The two-week long Summer School and Conference of the Contact and Symplectic Topology (CAST) network will be held July 9-20, 2012, at the Renyi Institute of Mathematics in Budapest. There will be four lecture series in contact, symplectic and low dimensional topology given by
- Michael Hutchings , UC Berkeley, USA
- Lenny Ng, Duke University, USA
- Robert Lipshitz, Columbia University, USA
- Kai Cieliebak, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen, Germany
The lecture series will be complemented by research talks, including the invited speakers:
- Mohammed Abouzaid (MIT, USA)
- Denis Auroux (UC Berkeley, USA)
- Frederic Bourgeois (Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
- Vincent Colin (Universite de Nantes, France)
- Catagay Cutluhan (Harvard University, USA)
- Tobias Ekholm (Uppsala University, Sweden)
- Ko Honda (USC, USA)
- Andras Juhasz (Cambridge University, UK)
- Yanki Lekili (Cambridge University, UK)
- Paolo Lisca (Universita di Pisa, Italy)
- Tom Mrowka (MIT, USA)
- Klaus Niederkruger (Universite de Toulouse, France)
- Jake Rasmussen (Cambridge University, UK)
- Peter Ozsvath (Princeton University, USA)
- Ivan Smith (Cambridge University, UK)
- Zoltan Szabo (Princeton University, USA)