2012 MIT-RTG Geometry Workshop: the theory and application of polyfolds, August 13--17, 2012

[Robert Lipshitz]

Hi folks,

Some of you might be interested in this workshop.  "Polyfolds" are an approach to some of the analytic issues underlying holomorphic curve techniques; the technique is fairly new, and there should be a lot one can do with it.  Pajaro Dunes is nice place, though with Helmut lecturing there probably wont be a lot of time to watch the sand birds...

Best,

Robert

Begin forwarded message:

From: Nate Bottman <bot...@math.mit.edu>

Subject: 2012 MIT-RTG Geometry Workshop: the theory and application of polyfolds, August 13--17, 2012

Date: April 22, 2012 3:10:31 PM EDT

To: Nate Bottman <bot...@math.mit.edu>

Dear all,

This e-mail announces the 2012 MIT-RTG Geometry Workshop, mentored by

Prof. Helmut Hofer, on the theory and applications of polyfolds.  Your help in

advertising the workshop to your students and postdocs would be greatly

appreciated.

The workshop will be held on the week August 13--17, 2012 at the Pajaro Dunes

resort 90 minutes south of the San Francisco Bay Area, CA.  The workshop will

constitute a weeklong retreat with talks, organized discussions, and problem

sessions.  Prof. Hofer will outline the program of talks to be given by the

participants.  Most participants will be expected to give one of the talks.  A

preliminary syllabus is available at

http://math.mit.edu/conferences/geometryworkshop/syllabus.pdf .

The goal of the workshop is to introduce polyfolds as a framework for

constructing moduli spaces of solutions of elliptic PDEs with noncompactness

phenomena. The workshop will cover the basics of polyfold theory

(sc-smoothness, implicit function theorem, and generalized differential geometry),

and as an application, the construction of the general-genus symplectic

Gromov-Witten invariants.  The workshop discussions will have an expository

nature and are aimed at graduate students and junior faculty interested in

moduli spaces of PDEs that exhibit noncompactness phenomena.  No prior

knowledge of polyfolds will be assumed.

For more detailed information, or to register for the workshop, please go to the

website http://math.mit.edu/conferences/geometryworkshop/ . *Our application

deadline is May 30, 2012.*  We expect to be able to subsidize many participants'

travel expenses.  Please note that the number of participants will be strictly

limited to 35 for space reasons.

Any questions should be sent to the organizers at polyfe...@gmail.com .

Regards from the organizers,

Nate Bottman

Jiayong Li