We are organizing a series of activities at ICMAT which will bring together a number of first rank specialists in this growing trend. They consist of four introductory courses to this subject, a series of seminars and one large workshop. The courses will be delivered in May by

A. Lytchak, Spaces with upper curvature bounds
J. Kinnunen, Variational problems with linear growth on metric measure spaces
L. Ambrosio, New developments on calculus on metric measure spaces
N. Shanmugalingam, Introduction to Sobolev spaces of functions in metric measure spaces

Please visit the web page

http://www.icmat.es/RT/AGMS2015/

for more information. A printable poster can be downloaded from

http://www.icmat.es/RT/AGMS2015/poster_madrid.pdf

The organization will offer a number of grants for young researchers covering lodging up to six weeks, including the introductory courses and the workshop. Deadline for applications is February, 6^th.

Conference Speakers: 

Soren Galatius (Stanford)
Richard Hain (Duke)
Ursula Hamenstadt (Bonn)
Eduard Looijenga (Utrecht and Tsinghua)
Dan Margalit (Georgia Tech)
Andrew Putman (Rice)
Oscar Randal-Williams (Cambridge)
Ulrike Tillmann (Oxford) 

A pre-conference Colloquium will be given on March 20 at 4pm by Yakov Eliashberg (Stanford)

We hope to have some support available for junior participants -- please, register and apply at our web page
  
            www.math.stonybrook.edu/nickfest/

Organizers: Yasha Eliashberg, Benson Farb and Misha Lyubich

The 25^th Fall meeting of the Workshop in “Dynamical Systems and Related Topics” will take place on October 16 - 19, 2014.  The workshop will be dedicated to the 70^th birthday of Anatole Katok and his 50 years of research in dynamical systems. All lectures will be held at the Mathematics Department (114 McAllister Building) at the Penn State University Park campus.

This workshop has been hosted each fall since 1991 by Penn State University and each spring since 1992 by the University of Maryland, and is jointly sponsored by the two institutions. The basic funding of the workshop is provided by an NSF grant. Additional funding for this meeting is provided by the Center for Dynamics and Geometry at Penn State.

WORKSHOP SPECIAL NOTES
Please make your own lodging reservations.  The room blocks and cutoff dates are listed on the attached registration form.  Please register at your earliest possible convenience by completing the form and sending it to Hope Shaffer. If you request support please make a note on the registration form. Registration form is attached for your convenience.

Organizers:
Federico Rodriguez Hertz     hertz@math.psu.edu
Boris Kalinin                kalinin@psu.edu
Yakov Pesin                  pesin@math.psu.edu

Conference staff assistant:
Hope Shaffer hps4@psu.edu or call to 814-863-9017

Conference web site (this will be updated and available at the beginning of the week of September 1, 2014):
https://math.psu.edu/dynsys/dw_archive/dw_2014

On the occasion of Lluís Alsedà's  60^th birthday

Everyone is welcome to participate. The meeting will be focused on different aspects of Discrete Dynamical Systems. It will include ergodic theory, topological dynamics, combinatorics, complex dynamics, difference equations and applications to other aspects of mathematics and sciences in general.

Confirmed plenary speakers are:

Jozef Bobok, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic
Anna Cima, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Àngel Jorba, Universitat de Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Sergeii Kolyada, Ukranian Academy of Sciences
Jaume Llibre, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Jérôme Los, Université Marseille, France
Michal Misiurewicz, Indiana U.- Purdue U. at Indianapolis
José Ángel Rodríguez, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain
Lubomir Snoha, Banská Bystrica, Slovak Republic
Sebastian Van Strien, Imperial College London, United Kingdom

The organizing committee:
Núria Fagella, Xavier Jarque, David Juher, Victor Mañosa and Francesc Mañosas