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Hossein Abbaspour William Abikoff Mohammed Abouzaid MIT Joe Geometric and Algebraic Structures in Mathematics Participants, page 1 Hossein Abbaspour University of Nantes, France [email protected] William Abikoff University of Connecticut [email protected] Mohammed Abouzaid MIT [email protected] Joe Adams Stony Brook University [email protected] Seyed Ali Aleyasin Stony Brook [email protected] Michael Anderson Stony Brook [email protected] Stergios Antonakoudis Harvard University [email protected] Nikos Apostolakis Bronx Community College, CUNY [email protected] Alexander Atwood SUNY SCCC [email protected] Chris Atwood Nassau Community College [email protected] Anant Atyam Stony Brook [email protected] Artur Avila CNRS/IMPA [email protected] David Ayala Harvard University [email protected] Benjamin Balsam Stony Brook University [email protected] Claude Bardos University of Paris [email protected] Ara Basmajian Graduate Center and Hunter College, [email protected] CUNY Somnath Basu Stony Brook University [email protected] Jason Behrstock Lehman College, CUNY [email protected] Charlie Beil SCGP, Stony Brook [email protected] Olivia Bellier University of Nice [email protected] James Benn University of Notre Dame [email protected] Daniel Berwick-Evans UC Berkeley [email protected] Renato Bettiol University of Notre Dame [email protected] Chris Bishop Stony Brook University [email protected] Jonathan Bloom Columbia University [email protected] Mike Bonanno SUNY SCCC [email protected] Araceli Bonifant University of Rhode Island [email protected] Mario Bonk University of California, Los Angeles [email protected] Sylvain Bonnot University of Toronto [email protected] Joshua Bowman Stony Brook University [email protected] Ken Bromberg University of Utah [email protected] Richard Canary University of Michigan [email protected] Moira Chas Stony Brook University [email protected] Jeff Cheeger Courant Institute [email protected] Leonid Chekhov Steklov Mathematical Institute, [email protected] Moscow Tao Chen Graduate Center CUNY [email protected] Xiaojun Chen University of Michigan [email protected] Geometric and Algebraic Structures in Mathematics Participants, page 2 Xuan Chen Stony Brook University [email protected] Ralph Cohen Stanford University [email protected] Braxton Collier University of Texas at Austin [email protected] Benjamin Cooper University of Virginia [email protected] Kevin Costello Northwestern University [email protected] Cameron Crowe Stony Brook University [email protected] Aliakbar Daemi Harvard University [email protected] Steve Dalton Stony Brook University [email protected] David Damanik Rice University [email protected] Tushar Das University of North Texas [email protected] Orit Davidovich University of Texas at Austin [email protected] Nikolay Dimitrov McGill University and CRM [email protected] Andrew Douglas City University of New York [email protected] Gabriel C. 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