International Conference
TRENDS IN GEOMETRY - IN MEMORY OF BENIAMINO SEGRE
Roma, 7-9 June 2004

Programme

Monday 7 June - Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
9.50 Address by the Director of the Centro Linceo Interdisciplinare "B. Segre", Maurizio Brunori
10.00 Edoardo Vesentini (Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei):
Beniamino Segre and Italian geometry
11.00 Marcel Berger (IHÉS, Bures-sur-Yvette):
Introducing dynamics in elementary geometry: introduction to some work of Richard Schwartz
11.50 Break
12.10 Dieter Jungnickel (Universität Augsburg):
Some geometric aspects of Abelian groups
Break
15.00 Phillip Griffiths (IAS, Princeton):
Algebraic cycles and singularities of normal functions
16.00 Joseph A. Thas (Universiteit Gent):
Finite geometries: classical problems and recent developments
16.50 Break
17.10 Edoardo Sernesi (Università degli Studi di Roma Tre):
Segre's work on curves and their moduli

Tuesday 8 June - Department of Mathematics "G. Castelnuovo"
9.50 Address by the Director del Dipartimento di Matematica "G. Castelnuovo", Lucio Boccardo
10.00 John H. Conway (Princeton University):
Some things you can't hear the shape of
11.00 Joseph Zaks (University of Haifa):
Geometric graphs and the Beckman-Quarles Theorem
11.50 Break
12.10 Gudlaugur Thorbergsson (Universität zu Köln):
Transformation groups and submanifold geometry
Break
15.00 Nicholas I. Shepherd-Barron (University of Cambridge):
Cubic surfaces and rationality
16.00 Giuseppe Tomassini (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa):
Extension problems in complex geometry

Wednesday 9 June - Department of Mathematics "G. Castelnuovo"
10.00 Mikhael Gromov (IHÉS, Bures-sur-Yvette):
Geometry of infinite Cartesian powers and related spaces
11.00Peter J. Cameron (Queen Mary, University of London):
Finite geometry and permutation groups: some polynomial links
11.50Break
12.10 Gábor Korchmáros (Università della Basilicata, Potenza):
Segre-type theorems in finite geometry
Break
15.00Yuri I. Manin (Max Planck Institute of Mathematics, Bonn):
Manifolds with multiplication in tangent bundle
16.00James W. P. Hirschfeld (University of Sussex, Brighton):
The number of points on a curve, and applications
17.00Conclusions

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