FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT

        Lie Groups, Lie Algebras and their Representations
     University of California, Riverside, January 17-18, 2009

The Winter 2009 workshop in the program Lie Groups, Lie Algebras and Their
Representations will take place on the campus of the University of California,
Riverside, January 17 and 18, 2009.

Wee Liang Gan (wlgan@ucr.edu) is the local organizer.

The workshops "Lie Groups, Lie Algebras and their Representations" meet at
various western United States campuses for one weekend every few months
during the academic year.  They are supported by a grant from the National
Science Foundation.  This workshop is supported in addition by the
University of California, Riverside.

The purpose of the program is to communicate results and ideas rather than
to deliver polished presentations.  The program also serves to acquaint
graduate students in this area with a range of researchers in Lie theory
and representation theory.

The lectures will be held in the Department of Mathematics located on the
second floor of Surge building. More details and updates will be posted as
they become available.

Preliminary schedule:
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Sat 11:00am-11:50am  Eric Rains (Caltech)
Sat 1:50pm-2:40pm    Peter Tingley (Univ. of Melbourne)
Sat 2:50pm-3:40pm    Emilie Wiesner (Ithaca College)
Sat 4:10pm-4:40pm    Graduate student
Sat 4:50pm-5:40pm    Claudio Procesi (Univ. di Roma La Sapienza)

Sun 8:30am-9:20am    Eric Sommers (U Mass., Amherst)
Sun 9:30am-10:20am   Rajeev Walia (UC Riverside)
Sun 10:30am-11:00am  Graduate student
Sun 11:20am-12:10am  Joshua Sussan (UC Berkeley)
Sun 12:20am-1:10pm   Nolan Wallach (UC San Diego)

There is no registration fee. Limited support for non-local graduate
students is available, and graduate students are encouraged to attend.
Please e-mail the local organizer if you need support.

We will also try to support non-local postdoc participants to the extent
that there are funds available.

Workshop web site (including transportation and hotel information):
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       http://math.ucr.edu/~wlgan/workshop.html

The nearest airport is Ontario (ONT). The nearest hotel to the campus is
Dynasty Suites.  The workshop's website has more information on airports,
shuttles, driving directions, and hotels.

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