Workshop Announcement:

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      Moduli Spaces of Properly Embedded Minimal Surfaces
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                    June 6 to June 10, 2005

  American Institute of Mathematics Research Conference Center

                     Palo Alto, California

        http://aimath.org/ARCC/workshops/minimalsurfaces.html


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Description:
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This workshop, sponsored by AIM and the NSF, will be devoted 
to advancing the understanding of properly embedded minimal surfaces
in three-space, a subject  whose roots to go back to Euler and
Lagrange. New examples discovered in an explosion of activity in
the 1980's have gradually focused the subject on the problem of
classification. Recently, several new approaches and techniques
have been developed which together begin to suggest that it might
be possible to organize these examples into families, and indeed to
describe the structure of the space of properly embedded minimal
surfaces. This workshop will be tightly focused on a few specific
questions which are fundamental for this classification effort.
These problems are linked by a confluence of attention from
mathematicians with different points of view and by the prospect
that real progress might be made by approaches using several
different methods simultaneously. 

The workshop is organized by
Michael Wolf, David Hoffman, and Matthias Weber.

For more details please see the workshop announcement page:
http://aimath.org/ARCC/workshops/minimalsurfaces.html

Space and funding is available for a few more participants.
If you would like to participate, please apply by filling
out the on-line form (available at the link above) no later
than March 6, 2005. Applications are open to all, and
we especially encourage women, underrepresented minorities,
junior mathematicians, and researchers from primarily
undergraduate institutions to apply.

Before submitting an application, please read the ARCC
policies concerning participation and financial support
for participants.

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AIM Research Conference Center (ARCC):
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