[geometry-ml:00984] GCOE conference: Knots, Contact Geometry and Floer Homology

[Hiroshi Goda]

幾何学メーリングリストの皆様


来年５月に予定しております研究集会の second announcement をお送りします．


東京農工大学　　合田洋





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                     Horiba International Symposium
              Knots, Contact Geometry and Floer Homology

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                         May 24 - 28, 2010

Lecture Hall
Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences
The University of Tokyo
3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8914, Japan

Topics:
Knot Floer Homology, Contact homology, Legendrian and
transverse knots, Seiberg-Witten invariants, Symplectic Floer theory,
Symplectic field theory, Circle-valued Morse theory,
Novikov homology, and others.

Invited speakers will include:
J. Etnyre (Georgia Institute of Technology)
S. Friedl (The University of Warwick)
K. Fukaya (Kyoto University)
E. Giroux* (ENS Lyon)
M. Hedden (Michigan State University)
K. Honda (University of Southern California)
M. Hutchings (University of California, Berkeley)
E. Ionel (Stanford University)
A. Juhasz (University of Cambridge)
S. Maksymenko (Institute of Mathematics of NAS of Ukraine)
L. Ng (Duke University)
K. Ono (Hokkaido University)
N. Saveliev (The University of Miami)
A. Stipsicz (Renyi Institute of Mathematics)
D. Thurston* (Columbia University)

*to be confirmed
Organizing Committee:
H. Goda, T. Kalman, T. Kohno, A. Pajitnov

There will be an informal follow up workshop at
Tambara Institute of Mathematical Sciences
for the period from May 28 to 30.

Please visit the webpage
http://faculty.ms.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~kch2010/index.html
for further information.