Avancée (University of Strasbourg and CNRS) on Septembre 20-22, 2012. The theme will be : "Lie and Klein ; the Erlangen program and its impact on mathematics and physics".

Organizers : Lizhen Ji and Athanase Papadopoulos

The invited speakers are :

Norbert A'Campo (Bâle) Gérard Besson (Grenoble) Pierre Cartier (IHES) Hubert Goenner (Göttingen) Misha Gromov (IHES) ; to be confirmed. Frances Kirwan (Oxford) ; to be confirmed. Vladimir Matveev (Jena) Catherine Meusburger (Erlangen) Jean-Marc Schlenker (Toulouse) Alexei Sossinsky (Moscou) Anna Wienhard (Princeton) The talks will be in English. Some of the talks will be survey talks intended for a general audience.

Graduate students and young mathematicians are welcome. Registration is required (and free of charge), at the following link Hotel booking can be asked for through the registration link.

For practical and other questions please contact the organizers : Lizhen Ji : lji@umich.edu Athanase Papadopoulos : athanase.papadopoulos@math.unistra.fr

The main thematic focus are higher Teichmueller spaces and the various contexts in which they arise in theoretical physics. The goal of this activity is to make recent developments accessible to both mathematicians and physicists.

The program will consist of lecture series given by Vladimir Fock, Edward Frenkel, Sergei Gukov, Francois Labourie, Greg Moore (tbc) and Joerg Teschner and a few additional talks. There will be plenty of time for informal discussions.

Young researchers can apply for financial support to attend the workshop at the webpage.

This is a preliminary announcement that we will be holding a conference at MIT honoring the legacy of Daniel Quillen on Columbus Day weekend (Sat Oct 6 - Mon Oct 8, 2012). The broad themes of the conference are centered around the many diverse areas of mathematics that Quillen has had a profound influence on, including algebraic K-theory and cyclic homology, rational homotopy theory, chromatic homotopy theory, abstract homotopy theory, group cohomology and modular representation theory.

Confirmed speakers so far include:

Luchezar Avramov Joachim Cuntz Eric Friedlander Tom Goodwillie Lars Hesselholt Michael Hopkins Jean-Louis Loday Douglas Ravenel Ulrike Tillmann Matthai Varghese

There will be 5 talks on Saturday and Sunday, and 3 on Monday, as well as a conference dinner on Saturday.

More information will follow, including a conference webpage, information on applying for funding, and online registration.

Organizing Committee:

Clark Barwick, Mark Behrens, Joachim Cuntz, Eric Friedlander, Michael Hopkins, Jean-Louis Loday, Haynes Miller, Andrew Ranicki, Graeme Segal, Isadore Singer

To celebrating 125th Birth Anniversary of great Mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujam declared as a “National Mathematical year” by Government of India. To commemorate this occasion we are holding an International Conference on Mathematical Sciences, Dec 28-31, 2012. The academicians round the globe are being invited to participate in it.

The aim of this conference is to provide a common platform to scientists/ Mathematicians / Physicists/ Statisticians working in various sub-disciplines of Mathematical Sciences around the world. This will help in developing a great mutual understanding and appreciation of interdisciplinary subjects. It will encourage and inspire the young researchers to undertake advanced learning and enlighten the faculty to accelerate their efforts in achieving the goal of quality education.