Taniguchi Conference on Mathematics, Nara '98

The Mathematics Part I and Part II of the TANIGUCHI FOUNDATION have had 41 Taniguchi Symposia so far. In 2000 the TANIGUCHI FOUNDATION will close, and to commemorate it the Mathematics Part I and Part II will jointly hold a public conference, Taniguchi Conference on Mathematics, Nara '98, as follows. This Conference is jointly sponsored by the Taniguchi Foundation and the Mathematical Society of Japan.

Title: Taniguchi Conference on Mathematics, Nara '98

Period: December 15 (Tue) - December 20 (Sun), 1998

Place : Naraken Bunka Kaikan in Nara :(Travel)

Invited Speakers (Previous participants in Taniguchi Symposia) with Titles of Talks, and Temporary Schedule

Hitoshi Arai	Harmonic analysis for singular elliptic differential operators and its applications
Spencer J. Bloch	Algebraic cycles and differential forms
Richard E. Borcherds	Automorphic forms and Lie algebras
Kenji Fukaya	Lagragian submanifolds and mirror symmetry
Mikio Furuta	Spin structure of 4-dimensional manifolds
Yoshikazu Giga	Very fast diffusion and interface dynamics
Masaki Kashiwara	Micro-localization and contact transforms
Kazuya Kato	Bloch's conductor formula and p-adic epsilon elements
Shigeo Kusuoka	Approximation of expectation on diffusion model in mathematical finance
János Kollár	The topology of real and complex algebraic varieties
Maxim Kontsevich	Non-commutative algebraic manifolds
Pierre-Louis Lions	On some mathematical problems in fluid mechanics
George Lusztig	Representation theory in characteristic p
Paul G. Malliavin	Construction in probability measures in infinite dimension
Shinichi Mochizuki	The intrinsic Hodge theory of p-adic hyperbolic curves
Shigekumi Mori	Rational curves on algebraic varieties - a survey and problems
Adrian Ocneanu	Operator algebras, topology and quantum symmetry
Kyoji Saito	Infinite dimensional Lie algebras and their L-functions arising from weight systems
Yum-Tong Siu	Applications of L2 estimates of $\bar\partial$ to algebraic geometry
Srinivasa S. R. Varadhan	Large deviation and hydrodynamic scaling

Note. Some of these titles are provisional.

	10:00 a.m.-	2:30 p.m.-
15(Tue)	Borcherds, Kontsevich	Fukaya, Lions
16(Wed)	Saito, Kashiwara	Kollár, Mochizuki
17(Thu)	Mori, Lusztig	(free)
18(Fri)	Furuta, Kato	Siu, Malliavin
19(Sat)	Ocneanu, Kusuoka	Bloch, Arai
20(Sun)	Giga, Varadhan

Board of the Organizing Committee:

Kiyoshi Ito	Mitsuru Ikawa	Kenji Ueno(Chair)
Kazuo Okamoto	Shigeo Kusuoka	Kyoji Saito
Michio Jimbo	Toshikazu Sunada	Junjiro Noguchi
Akira Fujiki	Masaki Maruyama	Shingo Murakami

Particpation Fee (for overseas participants only)

3,000 yen for Registration

5,000 yen for Proceedings

2,000 yen for Reception held on December 15 in the evening

Here the second and third items are optional.

Registration:

Use the REGISTRATION FORM here attached and send it Hotel Accommodations before November 4th E-mail: nara98@congre.co.jp FAX: 075-762-2304