Workshop and Conference on Holomorphic Curves and Low-Dimensional Topology
Month: July 2012
Date: July 30--August 11
Name: Workshop and Conference on Holomorphic Curves and Low-Dimensional Topology
Location: Stanford University, Palo Alto, California.
Focus
The main focus of this workshop will be on holomorphic curve techniques in low-dimensional topology and symplectic geometry. The workshop is a part of the FRG: Collaborative Research: Topology and Invariants of Smooth 4-Manifolds. It is funded by NSF Focused Research Grant DMS-1065955. Additional funds come from the Stanford University Mathematics Research Center. 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, Yasha Eliashberg, Sergei Gukov, Ko Honda, Robert Lipshitz, Katrin Wehrheim.
Information
http://www.math.umn.edu/~akhmedov/Stanford2012