About the Conference

The objective of the conference is to stimulate the exchange of new ideas in various fields of foliations. Any field of foliation theory will be treated in GF2003, with special emphasis on new directions of research for future development. The topics include: foliations and laminations of 3-manifolds, foliations and contact structures, holomorphic differential forms, rigidity of foliated structures, dynamical systems and foliations, characteristic classes for foliations, classifying spaces for foliated structures, analysis on foliated spaces, ...

The organizing committee intends to select such new topics and invite the most suitable speakers possible. Every participant will have the opportunity to give a contributed presentation. Young researchers and students are therefore particularly welcome to take part in the conference.

Scientific Committee:    Sergio Fenley (Florida State University)
                                        Etienne Ghys (Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon)
                                        Elmar Vogt (Berlin Free University)
                                        Pawel Walczak (Universytetu Lodzkiego)
                                        Shigeyuki Morita (University of Tokyo)
                                        Isao Nakai (Ochanomizu University)
                                        and Core committee members

Tentative invited speakers include:
                                        Yakov Eliashberg (Stanford University)
                                        Kenji Fukaya (Kyoto University)
                                        David Gabai* (California Institute of Technology)
                                        Masahiko Kanai (Nagoya University)
                                        Anatole Katok (Pennsylvania State University)
                                        Steven Hurder(University of Illinois at Chicago)
                                        Rachel Roberts (Washington University at St. Louis)
                                        William Thurston* (University of California at Davis)
                                         and Scientific Committee members
                                         (* to be confirmed)

Core committee:           Shigenori Matsumoto (Nihon University)
                                       Yoshihiko Mitsumatsu (Chuo University)
                                       Takashi Tsuboi (University of Tokyo)

Organizing local committee:
                                       Takashi Tsuboi (University of Tokyo)(Chair)
                                       Takashi Inaba (Chiba University)
                                       Toshikazu Ito (Ryukoku University)
                                       Shigenori Matsumoto (Nihon University)
                                       Yoshihiko Mitsumatsu (Chuo University)

                                       Kazuhiko Fukui (Kyoto Sangyo University)
                                       Norikazu Hashiguchi (Nihon University)
                                       Tadayoshi Mizutani (Saitama University)
                                       Kazuo Masuda (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
                                       Hiroyuki Minakawa (Yamagata University)
                                       Shigeyuki Morita (University of Tokyo)
                                       Hitoshi Moriyoshi (Keio University)
                                       Hiromichi Nakayama (Hiroshima University)
                                       Toshiyuki Nishimori (Hokkaido University)
                                       Hiroe Oka (Ryukoku University)
                                       Atsushi Sato (Meiji University)
                                       Nobuo Tsuchiya (To-in Gakuen Yokohama University)

Travel information

The conference is hosted by Ryukoku University in Kyoto city and it can be reached easily from any place in the city center. The most convenient airport to fly to is the Osaka-Kansai International airport, which has a good train connection to Kyoto city (approx. 1.5 hour).
　    Web page of Ryukoku University  http://www.ryukoku.ac.jp/english/english1/index.html
　　　Map around Fukakusa Campus    http://www.ryukoku.ac.jp/english/english1/campus/fukakusa_frame.html

Since funding for GF2003 will be limited, it may be difficult to support your international travel expenses, and therefore we would like to ask you to find your own source for travel to and from Japan. We shall try our best to find funds for partially supporting the living expenses for participants.

Invitation letter

If you need an official invitation letter for applying for a visa or financial support from your own source, please contact:

       GF2003 (Prof. T.  Tsuboi)
       FAX: +81-3-5465-7035
       Email: gf2003@kyokan.ms.u-tokyo.ac.jp
       (with Subject: invitation letter)

Contact address & Conference web page

More information including the topics of the series lectures, and the invited speakers, will be posted at the following web page as soon as they are available:

    http://kyokan.ms.u-tokyo.ac.jp/users/gf2003/

Every participant is asked to pay a moderate Registration Fee. Detailed information will be announced later on the conference web page.

We shall distribute the Second Announcement in the same way as this First Announcement. If you wish to make sure you receive the Second Announcement, please write to mailto:gf2003@kyokan.ms.u-tokyo.ac.jpwith Subject: request 2nd Announcement.