Spring 2026 Midwest Dynamical Systems Conference at the the University of Notre Dame
The latest incarnation in a series of conferences that has been held nearly every year for more than 50 years.  

Confirmed Speakers:
    Vitaly Bergelson (Ohio State University)
    Benjamin Call (University of Illinois at Chicago)
    Yan Mary He (University of Oklahoma)
    Adam Kanigowski (University of Maryland)  
    Kevin Pilgrim (Indiana University)
    Federico Rodriguez-Hertz (Penn State University)
    Dong Chen (Indiana University Indianapolis)
    Paul Apisa (University of Wisconsin)

Conference website:
    https://sites.nd.edu/midwestdynamicalsystems/

Please note the following in particular.
 - We are asking all attendees to register for the meeting.
 - There is a block of hotel rooms held for us until April 3 at a special rate at Ivy Court Inn on the edge of Notre Dame's campus.  The weekend seems to be a little busy, so it's probably good to take advantage of these rooms.
 - We have some funding available for participants with the usual preference for younger mathematicians.  To receive full consideration, please register and request funding by Monday, March 9.
 - The meeting will include a poster session.  Again, you can indicate interest in presenting when you register.
 
From the organizers,
Jeff Diller, Marlies Gerber, Nyima Kao

Representation Theory, Geometry, and Mathematical Physics

A Conference in Honor of the 90th Birthday of A. A. Kirillov

Alexandre Alexandrovich Kirillov is one of the most influential mathematicians of the twentieth century. His pioneering work on the orbit method — linking coadjoint orbits of Lie groups to unitary representations — transformed the landscape of representation theory and has had profound and lasting impact across geometry, mathematical physics, and algebra. This conference celebrates his 90th birthday and the enduring legacy of his ideas, bringing together leading mathematicians whose work has been shaped by his vision.

Preliminary Invited Speakers:

Igor Frenkel, Yale University

Alexander Goncharov, Yale University

Vladimir Retakh, Rutgers University

Dennis Sullivan, Stony Brook University

Leon Takhtajan, Stony Brook University

Joseph Bernstein, Tel Aviv University Via Zoom

Victor Ginzburg, University of Chicago Via Zoom

David Kazhdan, Hebrew University Via Zoom

Nikita Nekrasov, SCGP, Stony Brook Via Zoom

Andrei Okounkov, Columbia University Via Zoom

Grigori Olshanski, HSE University Via Zoom

Valentin Ovsienko, University of Reims

Michael Pevzner, University of Reims

Yury Neretin , University of Graz Via Zoom

Nikolai Reshetikhin, Tsinghua University Via Zoom

Dmitry Fuchs, UC Davis Via Zoom

Leonid Makar-Limanov, Wayne University

Alexander Molev, University of Sydney Via Zoom

Organizing Committee:

• Pavel Etingof Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Aleksei Borodin Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Alexander Kirillov Jr. Stony Brook University

For more information, please email etingof@math.mit.edu
For hotel reservations and other logistics, please contact charmine.yapchin@stonybrook.edu

The 2026 Early Career Complex Dynamics Workshop will take place Thursday, Friday, Saturday June 18, 19, 20 at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. The goal is to have a small group of 15-20 participants, with limited talks, to foster collaboration.  The theme this year is connections to mapping class groups and surface topology, broadly interpreted. The schedule, including participants and abstracts, for past years’ Workshops are available at  https://pilgrim.pages.iu.edu/Research.html#Conferences%20and%20Workshops . The structure of the June 2026 workshop will be similar. Funding is provided in majority by the NSF, with additional contributions from Indiana University.  Funding is available, with priority to applications received before May 1, 2026. 

Inquiries, including funding requests, please email: pilgrim@iu.edu 

      Kevin M. Pilgrim, Indiana University Bloomington

      Rebecca R. Winarski, College of the Holy Cross

      Yvon Verberne, University of Western Ontario

Confirmed Participants:

Jim Belk, University of Glasgow

Chloe Clohosey, University of Western Ontario

Eriko Hironaka, Florida State University

Walter Parry, Eastern Michigan University

Eduardo Sodre, Brown University

Logistics:

•     Participants are recommended to arrive in the latter part of Wednesday June 17 and depart the morning of Sunday June 21.  

•     Accommodations at U Michigan will be single rooms in the North Quad https://conferences.umich.edu/conferences/accommodations/ and are direct-billed to us.  

•     Meals  will be a mixture of (i) on-your-own at local eateries, compensated by a per diem, and (ii) catered on-site.

This conference "Recent Trends in Ergodic Theory, Symbolic Dynamics, and Connections to Combinatorics", will be held at Northwestern University.  It will celebrate Bryna Kra’s 60th birthday and her profound contributions to ergodic theory, symbolic dynamics, and their connections to combinatorics and number theory. 

To attend the conference, please register here: Registration form

Organizers: Jon Chaika, Rachel Greenfeld, Anh Le, Scott Schmieding, and Wenbo Sun