Conference celebrating the life and work of Lars Ahlfors

Stanford University, September 19-21, 1997

A conference celebrating the life and work of Lars Ahlfors will be held at Stanford University, September 19-21,1997. Ahlfors, who would have been 90 this year, died late last fall. The goal of this conference is to explore various lines that are currently active areas of research where he made major - and often seminal - contributions.

The program will include talks by the following speakers:

Gerald Alexanderson, Santa Clara University

Kari Astala, University of Jyvaskala

Raoul Bott, Harvard University

James Cannon, Brigham Young University

Phillip Griffiths, Institute for Advanced Study

Peter Jones, Yale University

Linda Keen, CUNY

Robert Osserman, Stanford University and MSRI

Dennis Sullivan, CUNY and SUNY

Paul Vojta, UC Berkeley

Michael Wolf, Rice University

This conference is sponsored by the American Institute of Mathematics in conjunction with MSRI and Stanford University.

We will be able to provide financial support to a limited number of students who wish to attend. To apply for funding, send a letter explaining your interest in attending, together with a letter from a faculty advisor, to the address below.

For information on accommodations and other matters related to the conference, please contact Willene Perez at the Department of Mathematics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305,

perez@math.stanford.edu

or consult our web page:

http://www.msri.org/events/ahlfors/

We hope that you will be able to join us for this occasion. If you know of students or colleagues who may also be interested, please forward this message to them.

Steven Kerckhoff, Stanford University

Steven Krantz, Washington University

Robert Osserman, MSRI