Rome, September 14-17, 2005

Dipartimento di Matematica “Guido Castelnuovo”

This conference is dedicated to Dmitri V. Alekseevsky on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday and will bedevoted to topics in Differential Geometry and Mathematical Physics related to Alekseevsky's scientific activity. The aim is to bring together mathematicians and physicists with the hope of promoting dialogue across the interdisciplinary boundary and offering an overview of new directions of research in areas such as:

· Lie groups, homogeneous spaces and, more generally, transformation groups on manifolds

· Special Riemannian structures, for instance, Kähler, hyperKähler and quaternionic structures

· Topics in theoretical physics, especially as seen from a differential geometric point of view.

Invited Speakers: Bernd AMMANN (Université H. Poincaré, Nancy I), Christian BAER (Universität Potsdam), Jean-Pierre BOURGUIGNON (CNRS-IHÉS and École Polytechnique), Nicoletta CANTARINI (Università di Padova), Michele EMMER (Università di Roma “La Sapienza’’), Thomas FRIEDRICH (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin), Paul GAUDUCHON (CNRS and Ecole Polytechnique), Ernst HEINTZE (Universität Augsburg), Oussama HIJAZI (Université H. Poincaré, Nancy I), Simon SALAMON (Politecnico di Torino), Antoine Van PROEYEN (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), Ernest VINBERG (Lomonosov State University, Moscow), John C. WOOD (University of Leeds).

Organizers: Vicente CORTES (Nancy), Chand DEVCHAND (Bonn), Valentin LYCHAGIN (Tromsø), Stefano MARCHIAFAVA (Rome), Peter MICHOR (Vienna), Fabio PODESTÁ (Florence), Andrea SPIRO (Camerino).

Local Organizers: Stefano MARCHIAFAVA (Roma I), Anna Maria PASTORE (Bari), Fabio PODESTÀ (Firenze), Massimiliano PONTECORVO (Roma Tre), Andrea SPIRO (Camerino).

Sponsors:

- Gruppo Nazionale per le Strutture Algebriche e Geometriche e loro Applicazioni (GNSAGA) dell' Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica (Italy);

- Project “Metriche Riemanniane e varietà differenziabili” funded by the Ministry of Education, andResearch - MIUR (Italy);

- Schwerpunktprogramm Stringtheorie of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) (Germany);

- Erwin Schrödinger Institut (ESI), Vienna (Austria);

- Institut Elie Cartan, Université H. Poincaré, Nancy I;

- Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Bari;

- Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Università di Camerino;

- Dipartimento di Matematica e Appl. per l’Architettura, Università di Firenze;

- Dipartimento di Matematica ''G. Castelnuovo'', Università di Roma "La Sapienza”;

- Dipartimento di Matematica, Università Roma Tre.

Secretary: Francisco León Trujillo. For further information, please contact:

e-mail: alek05@mat.uniroma1.it , web: http://www.mat.uniroma1.it/ricerca/convegni/alek05

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