Invited speakers 1. Tomoyuki Arakawa – Nara Women’s University (Japan) 2. Bojko Bakalov – North Carolina State University 3. Vyjayanthi Chari – University of California, Riverside 4. William Crawley-Boevey – University of Leeds (UK) 5. Thibault Damour – IHES (France) 6. Corrado De Concini – University of Rome ”La Sapienza” (Italy) 7. Giovanni Felder – ETH (Switzerland) 8. Edward Frenkel – University of California, Berkeley 9. Dennis Gaitsgory – Harvard University 10. Reimundo Heluani – University of California, Berkeley 11. David Kazhdan – Hebrew University, Jerusalem (Israel) 12. K. Kremnitzer – MIT 13. Bertram Kostant – MIT 14. Roberto Longo – University of Rome ”Tor Vergata” (Italy) 15. Olivier Mathieu – University of Lyon ”Claude-Bernard” (France) 16. Werner Nahm – Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (Ireland) 17. Andrei Okounkov – Princeton University 18. Paolo Papi – University of Rome ”La Sapienza” (Italy) 19. Alexander Premet – University of Manchester (UK) 20. Alexei Rudakov – NTNU (Norway) 21. Vera Serganova – University of California, Berkeley 1 22. Ivan Todorov – Institute of Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy (Bul- garia) 23. Ernest Vinberg – Moscow State University (Russia) 24. Minoru Wakimoto – Kyushu University (Japan) 25. Efim Zelmanov – University of California, San Diego Organizers 1. Nicoletta Cantarini – University of Padova (Italy) 2. Alessandro D’Andrea – University of Rome “La Sapienza” (Italy) 3. Alberto De Sole – Harvard University and University of Rome “La Sapienza” (Italy) 4. Pavel Etingof – MIT 5. Claudio Procesi – University of Rome “La Sapienza” (Italy) Participants 1. Silvana Abeasis – University of Rome ”Tor Vergata” (Italy) 2. Rina Anno – Harvard University 3. Riccardo Aragona – University of Rome ”Tor Vergata” (Italy) 4. Giovanni Cerulli Irelli – University of Padova (Italy) 5. Alexander Elashvili – Georgian Academy of Sciences (Georgia) 6. Rita Fioresi – University of Bologna (Italy) 7. Fabio Gavarini – University of Rome ”Tor Vergata” (Italy) 8. Maria Gorelik – Weizmann Institute (Israel) 9. Crystal Hoyt – Weizmann Institute (Israel) 2 10. Benjamin Jones – University of Georgia 11. Victor Kac – MIT 12. Iryna Kashuba – University of Sao Paulo (Brasil) 13. Apoorva Khare – University of California at Riverside 14. Harish Krishnamurthy – Northeastern University 15. Andrew R. Linshaw – UC San Diego 16. Peter Littelmann – Universit¨atzu K¨oln (Germany) 17. Giuseppe Marchei – University of Rome “La Sapienza” (Italy) 18. Luca Moci – University of Rome 3 (Italy) 19. Silvia Montarani – MIT 20. Pierluigi Moseneder – Politecnico di Milano (Italy) 21. Yakimova Oksana – Independent University of Moscow (Russia) 22. Zoran Rakic – University of Belgrade (Serbia) 23. Shifra Reif – Weizmann Institute (Israel) 24. Leonid Rybnikov – ITEP, Moscow (Russia) 25. Travis Schedler – University of Chicago 26. Salvatore Stella – University of Rome “La Sapienza” (Italy) 27. Elisabetta Strickland – University of Rome ”Tor Vergata” (Italy) 28. Fernando Szechtman – University of Regina (Canada) 29. Richard Vale – Cornell University 30. Oded Yacobi – UC San Diego 31. Hiroshi Yamauchi – Aichi University of Education (Japan) 32. Hechun Zhang – Tsinghua University (China) 3.