Geometry in the Spring: a mini-conference on geometry

Geometry in the Spring

Program:

11:00-11:30 Gathering and light refreshements

11:30-12:30 Ran Tessler (Weizmann Institute of Science), “The open arf invariant and stratifications of moduli spaces of surfaces with boundary”.

12:30-14:00 Lunch

14:00-16:15 Award ceremony in honor of Noriko Sakurai, Hillel Gauchman and Yossi Friedman.

• Honorary speaker: Sergey Fomin (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), “Cluster Transformations”.

16:40-17:40 Eugenii Shustin (Tel Aviv University), TBA

Organizers:

• Prof. Miriam Cohen (Ben Gurion University),
• Prof. Daniel Sternheimer (Rikkyo University, Institut de Mathematiques de Bourgogne),
• Dr. Inna Entova-Aizenbud (Ben Gurion University).

The award ceremony will be held in the presence of Prof. Daniel Sternheimer and Ms. Julia Gauchman.