<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><br></div><div></div><div><div></div><div><p class="s4" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold; "> ====Please Circulate====</span></p><p class="s4" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold; "><br></span></p><p class="s4" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold; "> ****PIMS Symposium on the Geometry and Topology of Manifolds****</span></p><p class="s4" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><b><br></b></span></p><p class="s4" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><b>DATES: </b>June 29 - July 9, 2015 </span></p><p class="s4" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><b><br></b></span></p><p class="s4" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><b>LOCATION: </b>the<b> </b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><span class="s6">Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) on</span></span></span></span></p><p class="s4" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><span class="s6">the campus of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC, Canada</span></span></span></p><p class="s4" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><br></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">Organizers:</span><br></p></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">Boris Botvinnik (Oregon), Ian Hambleton (McMaster), Alexei Kovalev (Cambridge) </span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">& Dale Rolfsen (UBC)</span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "> </span></span><br></b></div><div><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s8"><br></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><b><span class="s8">About the Symposium</span><span class="s6">:</span></b></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s6">The objective of the Symposium will be to bring together mathematicians working </span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s6">on a broad range of topics in this area, and provide an opportunity for researchers </span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s6">and graduate students to learn about new connections. The program will include a </span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s6">combination of expository and research talks, as well as time for informal contacts </span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s6">and exchanges of ideas. Some particular themes that we hope will be represented </span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s6">during this activity include geometric structures and analysis on manifolds (e.g Ricci </span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s6">flow, Einstein metrics, special holonomy); geometric group theory and 3-manifolds; </span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s6">geometric topology (e.g surgery theory, cobordism and stability of diffeomorphisms); </span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s6">smooth 4-manifolds and gauge theory; symplectic geometry and topology.</span><span class="s6"></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><br></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: inherit; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; "></p><div style="font-weight: inherit; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><br></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><b>Support for Young Researchers and Members of Underrepresented Groups:</b></div><div style="font-weight: inherit; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">Thanks to generous funding from NSF and PIMS, there will be funds available to</span><br></div><div style="font-weight: inherit; text-align: -webkit-auto; ">support junior researchers and members of underrepresented groups. In particular </div><div style="font-weight: inherit; text-align: -webkit-auto; ">we encourage graduate students and postdocs <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">to apply.</span></div><div style="font-weight: inherit; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><br></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: inherit; "> </span><b> **Applications for support are due by March 20, 2015**</b></div><p></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "> </p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s6">Event details and </span><span class="s6">information can be found online at</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s6"><br></span></p><a href="http://www.pims.math.ca/scientific-event/150629-psgtm">http://www.pims.math.ca/scientific-event/150629-psgtm</a><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s6"><br></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s6">Registration will open at the end of January.</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "> </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "></p></div></div><div><br></div></body></html>