Dear Colleagues,

You are cordially invited to the 51st Cornell Topology Festival, Friday, May 8th – Sunday, May 10th, 2015.  The program will feature several one-hour talks, much opportunity for conversation, working luncheons, a banquet, and a picnic.

While a range of topics will be represented, our area of emphasis will be groups acting on negatively curved spaces.  The first plenary talk will be at 4:30pm on Friday May 8th and will be followed by the conference banquet.  Earlier on the Friday, Mladen Bestvina and Koji Fujiwara will each give an introductory talk on the area of emphasis. The Festival will conclude by 5pm on Sunday May 10th.

Financial support will be available.  Young researchers and underrepresented minorities are especially encouraged to apply. Travel grants will be available to young mathematicians, women and
minorities.

Speakers will include:

- Mladen Bestvina, University of Utah
- Matthew Strom Borman, Stanford University and the Institute for Advanced Study
- Cornelia Drutu, Oxford University
- Talia Fernos, University of North Carolina Greensboro
- Koji Fujiwara, Kyoto University
- Bob Gilman, Stevens Institute
- John Hubbard, Cornell University
- Denis Osin, Vanderbilt University
- Ori Parzanchevski, Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study
- Ana Rita Pires, Fordham University

There will be a public lecture by Cliff Stoll of Acme Klein Bottles on May 9th.

Please register by April 15 (or by April 1 if you are requesting funding) at 
http://www.math.cornell.edu/~festival/
General inquiries should be addressed to [log in to unmask]

We are grateful for financial support from the Cornell Mathematics Department and the National Science Foundation.

Topology Festival Organizers
Department of Mathematics
Cornell University

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