Topology and Geometry of Manifolds: 2001 Georgia International Topology Conference, May 21-June 2, 2001, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia

Along with two problem lists, these 13 papers drawn from the May 2001 conference review recent results in low dimensional topology, sympletic and contact topology, and foliations. An introductory lecture on contact topology is followed by two papers on the classification of tight contact structures. Other topics include applications of the barycenter method in geometry, a survey of results in generalizing Casson's invariant to the SU (3) setting, boundary train tracks of laminar branched surfaces, and strongly irreducible surface automorphisms. No index is provided. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)