Eager announces its annual conference

• Invited speakers: D. Auroux (Paris), A. Beauville (Nice), A. Bertram (Utah), J. Duistermaat (Utrecht), C. Faber (KTH, Stockholm), B. Fantechi (Udine), A. Givental (Caltech), E. Ionel (Wisconsin), R. Pandharipande (Caltech), P. Seidel (Paris), D. van Straten (Mainz), R. Thomas (Imperial College London), G. Tian (MIT)

• Scientific Committee: W. Fulton, N. Hitchin, U. Persson (chairman), A. Rudakov

• Organizing committee: G. Ellingsrud, R. Piene, K. Ranestad (UiO)

Program: The program of Eager 2001 consists of a series of invited lectures and a lectures given by young researchers selected from a call for abstracts (see below). The lectures will cover important new developements in algebraic geometry with particular emphasis on the connections between algebraic geometry, symplectic geometry and theoretical physics.

Call for abstracts: Young researchers are encouraged to submit an abstract for a lecture. The scientific committee will select lectures among these for the conference program. Deadline for the call for abstracts is April 1st, 2001. For submission use the separate form or contact: eager2001@math.uio.no

This conference is organized in conjunction with a summer school on symplectic geometry. Check the web site http://www.math.uio.no/nordfjordeid/symplectic.html for details.

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Givental lecturing, and participants discussing over dessert:

This conference is supported by the programme

Improving Human Potential & and the Socio-economic Knowledge base

of the European Commission (Contract No. HPRN-CT-2000-00397) and by NorFA (Nordisk Forskerutdanningsakademi) .

Eager is a Research Training Network supported by the European Commission (Contract No. HPRN-CT-2000-00099).