Emory University, the Georgia Institute of Technology and Georgia State University will host a series of 9 mini-conferences from November 2010 - April 2013. The conferences will stress a variety of areas and feature one prominent researcher giving 2 fifty minute lectures and 4 outstanding southern researchers each giving one fifty minute lecture. There will also be several 30 minute lecturers by young researchers or graduate students.

The Featured Speaker will be Fan Chung Graham, University of California, San Diego.

Other speakers include:

• Zdenek Dvorak (Charles University)
• Michael Goff (Vanderbilt University)
• Jerry Griggs (University of South Carolina)
• Sergey Norin (McGill University)
• Yuejan Peng (Indiana State University and Hunan University)
• William T. Trotter (Georgia Tech)
• Yue Zhao (University of Central Florida)