Geometry Festival

University Of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA

Investigators

Abstract

DMS-0406248 Herman Gluck, Eugenio N. Calabi, Karsten Grove, Scott Wolpert, Wolfgang Ziller The Geometry Festival is one of the main annual conferences in the area of Geometry and Topology. It has been held annually in rotation since 1985 at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Maryland, the University of North Carolina, the State University of New York at Stony Brook, Duke University, New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, and Northeastern University. The Geometry Festival has the aim of exposing and explaining the major recent accomplishments in the field to a diverse audience of interested students and faculty, and of bringing together present and future experts in a supportive atmosphere, with special attention to and financial support for under-represented groups, graduate students and young faculty. Each year, the host school maintains a website which gives detailed information about the Geometry Festival, and includes a cumulative listing of all past speakers and their topics. The current website is www.math.duke.edu/conferences/geomfest03/