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Dear Colleagues, This is the second announcement for the conference “Perspectives on topology and geometry of 4-manifolds,” which will take place June 6-11, 2016, at the Inter-University Centre in Dubrovnik, Croatia. In addition to bringing together low-dimensional topologists from around the world, the conference will serve in part as a celebration of the work of Ronald Fintushel and Ronald Stern. As part of the conference, there will be an organized discussion of outstanding problems in 4-dimensional topology, resulting in an update of the corresponding portion of the Kirby problem list that will appear in the conference proceedings. Some travel funding is available for junior participants. Priority will be given to requests received by April 1. Contributed talks: there is space in the schedule for several shorter talks by younger researchers. If you are interested in contributing a talk, please indicate on the registration form. Lodging: Participants should make arrangements as soon as is practical, as Dubrovnik is a popular tourist destination. Some dormitory accommodation is available on a first-come-first-served reservation basis; see the conference web page. Registration: Follow the link below to the conference registration form, which includes options to request dorm accommodation and travel funding. (We request that even participants who registered directly with an organizer fill out the form.) Further details can be found on the conference web page, https://www.renyi.hu/~ldtbud/Dubrovnik/ The web site for the Inter-University Centre is http://www.iuc.hr Invited speakers and participants include: John Baldwin (Boston College) Chris Cornwell (UQAM) Ron Fintushel (MSU) Mikio Furuta (University of Tokyo) David Gay (University of Georgia) Elisenda Grigsby (Boston College) Kristen Hendricks (UCLA) Jen Hom (Georgia Tech) Eleny Ionel (Stanford University) Rob Kirby (UC Berkeley) Matthias Kreck (Hausdorff Institute) Ana Lecuona (University of Marseille) Paolo Lisca (University of Pisa) Ciprian Manolescu (UCLA) John Morgan (Simons Center) Tom Mrowka (MIT) Burak Ozbagci (Koc University) Laura Starkston (Stanford University) Ron Stern (UC Irvine) Saso Strle (University of Ljubljana) Nathan Sunukjian (UMass Amherst) Zoltán Szabó (Princeton University) Vera Vértesi (University of Strasbourg) Organizing committee: Inanc Baykur (UMass Amherst) Thomas Mark (University of Virginia) Gordana Matic (University of Georgia) Jongil Park (Seoul National University) Andras Stipsicz (Renyi Institute) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 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.