Principal Investigator: Christopher G. Connell, David M. Fisher, Matthias Weber
The Bloomington Geometry Workshop brings together leading geometers to discuss and disseminate recent advances in geometry and related fields. This year's list of speakers includes Denis Auroux, Manfred Einseidler, Nikolai Ivanov, Gregory Margulis and Juan Souto. These speakers will inform participants of work in symplectic geometry, dynamics on homogeneous spaces and applications to number theory, rigidity theory, hyperbolic geometry and Teichmuller theory.
The purpose of the Workshop is to help foster cooperation and collaboration among researchers in the midwest region as well as help educate graduate students and young researchers about the latest developments in geometry. Most of the funding will be used to support the travel of graduate students and recent PhD's. These young researchers will come away from the workshop better prepared to take part in current research in geometry, a field of basic research that is important to computer graphics, quantum physics, material science, and many other scientific disciplines.
For more information, see the conference Web site at www.math.indiana.edu/programs/bgw/2006/.
