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Geometry and Topology of Manifolds

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Hans U. Boden, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, Ian Hambleton, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, Andrew J. Nicas, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada and B. Doug Park, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada, Editors

Publication: Fields Institute Communications
Publication Year: 2005; Volume 47
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-3724-5 (print); 978-1-4704-3081-8 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/fic/047
MathSciNet review: MR2188501
MSC: Primary 57-06; Secondary 14-06, 53-06, 58-06

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• Selman Akbulut and Selahi Durusoy – An involution acting nontrivially on Heegaard-Floer homology
• Weimin Chen – Pseudoholomorphic curves in four-orbifolds and some applications
• Olivier Collin – Floer homology for knots and 3-manifolds and cyclic Dehn surgeries along knots
• Cynthia Curtis – A $PSL_2(\mathbb {C})$ Casson invariant
• James Davis – The Borel/Novikov conjectures and stable diffeomorphisms of 4-manifolds
• Tobias Ekholm and John Etnyre – Invariants of knots, embeddings and immersions via contact geometry
• Paul Feehan and Thomas Leness – SO(3)-monopoles: The overlap problem
• Stanislav Jabuka and Thomas Mark – Heegaard Floer homology of mapping tori II
• Vyacheslav Krushkal – Surfaces in 4-manifolds and the surgery conjecture
• Junho Lee and Thomas Parker – Symplectic gluing and family Gromov-Witten invariants
• Yi-Jen Lee – Heegaard splittings and Seiberg-Witten monopoles
• Tian-Jun Li – Existence of symplectic surfaces
• András Némethi – On the Heegaard Floer homology of $S^3_{-d}(K)$ and unicuspidal rational plane curves
• Martin Niepel – Examples of symplectic 4-manifolds with positive signature
• Brendan Owens and Sašo Strle – Definite manifolds bounded by rational homology three spheres
• Peter Ozsváth and Zoltán Szabó – On Park’s exotic smooth four-manifolds
• Jacob Rasmussen – Knot polynomials and knot homologies
• Daniel Ruberman and Nikolai Saveliev – Casson-type invariants in dimension four
• Samuel Schack and Xingru Zhang – Culler-Shalen norms and invariant trace fields
• Laurence Taylor – Complex spin structures on 3-manifolds
• Michael Usher – Lefschetz fibrations and pseudoholomorphic curves
• Stefano Vidussi – The isotopy problem for symplectic 4-manifolds