Workshop Announcement:

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      Topology and geometry of the moduli space of curves
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                   March 28 to April 1, 2005

  American Institute of Mathematics Research Conference Center

                     Palo Alto, California

        http://aimath.org/ARCC/workshops/modspacecurves.html


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Description:
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This workshop, sponsored by AIM and the NSF, will be devoted to 
bringing the communities of topologists and algebraic geometers
together. The aim is to have an active exchange of results, techniques
and ideas on the cohomology of the moduli spaces of curves.

Specific topics to be addressed include:

   1. Integral cohomology, stable and unstable.
   2. Tautological cohomology of the compactified moduli space.
   3. Applications to Gromov-Witten theory. 

The workshop is organized by
Ulrike Tillmann and Ravi Vakil.

For more details please see the workshop announcement page:
http://aimath.org/ARCC/workshops/modspacecurves.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 December 15, 2004. Applications are open to all, and
we especially encourage women, underrepresented minorities,
junior mathematicians, and researchers from primarily
undergraduate institutions to apply.

Before submitting an application, please read the ARCC
policies concerning participation and financial support
for participants.

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AIM Research Conference Center (ARCC):
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a specific mathematical goal, such as making progress on a
significant unsolved problem, understanding the proof of an
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