Lie Groups, Lie Algebras and their Representations
        University of California, Santa Cruz,  April 24-25, 2004

The third 2003/2004 workshop in the program Lie Groups, Lie Algebras and 
Their Representations will take place on the Santa Cruz campus of the 
University of California on April 24 and 25, 2004. This workshop is 
cosponsored by the National Science Foundation and by the Department of 
Mathematics at UC Santa Cruz.  There is no registration or participation 
fee for these workshops.

These workshops meet at various University of California campuses (or
occasionally at other universities in the western United States) for one 
weekend every few months during the academic year. 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.  

Support for non-local graduate students is available, and graduate students 
are strongly encouraged to attend.  If you are an interested graduate 
student, please send e-mail to the local organizers, Geoff Mason 
(gem@cats.ucsc.edu) and Chongying Dong (dong@cats.ucsc.edu),
and ask your advisor to do the same.  If you wish to suggest one or more of
your graduate students, please e-mail a nomination, including the e-mail
address for each of the students that you nominate.

The talks will take place in Room 283, Kerr Hall, on the U. C. Santa Cruz 
campus.  Note the change of location from earlier years.

Here is the scientific program as of April 6, 2004.

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                      Saturday, April 24, 2004

                          speaker and title


11:00 AM  Wenhua Zhao:  A vanishing conjecture for harmonic polynomials

02:00 PM  Richard Ng: Frobenius-Schur Indicators and Quasi-Hopf Algebras

03:00 pM  Sarah Witherspoon: Algebraic deformations arising from
                             quantum group actions

04:15 PM  Silvia Onofrei:  On the 2-local geometry of Co_3

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                      Sunday, April 25, 2004


10:00 AM  Haisheng Li: Quasi modules for vertex algebras and a
                       new construction of vertex algebras

11:15 AM  Elena Poletaeva:  On representations of superconformal algebras

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    Recommended Hotel : Ocean Pacific Lodge (831-457-1234), in the 
vicinity of the Santa Cruz wharf, beach and boardwalk.

   Attendees/speakers planning to stay overnight should call the hotel 
and reserve their rooms - they should mention that they are 
participating in an event with the Mathematics Department at UCSC. 
Once they have a confirmation number for their reservation, they need 
to contact the UCSC Math Dept (mallen@natsci.ucsc.edu) to let them 
know what the confirmation number is. The Dept will contact the hotel 
and confirm that attendee should be receiving the University rate 
($65).

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