Dedicated to the memory of Raoul Bott, a great mathematician of the 20th Century, this volume contains articles from both eleventh and twelfth Gokova Conferences, held in Gokova, Turkey.
1. Seven short stories on blowups and resolutions, H. HAUSER;
2. Real
algebraic structures, S. AKBULUT;
3. Lefschetz decomposition and the cd-index
of fans, K. KARU;
4. Some remarks on G2-structures, R. L. BRYANT;
5. The
exceptional holonomy groups and calibrated geometry, D. JOYCE;
6. Ricci-flat
deformations of asymptotically cylindrical Calabi Yau manifolds, A. KOVALEV;
7. Deformations of Special Lagrangian submanifolds: an approach via Fredholm
alternative, S. SALUR;
8. Plane curves and contact geometry, L. NG;
9. An
open book decomposition compatible with rational contact surgery, B. OZBAGCI;
10. Virtual links and orientations of chord diagrams, O. VIRO.
