Contact Topology in Dimension Three and Higher, July 28 - August 1, 2014

这笔赠款支持美国参与者参加将于2014年7月28日至8月1日在伦敦大学学院举行的研讨会“三维及更高维度的接触几何”的费用。这个工作坊的目的是让世界各地从事接触几何和辛拓扑相关领域的研究人员和学生汇聚一堂。在美国和欧洲都有大量的研究人员在接触拓扑学方面工作；为了促进该领域的进一步发展，这些研究小组之间保持良好的沟通是重要的。这次会议将有助于提供一些沟通。研讨会的主题包括伪全纯曲线、h-原理、辛动力学和Stein流形，具体目标是向可能更熟悉低维的参与者介绍高维技术，反之亦然。该计划将是普通研究讲座和关于最近感兴趣的话题的更深入的迷你课程的混合体。迷你课程包括：Peter Albers(明斯特)和Will Merry(苏黎世理工大学)的《可顺序性与Rabinowitz Floer理论》，Patrick Massot(理工学院)和Emmy Murphy(麻省理工学院)的《高维接触几何的灵活性》，以及Richard Siefring(莱比锡MPI)和Chris Wendl(伦敦大学学院)的《穿孔全纯曲线的交集理论及其应用》。研究会谈的确切清单将在研讨会时间临近时确定，以反映该领域的最新发展。有关详细信息，请访问研讨会网页http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucahcwe/workshop.html

This grant supports US participants expenses in the workshop "Contact Geometry in Dimension Three and Higher" to be held at University College London, from July 28 to August 1, 2014. This workshop aims to bring together researchers and students from around the world working in contact geometry and related areas in symplectic topology. There are large groups of researchers in both the U.S. and Europe working in contact topology; and to foster further developments in the field it is important that there is good communication between these research groups. This conference will help provide some of that communication. The workshop includes topics such as pseudo-holomorphic curves, h-principles, symplectic dynamics and Stein manifolds, with the specific goal of introducing higher-dimensional techniques to participants who might be more familiar with low dimensions, or vice versa. The program will be a mixture of ordinary research talks with more in-depth mini-courses on topics of recent interest. The mini-courses will be "Orderability and Rabinowitz Floer theory" by Peter Albers (Munster) and Will Merry (ETH Zurich), "Flexibility in higher-dimensional contact geometry" by Patrick Massot (École Polytechnique) and Emmy Murphy (MIT), and "Intersection theory of punctured holomorphic curves and applications" by Richard Siefring (MPI Leipzig) and Chris Wendl (UCL). The exact list of research talks will be determined closer to the time of the workshop to reflect the latest developments in the field. Details can be found on the workshop web page at http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucahcwe/workshop.html