Workshop on Representation Theory, Geometry and Combinatorics
June 2-6, 2008

University of California, Berkeley


Venue

The workshop will take place on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, June 2-6, 2008. All lectures will be held in the Bechtel Engineering Center conference rooms, Rooms 120ABC (see campus map).

Program

The program will feature lecture series by

There will also be shorter talks by workshop participants, and time reserved for discussion. We intend that lectures and talks should be at a level accessible to graduate students and postdocs, whom we especially encourage to attend and speak.

Click here for schedule

Local Information

The Mathematical Sciences Research Institute web page has a helpful list of hotels. The Berkeley Visitor's Bureau also has a list of hotels. Many Berkeley hotels will give you a discount if you mention that you are coming for an event held at the university.

Here are links providing directions to UC Berkeley and information about public transportation.

Registration

There is no fee to register for the workshop. If you plan to attend, please do us the favor of completing the registration form below, so that we have an idea how many participants to expect.

First Name:
Last Name:
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Travel Suppport

Some travel support is available for participants, with priority going to graduate students, postdocs, and junior researchers without other sources of support.

To apply for travel support, please email the organizer at the address below. In your message, include your name, current institutional affiliation and status (grad student, postdoc, junior or senior faculty), Ph.D. year and institution if not a graduate student, indicate what other support, if any, you have available, and attach a CV. In the case of graduate students and postdocs, please have your supervisor email a brief letter of support to the same address.

In order to allow us to offer support in time for participants to make travel reservations, the target date for applications is May 9. Applications received after that date will only be considered if sufficient funds remain.

Organizer

Mark Haiman

Acknowledgement

Funding for this workshop is provided by an EMSW21-RTG grant from the National Science Foundation.