Dear colleague,

This message is announcing the 40th Arkansas Spring Lecture Series (SLS) in the 
Mathematical Sciences.  This conference runs March 5--7, 2015, at the University of 
Arkansas in Fayetteville, AR.  The topic of this year's conference is representation 
stability.

This year our principal speaker is Benson Farb (University of Chicago), who give a series 
of five lectures entitled "Cohomology, Polynomials, and Representations: an Eternal 
Golden Braid".

Additional invited speakers include:

Tara Brendle (University of Glasgow) 
Allen Hatcher (Cornell University) 
Eriko Hironaka (Florida State University) 
Alexander Kupers (Stanford University) 
Dan Margalit (Georgia Institute of Technology) 
Jeremy Miller (Stanford University) 
Rohit Nagpal (University of Wisconsin) 
Andrew Putman (Rice University) 
Vic Reiner (University of Minnesota) 
Melanie Wood (University of Wisconsin)

Contributed talks are welcome.  Abstracts must be received by February 2nd.  

Support from the National Science Foundation is pending and we expect to provide travel 
and lodging support for registered junior participants.  Recent PhDs, graduate students, 
women and minorities are encouraged to apply for support.  Please register by Feburary 
2nd to receive full consideration for support.  The deadline for our group hotel rate is 
February 16th.

The conference is being organized by Matt Day, Matt Clay, and Yo'av Rieck.  For more 
information, please visit the conference website at

http://math.uark.edu/3723.php

or email Matt Day at [log in to unmask]

Please forward this announcement to anyone who you think would be interested.

Best regards,

Matt Day, [log in to unmask]

on behalf of the organizers, Matt Day, Matt Clay, and Yo'av Rieck.

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