2009 Georgia International Topology Conference

 

We invite you to submit a paper to the conference proceedings.

May 18-29, 2009

University of Georgia

Athens, Georgia

All talks are in the Forestry Auditorium,
which is on the ground floor of the building Forest Resources 2

This will be the seventh in a series of octennial conferences that have been held at the University of Georgia starting in 1961.

The list of speakers who have accepted our invitation includes:

Ian Agol (UC Berkeley)
Jorgen Andersen (University of Aarhus)
Denis Auroux (MIT)
Mladen Bestvina (University of Utah)
Michel Boileau (Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse)
Danny Calegari (Cal Tech)
Tobias Colding (MIT)
Yasha Eliashberg (Stanford University)
Ron Fintushel (Michigan State University)
Michael Freedman (Microsoft Station Q)
Stefan Friedl (University of Warwick)
Dave Gabai (Princeton)
Ursula Hamenstaedt (Bonn)
Shelly Harvey (Rice University)
Michael Hill (University of Virginia)
Michael Hutchings (UC Berkeley)
Bruce Kleiner (Yale University)
Peter Kronheimer (Harvard University)
Mark Lackenby (Oxford University)
Yanki Lekili (MIT)
Robert Lipshitz (Columbia University)
Dusa McDuff (Barnard College, Columbia University)
William Minicozzi (Johns Hopkins University)
Yair Minsky (Yale University)
Tom Mrowka (MIT)
Lenny Ng (Duke University)
Yi Ni (MIT)
Peter Ozsvath (Columbia University)
Alan Reid (UT Austin)
Paul Seidel (MIT)
Dennis Sullivan (CUNY Graduate School)
Zoltan Szabo (Princeton)
Dylan Thurston (Columbia University)
Gang Tian (Princeton)
Mike Usher (University of Georgia)
Karen Vogtmann (Cornell University)
Kevin Walker (Microsoft Station Q)
Liam Watson (Université du Québec à Montréal)
Katrin Wehrheim (MIT)

We will leave several speaking spots open and fill them at the start of the conference. So far, over 200 people have registered for the conference, including over 100 graduate students.

The conference organizers are Michael Ching, Will Kazez, Gordana Matic, Clint McCrory, and Mike Usher. We highly value the input we have received from our scientific organizing committee of Simon Donaldson, Yasha Eliashberg, Dave Gabai, Rob Kirby, Bruce Kleiner, Dennis Sullivan, Cliff Taubes, and Karen Vogtmann.