[grad-students] Journees Peter Shalen

[joy.abramson at utoronto.ca]

Graduate Students can apply for travel funding to attend
the conference described below.

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JOURNEES PETER SHALEN

http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/Shalenfest/index_e.html

A conference on 3-dimensional topology and its role in mathematics, on
the occasion of Peter Shalen's sixtieth birthday. To be held June
12-15 at CRM in Montreal, Quebec. Sponsored by Centre de Recherches
Mathematiques, CIRGET, and the National Science Foundation.

PARTICIPANT TRAVEL SUPPORT IS BEING PROVIDED BY NSF AND CRM.
Graduate students and recent graduates are particularly encouraged to
apply.  Information is available at http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/Shalenfest/
We will begin making travel awards at the end of March.

Registration and Banquet tickets are available online.
PLEASE REGISTER EARLY. BANQUET TICKETS ARE LIMITED.

Organizers: Steve Boyer, Dick Canary, Marc Culler, Nathan Dunfield, Benson Farb

The conference will focus on interactions between 3-dimensional topology
and other areas of mathematics.  The following speakers have agreed to
give talks (* if possible):

       Ian Agol (University of Illinois at Chicago)
       Marc Culler (University of Illinois at Chicago)
       Nathan Dunfield (Caltech)
       Cameron Gordon (University of Texas)
     * Alex Lubotzky (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
       Dan Margalit (University of Utah)
       Yair Minsky (Yale University)
     * Maryam Mirzakhani (Princeton University/Clay Institute)
       John Morgan (Columbia University)
       Lenhard Ng (Stanford University / AIM)
       Peter Ozsvath (Columbia University)
       Jake Rasmussen (Princeton Univerity)
       Michah Sageev (Technion)
       Peter Storm (Stanford)