Workshop: "Algebraic structures in Symplectic Field Theory and Applications"

一个名为“辛场论（SFT）中的代数结构及其应用”的美德联合研讨会将于2006年8月5日至8月11日在德国莱比锡举行。研讨会面向辛拓扑的研究人员，以及对探索新兴研究领域感兴趣的研究生、博士后和数学家。研讨会将包括由专家讲授的几个密集系列讲座，以及由研究新理论的研究生和博士后主持的练习环节。计划的系列讲座将涵盖以下主题：SFT中出现的新代数结构，SFT与弦拓扑之间的关系；SFT与量子可积系统理论的关系；SFT在辛拓扑及其他领域的应用。辛场论是一门新兴学科，它与代数和辛几何、低维拓扑学、数学中的可积系统理论以及理论物理中的弦论都有密切的联系。研讨会的目标之一是帮助研究生、博士后和年轻的研究人员进入新的领域，并帮助协调国际上发展新理论的努力。美国国家科学基金会的资助将专门用于美国研究生和博士后的旅行费用。更多信息可以在会议网页上找到：//math.stanford.edu/~lipshitz/SFT.html

A joint US-Germany workshop ``Algebraic structures in Symplectic Field Theory (SFT) and Applications" will take place in Leipzig, Germany in the period August 5--August 11, 2006. The workshop is oriented both towards researchers in Symplectic Topology, as well as graduate students, postdocs, and mathematicians interested in exploring a new emerging area of research. The workshop will consists of several intensive lecture series given by specialists, and of exercise sessions run by graduate students and postdocs studying the new theory. The planned lectures series will cover the following subjects: new algebraic structures arising in SFT, the relation between SFT and string topology; the relation between SFT and the theory of quantum integrable systems; applications of SFT in symplectic topology and beyond.Symplectic Field Theory is a new emerging subject which proved to be relevant to Algebraic and Symplectic Geometries, Low-Dimensional Topology, Theory of Integrable Systems in Mathematics, as well as to String Theory in Theoretical Physics. One of the goals of the workshop is to help graduate students, postdocs and young researchers to enter the new area, as well as to help coordinating the international effort in the development of the new theory. The NSF funding will be used exclusively for travel expenses of US-based graduate students and postdocs.More information can be found on the conrefence web-pagehttp://math.stanford.edu/~lipshitz/SFT.html