This is to announce the 2012 MIT-RTG Geometry Workshop, mentored by Prof. Hemut Hofer, on the theory and applications of polyfolds. It will be held on the week August 13-17, in Watsonville, CA. The workshop is funded by NSF award DMS-0943787.
The workshop will constitute a weeklong retreat with talks, organized discussion, and problem sessions. Prof. Hofer will outline the program of talks to be given by the participants. Most participants will be expected to give one of the talks. (See the syllabus and references below.)
The goal of the workshop is to introduce polyfolds as a framework for constructing moduli spaces of solutions of elliptic PDEs with noncompactness phenomena. The workshop will cover the basics of polyfold theory (sc-smoothness, implicit function theorem, and generalized differential geometry), and as an application, the construction of the general-genus symplectic Gromov-Witten invariants.
This workshop is aimed at graduate students and junior faculty members interested in this area. No prior knowledge of polyfolds will be assumed.
Further information about the workshop will become available on this website. Feel free to email the organizers (polyfest2012(at)gmail.com) with any questions.
A preliminary syllabus of the workshop is online. Links to references coming soon.
The workshop will take place in Pajaro Dunes Resort, Watsonville, CA (90 minutes south of San Fransisco Bay Area). We have booked six houses and a conference room, where participants will stay and give talks; you can take a look at them at: http://www.pajarodunes.com. Note that the housing and food expenses are covered by the NSF funding. We will rent cars, and pick everyone up from San Francisco or Palo Alto. We can reimburse some of your travel expenses. However, We will only be able to reimburse you for your airline ticket if you fly with an American carrier (flights purchased through an American carrier but operated by a different carrier are also OK).
If you are interested in participating, please fill out the following form. The application deadline is May 30, 2012. We will get back to you a few days after the deadline. Please note that the number of participants will be strictly limited (about 35) for space reasons.