A COLLOQUIUM on GEOMETRY in honour of M.S. Narasimhan
 
The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (Trieste),
December 2-5, 2002

Co-sponsored by:
The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics 
International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA)

Programme
 
Monday, December 2

9:00-10:00 Registration (ICTP Main Bldg, Lobby; subsequently in Room 106,
           Main Bldg, first floor)
10:00 Opening 
10:15 G. Harder, Moduli spaces in arithmetics
11:45 S. Ramanan, A remark on traditional vanishing theorems 
14:30 J.-M. Drezet, Fine moduli spaces of sheaves with many endomorphisms
16:00 P. Newstead, Some applications of Hecke transformations


Tuesday, December 3

10:00  A. Beauville, The theta divisor of a vector bundle
11:30  M.S. Raghunathan, The space of morphisms of an affine curve in a homogeneous space
14:30  T. R. Ramadas, The "Harder-Narasimhan trace" and unitarity of the Hitchin connection
16:00  C.S. Seshadri, M.S. Narasimhan and his work
18:30  Reception
 

Wednesday, December 4

10:00 M. F. Atiyah, A look at the history of moduli spaces
11:30 M. Maruyama, The elementary transformation as a tool of computation
14:30 N. Nitsure, Representability of GLE
16:00 Li Jiyau, H-E metrics on parabolic stable bundles
 

Thursday, December 5

10:00 N. Hitchin, The geometry of the B-field
11:30 G. Trautmann, Stable reduction for families of vector bundles 
14:30 R. Parthasarathy, Dirac operators in representation theory --- a survey of two topics 
16:00  H. Lange, On the Hilbert scheme of a Prym variety



Friday, December 6

10:00 C. Soule', Rank two stable bundles on Riemann surfaces and Arakelov theory
11:30 S. Kumar, A conjectural generalization of n! result to arbitrary groups