<span style="border-collapse: collapse;">Dear colleagues:<br><br>We announce the following mini conference at IPMU<br>(the Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe).<br><br>Regards,<br>
<br>Satoshi Kondo (IPMU)</span><div><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></div><div><span style="border-collapse: collapse;">------------------------------------------</span></div>
<div><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></div><div><span style="border-collapse: collapse;">Mini Conference on chiral differential operators at IPMU</span></div>
<div><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br>Date:<br> August 17 (Mon) -- August 18 (Tue)<br><br>Organizers:<br> Tomoyuki Arakawa (Nara Women Uni)<br> Akihiro Tsuchiya (IPMU)<br><br>Place:<br>
Seminar room at IPMU, Prefab B </span></div><div><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"> (<a href="http://www.ipmu.jp/access/img/KashiwaCampusMap.png" target="_blank">http://www.ipmu.jp/access/img/KashiwaCampusMap.png</a>)<br>
<br>Program:<br>August 17 (Mon)<br>9:30-10:30 Tomoyuki Arakawa, Chiralization and representation theory (a survey talk)<br>11:00-12:00 Fedor Malikov, Algebras of chiral differential operators and characteristic classes.<br>
14:00-15:00 Andrew Linshaw, Invariant theory and the W_{1+\infty} algebra<br>15:40-16:40 Fedor Malikov, Algebras of chiral differential operators over homogeneous spaces and representation theory.<br><br>August 18 (Tue)<br>
9:30-10:30 Andrew Linshaw, Invariant chiral differential operators<br>11:00-12:00 Tomoyuki Arakawa. Varieties of nilpotent orbits, Kac-Moody algebra and C_2-cofiniteness of W-algebras<br>14:00-15:00 Fedor Malikov, A superversion: the chiral de Rham complex and its applications.<br>
15:40-16:40 Andrew Linshaw, Chiral equivariant cohomology</span><br clear="all"><br>
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