The Mathematics Department of the University of Maryland, College
Park, is pleased to sponsor a special mathematical celebration
on the afternoon of Tuesday, October 7, 2008, in
honor of the 70th birthday of Sergei Novikov, winner of the
Fields Medal of the International Mathematical Union (1970)
and the Wolf Prize in Mathematics (2005), and Distinguished
University Professor at the University of Maryland.  More information
is available at the conference website:
http://www.math.umd.edu/~halbert/Novikov_Birthday/

Speakers will include:

Igor Krichever, Columbia University:
   Soliton equations and Riemann-Schottky type problems

Boris Mityagin, Ohio State University:
   Instability zones of the Hill operator and their asymptotic behavior

Jonathan Rosenberg, University of Maryland:
   40 years of Novikov's Higher Signature Conjecture

Sergei Novikov, University of Maryland:
   A new discretization of complex analysis

The talks will take place in room 3206 of the Mathematics Building
at the University of Maryland campus.  Directions to the campus
and mathematics building may be found at
http://www.math.umd.edu/department/

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