Symposium in honor of David Mumford on the occasion of his 60th birthday



May 5, 1997, Monday, 9AM-5PM
Harvard University, Science Center, Hall A, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA



Program

PROGRAM FOR THE MUMFORD SYMPOSIUM

Date: May 5th, 1997, Monday
Place: Science Center, Hall A
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast 
(Math Department, 4th Floor)


9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Joe Harris
(Harvard University)
David Mumford and Algebraic Geometry

10:30 a.m. - 11:30 
Stuart Geman
(Brown University)
David Mumford: Contribution to Machine Vision 
and the Neurosciences

11:30 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Lunch
(Math Department, 4th Floor)

The following short talks will be given in the afternoon:

1:00 p.m. - 3:15p.m.
Speakers:

Bernard Saint-Donat
What is the structure of Finance? 

Tadao Oda
(Tohoku University)
Lattice polytopes and algebraic geometry

Emma Previato
(Boston University)
Abelian and non-abelian theta functions

Tai-Sing Lee
(Carnegie-Mellon, CS)
Feedback and visual computation in the brain

Leslie Roberts
(Queens University)
Subintegrality and Weak Subintegrality

Song-Chun Zhu
(Brown University)
How far are we from the God's model?

Ching-li Chai
(University of Pennsylvania)
Moduli of Abelian varieties

Bill Lang
(Brigham Young Univ.)
Examples of lifting of surfaces and a problem in de 
Rham cohomology

Ian Morrison
(Fordham University)
Grohner bases and mixed integer programming


3:15 p.m.- 3:45 p.m. Tea

3:45 p.m.- 5:00 p.m.
Speakers:

Amnon Neeman
(University of Virginia)
Representability theorems in derived categories

Akihiko Yukie
(Oklahoma State Univ.)
Prehomogeneoues vector spaces and invariant 
theory

Larry Gonick
Career Singularities and a Singuliar Career

David Fry
(CEO of Gullfoss Software)
Marketing on the Internet

Yung sheng Tai
(Haverford College)
Compactifications of Locally Symmetric Spaces

Yang Wang
(GA Tech.)
Fractal Tiles: A potential business opportunity for 
the ceramic industry

Hosted by Mark Nitzberg and John Fogarty

Speakers

Joe Harris
(Harvard University)
David Mumford and Algebraic Geometry

Stuart Geman
David Mumford: Contribution to Machine Vision 
and the Neurosciences

Bernard Saint-Donat
What is the structure of Finance? 

Tadao Oda
(Tohoku University)
Lattice polytopes and algebraic geometry

Emma Previato
(Boston University)
Abelian and non-abelian theta functions

Tai-Sing Lee
(Carnegie-Mellon, CS)
Feedback and visual computation in the brain

Leslie Roberts
(Queens University)
Subintegrality and Weak Subintegrality

Song-Chun Zhu
(Brown University)
How far are we from the God's model?

Ching-li Chai
(University of Pennsylvania)
Moduli of Abelian varieties

Bill Lang
(Brigham Young Univ.)
Examples of lifting of surfaces and a problem in de 
Rham cohomology

Ian Morrison
(Fordham University)
Grohner bases and mixed integer programming

Amnon Neeman
(University of Virginia)
Representability theorems in derived categories

Akihiko Yukie
(Oklahoma State Univ.)
Prehomogeneoues vector spaces and invariant 
theory

Yung sheng Tai  
(Haverford College)
Compactifications of Locally Symmetric Spaces

Larry Gonick
Career Singularities and a Singuliar Career

David Fry
CEO of Gullfoss 
Software
Marketing on the Internet

Yang Wang
GA Tech.
Fractal Tiles: A potential business opportunity for 
the ceramic industry

For further information send e-mail to nitzberg@math.harvard.edu or siu@math.harvard.edu