2nd Announcement:

                      NSF-CBMS Conference:
             "TROPICAL GEOMETRY & MIRROR SYMMETRY"
          Prof. Mark Gross (UCSD), Principal Lecturer

       Kansas State University, December 13-17th, 2008

Conference webpage:
http://www.math.ksu.edu/main/events/special/onetime/conf_cbms_2008

Professor Mark Gross, in joint work with Bernd Siebert, has recently
showed how mirror symmetry is largely controlled by tropical data. In
this conference, Mark Gross will provide an expository explanation of
this new understanding of mirror symmetry. Prof. Gross will deliver a
series of lectures in subjects such as tropical curves, affine structures
and the Strominger-Yau-Zaslow conjecture, toric degenerations &
logarithmic structures, tropical Morse categories & Homological Mirror
Symmetry. There will also be introductory mini-courses and contributed
talks by regional and international experts in the field.


Invited Speakers:

    * Mohammed Abouzaid (M.I.T.)
    * Jim Bryan (U of British Columbia)
    * Kwokwai Chan (Harvard)
    * Ron Donagi (U of Pennsylvania)
    * Kenji Fukaya (Kyoto University)
    * Paul Horja (Oklahoma State U)
    * Ilia Itenberg (U Strasbourg)
    * Ludmil Katzarkov (U of Miami)
    * Anvar Mavlyutov (Oklahoma State U)
    * Davesh Maulik (Columbia University)
    * Diego Matessi (U Piemonte Orientale)
    * Yong-Geun Oh (U of Wisconsin-Madison)
    * Tony Pantev (U of Pennsylvania)
    * Bernd Siebert (Hamburg)
    * Jake Solomon (Hebrew University)

Details and registration:
http://www.math.ksu.edu/main/events/special/onetime/conf_cbms_2008

Registration deadline: November 1st, 2008

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