Final Announcement

                     Western Algebraic Geometry Seminar

University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, April 24-25, 1999

Organizer: Aaron Bertram 

All talks will take place in room JWB 335. Coffee and pastries
will be served each morning in the mathematics lounge, 
and there will be a 
party on Saturday night.    

Schedule:

Saturday 11-12:     Does Hilbert's 14th problem have a positive solution?
                         Sean Keel (Texas)

Saturday 2-3:       Virtual moduli cycles.
                         Gang Liu  (UCLA)     

Saturday 3:30-4:30  Mirror symmetry in higher dimensions (after Barannikov)
                         Andrew Kresch (UPenn)  

Saturday 5-6        Integers in Gromov-Witten theory
                         Rahul Pandharipande (CalTech)


Sunday 9:30-10:30   Limits of plane curves and moduli of log surfaces
                         Brendan Hassett (UChicago)


Sunday 11-12        Localization and generalizations of Verlinde's formula
                         Chris Woodward (MSRI)

Sunday 1:30-2:30    The Nash conjecture is true for real algebraic threefolds
                         J\'anos Koll\'ar (Utah)


If you plan to attend the workshop from out of town  
but do not belong to the following list and need a place to stay, 
please contact me
(at bertram@math.utah.edu) as soon as possible.


List of Out-of-Town Participants:

Slava Archava
Vladimir Baranovsky
Pasha Belorousski
Xi Chen
Avery Ching
Ionut Ciocan-Fontanine
David Gieseker
Mark Green
Brendan Hassett
Ludmil Katzarkov
Sean Keel
Andrew Kresch
Gang Liu
Huazhong Luo
James Mckernan
Mircea Mustata
Rahul Pandharipande
Mihnea Popa
Sorin Popescu
Chris Woodward