This Minisymposium takes place as an integral part of the
5th European Congress of Mathematics in Amsterdam, 14 - 18 July, 2008

Speakers:

• Corrado De Concini (U. Rome)

  Title: Hyperplane arrangements, polytopes and box-splines

• Peter Littelmann (U. Cologne)

  Title: Equations defining symmetric varieties and affine grassmannians

• Frank Sottile (Texas A&M)

  Title: Bounds for real solutions to equations from geometry

• Sergey Yuzvinsky (U. Oregon)

  Title: Completely reducible fibers of a pencil of curves and combinatorics