Transformation Groups in Topology and Geometry

--- The Second Group Action Forum Conference

July 14-17, 2008
University of Massachusetts at Amherst

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• Accommodation/Practical Information
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• Conference Poster
• Schedule, Plenary, 30-minute

Welcome

The goal of this conference is to bring together researchers from a wide range of areas of geometry and topology (often viewed as quite disjoint), with the unifying force being the common occurrence of symmetries. The topics to be discussed at this conference include:

• Symmetries of 3-manifolds
• Group actions on 4-manifolds
• Symmetries of higher dimensional manifolds
• Transformation groups in geometry (algebraic, symplectic, etc.)

Besides the standard conference talks (30 minutes long) there will be invited (1-hour long) plenary lectures delivered by leading researchers in the corresponding areas. These talks will give an overview of a given research area and suggest possible new research directions.

Plenary Speakers

• Sylvain Cappell (New York University)
• Weimin Chen (University of Massachusetts-Amherst)
• Allan Edmonds (Indiana University)
• Mikio Furuta (University of Tokyo)
• Shulim Kaliman (University of Miami)
• Bernhard Leeb (Universität München)
• Reinhard Schultz (University of California-Riverside)

Organizing Committee

• Weimin Chen (University of Massachusetts at Amherst)
• Slawomir Kwasik (Tulane University, New Orleans)
• Reinhard Schultz (University of California at Riverside)

Sponsors

• National Science Foundation
• Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst