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November 15-17, 2002
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CDM 2002: Current Developments in Mathematics

in Honor of
Wilfried Schmid   George Lusztig

Date: November 15-17, 2002
Place: Science Center, Lecture Hall C, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138.
Registration There is no registration and no registration fee for the conference. No subsidies are available.
Travel: For information, how to get here, click here.
Organizers:
  • David Jerison, MIT
  • Tom Mrowka, MIT
  • Richard Stanley, MIT
  • Barry Mazur, Harvard University
  • Wilfried Schmid, Harvard University
  • Shing-Tung Yau - Harvard University
Schedule of Talks:
FRIDAY,  November 15th

 2:00-3:00PM David Vogan  M.I.T.                    Hecke algebras and 
                                                    unitary representations
 3:15-4:15PM Stephen Kudla - Univ. of Maryland      Modular Forms and 
                                                    Arithmetic Geometry
 4:30-5:30PM Alberto Bressan - SISSA                Viscosity Solutions for 
                                                    Nonlinear Hyperbolic Systems

SATURDAY, November 16th

 9:15AM   Continental breakfast

 9:30-10:30AM Alberto Bressan - SISSA               Viscosity Solutions for 
                                                    Nonlinear Hyperbolic Systems
 10:45-11:45AM Richard Hain  Duke University        Periods of limit mixed 
                                                    Hodge structures

LUNCH

 1:30-2:30PM Stephen Kudla - University of Maryland Modular Forms and 
                                                    Arithmetic Geometry
 2:45-3:45PM Kari Vilonen  Northwestern University  Representation theory of 
                                                    Lie groups and geometry
 4:00-5:00PM Leslie Saper - Duke University         On the Cohomology of Locally 
                                                    Symmetric Spaces and of 
                                                    their Compactifications
 5:15-6:15PM Yair N. Minsky - SUNY, Stony Brook     End Invariants and the 
                                                    Classification of Hyperbolic 3-manifolds

7:30PM DINNER at the Royal East Restaurant

SUNDAY, November 17th

 8:45AM       Continental breakfast
 9:00-10:00AM Yair N. Minsky - SUNY, Stony Brook    End Invariants and the 
                                                    Classification of Hyperbolic 3-manifolds
 10:15-11:15AM Leslie Saper - Duke University       On the Cohomology of Locally 
                                                    Symmetric Spaces and of 
                                                    their Compactifications
 11:30-12:30PM Mark Haiman - UC Berkeley            The n! and (n+1)(n-1) 
                                                    conjectures in combinatorics. 

LUNCH

 2:00-3:00    Mark Haiman - UC Berkeley             Hilbert schemes and the proof of the n!
                                                    (n+1)(n-1) conjectures. 
 3:15-4:15PM  John Morgan - Columbia University     A Survey of Floer 
                                                    Homology Theories
 4:30-5:30    John Morgan - Columbia University     A Survey of Floer 
                                                    Homology Theories



Dinner: There will be a banquet on Saturday evening, November 16th at 7:30pm. Banquet will take place at the Royal East Restaurant. To reserve place please send email to stanek@math.harvard.edu Payment can be made at the time of the conference.
Local Hotels: For travel information, click here .

Sheraton Commander
        16 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138
        telephone: (617) 547-4800
        hotel-Harvard campus:  5-10 minute walk

Harvard Square Hotel
        110 Mount Auburn St., Cambridge MA 02138
        telephone: (617) 864-5200
        hotel-Harvard campus:  5-10 minute walk

The Inn at Harvard
        1201 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge MA 02138
        telephone: (617) 491-2222
        hotel-Harvard campus:  5-10 minute walk

Irving House
        24 Irving St., Cambridge MA 02138
        telephone: (617) 547-4600,
        hotel-Harvard campus:  5-10 minute walk

Friendly Inn(B&B)
        1673 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA 02138
        telephone: (617) 547-7851
        hotel-Harvard campus:  5-10 minute walk

History: This is the 8'th Conference on Current Developments in Mathematics. Previous announcements: 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001
Information : Address any questions to Bo Stanek at stanek@math.harvard.edu.



Last update, 10/15/2002