A conference to celebrate the award of the  2004 National Medal of Science and 
2006 Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement to Dennis Sullivan

Professor Dennis P. Sullivan, the holder of the Einstein Chair at the
Graduate Center of CUNY has been awarded the 2004 National Medal of
Science, the nation's highest scientific honor. He is also the recipient
of the 2006 AMS Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement.

A conference to celebrate these awards will be held at the
CUNY Graduate Center on  April 29, 2006.

The speakers at the conference will be young mathematicians, including
former students of Sullivan, working in areas of his current research
interests. The talks will be given by:

Kevin Costello,      University of Chicago
Veronique Godin,     Harvard University
Michael Sullivan,    University of Massachusetts, Amherst
John Terilla,        Queens College of CUNY
Scott Wilson,        University of Minnesota


The conference is organized by Martin Bendersky and Józef Dodziuk.

More information will be available at 
http://math.gc.cuny.edu/conferences/DennisConference.html .

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Jozef Dodziuk, Executive Officer   email: [log in to unmask]
Ph.D. Program in Mathematics       telephone: (212) 817-8531
Graduate Center CUNY               http://math.gc.cuny.edu/Faculty/dodziuk/
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016




C. Sormani wrote:
> 
> If you give me a title for the Sullivan conference
> I'll advertise it to the mailing list and try to
> post in on the AMS math calendar.
> 
> "CUNY Conference in honor of Sullivan" ?
> 
> Christina Sormani
> Associate Professor
> Department of Mathematics
> CUNY Graduate Center and Lehman College
> 
> http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/sormani
> 
> [log in to unmask]

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