HIGHER DEGREE FORMS CONFERENCE

May 21 - 23, 2009

University of Florida, Gainesville

Professor Manjul Bhargava (Princeton) who has done path breaking work on composition laws for higher degree forms, will give a series of two one hour lectures at the conference to provide core content that will be very helpful to graduate students and young researchers moving into the field.

The Conference is part of a year long Program in Algebra, Number Theory and Combinatorics.

PLENARY SPEAKERS

• Manjul Bhargava, Princeton University
• Benedict Gross, Harvard University
• Bruce Reznick, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• Gordan Savin, University of Utah

OTHER SPEAKERS

• Jaka Cimpric, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
• Jonathan Hanke, University of Georgia
• Wei Ho, Princeton University
• Detlev Hoffmann, University of Nottingham
• Igor Klep, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
• Takashi Taniguchi, Kobe University, Japan
• Michael Volpato, University of California, San Diego
• Melanie Matchett Wood, Princeton University

OTHER PARTICIPANTS

• Michael Fender, George Walton Comprehensive High School and Middle Georgia College
• Kevin Keating, University of Florida
• Kagan Kursungoz, Pennsylvania State University
• Guillermo Mantilla, University of Wisconsin
• Arul Shankar, Princeton University
• Ila Varma, Caltech
• Seon Woo Yoo, North Gwinnett High School and Middle Georgia College

SOCIAL ACTIVITIES

• CONFERENCE DINNER:
  6:30 pm, Fri, May 22 at Leonardo's 706 Italian Restaurant, six blocks east of the Holiday Inn on University Ave.
• VISIT TO PAINES PRAIRIE TO SEE ALLIGATORS:
  On Thur, May 21 at 4:30 pm or Fri, May 21 at 4:30 pm depending on the weather.

CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS

• Krishnaswami Alladi
• Frank Garvan
• Pham Tiep

The url of this page is https://qseries.org/fgarvan/higherdegformsconf.html.
Created by F.G. Garvan (fgarvan@math.ufl.edu) on Thursday, April 23, 2009.
Last update made Mon May 18 18:20:56 EDT 2009.

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