I will be attending the JMM with my student Jude Quintero. He will be presenting our research from the Randolph College Summer Research Program. I will be presenting recent work that is a collaboration with Antun Milas and our Ph.D. student Joshua Wauchope. Here is the information about our talks:

• Jude Quintero. Finite group orbifolds of the rank 2 Heisenberg vertex algebra, TBA.

• Michael Penn. Permutation orbifolds of fermion vertex algebras, TBA.

I have co-organized, with Marco Aldi (VCU) and Juan Villareal (VCU), a special session entitled: Representations of infinite dimensional Lie algebras and applications. Information can be found at http://www.ams.org/meetings/sectional/2256_program_ss16.html#title.

A 70th birthday party for Geoffrey Mason. I presented my work on permutation orbifolds of the Heisenberg vertex algebra.

Whirlwind road trip to visit collaborators at Ursinus College (Collegedale, PA), University at Albany (Albany, NY), and the CUNY graduate center (NY, NY).