Time: July 17--August 4, 2006

   Location:  The Morningside Center of 

               Mathematics, Beijing, P.R. China

   Description of the conference:

   Locally symmetric spaces and discrete subgroups of Lie groups

   have played a fundamental role in many branches of modern 

   mathematics. Various aspects of these important objects are often 

   studied by different groups of people using different methods. 

   It would be beneficial and fruitful to bring together experts 

   in all these areas to exchange their results, techniques, to 

   develop possible collaborations, and to show the power and beauty

   of locally symmetric spaces and discrete subgroups of Lie groups.

   Invited Speakers:

   Minicourses (4 hours): 
   
   M.Burger, T.Farrell, T.Kobayashi, A.Koranyi, A.Lubotzky   
   W.Lueck*, N.Mok, W.Mueller, G.Prasad, B.Speh 

   Research talks:  

   Herbert Abels, Yves Benoist, Ulrich Bunke, D.Canary
   Haibao Duan, Jun Hu, Enrico Leuzinger, Fang Li, Ke-Zheng Li 
   Kefeng Liu, R.Miatello, A.Nair, Pierre Pansu, Liangang Peng
   J.Rohlfs, Hebin Rui, L.Saper, Joachim Schwermer, Jian-yi Shi
   R.Spatzier, Yucai Su, T.N.Venkataramana, Changchang Xi
   Nanhua Xi, Jie Xiao, Fei Xu, Xiaoping Xu, Pu Zhang
   Zhu-Jun Zheng, Xiangyu Zhou, S.Zucker

   
     Organizing Committee:

   Shing-Tung Yau (chair), Lizhen Ji, Kefeng Liu, Nanhua Xi 
   Hongwei Xu, Lo Yang, Zhu-Jun Zheng, Xiangyu Zhou

    Sponsors: 

   The Morningside Center of Mathematics, Beijing.

   The Pure and Applied Mathematics Quarterly, Henan Univ.

   The Center of Mathematical Sciences, Zhejiang Univ.

   The Higher Education Press, China.