Geometry of Low-Dimensional Manifolds
Symplectic Manifolds and Jones-Witten Theory

Table of Contents

Names of Participants
Introduction
Acknowledgements
Part I. Symplectic Geometry:
1. Introduction
2. Rational and ruled symplectic 4-manifolds Dusa McDuff
3. Symplectic capacities H. Hofer
4. The nonlinear Maslov index A. B. Givental
5. Filling by holomorphic discs and its applications Yakov Eliashberg
Part II. Jones/Witten Theory:
6. Introduction
7. New results in Chern-Simons theory Edward Witten, notes by Lisa Jeffrey
8. Geometric quantization of spaces of connections N. J. Hitchin
9. Evaluations of the 3-manifold invariants of Witten and Reshetikhin-Turaev for sl(2, C) Robion Kirby and Paul Melvin
10. Representations of braid groups M. F. Atiyah, notes by S. K. Donaldson
Part III. Three-Dimensional Manifolds:
11. Introduction
12. An introduction to polyhedral metrics of non-positive curvature on 3-manifolds I. R. Aitchison and J. H. Rubinstein
13. Finite groups of hyperbolic isometries C. B. Thomas
14. Pin structures on low-dimensional manifolds R. C. Kirby and L. R. Taylor.