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Introductory Workshop on Algebraic Stacks, Intersection Theory, and Non-Abelian Hodge Theory
January 10 - 16, 2002

William Fulton: What is a Stack?
Tony Pantev: Review of Abelian Hodge Theory
Angelo Vistoli: Topological Stacks
Kai Behrend: Cohomology of Stacks: Cohomology of Coherent Sheaves
Bertrand Toen: Non-abelian Cohomology
Andrew Kresch: Intersection Theory on DM Stacks
Kai Behrend: Cohomology of Stacks: Cohomology with Discrete Coefficients
Tony Pantev: Non-Abelian Hodge Theory in Degree One
Rahul Pandharipande: Moduli of elliptic curves
David Ben-Zvi: Geometric Class Field Theory
Kai Behrend: Cohomology of Stacks: Cohomology of Quotient Stacks and DM Stacks
David Ben-Zvi: Factorization
Rahul Pandharipande: Moduli spaces of Maps and GW Theory
Tony Pantev: Higher Non-Abelian Hodge Theory, I
Bertrand Toen: Higher Non-Abelian Hodge Theory, II
David Ben-Zvi: Quantization of Hitchin's Hamiltonians

Information Theory
February 25 - March 1, 2002

Neri Merhav: On Large-Deviations Tradefoff Between Code-Length and Distortion in Certain Lossy Source Coding Problems
Jorma Rissanen: MDL Theory as a Foundation for Statistical Modeling
Marcelo Weinberger: New Settings for the Sequential Decision Problem
Jacob Ziv: An Efficient Universal Prediction Algorithm for Unknown Sources with Limited Training Data
Babak Hassibi: Multi-antenna Communications: Information Theory and Algorithms
David Tse: Diversity and Freedom: A Fundamental Tradeoff in Multiple Antenna Wireless Communications
Frans Willems: Weighting and Waiting
Wojtek Szpankowski: Analytic Combinatorics, Information Theory and Algorithmics: Precise Redundancy Rate Problem
Amin Shokrollahi: Efficient Content Delivery and Low Complexity Codes
Jonathan Yedidia: Generalized Belief Propagation and Free Energy Minimization
Martin Wainwright: Stochastic Processes on Graphs with Cycles: Approximate Inference and Bounds
Vahid Tarokh: Information Theoretic Energy Reduction in Deep Submicron Computation Modules
Shlomo Shamai: Information Theoretic Aspects of Constrained Systems
Chris Heegard: Information Theory and Spread Spectrum Communications
Prakash Narayan: Common Randomness and Secret Key Capacities
Tom Cover: The Role of Side Information in Communication and Data Compression
Kannan Ramchandran: Duality Between Source Coding and Channel Coding with Side Information
Brian Marcus: Concatenation of Modulation Encoders and ECC Encoders

Intersection Theory on Stacks
March 11 - 15, 2002

Angelo Vistoli: Intersection Theory on Algebraic Stacks: The Approach of Totaro, Edidin and Graham
Henri Gillet: Can one do arithmetic intersection theory on stacks?
Bernd Sturmfels: Multigraded Hilbert Schemes
Andrew Kresch: Intersection Theory on Algebraic Stacks: Chow Groups for Artin Stacks
Rahul Pandharipande: Gromov-Witten Theory of P^1 - PartI
Andrei Okounkov: Gromov-Witten Theory of P^1 - Part II
Dan Edidin: Riemann-Roch for Quotients and Todd Classes of Simplicial Toric Varieties
Jun Li: Degeneration Formula of Gromov-Witten Invariants
Jason Starr: Quot Schemes for Deligne-Mumford Stacks
Tamas Hausel: Intersection Theory on Toric Hyperkahler Varieties
Yongbin Ruan: Cohomology Ring of Crepant Resolutions of Orbifolds
Laurent Lafforgue: Toric Stacks of Pavings
Martin Olsson: Logarithmic Geometry and Algebraic Stacks
Aaron Bertram: How Many Gromov-Witten Invariants of Rational Curves are There, Really?
Mikhail Kapranov: Differential Graded Schemes in Algebraic Geometry
Roy Joshua: Higher Intersection Theory for Algebraic Stacks
Kai Behrend: A 2-Categorical Approach to Differential Graded
Bertrand Toen: K-Theory of Algebraic Stacks
William Graham: On Symmetric Degeneracy Loci

Geometric Aspects of the Langlands Program
March 18 - 22, 2002

Alexander Beilinson: On Langlands Correspondence in the de Rham Setting, I
Ivan Mirkovic: Perverse Sheaves on Loop Grassmannians
Dennis Gaitsgory: Geometric Langlands for GL(n) and a Vanishing Conjecture
Gerd Faltings: Introduction to Shimura Varieties
Michael Rapoport: Local Models of Shimura Varieties in the Ramified Case
Thomas Haines: Cominatorial Patterns in the Weight Filtration on the Nearby Cycles for some Shimura Varieties with Bad Reduction
Laurent Lafforgue: Pavings of Polyhedra, Glueing of Schubert Cells and Compactification of Configuration Spaces, I
Gerd Faltings: Line-Bundles on the Moduli-Space of G-Torsors
Roman Bezrukavnikov: Sheaves on Affine Flags, and Modular Representations of the Langlands Dual Lie Algebra
Matthew Emerton: p-adic Automorphic Representations
Alexander Beilinson: On Langlands Correspondence in the de Rham Setting, II
Laurent Lafforgue: Pavings of Polyhedra, Glueing of Schubert Cells and Compactification of Configuration Spaces, II
Michael Finkelberg: Uhlenbeck Spaces for A^2 and Affine Lie Algebra $\hat{sl}_n$
Marie-France Vigneras: Modular Representations of p-adic Groups and q-affine Schur Algebras 1
Alexander Braverman: Formal Arcs to Algebraic Semi-Groups and Automorphic L-functions
Dima Arinkin: Fourier Transform for Quantized Completely Integrable Systems

Non-Abelian Hodge Theory
March 28 - April 5, 2002

S. Ramanan: Twisted Higgs Bundles and the Fundamental Group of Compact Kahler Manifolds
Oscar Garcia-Prada: Representations of Surface Groups in Unitary Groups with Indefinite Signature
William Mark Goldman: Branched Hyperbolic Structures and Rank 2 Higgs Bundles
Euguene Xia: Higgs Bundles and Representation Varieties
Ron Donagi: The Gerbe of Higgs Bundles
Eyal Markman: Group Valued Higgs Bundles over a Punctured Elliptic Curve
Tamas Hausel: Intersection Theory on the Moduli Space of Higgs Bundles
Gregory Pearlstein: Higgs Fields and Variations of Mixed Hodge Structure
Michael Thaddeus: Higgs Bundle Spaces as Mirror Partners
Jorgen Andersen: Hitchin's Connection, Higgs BUndles and Representations of the Mapping Class Group
Hans Boden: An Integer Valued SU(3) Casson InvarianAn Integer Valued SU(3) Casson Invariant
Domingo Toledo: Fundamental Group of the Moduli Space of Real and Complex Cubic Surfaces
Richard Hain: Iterated Integrals and Motives
Donu Arapura: The Hodge Conjecture for some Moduli Spaces of Bundles
Mikhail Kapranov: A Riemann-Roch Theorem for (Higher) Determinantal Gerbes and Differentiable Manifolds
Bertrand Toen: An Introduction to Higher Non-Abelian Hodge Theory
Andre Joyal: The Theory of Quasi-Categories
Amnon Neeman: A Counterexample to a 1961 Theorem in Homological Algebra
Thomas Leinster: A Language for Higher Categorical Structures
Vladimir Hinich: Formal Deformations of Sheaves of Algebras
Gerd Faltings: p-adic Hodge Theory, I
Olivier Penacchio: Mixed Hodge Structures and Fiber Bundles over the Projective Plane
Lawrence Breen: The Differential Geometry of Gerbes
Thomas A. Nevins: Sklyanin Algebras and Hilbert Schemes of Points
Gerd Faltings: p-adic Hodge Theory, II
Ludmil Katzarkov: Non-Abelian Hodge Theory and Schematization of Homotopy Types
Bertrand Toen: Higher Tannaka Duality
Gabriele Vezzosi: Homotopy Algebraic Geometry
Dmitri Orlov: Equivalences of Derived Categories of Coherent Sheaves
John Baez: n-Categories in Homology Theory

Conformal Field Theory and Supersymmetry
April 15 - 26, 2002

Boris Dubrovin: Frobenius Manifolds and Integrable Systems
Barry McCoy: Sl_2 Loop Algebra Symmetry in the Six Vertex Model at Roots of Unity
Hirosi Ooguri: Strings in AdS_3 and the SL(2,R) WZW Model
Jean-Bernard Zuber: Some Mathematical Problems in Conformal Field Theory
Werner Nahm: Exploring a Moduli Space: CFT on K3
Joerg Teschner: Quantum Liouville Theory versus Quantum Teichmueller Space
Akihiro Tsuchiya: Conformal Field Theory Associated to Regular Chiral Vartex Operator Algebras
Ivan Cherednik: Gauss-Selberg Sums
Alexander Kirillov, Jr.: Tensor Categories and orbitforld Vertex Algebras
Edward Frenkel: Affine Kac-Moody Algebras and Geometric Langlands Correspondence
Igor Frenkel: Representation Theory Beyond Affine Lie Algebras: A Perspective
Alexander Voronov: Semisimplicity of Orbifold Vertex Algebras
Feodor Smirnov: Quantization of Affine Jacobian and Duality
Vladimir Bazhanov: Conformal Field Theory as a Completely Integrable Quantum System
Richard Borcherds: Formal Group laws for Infinite-Dimensional Lie Algebras
Anton Kapustin: TBA
Ian Grojnowski: Generalized Kirillov-Reshetkhin Modules over Quantum Affine Algebras
George Wilson: Ideals in the Weyl Algebra
Pierre van Moerbeke: Matrix Integrals, Random Words and Walks
Antony Wassermann: Operator Algebraic Analysis of Solvable Lattice Models
Feng Xu: Local Conformal Field Theory
Sylvester James Gates, Jr.: Group-Theoretic and Low-Dimensional Origins of SuperSymmetry
Daniel S. Freed: Introduction to Supersymmetry
Bruno Zumino: Gauge Theories on Noncommutative Spaces
Victor Kac: Representations of Infinite-Dimensional Linearly Compact Lie Superalgebras
John Lott: Superconnections in Geometry, Commutative and Noncommutative
John Morgan: Variations of Hodge Structure Associated to Calabi-Yau Three Folds with h^3=4
Vera Serganova: Representations and Characters for Lie Superalgebras
Maria Gorelik: The Centre of P-type Lie Superalgebra
Kentaro Hori: D-branes, Supersymmetry, and Mirror Symmetry
Amer Iqbal: Del Pezzo Surfaces in String Theory
Arkady Vaintrob: Chiral De Rham Complex
Jeff Rabin: N=2 Supersymmetry of Super KP Equations
Albert Schwarz: Maximally Supersymmetric Gauge Theories
Duong H. Phong: Superstring Scattering Amplitudes and Modular Forms
Giovanni Felder: From Numbers to q-numbers to Elliptic Numbers: The Elliptic Gamma Function
Dirk Kreimer: From Unique Factorization of Graphs to Gauge Symmetries
Elena Poletaeva: On Representations of Contact Superconformal Algebras
Gregg Zuckerman: A Generalization of Harish-Chandra's Discrete Series to Lie Superalgebras
Misha Verbitsky: Hodge Theory and Supersymmetry on Kahler, Hyperkahler and Hyperkahler Torsion Manifolds

Statistical Challenges for Meta-Analysis of Medical and Health-Policy Data
May 9 - 11, 2002

John Pope and others: Special Panel on Journalistic Reporting of Medical Studies
Phil Henry Poole: The Value of Prospectively Planned Integrated Analyses Across a Drug Development Programme

Finsler Geometry
June 3 - 7, 2002

Keti Tenenblat: Minimal Surfaces of Rotation in a Special Rnders Space
Chang-Wan Kim: Rigidity Issues in Finsler Geometry
Aurel Bejancu: On Randers Metrics of Constant Positive Curvature
Giorgio Patrizio: Finsler Geometry in Complex Analysis
Sandor Bacso: Projective Finsler Geometry
Tadashi Aikou: Kahler Fibrations and Finsler Manifolds
Tomasz Zastawniak: Stochastic Analysis on Finsler Manifolds
Laszlo Kozma: Holonomy Groups in Finsler Geometry
Panayiotis Charalambos Stavrinos: Remarks on the Applications of Finsler Geometry to Space-Time
Vasile Sabau: Cellular Growth and Berwald Curvatures
Zoltan I. Szabo: The Classification of Berwald Metrics
Xinyue Chen: Randers Metrics and their Curvature Properties
Zhongmin Shen: A Catalog of Schur Type Results, with Examples
S. S. Chern: A Videotaped Interview with Shiing-Shen Chern
Patrick Foulon: Anasov Flows and Finsler Spaces of Non-Positive Curvature
Hans-Bert Rademacher: Sphere Theorem
Hideo Shimada: Randers Space Forms and the Yasuda-Shimada Theorem
Robert L. Bryant: The Generality of Finsler Metrics of Constant Flag Curvature and some Exotic Holonomy Groups
Ralph Beil: Finsler Geometry and Relativistic Field Theory
David Bao: Ricci Curvature in Finsler Geometry
Colleen Robles: Einstein Metrics of Randers Type

International School on Biomathematics, Bioengineering and Clinical Aspects of Blood Flow
July 23 - August 9, 2002

Harvey S. Borovetz: Anatomy/physiology of the heart, lungs and blood: Application to the design of organ replacements, I
Harvey S. Borovetz: Anatomy/physiology of the heart, lungs and blood: Application to the design of organ replacements, II

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	Streaming Video - Spring 2002 Introduction \| Hints for Viewing \| Other SV Sites \| CDROMs and Video Tapes for sale \| Mirror Sites Welcome to the MSRI Video Archive, Click on the triangle icons to expand/contract the list. MSRI: Spring 2004 MSRI: Fall 2003 MSRI: Spring 2003 MSRI: Fall 2002 MSRI: Spring 2002 Introductory Workshop on Algebraic Stacks, Intersection Theory, and Non-Abelian Hodge Theory January 10 - 16, 2002 William Fulton: What is a Stack? Tony Pantev: Review of Abelian Hodge Theory Angelo Vistoli: Topological Stacks Kai Behrend: Cohomology of Stacks: Cohomology of Coherent Sheaves Bertrand Toen: Non-abelian Cohomology Andrew Kresch: Intersection Theory on DM Stacks Kai Behrend: Cohomology of Stacks: Cohomology with Discrete Coefficients Tony Pantev: Non-Abelian Hodge Theory in Degree One Rahul Pandharipande: Moduli of elliptic curves David Ben-Zvi: Geometric Class Field Theory Kai Behrend: Cohomology of Stacks: Cohomology of Quotient Stacks and DM Stacks David Ben-Zvi: Factorization Rahul Pandharipande: Moduli spaces of Maps and GW Theory Tony Pantev: Higher Non-Abelian Hodge Theory, I Bertrand Toen: Higher Non-Abelian Hodge Theory, II David Ben-Zvi: Quantization of Hitchin's Hamiltonians Information Theory February 25 - March 1, 2002 Neri Merhav: On Large-Deviations Tradefoff Between Code-Length and Distortion in Certain Lossy Source Coding Problems Jorma Rissanen: MDL Theory as a Foundation for Statistical Modeling Marcelo Weinberger: New Settings for the Sequential Decision Problem Jacob Ziv: An Efficient Universal Prediction Algorithm for Unknown Sources with Limited Training Data Babak Hassibi: Multi-antenna Communications: Information Theory and Algorithms David Tse: Diversity and Freedom: A Fundamental Tradeoff in Multiple Antenna Wireless Communications Frans Willems: Weighting and Waiting Wojtek Szpankowski: Analytic Combinatorics, Information Theory and Algorithmics: Precise Redundancy Rate Problem Amin Shokrollahi: Efficient Content Delivery and Low Complexity Codes Jonathan Yedidia: Generalized Belief Propagation and Free Energy Minimization Martin Wainwright: Stochastic Processes on Graphs with Cycles: Approximate Inference and Bounds Vahid Tarokh: Information Theoretic Energy Reduction in Deep Submicron Computation Modules Shlomo Shamai: Information Theoretic Aspects of Constrained Systems Chris Heegard: Information Theory and Spread Spectrum Communications Prakash Narayan: Common Randomness and Secret Key Capacities Tom Cover: The Role of Side Information in Communication and Data Compression Kannan Ramchandran: Duality Between Source Coding and Channel Coding with Side Information Brian Marcus: Concatenation of Modulation Encoders and ECC Encoders Intersection Theory on Stacks March 11 - 15, 2002 Angelo Vistoli: Intersection Theory on Algebraic Stacks: The Approach of Totaro, Edidin and Graham Henri Gillet: Can one do arithmetic intersection theory on stacks? Bernd Sturmfels: Multigraded Hilbert Schemes Andrew Kresch: Intersection Theory on Algebraic Stacks: Chow Groups for Artin Stacks Rahul Pandharipande: Gromov-Witten Theory of P^1 - PartI Andrei Okounkov: Gromov-Witten Theory of P^1 - Part II Dan Edidin: Riemann-Roch for Quotients and Todd Classes of Simplicial Toric Varieties Jun Li: Degeneration Formula of Gromov-Witten Invariants Jason Starr: Quot Schemes for Deligne-Mumford Stacks Tamas Hausel: Intersection Theory on Toric Hyperkahler Varieties Yongbin Ruan: Cohomology Ring of Crepant Resolutions of Orbifolds Laurent Lafforgue: Toric Stacks of Pavings Martin Olsson: Logarithmic Geometry and Algebraic Stacks Aaron Bertram: How Many Gromov-Witten Invariants of Rational Curves are There, Really? Mikhail Kapranov: Differential Graded Schemes in Algebraic Geometry Roy Joshua: Higher Intersection Theory for Algebraic Stacks Kai Behrend: A 2-Categorical Approach to Differential Graded Bertrand Toen: K-Theory of Algebraic Stacks William Graham: On Symmetric Degeneracy Loci Geometric Aspects of the Langlands Program March 18 - 22, 2002 Alexander Beilinson: On Langlands Correspondence in the de Rham Setting, I Ivan Mirkovic: Perverse Sheaves on Loop Grassmannians Dennis Gaitsgory: Geometric Langlands for GL(n) and a Vanishing Conjecture Gerd Faltings: Introduction to Shimura Varieties Michael Rapoport: Local Models of Shimura Varieties in the Ramified Case Thomas Haines: Cominatorial Patterns in the Weight Filtration on the Nearby Cycles for some Shimura Varieties with Bad Reduction Laurent Lafforgue: Pavings of Polyhedra, Glueing of Schubert Cells and Compactification of Configuration Spaces, I Gerd Faltings: Line-Bundles on the Moduli-Space of G-Torsors Roman Bezrukavnikov: Sheaves on Affine Flags, and Modular Representations of the Langlands Dual Lie Algebra Matthew Emerton: p-adic Automorphic Representations Alexander Beilinson: On Langlands Correspondence in the de Rham Setting, II Laurent Lafforgue: Pavings of Polyhedra, Glueing of Schubert Cells and Compactification of Configuration Spaces, II Michael Finkelberg: Uhlenbeck Spaces for A^2 and Affine Lie Algebra $\hat{sl}_n$ Marie-France Vigneras: Modular Representations of p-adic Groups and q-affine Schur Algebras 1 Alexander Braverman: Formal Arcs to Algebraic Semi-Groups and Automorphic L-functions Dima Arinkin: Fourier Transform for Quantized Completely Integrable Systems Non-Abelian Hodge Theory March 28 - April 5, 2002 S. Ramanan: Twisted Higgs Bundles and the Fundamental Group of Compact Kahler Manifolds Oscar Garcia-Prada: Representations of Surface Groups in Unitary Groups with Indefinite Signature William Mark Goldman: Branched Hyperbolic Structures and Rank 2 Higgs Bundles Euguene Xia: Higgs Bundles and Representation Varieties Ron Donagi: The Gerbe of Higgs Bundles Eyal Markman: Group Valued Higgs Bundles over a Punctured Elliptic Curve Tamas Hausel: Intersection Theory on the Moduli Space of Higgs Bundles Gregory Pearlstein: Higgs Fields and Variations of Mixed Hodge Structure Michael Thaddeus: Higgs Bundle Spaces as Mirror Partners Jorgen Andersen: Hitchin's Connection, Higgs BUndles and Representations of the Mapping Class Group Hans Boden: An Integer Valued SU(3) Casson InvarianAn Integer Valued SU(3) Casson Invariant Domingo Toledo: Fundamental Group of the Moduli Space of Real and Complex Cubic Surfaces Richard Hain: Iterated Integrals and Motives Donu Arapura: The Hodge Conjecture for some Moduli Spaces of Bundles Mikhail Kapranov: A Riemann-Roch Theorem for (Higher) Determinantal Gerbes and Differentiable Manifolds Bertrand Toen: An Introduction to Higher Non-Abelian Hodge Theory Andre Joyal: The Theory of Quasi-Categories Amnon Neeman: A Counterexample to a 1961 Theorem in Homological Algebra Thomas Leinster: A Language for Higher Categorical Structures Vladimir Hinich: Formal Deformations of Sheaves of Algebras Gerd Faltings: p-adic Hodge Theory, I Olivier Penacchio: Mixed Hodge Structures and Fiber Bundles over the Projective Plane Lawrence Breen: The Differential Geometry of Gerbes Thomas A. Nevins: Sklyanin Algebras and Hilbert Schemes of Points Gerd Faltings: p-adic Hodge Theory, II Ludmil Katzarkov: Non-Abelian Hodge Theory and Schematization of Homotopy Types Bertrand Toen: Higher Tannaka Duality Gabriele Vezzosi: Homotopy Algebraic Geometry Dmitri Orlov: Equivalences of Derived Categories of Coherent Sheaves John Baez: n-Categories in Homology Theory Conformal Field Theory and Supersymmetry April 15 - 26, 2002 Boris Dubrovin: Frobenius Manifolds and Integrable Systems Barry McCoy: Sl_2 Loop Algebra Symmetry in the Six Vertex Model at Roots of Unity Hirosi Ooguri: Strings in AdS_3 and the SL(2,R) WZW Model Jean-Bernard Zuber: Some Mathematical Problems in Conformal Field Theory Werner Nahm: Exploring a Moduli Space: CFT on K3 Joerg Teschner: Quantum Liouville Theory versus Quantum Teichmueller Space Akihiro Tsuchiya: Conformal Field Theory Associated to Regular Chiral Vartex Operator Algebras Ivan Cherednik: Gauss-Selberg Sums Alexander Kirillov, Jr.: Tensor Categories and orbitforld Vertex Algebras Edward Frenkel: Affine Kac-Moody Algebras and Geometric Langlands Correspondence Igor Frenkel: Representation Theory Beyond Affine Lie Algebras: A Perspective Alexander Voronov: Semisimplicity of Orbifold Vertex Algebras Feodor Smirnov: Quantization of Affine Jacobian and Duality Vladimir Bazhanov: Conformal Field Theory as a Completely Integrable Quantum System Richard Borcherds: Formal Group laws for Infinite-Dimensional Lie Algebras Anton Kapustin: TBA Ian Grojnowski: Generalized Kirillov-Reshetkhin Modules over Quantum Affine Algebras George Wilson: Ideals in the Weyl Algebra Pierre van Moerbeke: Matrix Integrals, Random Words and Walks Antony Wassermann: Operator Algebraic Analysis of Solvable Lattice Models Feng Xu: Local Conformal Field Theory Sylvester James Gates, Jr.: Group-Theoretic and Low-Dimensional Origins of SuperSymmetry Daniel S. Freed: Introduction to Supersymmetry Bruno Zumino: Gauge Theories on Noncommutative Spaces Victor Kac: Representations of Infinite-Dimensional Linearly Compact Lie Superalgebras John Lott: Superconnections in Geometry, Commutative and Noncommutative John Morgan: Variations of Hodge Structure Associated to Calabi-Yau Three Folds with h^3=4 Vera Serganova: Representations and Characters for Lie Superalgebras Maria Gorelik: The Centre of P-type Lie Superalgebra Kentaro Hori: D-branes, Supersymmetry, and Mirror Symmetry Amer Iqbal: Del Pezzo Surfaces in String Theory Arkady Vaintrob: Chiral De Rham Complex Jeff Rabin: N=2 Supersymmetry of Super KP Equations Albert Schwarz: Maximally Supersymmetric Gauge Theories Duong H. Phong: Superstring Scattering Amplitudes and Modular Forms Giovanni Felder: From Numbers to q-numbers to Elliptic Numbers: The Elliptic Gamma Function Dirk Kreimer: From Unique Factorization of Graphs to Gauge Symmetries Elena Poletaeva: On Representations of Contact Superconformal Algebras Gregg Zuckerman: A Generalization of Harish-Chandra's Discrete Series to Lie Superalgebras Misha Verbitsky: Hodge Theory and Supersymmetry on Kahler, Hyperkahler and Hyperkahler Torsion Manifolds Statistical Challenges for Meta-Analysis of Medical and Health-Policy Data May 9 - 11, 2002 John Pope and others: Special Panel on Journalistic Reporting of Medical Studies Phil Henry Poole: The Value of Prospectively Planned Integrated Analyses Across a Drug Development Programme Finsler Geometry June 3 - 7, 2002 Keti Tenenblat: Minimal Surfaces of Rotation in a Special Rnders Space Chang-Wan Kim: Rigidity Issues in Finsler Geometry Aurel Bejancu: On Randers Metrics of Constant Positive Curvature Giorgio Patrizio: Finsler Geometry in Complex Analysis Sandor Bacso: Projective Finsler Geometry Tadashi Aikou: Kahler Fibrations and Finsler Manifolds Tomasz Zastawniak: Stochastic Analysis on Finsler Manifolds Laszlo Kozma: Holonomy Groups in Finsler Geometry Panayiotis Charalambos Stavrinos: Remarks on the Applications of Finsler Geometry to Space-Time Vasile Sabau: Cellular Growth and Berwald Curvatures Zoltan I. Szabo: The Classification of Berwald Metrics Xinyue Chen: Randers Metrics and their Curvature Properties Zhongmin Shen: A Catalog of Schur Type Results, with Examples S. S. Chern: A Videotaped Interview with Shiing-Shen Chern Patrick Foulon: Anasov Flows and Finsler Spaces of Non-Positive Curvature Hans-Bert Rademacher: Sphere Theorem Hideo Shimada: Randers Space Forms and the Yasuda-Shimada Theorem Robert L. Bryant: The Generality of Finsler Metrics of Constant Flag Curvature and some Exotic Holonomy Groups Ralph Beil: Finsler Geometry and Relativistic Field Theory David Bao: Ricci Curvature in Finsler Geometry Colleen Robles: Einstein Metrics of Randers Type International School on Biomathematics, Bioengineering and Clinical Aspects of Blood Flow July 23 - August 9, 2002 Harvey S. Borovetz: Anatomy/physiology of the heart, lungs and blood: Application to the design of organ replacements, I Harvey S. 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