Konferenzservice Mandl

Zusammenfassung: The main theme of the workshop will be to explore modern approaches to problems originating in Classical Algebraic Geometry, and at the same time offer an introduction to various subfields to the younger participants in the semester-long program. Topics will include: (1) Birational geometry; (2) Moduli spaces of curves; (3) Moduli spaces of vector bundles; (4) Abelian varieties.

Zusammenfassung: The conference continues a well established tradition of Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry meetings in the Midwest, among which we single out MAGC97 at the University of Notre Dame in 1997, BACH'2 at the University of Kentucky in 2003, the Lipman-Fest at Purdue University in 2004, MAGIC'05 at the University of Notre Dame in 2005, the Purdue-UIC Workshop at Purdue University in 2006, and the Hartshorne's 70th birthday conference at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2008. In order to enhance the visibility of mathematics among the diverse population of the University of Kentucky students, the conference will be preceded by a lecture aimed at the undergraduate level. The lecture will be delivered by Professor David Cox (Amherst College).

Zusammenfassung: The Southern Regional Algebra Conference 2009 will take place at the University of South Alabama in Mobile. All participants are invited to present 25-minute talks. The first talks will be scheduled for friday afternoon, beginning approximately at 1:30 PM. The conference will end by noon on Sunday. As usual, no financial support will be provided for the participants by the University of South Alabama. Graduate students are strongly encouraged to participate.

Zusammenfassung: TOPOLOGY, C*-ALGEBRAS, and STRING DUALITY May 18 - May 22, 2009 Opening reception on the evening of May 17 at Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX Principal Lecturer: Jonathan Rosenberg (Univ. of Maryland) Some of the most exciting current research in geometry and topology has been motivated by problems in mathematical physics in general, and string theory in particular. Physicists are still divided concerning the usefulness of string theory as a ``unified field theory,'' uniting our understanding of all the fundamental forces of nature. However, even if string theory should turn out not to be fully confirmed by experiment, the fascinating and beautiful mathematics it has generated is expected to retain its mathematical value. The subject of the conference will involve a number of such ``spin-offs'' of string theory into pure mathematics, and the way they connect with other topics in topology and operator algebras that were initially developed for other purposes.

Zusammenfassung: The GPOTS Symposia have become a premier conference series in the fields of operator theory/operator algebras that host anywhere from 100 to 150 participants each year. They have consistently focused on important new developments and on exciting open problems to stimulate the operator community, especially new researchers in the early part of their careers.

Zusammenfassung: This will be the 19th annual PCMI Summer Session for research mathematicians, graduate students, undergraduate students, undergraduate faculty, and secondary school teachers.

Zusammenfassung: This workshop, sponsored by AIM and the NSF, will be devoted to the study of the relative trace formula and periods of automorphic forms. In particular, we hope to formulate a precise general conjecture for the exact value of period integrals which encompasses all known and conjectured cases.