University of Utah
March 24-25, 2006
Arrival at Salt Lake City airport. Many have already arranged for a shuttle, rental car or alternative transportation.
Xpress Shuttle 801-596-1600, 1-800-397-0773, www.xpressshuttle.utah.com, $12.00 each way from airport to guest house - if you made reservations through Nancy your shuttle and tip will be pre-paid. Reservations are generally required 24 hours in advance.
Check in at The University Guest House, 110 South Fort Douglas Blvd, 801-587-1000 or 1-888- 416-4075, www.guesthouse.utah.edu.
For dinner there are two possibilities:
(a) Heritage Center Dining Room open until 8:00 PM with limited options until 10:00 PM on weekdays, within walking distance of the Guest House - see map.
(b) Those interested meet Jim Carlson in Guest House Lobby at 6:45 pm to go to dinner at the East West Connection, 1400 Foothill Drive, 801-581-1128, www.eastwestconnection.net
Talks will be held at LNCO 1100. LNCO is near the student union.
| 9:00 AM | Registration. Please bring documents for reimbursement, e.g., plane ticket or printout thereof |
| 9:30 AM | Daniel Allcock, A monstrous proposal |
| 11:00 AM | Dennis Sullivan, Operations in the string spaces of a smooth manifold and compactified spaces of Riemann surfaces |
| 12:00 PM | Lunch. Crimson room (former Panorama room) |
| 1:45 PM | Luis Hernandez, Almost-hermitian structures of minimal energy |
| 2:45 PM | Yum-Tong Siu, Multiplier ideal sheaves and the finite generation of canonical rings |
| 3:45 PM | Break |
| 4:00 PM | Jim Carlson, New Hodge Theory for Cubic Threefolds |
| 6:00 PM | Drinks and dinner at Lugano Retaurant, Loggia room $20 per person (subsidized) |
Talks will be held at LCB 219: Eastmost Mathematics building on President's circle.
| 9:30 AM | János Kollár, Holonomy groups of stable vector bundles |
| 11:00 AM | Misha Kapovich, Generalized triangle inequalities and their applications |
| 12:00 PM | Lunch. We will disperse to nearby restaurants |
| 1:45 PM | Bill Goldman, Toledo's Invariant of Surface Group Representations |
| 2:45 PM | Anna Wienhardt, Why you should maximize the Toledo invariant |
| 3:30 PM | Break |
| 3:45 PM | Bruno Klingler, On the Andre-Oort conjecture |
| 6:00 PM | Drinks and dinner (open house) at Domingo Toledo's: 783 13th Avenue. |
10:00 AM Brunch. There will be an informal brunch at Ruth's Diner located at 2100 Emigration Canyon, 582-5807, www.ruthsdiner.com, for those staying over.