Horiba International Symposium

Knots, Contact Geometry and Floer Homology

May 24 - 28, 2010





Lecture Hall
Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences
The University of Tokyo

3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8914, Japan

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Topics :
Knot Floer homology, Contact homology, Legendrian and transverse knots,
Seiberg-Witten invariants, Symplectic Floer theory, Symplectic field theory,
Circle-valued Morse theory, Novikov homology, and others.

Invited speakers will include :
T. Ekholm (Uppsala University)
J. Etnyre (Georgia Institute of Technology)
K. Fukaya (Kyoto University)
M. Hedden (Michigan State University)
K. Honda (University of Southern California)
M. Hutchings (University of California, Berkeley)
E. Ionel (Stanford University)
A. Juhasz (University of Cambridge)
S. Maksymenko (Institute of Mathematics of NAS of Ukraine)
L. Ng (Duke University)
K. Ono (Hokkaido University)
N. Saveliev (The University of Miami)
A. Stipsicz (Renyi Institute of Mathematics)
D. Thurston* (Columbia University)

*to be confirmed

There will be an informal follow up workshop at
Tambara Institute of Mathematical Sciences
for the period from May 28 to 30.

Organizing Committee :
H. Goda, T. Kalman, T. Kohno, A. Pajitnov

Information : kch2010 [at] faculty.ms.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Supported by Global COE program,
Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences, The University of Tokyo


Last updated January 5, 2010