June 22—28, 2008 • Palazzone della Scuola Normale Superiore, Cortona, Italy SYMMETRIES IN MATHEMATICS AND PHYSICS a conference in honor of Victor Kac SPEAKERS Tomoyuki Arakawa Nara Women’s University Bojko Bakalov North Carolina State University Vyjayanthi Chari University of California, Riverside William Crawley-Boevey University of Leeds Thibault Damour Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques Corrado De Concini Università di Roma 1 Giovanni Felder Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich Edward Frenkel University of California, Berkeley Dennis Gaitsgory Harvard University Reimundo Heluani University of California, Berkeley David Kazhdan Hebrew University, Jerusalem Bertram Kostant Massachusetts Institute of Technology Kobi Kremnitzer Massachusetts Institute of Technology Roberto Longo Università di Roma 2 Olivier Mathieu Université de Lyon 1 Werner Nahm Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies Andrei Okounkov Princeton University Paolo Papi Università di Roma 1 Alexander Premet University of Manchester Alexei Rudakov Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet Vera Serganova University of California, Berkeley Ivan Todorov Institute of Nuclear Research & Nuclear Energy Ernest Vinberg Moscow State University Minoru Wakimoto Kyushu University Efim Zelmanov University of California, San Diego VICTOR KAC, Soviet army camp, summer of 1964 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Pavel Etingof Massachusetts Institute of Technology Claudio Procesi Università di Roma 1 Nicoletta Cantarini Università di Padova Alessandro D’Andrea Università di Roma 1 Alberto De Sole Harvard University & Università di Roma 1 ORGANIZED & SPONSORED BY Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica Clay Mathematics Institute Massachusetts Institute of Technology National Science Foundation For additional information: www-math.mit.edu/kac65/ PSB 07-12-1010