Topics in Symplectic 4-Manifolds

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The National Science Foundation, International Press, and the University of California at Irvine, sponsored the first annual International Press Lecture Series. The idea was conceived by Peter Li and S. T. Yau, and the conference was organized by Richard Wentworth and Ronald J. Stern. The conference was attended by more than 200 research mathematicians. The lecture series in the conference included three one-hour lectures on “Seiberg-Witten and Gromov Invariants” delivered by Clifford Taubes. In addition, ten one-hour invited lectures were delivered by prominent researchers in 4–dimensional smooth and symplectic topology. Speakers included Sir Michael Atiyah, Yasha Eliashberg, Mikio Furuta, Robert Gompf, Peter Kronheimer, Dusa McDuff, Tomas Mrowka, Yongbin Ruan, Gang Tian, and Zoltán Szabó. Six of those lectures are presented in this volume.

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