THEMATIC PROGRAMS

Symplectic Topology, Geometry, and Gauge Theory Program
January 2001 to June 2001

Scientific Organizing Committee

Michele Audin, Strasbourg University
Yakov Eliashberg, Stanford University
Helmut Hofer, Courant Institute, University of New York
Jacques Hurtubise, McGill University
Lisa Jeffrey, University of Toronto
Boris Khesin, University of Toronto
Francois Lalonde, University of Quebec, Montreal
Eckhard Meinrenken, University of Toronto

Overview

This program will bring together researchers in symplectic topology and algebraic geometry, gauge theory and quantum field theory, Hamiltonian group actions and quantization problems, as well as in other related areas. This is a part of the joint CRM-Fields Institute symplectic semester.

Workshops

• Quasiclassical and Quantum Structures
  January 9 - 14, 2001
  Organizers: P. Etingof (MIT) and B. Khesin (Toronto)

• Symplectic and Contact Topology, Quantum Cohomology, Symplectic Field Theory and Higher-Dimensional Gauge Theory
  March 26 - April 7, 2001

  Topologie symplectique et de contact, cohomologie quantique, théorie des champs symplectique et théories de jauge
  26 mars au 7 avril 2001

  Organizers: S. Donaldson (London), B. Dubrovin (Trieste), Ya. Eliashberg (Stanford), A. Givental (Berkeley), B. Khesin (Toronto), and F. Lalonde (Montreal)

• Hamiltonian Group Actions and Quantization
  June 4 - 13, 2001
  Organizers: L. Jeffrey (Toronto), E. Meinrenken (Toronto), J. Hurtubise (Montreal), and M. Audin (Strasbourg)

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Call For Participants and Applicants

Limited support is available for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Graduate students interested in a term visit should forward a letter of application with a letter of recommendation from their supervisor. Postdoctoral fellows should forward a letter of application, curriculum vitae and three reference letters.