Global Differential Geometry: The Mathematical Legacy of Alfred Gray

Consists of 15 invited papers and 40 posters presented at the September 2000 conference. Many of the presentations deal with Riemannian manifolds, homogenous spaces, complex structures, symplectic manifolds, the geometry of geodesic spheres and tubes, the geometry of surfaces, and computer graphics in differential geometry. Some example topics are osculating tubes and self-linking for curves on the three-sphere, the Seiberg-Witten equations and almost-Hermitian geometry, complex geometry and representation of Lie groups, isometric immersions without positive Ricci curvature, and Weil algebras of generalized higher order velocities bundles. No index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)