Mathematical Sciences Research Institute - Summer Graduate Workshop: Symplectic and Contact Geometry and Topology

Organized By: John Etnyre (Georgia Institute of Technology), Dusa McDuff* (Barnard College, Columbia University) and Lisa Traynor (Bryn Mawr College).

List of lecturers:

Margaret Symington (Mercer University)
John Etnyre (Georgia Tech)
Katrin Wehrheim (MIT)
Ely Kerman (UIUC)
Dusa McDuff (Columbia)
Lenny Ng (Duke)

The first week of the workshop will focus on :
Introduction to Symplectic Geometry
Introduction to Contact Geometry
Introduction to Holomorphic Curves

The second week of the workshop will focus on:
Applications of pseudo-holomorphic curves
4-dimensional symplectic geometry
Contact geometry and 3-d topology

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Please have your Department Chair send a list of at most three nominees to Jonathan Rubinsy at sgwnominations_AT_msri.org and include the following information for each nominated student:

DEPARTMENT CHAIR NAME and Institute
WORKSHOP NAME
STUDENT’S NAME
STUDENT’S CONTACT INFORMATION (Email, Telephone)
GENDER AND ETHNICITY

Students admitted to the workshops will be informed directly by MSRI; the IAS/PCMI workshop will issue its own announcement.

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