The CMC Mathematics Department is hosting the Spring 2008 Western Section Meeting of the American Mathematical Society on May 3 and 4, 2008. Over two hundred mathematicians are expected to participate. In addition to four invited addresses, there are ten special sessions. Three of these special sessions are co-organized by CMC mathematics faculty:

• Special session on Operators, Functions and Linear Spaces, by Asuman Aksoy (CMC), Stephan Garcia (Pomona College), Mike O'Neill (CMC), Winston Ou (Scripps College) 
• Special session on Diophantine Problems and Discrete Geometry, by Matthias Beck (San Francisco State University), Lenny Fukshansky (CMC) 
• Special session on Dynamical Systems and Differential Equations, by Alfonso Castro (Harvey Mudd College), Mario Martelli (CMC), Adolfo Rumbos (Pomona College)

 There are a total of 164 original research talks given in all of the special sessions throughout the conference. For a complete list of talks, please consult the online AMS Meeting program.