Proceedings of the Gökova Geometry-Topology Conference 2003

This volume features lively and engaging articles from the lecturers and the participants of the 10th Gökova Geometry-Topology Conference, held on the shores of Gökova Bay, Turkey, in May of 2003.

At this conference there were a number of interesting talks on the Ricci-flow equation (related to Perelman's exciting work on Hamilton's program), as well as other talks on various aspects of gauge theory, calibrated manifolds, crepant resolutions, symplectic and contact geometry, group actions, real algebraic geometry and low dimensional manifolds.

Table of Contents 1. The Cross Curvature Flow of 3-Manifolds with Negative Sectional Curvature -B. Chow, R.S. Hamilton 2. Perelman's Monotonicity Formula and Applications-N. Sesum. 3. Flops of Crepant Resolutions-A Degeratu 4. Surgery Diagrams for Contact 3-Manifolds- F. Ding, H. Geiges, A.I. Stipsicz 5. An Algorithm to Recognise Small Seifert Fiber Spaces-J.H. Rubinstein 6. Quasipositivity Problem for 3-Braids-S. Yu. Orevkov 7. Solution of the Word Problem in the Singular Braid Group- S. Yu. Orevkov