Schedule of Talks

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 Thursday, March 20 
 opening  (9:15-9:30) Steve Halperin, Dean


 speaker  (9:30-10:30) Shrawan Kumar  abstract  (pdf)
 title  On Cachazo-Douglas-Witten Conjecture 
               for Simple Lie Algebras

 speaker (11:00-12:00) Prakash Belkale  abstract 
 title  Generalizations of the Horn and 
               saturation conjectures

 speaker (2:00-3:00) Chris Woodward   abstract 
 title  Spherical Polygons 
               and knot homology

 speaker (3:30-4:30) Edward Richmond  abstract 
 title  Recursive Structures in the 
               Cohomology of Flag Varieties

 Friday, March 21 
 speaker (9:30-10:30)  Madabusi S. Ragunathan  abstract 
 title  On the first Betti Number of hyperbolic manifolds

 speaker (11:00-12:00)  Jens Funke   abstract  
 title  Special cohomology classes arising 
              from the Weil representation.

(no talks Friday afternoon)

 Saturday, March 22 
 speaker (9:15-10:15) Steve Kudla abstract 
 title  Arithmetic cycles on Shimura 
               varieties for unitary groups

 speaker (10:45-11:45) Ravi Vakil  abstract
 title  Murphy's law in algebraic geometry: 
               Badly-behaved moduli spaces

 speaker (1:30-2:30) Peter Littelmann  abstract 
 title  Superbozonization of invariant matrix ensembles 

 speaker (3:00-4:00) Roger Howe  abstract 
 title  Napoleon's theorem, Pompeiu's Theorem,  
               and the hexagonal wallpaper group.

 speaker (4:30-5:30) Andrew Snowden  abstract
 title  The equations of the 
              GIT quotient (P^1)^n/(GL(2))

 Sunday, March 23 
 speaker (9:30-10:30) Ben Howard  abstract  
 title  Weight rings in type A 
             and Gelfant Tsetlin patterns

 speaker (11:00-12:00) Bill Goldman 
 title  Deforming discrete groups in Lie groups:
            a personal/historical overvierw.