Programme on Lie Groups 2001

March – June

The third phase of the Programme on Lie Groups under Professor A. Borel, Distinguished Professor at HKU, will take place March - June 2001. We meet normally on Wednesdays
and Fridays, starting Wednesday, March 7, 2001. The programme will consist of courses
and series of lectures, as outlined below. Schedules will be announced regularly.
March
Introduction to Symplectic and Poisson Geometry
  Professor Jiang-Hua Lu, U. Arizona


A Geometric Construction of Algebras
 

Professor Hiraku Nakajima, Kyoto U.
April – mid-May
Introduction to Symplectic and Poisson Geometry (cont., up to mid-May)
Professor Jiang-Hua Lu, U. Arizona


Unitary and Automorphic Duals (seminars mid-April to end of April)
 

Professor Jian-Shu Li, HKUST   Compactifications and Cohomology of Arithmetic Varieties (within end of April - mid-May)
  Professor Armand Borel, HKU and IAS
mid-May – June
L-functions for GL(n) (mid-May to end of June)
Professor James W. Cogdell, Oklahoma State U.
Stringy Geometry and Topology of Orbitfolds (mid-May - mid-June)
Professor Yongbin Ruan, HKUST
Topics on the Analytic Theory of Automorphic Forms (within mid-May to June)
Professor Wenzhi Luo, Ohio State U.
Holomorphic Curves in Symplectic Topology (June)
Professor Yakov Eliashberg, Stanford U.