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 TOPOLOGICAL METHODS in MODERN MATHEMATICS

A Symposium in Honor of John Milnor's Sixtieth Birthday


SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY       June 14-21 1991


Speakers will include:

Hyman Bass, Jean-Michel Bismut, Spencer Bloch, Raoul Bott,
Bodil Branner, Adrien Douady, Yakob Eliashberg, Henri Gillet,
Wu-Chung Hsiang, John Hubbard, Vaughn Jones, Curt McMullen,
S.P. Novikov, Graeme Segal, Lawrence Siebenmann, I. M. Singer,
James Stasheff, Bernard Tessier, William Thurston, Edward Witten.


Main topics:

Global Geometry, Topology and Mathematical Physics (6/15-6/16)
Algebraic Geometry and K-theory (6/17-6/18)
Dynamical Systems (6/19-6/21)

Four days of  workshops and minicourses (6/22-6/25) will follow
the symposium.


Graduate students are encouraged to attend. Some support is
available for travel and accomodations.

Scientific Committee: H. Bass, M. Gromov, L. Siebenmann, D. Sullivan

Organizing Committee: L. R. Goldberg (CUNY), H. B. Lawson, Jr.,
D. McDuff, A. V. Phillips.

Information: contact the committee or
        Ms. Gerri Sciulli,
        Institute for Mathematical Sciences,
        SUNY, Stony Brook NY 11794-3660
        516-632-7318;
email:  ims@math.sunysb.edu
        gsciulli@sbccmail.bitnet