Workshop Announcement: ---------------------------------------------------------------- Transversality in contact homology ---------------------------------------------------------------- December 8 to December 12, 2014 American Institute of Mathematics Research Conference Center Palo Alto, California http://aimath.org/workshops/upcoming/transcontacthom ------------ Description: ------------ This workshop, sponsored by AIM and the NSF, will bring together specialists in symplectic and contact topology with the goals of clarifying the gaps in current arguments concerning the definition of contact homology and of moving forward to fill these gaps and build precise foundations for the cylindrical, linearized, local, and possibly other versions of contact homology. The workshop is organized by Joel Fish, Michael Hutchings, Joanna Nelson, and Katrin Wehrheim. For more details please see the workshop announcement page: http://aimath.org/workshops/upcoming/transcontacthom 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 August 8, 2014. Applications are open to all, and we especially encourage women, underrepresented minorities, junior mathematicians, and researchers from primarily undergraduate institutions to apply. -------------------------------- AIM Research Conference Center: -------------------------------- The American Institute of Mathematics (AIM) hosts focused workshops in all areas of the mathematical sciences. AIM focused workshops are distinguished by their emphasis on a specific mathematical goal, such as making progress on a significant unsolved problem, understanding the proof of an important new result, or investigating the convergence between two distinct areas of mathematics. For more information, please visit http://www.aimath.org/workshops/upcoming/