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Friday and Saturday

November 19-20, 2004

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CDM 2004: Current Developments in Mathematics



Date: November 19-20, 2004 Place: Science Center, Lecture Hall C, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138.




Registration There is no registration and no registration fee for the conference. Partial support (no more than $300) for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, assistant Professors, and researchers is available. In certain circumstances, funding for travel may be available for Snr. Faculty with no other source of support. We are encouraging women and minorities to apply.
Application form (PDF)
Travel: For information, how to get here, click here.

Program:
Friday November 19, 2004

 2:00 PM-2:50 PM     Helmut Hofer:  Symplectic Field Theory and Generalized Fredholm Theory with Operations (I)  
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 3:05 PM-3:55 PM     Helmut Hofer:  Symplectic Field Theory and Generalized Fredholm Theory with Operations (II)  
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 4:10 PM-5:00 PM     Luis Caffarelli Issues in Homogenization for Problems with Non- Divergence Structure (I) 
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 5:15 PM-6:00 PM     Luis Caffarelli Issues in Homogenization for Problems with Non- Divergence Structure (II) 
 7:00 PM             BANQUET

Saturday, November 20, 2004

 8:30-9:00 AM        BREAKFEST
 9.00 AM - 9:50 AM   Chris Skinner:       Main Conjecture and Modular Forms (I) 
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10.05 AM - 10:55 AM  Chris Skinner:       Main Conjecture and Modular Forms (II) 
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11:10 AM - 12:00 AM  Elon Lindenstrauss:  Adelic Dynamics and Arithmetic Quantum Unique Ergodicity (I) 

12:00- 1:30 PM       LUNCH
 1:30 PM -  2:20 PM  Elon Lindenstrauss:  Adelic Dynamics and Arithmetic Quantum Unique Ergodicity (II) 
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 2:35 PM -  3:25 PM  William Meeks:       Applications on Minimal Surfaces to the Topology of Three Manifolds
                     LONGER BREAK
 4.00 PM -  4:50 PM  Richard Hamilton:    The Ricci Flow and the Topology of Three-Manifolds (I) 
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 5.05 PM -  5:55 PM  Richard Hamilton:    The Ricci Flow and the Topology of Three-Manifolds (II) 


Speakers:
Helmut Hofer Helmut Hofer: Symplectic Field Theory and Generalized Fredholm Theory with Operations
Luis Caffarelli Luis Caffarelli: Issues in Homogenization for Problems with Non-Divergence Structure
Chris Skinner Chris Skinner: Main Conjecture and Modular Forms
Elon Lindenstrauss Elon Lindenstrauss: Adelic Dynamics and Arithmetic Quantum Unique Ergodicity
William Meeks William Meeks: Applications on Minimal Surfaces to the Topology of Three Manifolds
Richard Hamilton Richard Hamilton: The Ricci Flow and the Topology of Three-Manifolds


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

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Information Address any questions to Gena Bursan at

gena@math.harvard.edu


Last update, 9/28/2004