The 2014 Joint Mathematics Meetings will be held in Baltimore, MD, January 15-18, 2014 (Wednesday – Saturday). This meeting will include an AMS Special Session on Homological and Characteristic p Methods in Commutative Algebra on the 16th and 17th, co-organized by Neil Epstein, George Mason University, Sean Sather-Wagstaff, North Dakota State University, and Karl Schwede, Penn State University.