Michael Hartley Freedman

60 years, 21st April 2011

This volume is dedicated to Mike Freedman on the occasion of his 60th birthday. It contains papers on a wide variety of topics in Topology and Physics and is based on two conferences that were held in 2011. The Conference on Low-Dimensional Manifolds and High-Dimensional Categories, in honor of Michael Freedman, was held at UC Berkeley on June 6-10, 2011. It featured talks by Yakov Eliashberg, Ron Fintushel, David Gay, Cameron Gordon, Sergei Gukov, Ko Honda, Michael Hutchings, Slava Krushkal, Yanki Lekili, Scott Morrison, Frank Quinn, Martin Scharlemann, Rob Schneiderman, Catharina Stroppel, Clifford Taubes, Peter Teichner, Ben Webster, Katrin Wehrheim, and Edward Witten. The organizing committee consisted of Ian Agol, Robion Kirby, Slava Krushkal, Peter Teichner, Abigail Thompson, and Kevin Walker.

The Freedman Symposium was held at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara on April 15-17, 2011. Invited lectures were given by Scott Aaronson, Sankar Das Sarma, Eddie Farhi, Matthew Fisher, Dan Freed, Matt Hastings, Charlie Kane, Alexei Kitaev, Steve Kivelson, Laci Lovasz, Andreas Ludwig, John Manferdelli, Greg Moore, Chetan Nayak, John Preskill, Xiaoliang Qi, Peter Shor, Kirill Shtengel, Steve Simon, and Xiao-Gang Wen. The conference was organized by Chetan Nayak and Zhenghan Wang.

The publication of this volume and the conferences were supported in part by Zheng-Xu He, the National Science Foundation, and Microsoft Station Q.

Geometry & Topology Monographs 18 (2012)

DOI: 10.2140/gtm.2012.18