Dear Friends,

It is my pleasure to ask you to forward the following announcement to 
your departments, that the

      27th ANNUAL GEOMETRY FESTIVAL

hosted by Duke University and UNC which will take place at

      Duke University, Durham, NC  (airport code:  RDU)

from

      Friday, April 27 - Sunday, April 29, 2012.

The speakers this year are:

      Simon Brendle (Stanford University)
      John Etnyre (Georgia Institute of Technology)
      Fernando Coda Marques (IMPA)
      Gordana Matic (University of Georgia)
      Jan Metzger (Institute for Mathematics, University of Potsdam)
      Yanir Rubinstein (Stanford University)
      Valentino Tosatti (Columbia University)
      Mu-Tao Wang (Columbia University)

Everyone is invited to the Geometry Festival, and graduate students are
especially encouraged to attend.  A continuing grant from the National
Science Foundation makes it possible for us to partially reimburse the
expenses of a large number of graduate students, post-docs and younger
faculty who do not have access to travel funds from other sources.  A
substantial portion of this funding can be committed in advance, and
experience shows that additional funds for this purpose are usually
available after conference expenses have been met.

To register and make a hotel reservation, go to the Geometry Festival 
website at

http://www.math.duke.edu/conferences/geomfest12/

The web site has the usual conference information including:

     The list of speakers and their titles and abstracts.

     The conference schedule.

     Registration and financial support.

     The Saturday night banquet.

     Accomodations...we are holding a block of rooms at a hotel next
         to campus.

     A list of participants will be posted approximately one week
         before the beginning of the conference.


Best Wishes,
Hubert Bray

p.s.

A finite number of hotel rooms are being held until April 13, so make 
your reservations as soon as you can.

Direct general inquiries to [log in to unmask] to talk with staff 
and organizational inquiries to Hubert Bray at [log in to unmask]

Geometry Festival Organizing Committee:  Hubert Bray, Carla Cederbaum,
Christopher Cornwell, Luca DiCerbo, Pat Eberlein, Lenny Ng, Mark Stern

-- 
Hubert L. Bray
Professor of Mathematics and Physics
Duke University

Geometric Analysis - General Relativity - Astrophysics
http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/math/faculty/bray

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