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Conference: The Legacy of Bernhard Riemann after one hundred and fifty years Time: December 27-30, 2015 Venue: Tsinghua Sanya International Mathematics Forum (TSIMF) http://msc.tsinghua.edu.cn/sanya/Default.aspx Speakers/Participants: 1. Michael Berry, 2. Richard Borcherds, 3. Brian Conrey, 4. D. Christodoulou, 5. J.P. Demailly, 6. T. Farrell, 7. Luc Illusie, 8. Eduard Looijenga, 9. Y. Manin, 10. F. Oort, 11. M. Rapoport, 12. Michael Rubinstein, 13. Norbert Schappacher, 14. Richard Schoen, 15. Steve Smale, 16. Dennis Sullivan 17. Cliff Taubes, 18. Herman te Riele, 19. Gerard van der Geer, 20. Cedric Villani, 21. Claire Voisin, 22. Edwards Witten 23. S. T. Yau, Organizers: Shing-Tung Yau , Harvard University Shiu-Yuen Cheng, Tsinghua University Frans Oort, University of Utrecht Yat-Sun Poon, University of California, Riverside Lizhen Ji, University of Michigan Jie Xiao, Tsinghua University Run-Liang Lin, Tsinghua University Synopsis: There are only a few mathematicians in the history whose works and questions are still intensively studied after 150 years by many people in the original form and are continuing to provide inspiration to generations to come. Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866) is one such mathematician. According to Narasimhan in a preface to Riemann's Collected Works, ``Great mathematicians change the way their successors look at certain parts of mathematics. It is rare, however, that a hundred years after a man's work, his ideas and methods are learnt and used by people in the field in essentially the same form in which he left them. Riemann's mathematics has this quality of permanence to an astonishing degree. His work has been analyzed, amplified and generalized in many ways in many fields, but a good part of his mathematical output has withstood the test of time and the search for new perspectives remarkably well. This is not to imply that new perspectives have not been found but simply that in many instances, Riemann's own approach has not been superseded definitely." Each generation of mathematicians need to read Riemann and to understand and interpret his work. To help the mathematics community to understand better the work of Riemann and its impact, This conference will consist of systematic talks by leading experts around the world on subjects or topics influenced by Riemann. See the website http://msc.tsinghua.edu.cn/sanya/2015/LBR2015/synopsis_organizers.aspx for more detail. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- This message was sent to you via the Geometry List, which announces conferences in geometry and closely related areas to over 1200 mathematicians worldwide. At http://listserv.utk.edu/archives/geometry.html there are many functions available, including checking the archives since November 2005, changing your e-mail address or preferences, and joining/leaving the list. If you have problems that cannot be resolved at this website, send a message to [log in to unmask] Before sending an announcement, please carefully read the following. Any announcements that are *not* about conferences (e.g. those about jobs, journals, books, etc.) will be rejected by the moderator without comment. To announce a geometry or closely related conference, send the announcement (including a conference web site if possible) to [log in to unmask] The moderator cannot edit your message; list members will receive the announcement as an e-mail from you EXACTLY as you submitted it. For example, if your submission starts with "Please post this on the geometry list" then your conference announcement will also begin with that statement. In order to keep down the volume of e-mail, only TWO announcements per conference will be approved by the moderator. The "subject" of your message should include the name of the conference and the number (first or second) of the announcement, e.g. Gauss Memorial Lectures in Geometry: Second Announcement. Please check that your announcement (especially the website) is correct. Corrections will be approved only in the most critical situations, e.g. if corrected information is not available on the website. If you send a submission from an e-mail address that is not subscribed to the geometry list then you will be sent an e-mail asking for confirmation. This feature is designed to thwart the hundreds of machine-generated spam that are sent to the list and would otherwise have to be manually blocked by the moderator. The Geometry List is sponsored and maintained by the Mathematics Department, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville.