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Book DetailsProceedings of Symposia in Pure MathematicsVolume: 71; 2003; 357 ppMSC: Primary 57; 53
Since 1961, the Georgia Topology Conference has been held every eight years to discuss the newest developments in topology. The goals of the conference are to disseminate new and important results and to encourage interaction among topologists who are in different stages of their careers. Invited speakers are encouraged to aim their talks to a broad audience, and several talks are organized to introduce graduate students to topics of current interest. Each conference results in high-quality surveys, new research, and lists of unsolved problems, some of which are then formally published. Continuing in this 40-year tradition, the AMS presents this volume of articles and problem lists from the 2001 conference. Topics covered include symplectic and contact topology, foliations and laminations, and invariants of manifolds and knots.
Articles of particular interest include John Etnyre's “Introductory Lectures on Contact Geometry”, which is a beautiful expository paper that explains the background and setting for many of the other papers. This is an excellent introduction to the subject for graduate students in neighboring fields. Etnyre and Lenhard Ng's “Problems in Low-Dimensional Contact Topology” and Danny Calegari's extensive paper,“Problems in Foliations and Laminations of 3-Manifolds”, are carefully selected problems in keeping with the tradition of the conference. They were compiled by Etnyre and Ng and by Calegari with the input of many who were present. This book provides material of current interest to graduate students and research mathematicians interested in the geometry and topology of manifolds.
ReadershipGraduate students and research mathematicians interested in the geometry and topology of manifolds.
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Table of Contents
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Articles
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Justin Roberts — Rozansky-Witten theory [ MR 2024627 ]
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Christopher Connell and Benson Farb — Some recent applications of the barycenter method in geometry [ MR 2024628 ]
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Stephen Bigelow — The Lawrence-Krammer representation [ MR 2024629 ]
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William H. Meeks, III — Topological properties of properly embedded minimal surfaces in $\mathbb {R}^3$ [ MR 2024630 ]
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John B. Etnyre — Introductory lectures on contact geometry [ MR 2024631 ]
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Vincent Colin, Emmanuel Giroux and Ko Honda — On the coarse classification of tight contact structures [ MR 2024632 ]
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Paolo Ghiggini and Stephan Schönenberger — On the classification of tight contact structures [ MR 2024633 ]
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Margaret Symington — Four dimensions from two in symplectic topology [ MR 2024634 ]
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Hans U. Boden, Christopher M. Herald and Paul Kirk — On the integer valued $\mathrm {SU}(3)$ Casson invariant [ MR 2024635 ]
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Paul M. N. Feehan and Thomas G. Leness — On Donaldson and Seiberg-Witten invariants [ MR 2024636 ]
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J. Scott Carter and Masahico Saito — Quandle homology theory and cocycle knot invariants [ MR 2024637 ]
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Tao Li — Boundary train tracks of laminar branched surfaces [ MR 2024638 ]
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Saul Schleimer — Strongly irreducible surface automorphisms [ MR 2024639 ]
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Danny Calegari — Problems in foliations and laminations of 3-manifolds [ MR 2024640 ]
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John B. Etnyre and Lenhard L. Ng — Problems in low dimensional contact topology [ MR 2024641 ]
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Since 1961, the Georgia Topology Conference has been held every eight years to discuss the newest developments in topology. The goals of the conference are to disseminate new and important results and to encourage interaction among topologists who are in different stages of their careers. Invited speakers are encouraged to aim their talks to a broad audience, and several talks are organized to introduce graduate students to topics of current interest. Each conference results in high-quality surveys, new research, and lists of unsolved problems, some of which are then formally published. Continuing in this 40-year tradition, the AMS presents this volume of articles and problem lists from the 2001 conference. Topics covered include symplectic and contact topology, foliations and laminations, and invariants of manifolds and knots.
Articles of particular interest include John Etnyre's “Introductory Lectures on Contact Geometry”, which is a beautiful expository paper that explains the background and setting for many of the other papers. This is an excellent introduction to the subject for graduate students in neighboring fields. Etnyre and Lenhard Ng's “Problems in Low-Dimensional Contact Topology” and Danny Calegari's extensive paper,“Problems in Foliations and Laminations of 3-Manifolds”, are carefully selected problems in keeping with the tradition of the conference. They were compiled by Etnyre and Ng and by Calegari with the input of many who were present. This book provides material of current interest to graduate students and research mathematicians interested in the geometry and topology of manifolds.
Graduate students and research mathematicians interested in the geometry and topology of manifolds.
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Articles
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Justin Roberts — Rozansky-Witten theory [ MR 2024627 ]
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Christopher Connell and Benson Farb — Some recent applications of the barycenter method in geometry [ MR 2024628 ]
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Stephen Bigelow — The Lawrence-Krammer representation [ MR 2024629 ]
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William H. Meeks, III — Topological properties of properly embedded minimal surfaces in $\mathbb {R}^3$ [ MR 2024630 ]
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John B. Etnyre — Introductory lectures on contact geometry [ MR 2024631 ]
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Vincent Colin, Emmanuel Giroux and Ko Honda — On the coarse classification of tight contact structures [ MR 2024632 ]
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Paolo Ghiggini and Stephan Schönenberger — On the classification of tight contact structures [ MR 2024633 ]
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Margaret Symington — Four dimensions from two in symplectic topology [ MR 2024634 ]
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Hans U. Boden, Christopher M. Herald and Paul Kirk — On the integer valued $\mathrm {SU}(3)$ Casson invariant [ MR 2024635 ]
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Paul M. N. Feehan and Thomas G. Leness — On Donaldson and Seiberg-Witten invariants [ MR 2024636 ]
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J. Scott Carter and Masahico Saito — Quandle homology theory and cocycle knot invariants [ MR 2024637 ]
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Tao Li — Boundary train tracks of laminar branched surfaces [ MR 2024638 ]
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Saul Schleimer — Strongly irreducible surface automorphisms [ MR 2024639 ]
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Danny Calegari — Problems in foliations and laminations of 3-manifolds [ MR 2024640 ]
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John B. Etnyre and Lenhard L. Ng — Problems in low dimensional contact topology [ MR 2024641 ]
