Workshop Announcement: ---------------------------------------------------------------- The many facets of the Maslov index ---------------------------------------------------------------- April 7 to April 11, 2014 American Institute of Mathematics Research Conference Center Palo Alto, California http://aimath.org/workshops/upcoming/maslov ------------ Description: ------------ This workshop, sponsored by AIM and the NSF, will be devoted to the Maslov index, a collective name for many related invariants counting the jumps of functions, starting in the 19th century with the principal value of the complex logarithm. The workshop is organized by Yasha Eliashberg, Etienne Ghys, and Andrew Ranicki. For more details please see the workshop announcement page: http://aimath.org/workshops/upcoming/maslov 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 1, 2013. 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/