The conference will consist of three mini-courses:
     Susumu Ariki, RIMS, Kyoto University, Japan
     William Crawley-Boevey, University of Leeds, UK
     Andrei Okounkov, Princeton University, USA

The following have agreed to give one-hour lectures:
     David Ben-Zvi, University of Texas at Austin, USA
     Vyjayanthi Chari, University of California, Riverside, USA
     William Haboush, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
     Shrawan Kumar, University of North Carolina, USA
     Haisheng Li, Rutgers University, Camden, USA
     Tetsuji Miwa, Kyoto University, Japan
     Evgeny Mukhin, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, USA
     Zhenbo Qin, University of Missouri, Columbia, USA
     Raphaël Rouquier, Université Paris VII, France
     Ravi Vakil, Stanford University, USA
     Michela Varagnolo, University de Cergy-Pontoise, France
     Kari Vilonen, Northwestern University, USA