Dear all,

This e-mail announces the 2012 MIT-RTG Geometry Workshop, mentored by 
Prof. Helmut Hofer, on the theory and applications of polyfolds.  It will be held 
on the week August 13--17, 2012 at the Pajaro Dunes resort 90 minutes south 
of the San Francisco Bay Area, CA.  The workshop will constitute a weeklong 
retreat with talks, organized discussions, and problem sessions.  Prof. Hofer 
will outline the program of talks to be given by the participants.  Most 
participants will be expected to give one of the talks.  A preliminary syllabus 
is available at 
http://math.mit.edu/conferences/geometryworkshop/syllabus.pdf .

The goal of the workshop is to introduce polyfolds as a framework for 
constructing moduli spaces of solutions of elliptic PDEs with noncompactness
phenomena. The workshop will cover the basics of polyfold theory (sc-
smoothness, implicit function theorem, and generalized differential geometry),
and as an application, the construction of the general-genus symplectic 
Gromov-Witten invariants.  The workshop discussions will have an expository
nature and are aimed at graduate students and junior faculty interested in 
moduli spaces of PDEs that exhibit noncompactness phenomena.  No prior 
knowledge of polyfolds will be assumed.

For more detailed information, or to register for the workshop, please go to 
the website http://math.mit.edu/conferences/geometryworkshop/ . *Our 
application deadline is May 30, 2012.*  We expect to be able to subsidize 
many participants' travel expenses.  Please note that the number of 
participants will be strictly limited to 35 for space reasons.

Any questions should be sent to the organizers at [log in to unmask] .

Regards from the organizers,
Nate Bottman
Jiayong Li

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