The aim of the conference is to report on recent progress on Principal Bundles over Algebraic Curves. Topics of the conference include conformal blocks, loop groups, the Hitchin fibration and principal bundles in positive characteristic.

Confirmed speakers:

V. Alexeev (Georgia)
I. Biswas (Mumbai)
J.-B. Bost (Orsay)
P.-H. Chaudouard (Orsay)
H. Esnault (Essen)
G. Faltings (Bonn)
L. Funar (Grenoble)
J. Heinloth (Amsterdam)
T. Hausel (Oxford)
A. Langer (Warsaw)
G. Laumon (Orsay)
T. R. Ramadas (Trieste)
A. Schmitt (Berlin)
S. Sun (Orsay)