Conference Participants

A partial list of people who we are expecting to attend the conference includes:

• Casim Abbas (Michigan State University)
• Miguel Abreu (IST - Lisbon and Fields Institute)
• Paolo de Bartolomeis (University of Florence)
• Frederic Bourgeois (Stanford University)
• Jason Cantarella (University of Georgia)
• Marc Chaperon (Université Paris 7 Denis Diderot)
• Jih-Hsin Cheng (Academia Sinica, Taipei)
• Vladimir Chernov (University Zurich)
• Kai Cieliebak (Stanford University)
• Vincent Colin (Universite de Nantes and AIM)
• Fan Ding (Leiden University)
• Katarzyna Dymara (Ohio State)
• Tobias Ekholm (Uppsala University)
• Yakov Eliashberg (Stanford Univeristy)
• Charles Epstein (University of Pennsylvania)
• John Etnyre (Stanford University)
• Emmanuel Ferrand (Université Joseph Fourier, Institut Fourier)
• Maia Fraser (ETH)
• Paolo Ghiggini (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa and AIM)
• Herman Gluck (University of Pennsylvania)
• Robert Gompf (University of Texas, Austin)
• Noah Goodman (University of Texas, Austin and AIM)
• Richard Hind (University of Michigan)
• Ko Honda (University of Southern California and AIM)
• Michael Hutchings (Stanford University)
• Will Kazez (University of Georgia)
• Kharlamov (University of Strasbourg)
• Sang Seon Kim (Stanford University)
• Laszlo Lempert (Purdue University)
• Eugene Lerman (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and AIM)
• Slava Matveyev (SUNY Stonybrook)
• Kirill Michatchev (Stanford University)
• Yoshihiko Mitsumatsu (Chuo University)
• Klaus Mohnke (Stanford University)
• Tom Mrowka (MIT)
• Lenny Ng (MIT)
• Kaoru Ono (Hokkaido University)
• Kirsi Peltonen (Helsinki University of Technology)
• Francisco Presas (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
• Hans-Martin Reimann (University of Bern)
• Josh Sabloff (Stanford University)
• Nadya Shirokova (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and AIM)
• Andras Stipsicz (Eötvös University)
• Mike Sullivan (University of Michigan)
• Charles B. Thomas (University of Cambridge)
• Ichiro Torisu (Osaka University)
• Lisa Traynor (Bryn Mawr University and AIM)
• Takashi Tsuboi (University of Tokyo)
• Alberto Verjovsky (Math. Inst. Cuernavaco)
• Christopher Willett (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and AIM)
• Nancy Wrinkle (Columbia University)
• Mei-Lin Yau (University of California, Santa Barbara)

We also expect some participation from people at near by univeristies. Specifically:

• William Thurston and D. Fuchs (UC Davis),
• Rob Kirby, Alexander Givental and Alan Weinstein (UC Berkeley),
• Viktor Ginzburg, Richard Montgomery and Jonathan Weitzman (UC Santa Cruz).