CORNELL

TOPOLOGY

FESTIVAL

May 6-9, 2005

Thanks to all participants for making the 43rd annual Cornell Topology Festival a success.

• Click here for a summary of the panel discussion.
• Click here for photos of the festival.
• To see who won the Acme Klein bottle* for a preprint, click here.

• DENIS AUROUX (MIT)
  SYMPLECTIC  4-MANIFOLDS,  MAPPING  CLASS  GROUPS,  AND  FIBER  SUMS

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• AUGUSTIN BANYAGA (Pennsylvania State University)
  SOME  INVARIANTS  OF  TRANSVERSALLY  ORIENTED  FOLIATIONS

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• PAUL BIRAN (Tel Aviv University)
  ALGEBRAIC  FAMILIES  AND  LAGRANGIAN  CYCLES

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• THOMAS DELZANT (IRMA, Strasbourg)
  FUNDAMENTAL  GROUPS  OF  KAEHLER  MANIFOLDS

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• YAKOV ELIASHBERG (Stanford University)
  GEOMETRY  OF  CONTACT  TRANSFORMATIONS:  ORDERABILITY  VS.  SQUEEZING

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• ÉTIENNE GHYS (ENS-Lyon)
  MINIMAL  SETS  OF  HOLOMORPHIC  FOLIATIONS  ON  THE  COMPLEX  PROJECTIVE  PLANE:  A  SURVEY

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• YAEL KARSHON (University of Toronto)
  TORI  IN  SYMPLECTOMORPHISM  GROUPS

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• JOHN MORGAN (Columbia University)
  RICCI  FLOW  AND  TOPOLOGY  OF  3-MANIFOLDS

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• SHAHAR MOZES (Hebrew University)
  LATTICES  IN  PRODUCTS  OF  TREES

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• YANN OLLIVIER (ENS-Lyon)
  A  PANORAMA  OF  RANDOM  GROUPS

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• BRENDAN OWENS (Cornell University)
  UNKNOTTING  INFORMATION  FROM  HEEGAARD  FLOER  THEORY

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• Click here for abstracts of the talks.
• Schedule

The image at the top of this page is taken from Symplectic 4-manifolds, singular plane curves, and isotopy problems by Denis Auroux (arXiv:math.GT/0411233), by permission of the author.

*For the seventh time, a Klein bottle donated by Acme Klein bottle was awarded to a randomly selected contributor to the preprint table.

PREVIOUS FESTIVALS:

2004 Festival Home Page / Photos from 2004

2003 Festival Home Page / Photos from 2003

2002 Festival Home Page / Photos from 2002

2001 Festival Home Page / Photos from 2001

2000 Festival Home Page

1999 Festival Home Page

1998 Festival Home Page

1997 Festival Home Page

Here is a list of speakers at previous festivals, going back to 1982.