The 200-th anniversary of the birth of Galois will be on October 25th, 2011. For Abel's bicentennial birth year in 2002, Norway had a big conference and initiated the Abel prize. A cursory web search doesn't reveal any major (or minor) conference to mark the bicentennial for Galois. Is there something being planned that hasn't been broadly announced yet?


[Edit: Before posting this question, I looked at the number theory conference page <http://www.numbertheory.org/ntw/N3.html> and found nothing there related to my question.]


I realize that is not a math research question, but I don't think it should be closed since it should interest many users of this site, it should have a definite answer, and it is not "argumentative", "too localized" (at what prime?) or "not a real question".


[Edit: Now that Emerton has answered the question well and nobody else has followed up after several days with other replies, I suspect he has given the best possible answer and I have designated it as such.]



Galois Bicentennial?
There is a conference at the IHP in Paris on October 24-28 of this year in honour of this anniversary. [Here](http://www.galois.ihp.fr) is the web-site, which doesn't have much information on it yet.


UPDATE: There is now quite a bit of information posted.


