Schedule       ( all talks in MATH 501 ) :

Thursday, December 5

03:30 pm  Refreshments, room 401N

04:00 pm (Department Colloquium)

Igor Dolgachev (University of Michigan), Complex ball quotients and cubic hypersurfaces

Friday, December 6

09:00 Susan Tolman (Urbana-Champaign),  Hamiltonian loop group actions and symplectic quotients

10:00 Coffee break, room 401N

10:30  Jun Li (Stanford), Vanishing of Chern classes of the moduli of vector bundles over a curve.

11:30 Lunch break

01:00 Tara Holm (Berkeley), Symplectic quotients and real loci

01:50 Brent Doran (Princeton),  Moduli spaces as Ball Quotients via Hypergeometric functions of Deligne-Mostow Type

02:40 Coffee break, room 401N

03:10 Zoran Skoda (Indiana) Non-commutative quotients via Hopf algebras and localizations

04:00 Megumi Harada (Berkeley),
The symplectic geometry of the Gel'fand-Cetlin basis for representations of the symplectic group

07:30 Movie: Sullivan's travels (presented by the International Arts Society)
           Location:Modern Languages Building,   Second Floor Auditorium

Saturday, December 7

09:00 Reyer Sjamaar (Cornell), Singularities of symplectic quotients

10:00 Coffee break, room 401N

10:30 Sean Keel (Texas), Oorts conjecture for A_g

11:30 Lunch break

01:00 Milen Yakimov (Cornell), Complex simple Poisson Lie groups

01:50 Andre Henriques (Berkeley), The presentability of non-effective orbifolds and gerbes as global quotients

02:40 Coffee break, room 401N

03:10 Markus Pflaum (Frankfurt on Main, Germany), The deformation quantization of symplectic orbispaces

04:00 Mark Roberts (U of Surrey, U.K.), A fibration theorem for momentum maps

04:50 Dmitri Millionschikov (Moscow), Symplectic nilmanifolds and graded Lie algebras

07:00 Banquet  at Marriott Hotel

Sunday, December 8

09:00 Brendan Hassett (Rice), Flipping the moduli space of curves

10:00 Coffee break, room 401N

10:30 Jan Segert (Missouri), A GIT approach to isomondromic deformations

11:20 Ivan Arzhantsev (Moscow), On stability of diagonal actions

12:00 Lunch break

01:30 Anvar Mavlyutov (Indiana), Embedding of Calabi-Yau deformations  into toric varieties

02:20 Nicholas Proudfoot (Berkeley), Hypertoric varieties