Dear Colleague,
There will be a hot-topic workshop on
"Contact structures, dynamics and the Seiberg-Witten equations in dimension 3"
at MSRI, from June 9th to 13th, 2008. This workshop will concentrate
on recently discovered relationships between Seiberg-Witten theory and
contact geometry on three-dimensional manifolds. One consequence of
these relationships is a proof of the Weinstein conjecture in
dimension three. Another is an isomorphism between Seiberg-Witten
Floer (co)homology and embedded contact homology. The latter is a
form of Floer homology that was defined by Michael Hutchings. The
over-arching plan of the workshop is to introduce the salient features
of both the contact geometry side of the story and the Seiberg-Witten
side, and then to discuss how they are related. More information can be
found at
http://www.msri.org/calendar/workshops/WorkshopInfo/461/show_workshop
Could you please also forward this message to others whom you think
might be interested.
With our best wishes,
Helmut Hofer, Michael Hutchings, Peter Kronheimer, Tom Mrowka and Cliff Taubes.
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