Dear all,

We are now inviting suitably symplectic students (and more senior researchers) to 
participate in our Summer school in Berkeley this June.  Our goal is to review and 
build on polyfold material presented during the first week of the 2015 IHES 
Summer school on moduli spaces, with the aim of constructing the Fukaya 
category, but with an eye towards highlighting and resolving certain necessary 
technical details.  At present, we have funding for travel and accommodation for 
ten current graduate students that are also U.S. residents or U.S. citizens.  
Regardless of either academic age or residential status, we are encouraging all 
interested people to apply -- we simply have exceedingly limited funding for more 
general candidates.  For self-funded participants we have reserved a nice block of 
rooms, so please let us know if you are interested.  For more information as well a 
link to the registration site, see below, and please don't hesitate to either ask 
questions or share this announcement further.

Peace, Love, and Transversality!

Sincerely,
The organizers: Katrin Wehrheim, Nate Bottman, and Joel Fish


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*Polyfold Theory towards the Fukaya Category*
(math.berkeley.edu/~katrin/summer/)

This a week-long summer school / workshop at UC Berkeley, June 12-16, 2017, 
which will discuss the polyfold foundations for a construction of the Fukaya 
category in general symplectic manifolds. Our goal will be to enable participants to 
apply polyfold theory to new moduli spaces themselves ... and possibly to recruit 
and train contributors to a crowd-sourcing project of accessibly documenting the 
polyfold construction of (various flavours of) Fukaya categories.


This summer school is open to and appropriate for all graduate students and 
researchers who are interested in the topic and have (or are willing to lay) a 
significant part of the foundations listed in the Reading List 
<https://math.berkeley.edu/~katrin/summer/#reading>. Depending on the level 
of knowledge of confirmed participants, we will aim the program at the "highest 
common achievable goal" - ideally that would be constructing a general Fukaya 
category.


As part of the NSF Training Group in Geometry and Topology 
<https://math.berkeley.edu/research/training-groups/gtoa>, we we are able to 
fund the participation of US-resident graduate students. So - particularly if you fall 
into that category - please don't be shy about applying even if you do not have 
much of the listed background.  *Ultimately, our primary goal is to broaden, 
diversify, and strengthen the base of educated polyfold users.*


Registration/Application form: https://goo.gl/forms/971NdQzPhjDkrQbh2

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