<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br>Dear Colleague,<br><br>The Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Arkansas is pleased to announce the<br><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; ">        </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; ">        </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; ">        </span> 35th University of Arkansas Spring Lecture Series<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; ">        </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; ">        </span> <font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><b> Minimal surfaces and mean curvature flow</b></span></font><br> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; ">        </span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; ">        </span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; ">        </span> April 15-17 2009.<br><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; ">        </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; ">        </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; ">        </span>Main Speaker: William Minicozzi (Johns Hopkins University)<br><br><br>The list of plenary speakers and additional information is available at:<br><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; ">        </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; ">        <a href="http://comp.uark.edu/~lcapogna/Site/Welcome.html">http://comp.uark.edu/~lcapogna/Site/Welcome.html</a></span><br><br>The conference is supported by the National Science Foundation and by the University of Arkansas. Pending final approval, funds are available to help defray participants expenses. Priority in funding will be given to graduate students<br>and junior mathematicians. Underrepresented minorities in the Mathematical Sciences are strongly encouraged to apply.<br><br>Call for contributed talks: We welcome short contributed talks and poster presentations. In particular we encourage graduate students and recent PhD’s to apply.<br><br>Best regards,<br><br>Luca Capogna and Andy Raich<div>Department of Mathematical Sciences</div><div>University of Arkansas</div><div><br></div></body></html>