Japan-U.S. Mathematics Institute (JAMI)
Department of Mathematics
Johns Hopkins University

This Year's Conference:   Shimura Varieties and Automorphic Forms

Table of Contents

Background and Goals

Acknowledgements

Programs

Governing Committees

Photographs

Background and Goals    

Since its founding in 1876 as the first graduate school in the United States, the Johns Hopkins University has had an international character and attracted young scholars and students from Japan. We are proud to mention Inazo Nitobe among them, who studied at Johns Hopkins for three years and whose friendship with Woodrow Wilson during that time is well known.

The Department of Mathematics of Johns Hopkins shares a distinguished history with other departments of the University since the days of J.J. Sylvester, who was the first professor of mathematics and started the first mathematical journal in the United States. A close tie between the department and the Japanese mathematical community was initiated by Kunihiko Kodaira, who spent four years at Johns Hopkins, 1950-51 and 1962-65, and who received the Fields Medal, the premier international prize in mathematics, in 1954. Since the late 1950s, the department has entertained a steady flow of young Japanese mathematicians and students. A list of those who spent at least a semester at Johns Hopkins includes the following professors and leaders of the Japanese mathematical community: K. Aomoto, H. Gunji, A. Hattori, T. Kimura, K. Kodaira, M. Kuga , H. Matsumura, T. Miyake, H. Morikawa, T. Shioda, T. Tamagawa, I. Tamura , H. Yoshizawa. At the present moment the department has two Japanese professors, Jun-ichi Igusa since 1955 and Takashi Ono since 1969.

The Japan-U.S. Mathematics Institute, abbreviated as JAMI, was established in 1988 through the efforts of Jun-ichi Igusa, who became the founding Director, and Jean-Pierre Meyer, then Department Chairman, with the understanding and strong support of Steven Muller, then President of the University, and of Lloyd Armstrong, Jr., then Dean of the School of Arts & Sciences. JAMI was established following the internationalist tradition of Johns Hopkins outlined above. During the planning phase for these efforts, the organizers consulted and were strongly encouraged by Heisuke Hironaka and E.O. Reischauer  who agreed to serve as Honorary Co-Chairmen.

The goal of JAMI is to foster friendly relationships between Japan and the United States; its academic purpose is to formalize and extend the long-existing relationship between the department and the Japanese mathematical community, and to use that relationship more generally to further mathematical interactions between the two countries.

Acknowledgements   

The Japan-U.S. Mathematics Institute of the Johns Hopkins University would like to express its deepest appreciation to all who have supported JAMI programs through their generous contributions. The following companies are corporate sponsors of JAMI:

AIU/AIG

Daiwa Securities

Fujitsu

Kao Corporation

Mitsui Tayio Kobe Bank

Nikko Securities

Nomura Securities

Shimizu Construction Company

Tokio Marine and Fire Insurance Co.

Tokyodo

Toyota Motor Corporation

Yamaichi Securities

The following individuals have made personal contributions to JAMI:

Dr. Shigeru Iitaka

Mr. Jun Matsushima

Dr. Yuji Shimizu

Mr. Kazuo Takaoka

JAMI has also been supported by the National Science Foundation. Mr. Kazuo Ogura of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has arranged, through the Japan Foundation, direct support for some invited visitors from Japan. The Japan Association for Mathematical Sciences, with Professor Heisuke Hironaka as its executive director, has not only made a contribution to JAMI, but has also provided administrative support for JAMI in Japan.

We would like to express our special thanks to Dr. Yoshio Maruta, Mr. Kazuo Ogura, and Dr. Heisuke Hironaka.

We would also like to thank the following individuals for their valuable cooperation:

Dr. Kunihiko Asama, Fujitsu Professor

Shigeru Iitaka, Gakushuin University

Mr. Kozo Matsushita, Tokio Marine and Fire Insurance Co.

Dr. Junryo Mino, Kao Corporation

Professor Takushiro Ochiai, University of Tokyo

Professor Nobuo Shimada, Science University of Okayama

Mr. Yuzuru Sumita, Tokyodo

Mr. Hideki Tomizawa, Nihon Keizai Shimbun

Programs  

JAMI is rapidly developing an international reputation, both as a mathematical center and as a focus for mathematical contact between Japan and the United States. The academic year 1996-97 is the ninth year of JAMI and operations have followed the original plan: Each year we have selected a particular field and invited several young Japanese mathematicians working in that field for a period ranging from a few months to a year. They are free of any duties beyond the expectation to participate in weekly JAMI seminars. This is to allow and encourage the visitors to interact not only with departmental members but also with other American mathematicians. They have successfully used this freedom by visiting numerous other universities and institutions. In addition to this, the department has held a yearly conference in that particular field to enhance the chance of interactions. In the second and third years the activities of JAMI have attracted the attention of European mathematicians and, consequently, the conference has attained an international scale with scholars from Europe joining the American and Japanese participants. A summary of the JAMI programs is listed below.

Inaugural Conference (May 16-19, 1988)  

Seventeen invited addresses on algebraic analysis, geometry, and number theory were given by:

J. Arthur (Toronto, Canada)

G. Faltings (Princeton)

D. Goldfeld (Columbia)

H. Hida (UCLA)

H. Hironaka (Harvard)

Y. Ihara (RIMS, Kyoto)

M. Kashiwara (RIMS, Kyoto)

K. Kato (U. Tokyo)

G. R. Kempf (JHU)

R. McPherson (MIT)

J. Morava (JHU)

S. Mori (RIMS, Kyoto)

T. Oshima (U. Tokyo)

M. Sato (RIMS Kyoto)

J. Shalika (JHU)

G. Shimura (Princeton)

S. Zucker (JHU)

The conference was attended by about 140 mathematicians and a reviewer stated that the speakers include "mathematicians who are among the most important researchers on both sides of the Pacific." The Conference Proceedings of 417 pages were published by the Johns Hopkins Press.

First year (1988-89) Algebraic Analysis  

Invited visitors from Japan:

Masaki Kashiwara RIMS, Kyoto University

Toshihiko Matsuki Kyoto University

Toshio Oshima University of Tokyo

Jiro Sekiguchi University of Electro-communications

Yuji Shimizu Tohoku University

Conference (April 21-23, 1989)
In addition to JAMI members the following mathematicians gave invited lectures:

D. Barbasch (Rutgers)

H. Matsumoto (IAS, Princeton)

F. Bien (Princeton)

E. Opdam (MIT and Utrecht, Holland)

S. Helgason (MIT)

T. Uzawa (Yale)

R. Howe (Yale)

D. Vogan (MIT)

The conference was attended by about 40 mathematicians.

Second Year (1989-90) Algebraic K-Theory and Number Theory   

Invited visitors from Japan:

Kazuya Kato, University of Tokyo

Nobushige Kurokawa, University of Tokyo

Takayuki Oda RIMS, Kyoto University

Shuji Saito, University of Tokyo

Takeshi Saito, University of Tokyo

Takashi Sugano, University of Mie

Conference (April 5-8, 1990)
In addition to JAMI members the following mathematicians gave invited lectures:

D. Blasius (UCLA)

J.-M. Fontaine (Orsay, France)

K. Rubin (Ohio State)

S. Bloch (Chicago)

H. Hida (UCLA)

A. J. Scholl (IAS, Princeton and Durham, England)

J.-L. Colliot-Thelene (Paris, France)

M. Levine (Northeastern)

P. Deligne (IAS, Princeton)

S. Lichtenbaum (Brown)

J. Tate (U. Texas, Austin and Harvard)

C. Deninger (Regensburg, Germany)

D. Ramakrishnan (Cal Tech)

The conference was attended by about 90 mathematicians.

Third year (1990-91) Complex Analysis and Algebraic Geometry  

Invited visitors from Japan:

Yujiro Kawamata, University of Tokyo

Ryoichi Kobayashi, University of Tokyo

Kazuhiro Konno, Tohoku University

Yoichi Miyaoka, Tokyo Metropolitan University

Shigeru Mukai, Nagoya University

Junjiro Noguchi, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Masahiko Saito, Kyoto University

Sampei Usui, Osaka University

Conference (April 4-7, 1991)
In addition to JAMI members the following mathematicians gave invited lectures:

J.-P. Demailly (Grenoble, France)

L.M.H Ein (U. IL, Chicago)

M. Green (UCLA)

R. Hain (U. WA)

S. Kobayashi (Berkeley)

J. Kollar (Utah)

Robert Lazarsfeld (UCLA)

D.T. Le (Northeastern)

D. Morrison (Duke)

M. Reid (Warwick, England)

V. Shokurov (IAS, Princeton)

Y.-T Siu (Harvard)

A.J. Sommese (Notre Dame)

G. Tian (SUNY, Stony Brook)

S.-T. Yau (Harvard)

S.S.-T. Yau (U. IL, Chicago)

The conference was preceded by a three-day workshop. Well over 100 mathematicians from all over the world attended the meeting.

Fourth year (1991-92) Algebraic Topology and Conformal Field Theory  

The topic is one of great current interaction between mathematicians and physicists from many countries. The invited visitors from Japan include:

Toshitake Kohno, University of Tokyo

Shigeyuki Morita, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Yukihiko Namikawa, Nagoya University

Gorô Nishida, Kyoto University

Katsumi Shimomura, Tottori University

Akihiro Tsuchiya, Nagoya University

Kenji Ueno, Kyoto University

Nobuaki Yagita, Musashi Institute of Technology

Conference (March 26-29, 1992)
In addition to JAMI members the following mathematicians gave invited lectures:

P. Candelas (CERN)

S. Cappell (NYU-Courant)

B. Greene (Cornell)

C. Itzykson (Saclay)

M. Kontsevich (Max-Planck)

G. Moore (Yale)

D. Morrison (Duke)

P. Nelson (U.Penn)

D. Nemeschansky (USC)

V. Schechtman (SUNY, Stony Brook)

C. Vafa (Harvard)

E. Verlinde (IAS)

N. Warner (USC)

E. Witten (IAS)

G. Zuckerman (Yale)

B. Zwiebach (IAS)

The conference was preceded by a three-day workshop. Well over 100 mathematicians and theoretical physics attended.

Fifth year (1992-93) Zeta Functions in Geometry and Number Theory   

The invited visitors from Japan include:

Toshiaki Adachi, Nagoya Kogyo University

Akihiko Gyoja, Kyoto University

Hiroshi Hosokawa, Naruto University of Education

Atsushi Katsuda, Okayama University

Takeyoshi Kogiso, University of Tsukuba

Tatsuo Kimura, University of Tsukuba

Fumihiro Sato, Rikkyo University

Toshikazu Sunada, University of Tokyo

Tamaki Yano, Saitama University

Conference (March 29 - April 3, 1993)
In addition to JAMI members the following mathematicians gave invited lectures:

A. Adolphson (OSU)

G. Anderson (U Minn)

J. Denef (Leuven)

H. Donnelly (Purdue)

B. Dwork (Princeton)

H. Iwaniec (Toronto)

N. Katz (Princeton)

F. Loeser (Ecole)

A. Odlyzko (AT&T)

M. Pollicott (Warwick)

D. Ruelle (IHES)

P. Sarnak (Princeton)

T. Shioda (Rikkyo)

S. Sperber (U Minn)

A. Uribe (U Mich)

W. Veys (Leuven)

S. Wolpert (U Maryland)

D. Zagier (Max-Planck)

This conference was held in honor of the retirement of Professor Jun-ichi Igusa and was preceded by two workshops. Well over 100 mathematicians along with former students of Professor Igusa attended.

Sixth year (1993-94) Non-linear Elliptic and Parabolic Equations and Applications   

The invited visitors from Japan include:

Shinichiro Ei, Yokohama City University

Yoshikazu Giga, Hokkaido University

Mihoko Giga, Hokkaido University

Shunichi Goto, Kyushu University

Naoyuki Ishimura, University of Tokyo

Shuichi Jimbo, Hokkaido University

Hiroshi Matano, University of Tokyo

Noriko Mizoguchi, Tokyo Gakugei University

Takeyuki Nagasawa, Tohoku University

Takayoshi Ogawa, Nagoya University

Shigeru Sakaguchi, Ehime University

Yasuhiro Sasahara, Nagoya University

Shoichiro Takakuwa, Tokyo Metropolitan University

Yoshio Tsutumi University of Tokyo

Eiji Yanagida Tokyo Institute of Technology

Conference (April 1-4, 1994)
In addition to JAMI members the following mathematicians gave invited lectures:

S. Angenent (U Wisc)

A. Bahri (Rutgers)

F. Bethuel (Orsay)

L. Caffarelli (IAS)

H. Ishii (Chuo)

C. Kenig (U Chicago)

F.-H. Lin (NYU-Courant)

M. Mimura (U Tokyo)

Y. Nishiura (Hiroshima)

P. Rabinowitz (U Wisc)

L. Sibner (Polytech)

L. Simon (Stanford)

L. Wang (U Iowa)

D. Zhang (JHU)

A four-day workshop was held prior to this conference. Approximately 70 mathematicians attended.

Seventh year (1994-95) Linear and Non-linear Scattering    

The invited visitors from Japan include:

Tadayoshi Adachi, Unviersity of Tokyo

Mitsuru Ikawa, Osaka University

Hiroshi Isozaki, Osaka University

Akira Iwatsuka, Kyoto University

S.T. Kuroda, Gakushuin University

Gen Nakamura, Science University of Tokyo

Shu Nakamura, University of Tokyo

Tohru Ozawa, Hokkaido University

Hideo Tamura, Ibaraki University

Kenji Yajima, University of Tokyo

Conference (March 31 - April 3, 1995)
In addition to JAMI members the following mathematicians gave invited lectures:

Percy Deift (NYU-Courant)

Jan Derezinski (Warsaw)

Christian Gérard (Ecole)

Patrick Gérard (U Paris-Sud)

Jean Ginibre (U Paris-Sud)

V. Ya. Ivrii (Toronto)

Arne Jensen (Aalborg)

Sergiu Klainerman (Princeton)

Rafe Mazzeo (Stanford)

Richard Melrose (MIT)

Ralph Phillips (Stanford)

James Ralston (UCLA)

Yoshimi Saito (U Ala-Birmingham)

Israel M. Sigal (Toronto)

Johannes Sjöstrand (Ecole)

Christopher Sogge (UCLA)

Over 60 mathematicians from all over the world attended the conference.

Eighth year (1995-96) Birational Geometry   

The invited visitors from Japan include:

Madoka Ebihara, Saitama University

Shihoko Ishii, Tokyo Institute of Technology

T. Katsura, University of Tokyo

Yujiro Kawamata, University of Tokyo

Yoichi Miyaoka, Kyoto University

Atsushi Moriwaki, Kyoto University

Shigeru Mukai, Nagoya University

Iku Nakamura, Hokkaido University

N. Nakayama, Kyoto University - RIMS

Yoshinori Namikawa, Sophia University

Keiji Oguiso, University of Tokyo

Koji Ohno, Osaka University

Conference (April 11-14, 1996)
In addition to JAMI members the following mathematicians gave invited lectures:

Shreeram Abhyankar (Purdue)

Valery Alexeev (U Georgia)

Marco Andreatta (Trento)

Mauro Beltrametti (Genova)

Fedor Bogomolov (Courant)

Alexander Borisov (PSU)

Frédéric Campana (Nancy I)

Fabrizio Catanese (Pisa)

Hélène Esnault (Essen)

Mark Gross (Cornell)

Yasuyuki Kachi (Trento)

Werner Kleinert (Humboldt)

Sándor Kovács (MIT)

Kenji Matsuki (Purdue)

James McKernan (UC-Santa Barbara)

David Morrison (Duke)

N.I. Shepherd-Barron (Cambridge)

Andrew Sommese (Notre Dame)

Eckart Viehweg (Essen)

Jonathan Wahl (UNC-Chapel Hill)

P.M.H. Wilson (Cambridge)

Geng Xu (JHU)

Qi Zhang (U Missouri)

This conference was held in memory of Professor Wei-Liang Chow and was preceded by a two-day workshop. Approximately 70 mathematicians attended the conference.

Ninth year (1996-97) Elliptic Curves and Applications    

The invited visitors from Japan include:

Kazuhiro Fujiwara, Nagoya University

Takako Fukaya, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Kazuya Kato, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Masato Kurihara, Tokyo Metropolitan University

Takeshi Saito, University of Tokyo

Tetsuji Shioda, Rikkyo University

Atsushi Shiho, University of Tokyo

Tomohide Terasoma, University of Tokyo

Conference (March 20-23, 1997)
In addition to JAMI members the following mathematicians gave invited lectures:

Walter Baily (U Chicago)

Massimo Bertolini (U Pavia)

Nigel Boston (U Illinois)

J. H. Coates (Cambridge)

Henri Darmon (McGill)

Neil Dummigan (N Illinois)

Noam D. Elkies (Harvard)

Dorian Goldfeld (Columbia)

Fernando Gouvea (Colby)

Gregory Grant (JHU)

Haruzo Hida (UCLA)

Nicholas Katz (Princeton)

Dmitry Logachev

W. G. McCallum (U Arizona)

V. Kumar Murty (U Toronto)

Ken Ono (IAS & Penn State)

Bjorn Poonen (Princeton)

Karl Rubin (Ohio State)

Joseph Silverman (Brown)

Christopher Skinner (Princeton)

Glenn Stevens (Boston U)

Lucien Szpiro (Paris Sud & IAS)

Jacques Tilouine (Paris-Nord)

Tenth year (1997-98) Meromorphic Mappings and Intrinsic Metrics in Complex Geometry   

The Invited visitors from Japan include:

Hirotaka Fujimoto, Kanazawa University
Ryoichi Kobayashi, Nagoya University
Junjiro Noguchi, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Manabu Shirosaki, Osaka Prefecture University
Mitsuhiro Shishikura, University of Tokyo
Shigeharu Takayama, Naruto University of Education
Kensho Takegoshi, Osaka University
Masaharu Tanabe, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Hajime Tsuji, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Tetsuo Ueda, Kyoto University

Conference (March 26-29, 1998)
In addition to JAMI members the following mathematicians gave invited lectures:

Eric Bedford (Indiana)

Greg Buzzard (Indiana)

J.-P. Demailly (Grenoble I)

John Hubbard (Cornell)

Mikhail Lyubich (SUNY-SB)

Georg Schumacher (Marburg)

Nessim Sibony (Paris-Sud)

Yum-Tong Siu (Harvard)

Gang Tian (MIT)

Sidney M. Webster (U Chicago)

S.-T. Yau (Harvard)

Sai Kee Yeung (Purdue)

Mikhail Zaidenberg (I)

The conference was preceded by a three-day workshop from March 23-25. Approximately 87 mathematicians attended the conference and workshop.

Eleventh year (1998-99) Minimal Surfaces, Geometric Analysis and Symplectic Geometry   

The Invited visitors from Japan include:

Kazuo Akutagawa, Shizuoka University
Kenji Fukaya, Kyoto University
Mikio Furuta, Kyoto University
R. Goto, Osaka University
Hiroyasu Izeki, Tohoku University
T. Kametani, Saga University
Shin Nayatani, Nagoya University
Seiki Nishikawa, Tohoku University
Hiroshi Ohta, Nagoya University
Kaoru Ono, Hokkaido University
Tatsuru Takakura, Chuo University
Keisuke Ueno, Yamagata University
Kotaro Yamada, Kumamoto University

Conference (March 19-21, 1999)
In addition to JAMI members the following mathematicians gave invited lectures:

Twelfth year (1999-00) JAMI 2000 Program - Recent Progress in Homotopy Theory 

The Invited visitors from Japan include:

Yutaka Hemmi, Kochi University
Kouyemon Iriye, Osaka Women's University
Norio Iwase, Kyushu University
Yusuke Kawamoto, Hiroshima University
Mamoru Mimura, Okayama University
Norihiko Minami, Nagoya Institute of Technology
Juno Mukai, Shinshu University
Hirofumi Nakai, Osaka City University
Goro Nishida, Kyoto University
Katumi Shimomura, Kochi University
Dai Tamaki, Shinshu University
Michimasa Tanabe,  Kyoto University
Shuichi Tsukuda, Ryukyu University
Nobuaki Yagita, Ibaragi University

Conference (March 17-26, 2000)
In addition to JAMI members the following mathematicians gave invited lectures:

Thirteenth year (2000-01) Shimura Varieties and Automorphic Forms 

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