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We are pleased to announce that a Focus Program on Noncommutative Geometry and Quantum Groups will be held at the Fields Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, June 3-28, 2013. This program will include three weeks of short courses intended primarily for graduate students and postdocs, with participatory seminars as well, followed by a week-long meeting which will in part be a celebration of the 75th birthday of Marc Rieffel of the University of California, Berkeley, who has been one of the most influential mathematicians in the world in the area of noncommutative geometry and quantum groups. The organizing committee consists of George Elliott (Toronto), Piotr M. Hajac (Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy), Hanfeng Li (Buffalo), Ian Putnam (Victoria), and Jonathan Rosenberg (Maryland) . The week of June 3-7 (organized by Hanfeng Li and Ian Putnam) will be devoted to the interaction between noncommutative geometry and dynamical systems. Speakers for the minicourses this week will be David Kerr (Texas A&M) and Thierry Giordano (University of Ottawa). The week of June 10-14 (organized by Piotr M. Hajac) will be devoted to quantum groups and Hopf cyclic homology. Speakers for the minicourses this week will be Alfons Van Daele (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) and Bahram Rangipour (University of New Brunswick). The week of June 17-21 (organized by Jonathan Rosenberg) will be devoted to connections between noncommutative geometry and index theory, geometry, and mathematical physics. Speakers for the minicourses this week will be Paul Baum and Nigel Higson (both from Penn State University). Speakers for the conference the week of June 24-28 will be announced later. More information on the program, registration, housing, and funding may be found at the Focus Program website, http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/12-13/quantumgroups/ . Those interested in applying for funding should register before May 1, 2013. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- This message was sent to you via the Geometry List, which announces conferences in geometry and closely related areas to over 1200 mathematicians worldwide. At http://listserv.utk.edu/archives/geometry.html there are many functions available, including checking the archives since November 2005, changing your e-mail address or preferences, and joining/leaving the list. If you have problems that cannot be resolved at this website, send a message to [log in to unmask] Before sending an announcement, please carefully read the following. Any announcements that are *not* about conferences (e.g. those about jobs, journals, books, etc.) will be rejected by the moderator without comment. To announce a geometry or closely related conference, send the announcement (including a conference web site if possible) to [log in to unmask] The moderator cannot edit your message; list members will receive the announcement as an e-mail from you EXACTLY as you submitted it. For example, if your submission starts with "Please post this on the geometry list" then your conference announcement will also begin with that statement. In order to keep down the volume of e-mail, only TWO announcements per conference will be approved by the moderator. The "subject" of your message should include the name of the conference and the number (first or second) of the announcement, e.g. Gauss Memorial Lectures in Geometry: Second Announcement. Please check that your announcement (especially the website) is correct. Corrections will be approved only in the most critical situations, e.g. if corrected information is not available on the website. If you send a submission from an e-mail address that is not subscribed to the geometry list then you will be sent an e-mail asking for confirmation. This feature is designed to thwart the hundreds of machine-generated spam that are sent to the list and would otherwise have to be manually blocked by the moderator. The Geometry List is sponsored and maintained by the Mathematics Department, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville.