21st ANNUAL GEOMETRY FESTIVAL
        University of Pennsylvania
        Philadelphia, PA
        Friday March 31 - Sunday April 2, 2006


The 21st Annual Geometry Festival will be held at the
Department of Mathematics of the University of Pennsylvania,
from Friday afternoon March 31 to Sunday noon, April 2, 2006.

The speakers are:

Jeff Cheeger            Courant Institute, NYU
Charles Fefferman       Princeton University
Helmut Hofer            Courant Institute, NYU
Ko Honda                University of Southern California
William Meeks           University of Massachusetts
Yair Minsky             Yale University
Frank Morgan            Williams College
Zoltan Szabo            Princeton University

Everyone is invited to the Geometry Festival, and graduate
students are especially encouraged to attend.  A continuing
grant from the National Science Foundation makes it possible
for us to partially reimburse the expenses of a large number
of graduate students, post-docs and younger faculty who do not
have access to travel funds from other sources.  A substantial
portion of this funding can be committed in advance, and
experience shows that additional funds for this purpose are
usually available after conference expenses have been met.

We will appreciate your bouncing this message to the
graduate students in your department, and telling them
about the Geometry Festival.

The Geometry Festival website

        www.math.upenn.edu/geomfest

is up and running.

Please visit the web site for the usual conference information,
in particular:

     Titles and abstracts of the talks, and the detailed schedule,
     when available.

     Registration and financial support.

     The Saturday night banquet.

     Accomodations...we are holding blocks of rooms at several
     very nice hotels.

     A list of participants will be posted approximately one week
     before the beginning of the conference.

     The web site will remain in place after the Geometry Festival
     is over, so that you can refer to it for information about, and
     links to, future Festivals.

Geometry Festival Organizing Committee: Jonathan Block,
Eugenio Calabi, Chris Croke, Dennis DeTurck, John Etnyre,
Herman Gluck, Jerry Kazdan, Connie Leidy, Julius Shaneson,
Wolfgang Ziller

Please direct inquiries to Herman Gluck at

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or call the Penn Math Department at 215-898-8627
and ask for Monica Pallanti.

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