Workshop Announcement: ---------------------------------------------------------------- Towards Relative Symplectic Field Theory ---------------------------------------------------------------- September 24 to September 28, 2007 CUNY Graduate Center, New York City http://aimath.org/ARCC/workshops/relsymplectic.html ------------ Description: ------------ The goal of this workshop, sponsored by AIM, NSF, CUNY Graduate Center, and Stanford Mathematical Research Center (MRC) is to understand the structure of relative Symplectic Field Theory (SFT), discuss and reconcile different versions of its algebraic formalism, and to work towards building rigorous foundations of the theory. There will also be explored applications of relative SFT to symplectic and contact topology, as well as low-dimensional topology. The workshop is organized by Kai Cieliebak, Tobias Ekholm, Yakov Eliashberg, Kenji Fukaya, Dennis Sullivan, and Michael Sullivan. For more details please see the workshop announcement page: http://aimath.org/ARCC/workshops/relsymplectic.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 May 21, 2007. Applications are open to all, and we especially encourage women, underrepresented minorities, junior mathematicians, and researchers from primarily undergraduate institutions to apply.