Workshop Announcement:

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 Numerical invariants of singularities and higher-dimensional algebraic varieties
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                   July 31 to August 4, 2006

  American Institute of Mathematics Research Conference Center

                     Palo Alto, California

        http://aimath.org/ARCC/workshops/singularvariety.html


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Description:
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This workshop, sponsored by AIM and the NSF, will be devoted to
certain numerical measures of the singularities of a divisor or
holomorphic function. These invariants -- notably the log-canonical
threshold or complex singularity index -- have appeared in recent 
years in a surprisingly wide variety of mathematical problems.  
The idea of the workshop is to bring together researchers working 
in the various different directions, in the hopes of generating 
some valuable cross-fertilization. 

The workshop is organized by
Nero Budur, Lawrence Ein, Robert Lazarsfeld, Mircea Mustata, 
Aleksandr V. Pukhlikov, and Vyacheslav Shokurov.

For more details please see the workshop announcement page:
http://aimath.org/ARCC/workshops/singularvariety.html

Space and funding is available for a few more participants.
If you would like to participate, please apply by filling
out the on-line form (available at the link above) no later
than April 25, 2006. Applications are open to all, and
we especially encourage women, underrepresented minorities,
junior mathematicians, and researchers from primarily
undergraduate institutions to apply.

Before submitting an application, please read the ARCC
policies concerning participation and financial support
for participants.

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AIM Research Conference Center (ARCC):
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significant unsolved problem, understanding the proof of an
important new result, or investigating the convergence between
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