Konferenzservice Mandl

Zusammenfassung: This regional topology conference has been held on and off for O(N) years. It takes place on a single day, usually in winter, and is typically well-attended by the Southern California topological community. Some travel support for graduate students is anticipated; contact Danny Calegari for details if you are interested.

Zusammenfassung: Twenty-first century algebraic geometry is a broad subject, with mathematicians on different frontiers sharing little background. This workshop will consist of colloquium-style talks introducing some of its subfields to people, particularly postdocs, working in other areas. The workshop is part of the semester program on Algebraic Geometry, and some additional funding will be available for participants to attend the associated introductory workshop 'Classical algebraic geometry', January 26-30, 2009.

Zusammenfassung: The main theme of the workshop will be to explore modern approaches to problems originating in Classical Algebraic Geometry, and at the same time offer an introduction to various subfields to the younger participants in the semester-long program. Topics will include: (1) Birational geometry; (2) Moduli spaces of curves; (3) Moduli spaces of vector bundles; (4) Abelian varieties.

Zusammenfassung: This workshop will convene experts specializing on the minimal model program, derived categories and moduli spaces in an informal environment to facilitate the cross-fertilization of ideas across these different fields of algebraic geometry.

Zusammenfassung: The Spring Topology and Dynamics Conference is in its 41st year and each year brings together researchers from diverse areas of topology and dynamics. Stanislaw Ulam, one of the preeminent mathematical scientists of the 20th century, was a graduate research professor at the University of Florida and will turn 100 in spring, 2009. In light of Ulam's many contributions to topology, dynamics, and related fields, we are joining the annual STDC with an Ulam Centennial.

Zusammenfassung: Talks are by invitation only. However the organizers would like to invite everyone who is interested to attend. For purposes of getting enough coffee and nametags, it would be nice if you email if you are planning to come. This will also enable us to reserve a block of rooms and help you get a better rate. The following have agreed to speak at the conference: M.Bestvina, M. Bridson, J.Bryant, S.Cappell, J.Cannon, J.Davis, M.Davis, A.Dranishnikov, T.Farrell, J.Fowler, R.Ghrist, K.Grove, T.Januszkiewicz, W.Lueck(to be confirmed), G.Matic, B.Okun, S.Smale.

Zusammenfassung: Workshop focused on the construction of the Fukaya category associated to a symplectic manifold and the geometric structure it encodes. Specifically, topics developed will include A-infinity categories, Lagrangian Floer (co)-homology and its obstructions, the Fukaya and derived Fukaya categories, and applications to questions in symplectic geometry and the Homological Mirror Symmetry conjecture. Discussions will have an expository character and will be aimed at graduate students and junior faculty interested in this area.

Zusammenfassung: This workshop will present the state of the art in combinatorial, enumerative, and toric algebraic geometry. It will highlight this part of modern algebraic geometry within the context of the broader semester-long parent program at MSRI, and convey its scope to young researchers.

Zusammenfassung: TOPOLOGY, C*-ALGEBRAS, and STRING DUALITY May 18 - May 22, 2009 Opening reception on the evening of May 17 at Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX Principal Lecturer: Jonathan Rosenberg (Univ. of Maryland) Some of the most exciting current research in geometry and topology has been motivated by problems in mathematical physics in general, and string theory in particular. Physicists are still divided concerning the usefulness of string theory as a ``unified field theory,'' uniting our understanding of all the fundamental forces of nature. However, even if string theory should turn out not to be fully confirmed by experiment, the fascinating and beautiful mathematics it has generated is expected to retain its mathematical value. The subject of the conference will involve a number of such ``spin-offs'' of string theory into pure mathematics, and the way they connect with other topics in topology and operator algebras that were initially developed for other purposes.

Zusammenfassung: This will be the 7th in a series of multi-week octennial conferences that started in 1961. The conference will cover a broad cross-section of topology with an emphasis on geometric topology. The conference is being organized by Michael Ching, Sa'ar Hersonsky, Will Kazez, Gordana Matic, Clint McCrory, and Mike Usher. We have applied for support from the National Science Foundation. We will do our best to provide support for graduate students, women, under-represented minorities and recent Ph.D.s.

Zusammenfassung: The workshop will feature minicourses in hyperbolic geometry, quantum topology and number theory given by world renowned experts and is aimed at graduate students and recent PhD's. Support is available for the workshop and conference participants mainly in the form of housing. We also expect to provide partial travel support. Funding is provided by the NSF through an FRG grant. Detailed information about support, speakers and participants will be announced soon on the conference homepage.

Zusammenfassung: This workshop, sponsored by AIM and the NSF, will be devoted to the developing field of random maps between manifolds and their geometric properties.

Zusammenfassung: The goals of the 2009-2010 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. To achieve these goals, the program will concentrate on three broad, interrelated themes that encompass many of the modern trends in symplectic geometry: algebraic structures associated to holomorphic curves; symplectic and contact geometry in low-dimensional topology; and symplectic topology and dynamics.

Zusammenfassung: 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.

Zusammenfassung: This workshop, sponsored by AIM and the NSF, will focus on connections between different constructions for invariants of fiber bundles.