Buildings and combinatorial representation theory March 26 to March 30, 2007 AIM Research Conference Center, Palo Alto, CA Organizers: Monica Vazirani, Michael Kapovich, and Arun Ram Workshop topics: 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. Application deadline: December 1, 2006 For more information: http://aimath.org/ARCC/workshops/buildings.html