A Colloquium on Geometry

in honour of M.S. Narasimhan

The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, 2-6 December 2002

LIST of TALKS

M. F. Atiyah A look at the history of moduli spaces

A. Beauville The theta divisor of a vector bundle

J.-M. Drezet Fine moduli spaces of sheaves with many endomorphisms

G. Harder Moduli spaces in arithmetics

N. Hitchin The geometry of the B-field

S. Kumar A conjectural generalization of n! result to arbitrary groups

H. Lange On the Hilbert scheme of a Prym variety

Li Jiyau H-E metrics on parabolic stable bundles

M. Maruyama The elementary transformation as a tool of computation

P. Newstead Some applications of Hecke transformations

N. Nitsure D-modules and Higgs objects

R. Parthasarathy Dirac operators in representation theory - a survey of two topics

M.S. Raghunathan The space of morphisms of an affine curve in a homogeneous space

T. R. Ramadas The "Harder-Narasimhan trace" and unitarity of the Hitchin connection

S. Ramanan A remark on traditional vanishing theorems

C.S. Seshadri M.S. Narasimhan and his work

C. Soulé Rank two stable bundles on Riemann surfaces and Arakelov theory

X. Sun Logarithmic heat operator and degeneration of moduli spaces

G. Trautmann Stable reduction for families of vector bundles