Developments in
                              Understanding
                              Symplectic Geometry
                              And Topology

                              Stony Brook, October 2006


        We are organizing a conference at Stont Brook on topics in
Symplectic Topology and Geometry and their applications to celebrate
Dusa McDuff's 60th birthday.
        The dates for the conference are

             Thursday, Oct 12  --- Sunday, Oct 15, 2006

        Lectures will be given by:

Y. Eliashberg, K. Fukaya, V. Guillemin, H. Hofer, F. Lalonde,
R. Pandharipande, R. Piene, D. Salamon, I. Smith, D. Sullivan,
S. Tolman.

        As part of the conference, on the morning of Friday Oct 13,
therewill be a mini-workshop consisting of 5-6 shorter talks by young
researchers (recent PhD's and graduate students), and organized by
Dietmar Salamon and Aleksey Zinger. The list of speakers is
currently being finalized, but we welcome submissions of titles and
abstracts for consideration in the mini-workshop (at the email address
listed below).

        We have applied for NSF funding and pending a successful outcome of
our application we hope to be able fund a number of younger participants
at the conference and mini-workshop.

        A second announcement will contain more information on
registration, talks schedule, deadlines, accommodation, fees,
travel support,etc. The conference's web page

                http://www.math.sunysb.edu/dusafest/

will have up-to-date information about the conference and will also
provide a link to the conference registration form. For any further
questions related to the conference and the mini-workshop please
contact the organizers (Mike Anderson and Sorin Popescu, Dietmar
Salamon and Aleksey Zinger) at the following email address:
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