From daustin@math.ubc.ca Fri Oct  3 17:45:22 1997
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 1997 14:43:42 -0700
From: daustin@math.ubc.ca (David Austin)
Subject: 1998 Pacific Rim Geometry Conference


	       	 Pacific Rim Geometry Conference
  			First Announcement

		  University of British Columbia 
			  Vancouver, B.C. 
		      June 28 - July 2, 1998


Organizing Committee:  
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 David  Austin (UBC), James B. Carrell (UBC), Peter Li (UCI), S.-T. Yau 
 (Harvard). 

Sponsoring Organization: 
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 Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences
 
Description of the Conference:
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This will be the fourth meeting of the Pacific Rim Geometry Conference and
the first to be held in North America. Previous meetings of the conference
have been in Hong Kong, Singapore and Seoul. The conference will not focus
on a particular topic but will disseminate important recent developments
in areas including Riemannian geometry, gauge theory, Seiberg-Witten
equations, harmonic maps and minimal surfaces, mirror symmetry and others. 


Confirmed  Speakers:
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 J. Chen (Vancouver) 

 K. Fukaya (Kyoto)
 
 W. Fulton (Chicago) 
 
 A. Givental (Berkeley) 
 
 J.-M. Hwang (Seoul) 
 
 P. Li (Irvine) 
 
 R. Schoen (Stanford)

 C. Taubes (Harvard)
 
 G. Tian (MIT) 

 S.-T. Yau (Harvard)
 
General comments:
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There will be two one hour talks by principal lecturers each morning and
one principal lecture after lunch. In addition, there will also be
sessions for shorter contributed talks in the afternoon. The organizers
hope to avoid having too many talks so that there will be ample time for
participants to interact mathematically. 

 
Contributed Talks and Sessions:  
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It is anticipated that there will be sessions in some or all of the
following topics: complex differential geometry, gauge theory and four
manifolds, harmonic maps and minimal surfaces, quantum cohomology, partial
differential equations and Riemannian geometry. 
 
Participants who wish to give a contributed talk should please send an 
abstract by e-mail to prgc@math.ubc.ca.
 
Information: 
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 E-mail: prgc@math.ubc.ca. 
 
 Regular mail may be addressed to:
 
 Pacific Rim Geometry Conference
 Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences(*)
 University of British Columbia 
 Vancouver V6T 1Z2
 Canada 

The conference will soon have a home page accessible at the PIms WWW 
site http://www.pims.math.ca/.