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abstract: In the slightly more than two decades that have elapsed since the fields of Symplectic and Contact Topology were created, the field has grown enormously and unforeseen new connections within Mathematics and Physics have been found. The goals of the 2009-10 program at MSRI are to: I. Promote the cross-pollination of ideas between different areas of symplectic and contact geometry; II. Help assess and formulate the main outstanding fundamental problems and directions in the field; III. Lead to new breakthroughs and solutions of some of the main problems in the area; IV. Discover new applications of symplectic and contact geometry in mathematics and physics; V. Educate a new generation of young mathematicians, giving them a broader view of the subject and the capability to employ techniques from different areas in their research.

abstract: This workshop, sponsored by AIM and the NSF, will be devoted to localization techniques in equivariant cohomology. Localization techniques in equivariant cohomology are a powerful tool in computational algebraic topology in the context of a topological space with the action of a Lie group.

abstract: The Workshop on Categorical Topology will be held at the Department of Mathematics, University of Azores, in honour of Eraldo Giuli, on the occasion of his 70th birthday.

abstract: The STDC series began in 1967, regularly attracts 100-200 participants, and recently emphasizes general topology, geometric topology, continuum theory, geometric topology, geometric group theory, and dynamical systems.

abstract: The core of this memorial colloquium concerns geometry, algebraic geometry, algebra, number theory, Lie theory, group theory and other branches of mathematics which are related to the work of W. Killing and K. Weierstrass.

abstract: A mathematics research conference will be held in memory of Michael O. Albertson, March 26-28, 2010, at Smith College, Northampton, MA, USA. The conference is entitled 'CoNE Revisited: Celebrating the Inspirations of Michael O. Albertson' and focuses on his areas of research interest, graph theory, combinatorics, and discrete geometry. With Professor Ruth Haas of Smith and Professor Karen Collins (Smith'81) of Wesleyan, Professor Albertson ran at Smith, from 1992 until 2001, a series of CoNE (Combinatorists of New England) conferences, whose open, collaborative, and diverse style we plan to emulate in this memorial conference. All are welcome to attend the talks and social events. Please send any questions to Prof. Joan P. Hutchinson at hutchinson@macalester.edu .

abstract: Inviting graduate students from all over the country in topology and geometry to meet and give talks over two days.

abstract: This Workshop is a unique opportunity for Geometry and Topology researchers to meet, share their specialized knowledge and learn from others. Professors from Japan, Russia, Netherlands and various American and Canadian Universities will be presenting their latest results.

abstract: Dani Wise will give a series of talks April 19-21 (before the workshop) on his work on separability for hyperbolic groups with quasiconvex hierarchies. The workshop proper will run for two days (April 22-23) and will focus on topics related to the virtual positive first Betti number conjecture and virtual fibering conjectures for 3-manifolds. Michel Boileau will be giving the Montreal-area mathematics colloquium on Friday April 23 to close the event.

abstract: The conference continues a well established tradition of commutative algebra and algebraic geometry meetings in the Midwest, among which we single out MAGC97 at the University of Notre Dame in 1997, the first Bluegrass Algebra Conference at the University of Kentucky in 2003, the Lipman-Fest at Purdue University in 2004, MAGIC'05 at the University of Notre Dame in 2005, the Purdue-UIC Workshop at Purdue University in 2006,the Hartshorne's 70th birthday conference at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2008, the second Bluegrass Algebra Conference at the University of Kentucky in 2009, and the Libgober's 60th birthday conference at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2009. Young Mathematicians are especially encouraged to attend. There is a limited amount of funding. A registration page and further information will be shortly available at the meeting website.

abstract: First Announcement: The importance of configuration spaces has been growing steadily in central areas of mathematics often related to theoretical physics, hyperplane arrangements, and combinatorics. Despite their simple definition, configuration spaces admit important, broad applications with deep classical ties to knot theory, homotopical algebra, the theory of operands as well as conformal field theory. The theory of configuration spaces also has links to the study of low dimensional topology, and combinatorics. The aim of this initiative is to bring together in Pisa some of the leading experts in these different, but significantly overlapping areas, and to inform on the current state of the art, also promoting interaction among experts in order to foster new developments. This period includes minicourses, seminars, and two workshops May 24-26 and June 21-25 and is part of the CRM PISA 2010 scientific programme.

abstract: One advanced course will present the fundaments of foliation theory, and the other advanced courses will introduce some of its most active areas, like dynamics of foliations, classifying spaces, index theory for foliations and group actions, or rigidity and leafwise ohomology. These courses should provide the audience with the necessary tools to work on some of the most important unsolved problems on foliation theory.

abstract: The conference will focus on zeta functions in algebra and geometry. Among the main topics to be covered are: 1) Arithmetic and geometric aspects of local, topological and motivic zeta functions, 2) Poincaré series of valuations, 3) Zeta functions of groups, rings and representations, 4) Prehomogeneous vector spaces and their zeta functions, 5) Height zeta functions, 6) Computation of zeta functions and applications.

abstract: The aim of this conference is to bring together mathematicians and scientists for the purpose of gaining a better understanding of the structure of particle systems under a variety of physical constraints. These include, for example, classical ground states for interacting particle systems, best-packing, random packings, jammed states, granular and colloidal systems, as well as minimal discrete and continuous energy problems for general kernels.

abstract: The goal of this conference is to bring together researchers working with different aspects of Frobenius splittings and their applications, and to facilitate communication and interaction between them. We plan to have a number of survey talks, introducing the various points of view on Frobenius splitting, followed by research talks. Most of the talks will be suitable for graduate students and young researchers.

abstract: This conference aims to bring together experts on classical isoperimetric inequalities, sharp functional inequalities, and spectral inequalities for a week-long conference in Carthage, Tunisia, where the mathematical problem named after Queen Dido, the founder of Carthage, originated. The week-long gathering will serve as a training ground for young researchers and graduate students, incorporating an intensive program on techniques of rearrangement, spectral analysis, and geometric inequalities. The conference will serve as a means to bring together the many trends within isoperimetry.

abstract: 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.

abstract: The Conference is organized in the following sections: 1. Geometrical structures on manifolds. 2. Geometry of differential equations and Monge-Ampere equations. 3. Differential invariants and group methods. 4. Geometrical methods in mathematical physics. 5. Quantum geometry and quantization of DEs. 6. Topological aspects of differential geometry. 7. Geometrical control theory. 8. Geometry in the large. 9. Nonclassical logics, topology and mathematical linguistics. 10. Methods of geometry teaching.

abstract: This symposium celebrates the life and mathematical legacy of Chuan-Chih Hsiung (1916-2009), geometer, professor at Lehigh University, and founder of the Journal of Differential Geometry .

abstract: Gökova Geometry / Topology Conferences were inaugurated in 1992 with the support of TUBITAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey), and held at the scenic Gokova Bay next to a forest preserve. GGT have been supported by TUBITAK since its inception, and starting 2005 it has also been receiving partial funding from NSF. Over the years the topics of these conferences were chosen from the exciting subjects of Geometry and Topology; usually the most recent developments taking the front stage.

abstract: Researchers at all levels are invited to present 20-minute contributed talks in any area of topology. To apply, please send a title and abstract to Thomas Mattman (e-mail: TMattman@CSUChico.edu ) by May 1, 2010.

abstract: This conference will highlight ongoing research focused on finding direct connections between topological structures on 3-manifolds (triangulations in particular) and geometric structures. It will also bring together researchers working on new invariants and hyperbolic geometry applied to 3-manifolds. This conference is in honor of William Jaco, on the occasion of his 70th birthday.

abstract: This conference can be considered a continuation of previous meetings on Geometry and Mathematical Physics which took place in Bulgaria-Zlatograd (1995) and Varna (1998-2009).

abstract: There will be some talks and mini courses on Contact Geometry and Topology.

abstract: Mini-lectures by E. Breuillard, P-E. Caprace, A. Valette.

abstract: The Mathematical Research Institute of the University of Seville (IMUS) is organizing a conference on the topic of Harmonic Analysis and Applications to pay tribute to Professor Richard Wheeden and acknowledge his many contributions to Harmonic Analysis and related fields like P.D.E.

abstract: The School is addressed to Ph.D. students and young post-doc researchers working on Number Theory, Algebraic Geometry and related areas. There will be four courses: (1) 'Introduction to rigid cohomology' by Bernard Le Stum (University of Rennes). (2) 'Dwork cohomology and applications' by Steven Sperber (University of Minnesota). (3) 'Overconvergent F-isocrystals and rigid cohomology on curves' by Nobuo Tsuzuki (Tohoku University). (4) 'An introduction to Dwork's p-adic analytic representation of an additive character' by C. Douglas Haessig (University of Rochester).

abstract: The conference topics will focus on smooth group actions on manifolds and symmetry in geometric group theory. To investigate this theme, we hope to have a variety of talks ranging from the geometry and topology of manifolds to discrete group actions on CAT(0) spaces and buildings.

abstract: The power of synthesis of Geometry, which led in the past to the formulation of 'grand unification theories', has got an essential role nowadays, especially because of the growing fragmentation of knowledge due to scientific progress. In order to avoid too big a dispersion, geometers need a constant dialogue. Therefore, a stable experience of personal meetings, apart from telematic interchanges, cannot be renounced. Current Geometry was born to allow a periodic update about actual progresses in Geometry (and its applications) on the international scene.

abstract: A conference in honour of Massimo Ferri and Carlo Gagliardi on their 60th birthday The research groups of Geometric Topology and Computational Topology of the Universities of Bologna and Modena-Reggio Emilia, Departments of Mathematics, will be organizing a conference in order to celebrate the 60th birthday of Massimo Ferri and Carlo Gagliardi.

abstract: The purpose of the conference is to bring together mathematicians working in all fields of mathematics dealing with Automorphism Groups of Topological Structures, in order to exchange ideas and present results of current research. Specific topics to be covered in this meeting are: 1) Recovery of spaces from their groups of homeomorphisms. 2) Topological characterization of the homeomorphism groups of various concrete spaces. 3) Realization of topological groups as groups of automorphisms of concrete spaces. 4) Extreme amenability of automorphism groups and homeomorphism groups. 5) The Urysohn universal space. 6) Structure theory of general and free topological groups.

abstract: A continuation of the 2008 conference ATA2008. All areas of Topology and Analysis and their applications are included in the scientific program.

abstract: All areas of Topology and its Applications are included (General Topology, Set-Theoretic Topology, Geometric Topology, Algebraic Topology, Applied Topology. In particular, Topological Groups, Dimension Theory, Dynamical Systems and Continua Theory, Computational Topology, History of Topology). Useful Information: 1. Photographs of the City of Nafpaktos are found on http://www.airphotos.gr/etol_nafpaktos.htm 2. The Conference is a continuation of the 2006 International Conference on Topology and its Applications, whose Proceedings are published in the Journal of Topology and its Applications, Volume 155, Issues 17-18. 3. Details concerning participants, program, Abstract booklet, excursions, happenings and photos of the previous (2006) Conference can be found on http://www.math.upatras.gr/~aegion and http://www.math.upatras.gr/~aegion/Conference_Photos/index.html.

abstract: The ISVD 2010 which is devoted to one of the most fascinating data structures in Computational Geometry - the Voronoi diagrams and its applications, is a multidisciplinary event hosting scientists working on Voronoi Diagrams and on their applications in engineering including, geospatial information sciences (GIS), visualization, urban planning, computer science, geology, robotics, bioinformatics, high-performance computing, bioinformatics, physics, chemistry and other applications.

abstract: The ISVD 2010 which is devoted to one of the most fascinating data structures in Computational Geometry-the Voronoi diagrams and its applications, is a multidisciplinary event hosting scientists working on Voronoi Diagrams and on their applications in engineering including, geospatial information sciences (GIS), visualization, urban planning, computer science, geology, robotics, bioinformatics, high-performance computing, physics, chemistry and other applications.

abstract: The primary themes of the conference will be 'Inverse spectral geometry on compact manifolds and orbifolds' and 'Quantum unique ergodicity'. There will be two plenary lectures on each of these themes presented by Victor Guillemin and Peter Sarnak, respectively. In addition to spectral problems on Riemannian manifolds, there will be a secondary focus on the related topic of quantum graphs, in which the one-dimensional Laplacian acts along edges, and waves scatter at vertices.

abstract: Professor Dikranjan is an author of more than 150 research articles and 4 monographs. His major areas of expertise are: topological algebra (topological groups, topological rings and modules), general topology, algebra (associative rings and algebras, commutative rings and algebras, group theory), category theory (categorical topology and categorical algebra), combinatorics and algebraic structures, dynamical systems. The Conference is directed to leading experts in both algebra and topology, as well as their applications, thereby contributing to an inter-disciplinary collaboration.

abstract: The aim of the Oporto meetings is to bring together mathematicians and physicists interested in the inter-relation between geometry, topology and physics and to provide them with a pleasant and informal environment for scientific interchange. As in previous years, the meeting is focussed on the short courses given by the main speakers. The talks are at the advanced graduate or postdoctoral level, and should be of interest to all researchers wishing to learn about recent developments in the overlap between geometry, topology and physics. The remaining participants are invited to submit titles and abstracts for contributed talks, relevant to the main topic of the meeting.

abstract: This workshop, sponsored by AIM and the NSF, will be devoted to understanding the irreducible component structure of Hilbert schemes.

abstract: The 25th Summer Topology Conference is an annual event bringing together an international audience of researchers in general topology and related fields. There will be special sessions in the following subjects: general/set-theoretic topology, geometric topology, continuum theory, dynamical systems, topological algebra, topology in computer science, topology in functional analysis.

abstract: The school will cover different topics in non-commutative geometry and its connections with other areas of mathematics and physics, such as operator index theory, strings, representations, operator algebras, and K-Theory. As of December 2008, the following people have agreed in principle to come and give a course: Henrique Bursztyn, Joachim Cuntz, Pavel Etingof, Victor Ginzburg, Victor Kac, Max Karoubi, Henri Moscovici, Holger Reich, Nicolai Reshetikhin, Marc Rieffel, Jonathan Rosenberg, Georges Skandalis, Boris Tsygan.

abstract: A celebration of the long and illustrious careers of Victor Klee and Branko Grunbaum and their fundamental contributions to discrete mathematics and geometry. There will be 18 invited talks, a poster session and an open problems session. Details available at the above website.

abstract: The aim of the conference is to reflect on recent and future developments in broadly understood geometric functional analysis, with emphasis on interactions with other subfields of mathematics and with other mathematical sciences, including but not limited to computer science, mathematical physics and statistics.

abstract: This is a satellite conference for the 2010 ICM. The conference will focus on mathematics centered around negatively curved (or more generally, non-positively curved) spaces.

abstract: This workshop, sponsored by AIM and the NSF, will be devoted to duality problems in convex geometry, which deal with relations between convex bodies and their polar bodies.

abstract: Complex Geometry, Algebraic varieties with a Group action, Moduli Spaces, Algebraic cycles

abstract: This joint workshop of the American Institute of Mathematics (AIM) and the Chern Institute of Mathematics (CIM), sponsored by AIM, CIM, and the NSF, will be devoted to the study of the behavior of geodesics in the large. Although this is an old subject, with important contributions first made by J. Hadamard and H. Poincare, many of the fundamental problems are still open.

abstract: The DGA conferences take place regularly at one of the Czech universities every three years; the tenth conference in the series took place in Olomouc in 2007.

abstract: The Fall Workshops on Geometry and Physics have been held yearly since 1992, and bring together Spanish and Portuguese geometers and physicists, along with an ever increasing number of participants from outside the Iberian peninsula. The meetings aim to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas between researchers of different fields in Differential Geometry, Applied Mathematics and Physics, and always include a substantial number of enthusiastic young researchers amongst the participants.

abstract: The meeting, which alternately takes place in Italy and in Spain, aims to promote the cooperation between Italian and Spanish topologists. The participation of researchers from other countries is warmly encouraged. Traditionally, it is emphasized on the relation between the general or set-theoretic topology, and other areas of mathematics or sciences. Thus, topics like, for example, topological methods in functional analysis or in dynamical systems, hyperspaces, applied topology for computer sciences or economy, algebraic methods in spaces of continuous functions, etc, are usually considered.

abstract: This workshop, sponsored by AIM and the NSF, will focus on the evolving notion of complexity in CR Geometry.

abstract: The AGMP meeting will focus on contemporary topics in Algebra, Geometry and Mathematical Physics, with an emphasis on the interface between them. It also promotes corresponding international scientific collaboration.

abstract: All topics in Geometry with their applications, as well as other subjects related to the main themes are welcome.

abstract: Algebraic Topology, Continuum Theory, Geometric Topology, Knot Theory, Set Theory, Set-Theoretic Topology, Symplectic Topology

abstract: This workshop, sponsored by AIM and the NSF, will focus on the interaction between algebraic geometry and the structure theory of fields, particularly the use of deformation theory and patching.