The Department of Mathematics at the University of Miami will host a Winter Conference and School in December 2005 entitled "Arithmetic, Algebraic and Symplectic Geometry". The conference will focus on promotion and incorporation of recent advances in higher dimensional algebraic geometry into arithmetic and symplectic research directions and the creation of new bridges between projective geometry and foliation theory, between singularity theory and reconstructive Galois problems and between the geometry of coherent sheaves and symplectic topology. The award will support junior researchers and graduate students from U.S. institutions and will enable the dissemination of geometric techniques among the new generation of young scientists.
The conference will address difficult classical questions about the hidden symmetries of the physical world, the large scale structure of space-time and the properties of matter at high energies. This activity aims to advance our understanding of the mathematical methodology necessary to handle such questions and to produce results applicable in stringy physics, soft condensed matter theory and mathematical biology.
