Workshop Announcement:

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       Buildings and combinatorial representation theory
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                  March 26 to March 30, 2007

  American Institute of Mathematics Research Conference Center

                     Palo Alto, California

        http://aimath.org/ARCC/workshops/buildings.html


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Description:
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This workshop, sponsored by AIM and the NSF, will bring together 
researchers with different perspectives in combinatorial
representation theory: combinatorial, metric, and 
algebro-geometric.  It has emerged from recently that 
Bruhat--Tits buildings play an essential, not yet 
well-understood role in combinatorial representation 
theory by providing a geometric realization to existing 
combinatorial models and linking them to the algebro-geometric 
tools of representation theory.

Goals for the workshop include examining and comparing the 
different approaches to the saturation theorem, with an 
emphasis on the role of buildings. 

The workshop is organized by
Monica Vazirani, Michael Kapovich, and Arun Ram.

For more details please see the workshop announcement page:
http://aimath.org/ARCC/workshops/buildings.html

Space and funding is available for a few more participants.
If you would like to participate, please apply by filling
out the on-line form (available at the link above) no later
than December 1, 2006. Applications are open to all, and
we especially encourage women, underrepresented minorities,
junior mathematicians, and researchers from primarily
undergraduate institutions to apply.

Before submitting an application, please read the ARCC
policies concerning participation and financial support
for participants.

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AIM Research Conference Center (ARCC):
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