Conference in Honor of the 60th Birthday of
John Morgan


Topology, Geometry, and Physics

 Apr 30-May 5, 2006
Department of Mathematics
Columbia University

This is a week-long conference focusing on the interplay between recent advances in geometry, topology, and physics. The main conference will take place May 1-4, with a special workshop on gauge theory/four manifolds/Floer homology on April 30th, and another special workshop on May 5th on hyperbolic geometry.

Conference Photos!


Organizing Committee

Robert Friedman, David Gabai, Peter Ozsváth, Zoltán Szabó, András Stipsicz


Speakers

The following people have agreed to speak:

I. Agol
J. Carlson
H. Clemens
Y. Eliashberg
R. Fintushel
D. Gabai
P. Ghiggini
P. Griffiths
R. Hamilton
M. Khovanov
R. Kirby
R. MacPherson
C. Manolescu
D. McDuff
Y. Minsky
T. Mrowka
J-P. Otal
P. Ozsváth
J. Rasmussen
P. Seidel
P. Shalen
J. Souto
R. Stern
A. Stipsicz
D. Sullivan
Z. Szabó
C. Taubes
G. Tian
E. Witten
S-T. Yau


Click here for a schedule

Lectures will be held in room 312 in the Mathematics building, except on Friday May 5th, when they will be held in room 417 in the Mathematics building. Registration

All interested participants should register by sending their name, address, affiliation, and dates of stay to

morgan60@math.columbia.edu

Pending the outcome of applications for external funding, some support may be available for participants. Graduate students and recent Ph.D.'s are particularly encouraged to apply.  Applicants for partial support should include the year of their (expected) Ph.D.  Graduate students and recent Ph.D.s applying for support should also have one letter of recommendation sent to the above address.

Banquet

There will be a conference banquet at the Faculty House on the night of Thursday, May 4th. To sign up for this event, please send an empty email to the address
banquet@math.columbia.edu
with subject line containing the number of people in the party.

Local Information

 See the Columbia Mathematics Department web-pages for information on travel and accomodations.


Sponsors

The conference is funded by the department of Mathematics of Columbia University and grants from the National Science Foundation, especially grant DMS-0540236 and FRG-0244663.