Dear Prof. We would very much like to invite you to give one of the main lectures in the "Santa Barbara Summer Conference in Geometry" to be held on the campus of University of California, Santa Barbara from July 21 to July 24, 1999. The conference is organized by the geometry group of UCSB together with Kefeng Liu of Stanford University, under the advisory of R. Bott, I. Singer, E. Witten and S. T. Yau. The main goals of the conference are twofold: first, bringing together the leading experts, to survey the recent remarkable progress in geometry and topology, to report the current developments, and to point to new directions of research; seocnd, further stimulating the fruitful interactions between mathematics and physics. For these purposes, the conference is coordinated with the three-week program "Workshop on Geometry and Physics" from July 26 to August 13, in the Institute of Theoretic Physics, UCSB. The tentative list of invited principal speakers includes J.-M. Bismut, R. Bott, R. Bryant, J. Cheeger, Y. Eliashberg, K. Fukaya, M. Gromov, J. Li, K. Liu, D. McDuff, D. Morrison, T. Mrowka, D. Phong, G. Segal, R. Stern, C. Taubes. We have received partial financial support for the conference from UCSB and NSF. To cover your expense, we expect to be able to pay you $$. (This is under the assumption that you'll receive financial support from ITP for your participation in the ITP program.) We very much hope that you can accept the invitation and would appreciate a response at your earliest convenience. Sincerely yours, Xianzhe Dai Yuhan Lim Kefeng Liu John Douglas Moore Guofang Wei Rugang Ye We enclosed the previous message below. Hopefully, our conference can be fit in your busy schedule. J.-M. Bismut, bismut@topo.math.u-psud.fr 1500 Y T 9am D. Morrison, drm@math.duke.edu 600 Y T 2pm D. Phong, phong@math.columbia.edu 900 Y T 3:45pm K. Liu, kefeng@math.stanford.edu 700 Y W 10:45am R. Stern, rstern@math.uci.edu 700 Y W 9am J. Li, jli@gauss.stanford.edu 700 Y W 2pm M. Gromov, gromov@ihes.fr 1500 Y? F 9am J. Cheeger, cheeger@hilbert.cims.nyu.edu 900 ?? F 10:45am Y. Eliashberg, eliash@gauss.stanford.edu 700 Y W 3:45pm C. Taubes, chtaubes@abel.math.harvard.edu 900 Y S 9am G. Segal, G.B.Segal@dpmms.cam.ac.uk 750 Y T 10:45am K. Fukaya, fukaya@kusm.kyoto-u.ac.jp 1500 Y F 2pm D. McDuff, dusa@math.sunysb.edu 900 Y F 3:45pm T. Mrowka, mrowka@math.mit.edu 900 S 10:45am Ralph Cohen, ralph@math.stanford.edu 700 R. Bott, TOTAL COMMITTED 9850 +700 Prospective 3300 13,150 Coffee Break 1470 Reception 1000 Shuttle 2 graduate student assistants 800 Name tags 70 Folders 80 copying posters 130 stamps + copying Staff assistance Graduate Student Support 8450 +50 Other 4000 +200 28870 TOTAL BUDGET 34500 S. Donaldson, simon@gauss.stanford.edu 1500 N Maxim Kontsevich, maxim@ihes.fr 600 N C. Vafa, vafa@physics.harvard.edu 600 N A. Strominger, strominger@physics.harvard.edu 500 N E. Witten, witten@ias.edu 900 N D. Freed, dafr@fireant.ma.utexas.edu 500 N R. Hamilton, 900 N J. Morgan, jm@math.columbia.edu 500 N R. Schoen, schoen@gauss.stanford.edu 700 N G. Tian, tian@math.mit.edu 900 N E. D'Hoker, dhoker@physics.ucla.edu 700 N I. M. Singer, ims@math.mit.edu 600 N P. Kronheimer, kronheim@abel.math.harvard.edu 900 N N. Hitchin, 1500 N R. Dijkgraaf, rhd@wins.uva.nl 600 N A. Liu, akliu@math.mit.edu 700 N B. Lawson, blaine@math.sunysb.edu 900 N R. Gompf 900 N W. Zhang. weiping@sun.nankai.edu.cn 1200 N A. Weinstein, alanw@math.bekerley.edu 700 N E. Zaslow, zaslow@math.nwu.edu 900 N R. Bryant, bryant@math.duke.edu 600 N Because of a big string theory conference overlaping with the ITP program, the ITP program has been changed to July 26-August 13. Hence we have adjusted our conference schedule accordingly: July 21-24. Currently we have Bismut, Eliashberg, Fukaya, Morrison, Phong, Segal, Taubes, Zhang, Weinstein confirmed, Cheeger, Gromov to be decided. For your reference we have enclosed the invitation letter below. Hotels: South Coast Inn: 55 rooms "Geometry" $78 + tax =$86. 3 weeks ahead Contact: Merrill Foster Ramada Inn: 40 rooms $71 + tax (Tues-Th $60, Fr-Sat $88) Contact: Tom 30 days ahead Please go to the web site: www.math.ucsb.edu/~wei/meeting/meeting.html There is an interactive registration/application form there. Just fill it in and submit. Best regards, Xianzhe Dai Dear Prof. Fukaya, although there still remain approximately two months before our "Santa Barbara Summer Conference in Geometry" takes place, the title of your talk can be of great use now for those who are planning on attending the conference. Therefore we would appreciate it very much if you could send us the title of your talk now. If you are not yet sure, then a tentative title would also be very nice. I am attaching below some information on accomodations. Should you need any assistance on hotel reservation or other matters, please don't hesitate to contact me. More information about the conference and Santa Barbara can be found in our webpage dedicated to the conference. You can find the webpage by going to www.math.ucsb.edu/Seminars.html, and looking for "Santa Barbara Summer Conference in Geometry", or going directly to www.math.ucsb.edu/~wei/meeting/meeting.html. By the way, I'd like to mention that the NSF funding for the conference we mentioned in the invitation letter has already been approved, as was expected. We look forward to seeing you here in July. Sincerely, Accommodations Blocks of rooms at Best Western South Coast Inn and Ramada Limited have been reserved. The price quoted is a special group rate for the conference. There is only a limited number of rooms available at this price, so please make your reservation 30 days in advance. Please mention the Conference and the UCSB Department of Mathematics at the time of making the reservation. There will be a regular bus shuttle service running between these hotels and the conference. Best Western South Coast Inn: about 5 minutes from UCSB. With complimentary Airport Shuttle 5620 Calle Real, Goleta, CA 93117. (800) 350-3614, 805-967-3200. Rate $78+tax single or double. (continental breakfast included in the price). Ramada Limited: about 7 minutes from UCSB. 4770 Calle Real, Goleta, CA 93110. (800) 654-1965, (805) 964-3511. Rate $71 + tax (Tues-Th $60, Fr-Sat $88) single or double (continental breakfast included in the price). There may also be some rooms available at: Eagle Inn: about 12 minutes from UCSB. 2 blocks from the touristic beaches, charming. 232 Natoma, Santa Barabara, 805-965-3586. El Prado Inn : about 10 minutes from UCSB. Upper State Street, near the actions, economical. 1601 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 (800) 669-8979, (805) 966-0807. Ask for the UCSB rate. $75 Queen, $80 King, $85 two Queens. Tom, although there still remain approximately two months before our "Santa Barbara Summer Conference in Geometry" takes place, the title of your talk can be of great use now for those who are planning on attending the conference. Therefore we would appreciate it very much if you could send us the title of your talk now. Provided, of course, that you are going to accept our invitation. We very much hope that this is the case. If you are not yet sure about the title, then a tentative title would also be very nice. I am attaching below some information on accomodations. Should you need any assistance on hotel reservation or other matters, please don't hesitate to contact me. More information about the conference and Santa Barbara can be found in our webpage dedicated to the conference. You can find the webpage by going to www.math.ucsb.edu/Seminars.html, and looking for "Santa Barbara Summer Conference in Geometry", or going directly to www.math.ucsb.edu/~wei/meeting/meeting.html. We look forward to seeing you here in July. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GRAD STUDENTS: Xiaodong Cao MIT cao@math.mit.edu 550 BO Cui Harvard University bcui@math.harvard.edu 550 Hao Fang Princeton University haofang@math.princeton.edu 550 Weimin Fang University of Pennsilvania wfang@math.upenn.edu 550 Yin Bon Ku Princeton University ku@math.princeton.edu 550 Wei Luo MIT luowei@math.mit.edu 550 Seth Patinkin Princeton University patinkin@math.princeton.edu 550 Artur Elezi Oklahoma State University elezi@math.okstate.edu 400 Noah Goodman University of Texas at Austin ngoodman@math.utexas.edu 400 Mark Haskins University of Texas at Austin mhaskins@math.utexas.edu 400 Andre Mandolesi University Of Texas, Austin andre@math.utexas.edu 400 Martin Deraux U. of Utah deraux@csc-sun.math.utah.edu 400 Alexandre C Goncalves UT, Austin, acasa@linux37.ma.utexas.edu 400 Zoran Skoda Department of Physics, University of Wis skoda@theory4.physics.wisc.edu 250 Pat ptm@virtu.sar.usf.edu 200? Scott Baldridge Michigan State University baldrid1@pilot.msu.edu 200 Stanislav Jabuka Michigan State University jabuka@math.msu.edu 200 Jesse Ratzkin U. Washington ratzkin@math.washington.edu 350 s Joao Santos Stanford U. jsantos@math.stanford.edu 300 s Marshall Hampton U. Washington hampton@math.washington.edu 350 s Thomas Mark Michigan State University mark@math.msu.edu 500 s Dana Rowland Stanford dana@math.stanford.edu 300 s 7 * 550 + 1* 500 + 5* 400 + 2*350 + 2*300 + 250 8450 Yue Lei MIT yuelei@math.mit.edu 550 N Baozhong Yang MIT Math Dept ybz@math.mit.edu 550 N Bogdana Georgieva Oregon State University bogdana@math.orst.edu 300 N xiaowei wang University of Minnesota xiaowei@math.umn.edu 500 N Jaehyouk Lee University of Minnesota jhlee@math.umn.edu 500 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ RECENT PhD's: Zindine DJADLI djadli@u-cergy.fr s Sadok Kallel skallel@math.ubc.ca s Michael Hutchings hutching@math.stanford.edu s Lei Ni lni@math.purdue.edu s Caitlin Wang cwang@math.ucla.edu s Amy Ksir aeksir@math.upenn.edu s Jean-Marc Schlenker jean-marc.schlenker@math.u-psud.fr N Maria Morrill morrill@math.holycross.edu N Takashi Kimura kimura@math.bu.edu N Arthur Fischer aef@cats.ucsc.edu N ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Charles Boyer cboyer@math.unm.edu Frank Connolly Connolly connolly.1@nd.edu kyungho oh oh@math.umsl.edu serge preston serge@mth.pdx.edu JMMorvan morvan@desargues.univ-lyon1.fr Vincent borrelli borrelli@desargues.univ-lyon1.fr Bertrand Cintract cintract@desargues.univ-lyon1.fr Boris Botvinnik botvinn@poincare.uoregon.edu Andrew Bucki abucki@ossm.edu Daniel Gottlieb gottlieb@math.purdue.edu Darko Milinkovic dmilinko@math.uci.edu Conan Leung LEUNG@math.umn.edu Klaus Mohnke mohnke@gauss.stanford.edu Pablo Miguel Chac pac7@lehigh.edu 20 * 200 4000 Zhuang-dan Guan zguan@math.princeton.edu n Su-Jen Kan kan@math.sinica.edu.tw, skan@math.upenn. n Dear Fang Hao Thank you for your interest in participating in the Santa Barbara Summer Conference in Geometry to be held in July 21-24, 1999. I am happy to inform you that the conference will be able to reimburse you up to $$$$ for travel and lodging. In order to process the reimbursement form, we will need the original ticket receipt and hotel bill (not the credit card charge slip). You can either give it to me the last day of the conference or send it in by mail. Should you decide not to come, I would appreciate it if you could let me know AS SOON AS possible so that the funding may be appropriately redirected. Because of limited funds our support is based on an estimate for lodging on double occupancy. You can either arrange a roommate yourself or the hotels can arrange it with other conference participants. More information about lodging, the conference and Santa Barbara can be found in our webpage dedicated to the conference. You can find the webpage by going to www.math.ucsb.edu/Seminars.html, and looking for "Santa Barbara Summer Conference in Geometry", or going directly to www.math.ucsb.edu/~wei/meeting/meeting.html. I look forward to seeing you at the conference! Xianzhe Dai