Moduli Spaces of Properly Embedded Minimal Surfaces June 6 to June 10, 2005 AIM Research Conference Center, Palo Alto, CA Organizers: Michael Wolf, David Hoffman, and Matthias Weber Workshop topics: 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. Application deadline: March 6, 2005 For more information: http://aimath.org/ARCC/workshops/minimalsurfaces.html