Dear Colleagues,

This is the second announcement of the conference

"Mapping Class Groups and Quantum Topology"

to be held at the IRMA, Strasbourg, France from 25.06.2012 to 29.06.2012.

The conference will be centered on the interactions between quantum topology and the study of the mapping class groups. The program of the conference will include three mini-courses on geometric and topological aspects of mapping class groups by

Nariya KAWAZUMI (Tokyo)    Dan MARGALIT (Georgia Tech)    Christoph SORGER (Nantes)

as well as one-hour talks by

Jørgen ANDERSEN (Århus)    Kazuo HABIRO (Kyoto)    Rinat KASHAEV (Genève)    Ralph KAUFMANN (Purdue)    Feng LUO (Rutgers)    Julien MARCHÉ (X)    Andrew PUTMAN (Rice)    Alan REID (Texas)    Vladimir TURAEV (Indiana)

The Scientific Committee is composed by Gregor Masbaum, Athanase Papadopoulos and Robert Penner.

Please visit the web-site:

http://www-irma.u-strasbg.fr/annexes/conferences/MCG2012/index.html

If you are interested in participating, please fill the registration form in the website. *The deadline for inscription is April the 15th 2012.*

We are very much looking forward to meet you in Strasbourg,

Best Regards,

The organizers.