CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT Registration is now open for: "Geometry & Topology Down Under -- A Conference in Honour of Hyam Rubinstein" When: 11-22 July 2011 Where: University of Melbourne, Australia Info: http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~hyamfest/ Contact: [log in to unmask] SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME 11-15 July 2011 Short courses by Danny Calegari, Walter Neumann and Leonid Polterovich 18-22 July 2011 Conference with confirmed speakers: Mohammed Abouzaid (MIT/Clay) Ian Agol (Berkeley) Michel Boileau (Toulouse) Marc Culler (UI Chicago) Nathan Dunfield (UI Urbana-Champaign) David Gabai (Princeton) Cameron Gordon (UT Austin) Kazuo Habiro (Kyoto) Joel Hass (UC Davis) Craig Hodgson (Melbourne) William Jaco (Oklahoma State) Thang Le (Georgia Institute of Technology) Feng Luo (Rutgers) Darryl McCullough (Oklahoma) Yoav Moriah (Technion) Walter Neumann (Columbia University, Barnard College) Yi Ni (California Institute of Technology) Leonid Polterovich (Chicago/Tel Aviv) Martin Scharlemann (UC Santa Barbara) Abigail Thompson (UC Davis) Gang Tian (Princeton) Shicheng Wang (Peking University) REGISTRATION Registration for Geometry & Topology Down Under is via the online registration form, which can be found on the conference web-site: http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~hyamfest/. For planning purposes, we ask all who plan to attend to register in advance. SUPPORT Travel support is available primarily for graduate students and early career researchers based in Australia and the United States. Please refer to the website for full eligibility criteria and the application process. Note the deadline for US funding applications is Monday 18 April 2011. Applications received after this date will be considered for any remaining funds. This funding is available courtesy of generous grants kindly provided by the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute (AMSI) and the National Science Foundation (NSF). ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The conference is funded by the National Science Foundation, the Clay Mathematics Institute, the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute, the Australian Mathematical Society and the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne. ORGANISING COMMITTEE Loretta Bartolini (Oklahoma State) Danny Calegari (CalTech) Craig Hodgson (Melbourne) William Jaco (Oklahoma State) Amnon Neeman (ANU) Paul Norbury (Melbourne) Arun Ram (Melbourne) Stephan Tillmann (Queensland) Nick Wormald (Waterloo) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- This message was sent to you via the Geometry List, which announces conferences in geometry and closely related areas to over 1200 mathematicians worldwide. At http://listserv.utk.edu/archives/geometry.html there are many functions available, including checking the archives since November 2005, changing your e-mail address or preferences, and joining/leaving the list. If you have problems that cannot be resolved at this website, send a message to [log in to unmask] Before sending an announcement, please carefully read the following. Any announcements that are *not* about conferences (e.g. those about jobs, journals, books, etc.) will be rejected by the moderator without comment. To announce a geometry or closely related conference, send the announcement (including a conference web site if possible) to [log in to unmask] The moderator cannot edit your message; list members will receive the announcement as an e-mail from you EXACTLY as you submitted it. For example, if your submission starts with "Please post this on the geometry list" then your conference announcement will also begin with that statement. In order to keep down the volume of e-mail, only TWO announcements per conference will be approved by the moderator. The "subject" of your message should include the name of the conference and the number (first or second) of the announcement, e.g. Gauss Memorial Lectures in Geometry: Second Announcement. Please check that your announcement (especially the website) is correct. Corrections will be approved only in the most critical situations, e.g. if corrected information is not available on the website. If you send a submission from an e-mail address that is not subscribed to the geometry list then you will be sent an e-mail asking for confirmation. This feature is designed to thwart the hundreds of machine-generated spam that are sent to the list and would otherwise have to be manually blocked by the moderator. The Geometry List is sponsored and maintained by the Mathematics Department, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville.