Conference and school in Poisson geometry

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AbstractAward: DMS-0556398Principal Investigator: Alan D. WeinsteinWe propose to support travel to Japan for US participants(primarily graduate students and postdocs) at the conferencePoisson 2006, to be held in Tokyo June 5-9, preceded by apreparatory "school" of three days in length. The aim of themeeting, whose full title is "Poisson Geometry in Mathematics andPhysics," is to bring together mathematicians and mathematicalphysicists with common interests in Poisson geometry and itsapplications. With roots in classical mechanics about 200 yearsago and work of Sophus Lie about a century ago, the subject ofPoisson geometry crystallized through work of Lichnerowicz andKirillov in the 1970's. Its influence now extends to a widevariety of areas, including symplectic geometry and topology,deformation theory, representation theory, algebraic geometry,integrable hamiltonian systems, and field theory.Speakers at the school and conference have been chosen not onlyfor the importance of their results but also for their ability tocommunicate them to a broad audience of mathematicians andphysicists. Proceedings will be published in a manner whichmakes them accessible at low (or no) cost to a wide readership,in order to stimulate further study and research in the rapidlygrowing area of Poisson geometry.Detailed information about the activities may be found at thewebsite: http://www.u-bourgogne.fr/monge/g.dito/poisson2006/.