 |
 |
FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT Graduate student workshop and conference HOLOMORPHIC CURVES AND LOW-DIMENSIONAL TOPOLOGY July 30 to August 11, 2012 Stanford University Organizers: S. Akbulut (MSU) , A. Akhmedov (UMN), D. Auroux (Berkeley), Y. Eliashberg (Stanford), K. Honda (USC), C. Karakurt (UT Austin), P. Ozsváth (Princeton) The main focus of this workshop will be on holomorphic curve techniques in low-dimensional topology and symplectic geometry. There will be one week of mini-courses, primarily for graduate students, followed by a conference during the second week. Mini-course speakers: Selman Akbulut (Michigan State) Yasha Eliashberg (Stanford) Sergei Gukov (Caltech) Ko Honda (USC) Robert Lipshitz (Columbia) Katrin Wehrheim (MIT) Registration: Thanks to the generous support of the National Science Foundation and the Stanford University Mathematics Research Center, funds are available for partial support of participant expenses. To register or apply for funding, go to the conference website http://www.math.umn.edu/~akhmedov/Stanford2012.html To apply for funding, you must register by Tuesday, May 15, 2012. Students, recent Ph.D.'s, women, and members of underrepresented minorities are particularly encouraged to apply. Requests received after the funding deadline are considered only if additional funds become available. Applicants are requested to register, send a CV, including a brief description of research interests, and have one reference letter sent to [log in to unmask] The reference letter is optional for people more than two years after receiving a Ph.D. Note that during the prior week July 23-27, 2012 at Stanford there will be another conference "Algebraic Topology: applications and new directions" (see http://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/tillmann/StanfordSymposium.html) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 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.