A Midwest Several Complex Variables Conference will be held on October 10-12, 2003, at Syracuse University. This will continue the long time tradition of Midwest Several Complex Variables Conferences which became one of the highest quality and most successful conference series in Complex Analysis. There have been many new interesting developments in different fields of this area in recent years, especially in Complex Geometry, Complex Dynamics, Partial Differential Equations and Pluripotential Theory. The conference will provide a forum to exchange and to stimulate new ideas from these disciplines, and to formulate new challenging problems that will have important scientific impact. It is expected that this will result in increased understanding of the deeper mathematical issues in Complex Analysis. The conference speakers include: Thomas Bloom (University of Toronto), Araceli Bonifant (SUNY at Stony Brook), Jeffrey Diller (University of Notre Dame), Peter Ebenfelt (University of California, San Diego), Vincent Guedj (University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse), Sergei Ivashkovich (Universit des Sciences et Technologies de Lille), Imre Patyi (University of California, San Diego), Jean-Pierre Rosay (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Rasul Shafikov (SUNY at Stony Brook), Mei-Chi Shaw (University of Notre Dame), B. Alan Taylor (University of Michigan), Sophia Vassiliadou (Georgetown University), Brendan Weickert (Washington and Lee University), Jan Wiegerinck (University of Amsterdam). Complex Analysis is an interdisciplinary field involving complex numbers to solve problems in mathematics. The conference will explore the interplay of research which has taken place in a number of broad areas: Complex Geometry, Complex Dynamics, Partial Differential Equations and Pluripotential Theory. Many of the developments in these disciplines found new applications outside their traditional area. We believe that hosting such a high level conference will greatly benefit the US mathematicians. It is especially helpful in educating our graduate students and recent Ph.D.'s, providing them with the opportunity to be in touch with the leading experts working on the frontier of the field. We will give special attention to attracting young scientists among the participants and speakers. A significant part of the conference budget is allocated especially for this. An effort will be made to increase the number of women who will attend the conference. To disseminate the information about the conference the organizers created a web site (address: http://web.syr.edu/ dcoman/SCV/), where abstracts of talks and suggested problems will be found.

Agency
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Institute
Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS)
Type
Standard Grant (Standard)
Application #
0312087
Program Officer
Joe W. Jenkins
Project Start
Project End
Budget Start
2003-11-01
Budget End
2004-04-30
Support Year
Fiscal Year
2003
Total Cost
$13,900
Indirect Cost
Name
Syracuse University
Department
Type
DUNS #
City
Syracuse
State
NY
Country
United States
Zip Code
13244