| Special Program on Geometry and Topology |
| SPRING 2000 |
| Feza Gursey Institute, Istanbul |
This is a research semester on Geometry and Topology, organized to review the latest developments in Symplectic and Complex Geometry, Gromov-Witten Invariants, Mirror Symmetry, Hamiltonian Systems , Symplectic Floer Homology, Seiberg-Witten Theory, and Geometric Topology.
Scientific Committee: Gang Tian (MIT), Ron Stern (Univ. California Irvine), Camrun Vafa (Harvard Univ.), Robion Kirby (Univ. of California, Berkeley), Selman Akbulut (Michigan State Univ.)
Organizing Committee: Turgut Onder (Middle East Technical Univ.), Sergey Finashin (Middle East Technical Univ.), Tekin Dereli (Middle East Technical Univ.), Ayse Humeyra Bilge (Istanbul Technical Univ.), Hasan Gumral (Feza Gursey Institute)
Recently Geometry and Topology have gone through rapid developments.
Ideas coming from physics greatly influenced developments in Symplectic Geometry,
Gromov-Witten Invariants, Mirror Symmetry and Seiberg-Witten Theory. The aim of this
semester is to review latest developments in these fields and promote research.
Through a series of lectures/seminars given by visitors and local lectureres we aim
to give some background for graduate students and junior faculty as well as
up to date information for more advanced researchers.
| Preparatory lectures on Algebraic and Differential Geometry, Symplectic Geometry.
(Lecturers: Sergey Finashin, Turgut Onder) |
Feb 16 - May 7 |
| Main Lecturers | Date of visit |
| Gang Liu (UCLA) | May 7-13 |
| Claude Viterbo (Univ. de Paris Sud) | May 10-21 |
| Ravi Vakil (MIT) | May 19-28 |
| Yong-Geun Oh (Korea Inst. of Advanced Study and Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison) | May 21-28 |
| Jun Li (Stanford Univ.) | May 22-26 |
| Dan Freed (Univ. of Texas, Austin) | May 23-27 |
| Aaron Bertram (Univ. of Utah) | TBA |
| Seminar talks | Date |
| Burak Ozbagci (Michigan State Univ.) | May 15, 17 |
| Sema Salur (Michigan State Univ.) | May 15, 17 |
| Meral Tosun (ICTP) | May 16 |
| Selman Akbulut (Michigan State Univ.) | May 16 |
| Nermin Salepci (Middle East Technical Univ.) | May 16 |
| Sergey Finashin (Middle East Technical Univ.) | May 22 |
| Grigory Mikhalkin (Harvard Univ.) | May 22 |