The 2026 Geometry Festival will take place April 17–19, 2026 at Duke University in Durham, NC .
Funding statement for graduate students and early career faculty without other sources of support: We can commit in advance some partial funding for your travel expenses if you register for this by March 25, 2026. After the Geometry Festival is over and conference expenses have been paid, some additional partial travel funding is often available.
There is a fee for the banquet for those who wish to attend, $35/person for tenure/tenure-track faculty and $20/person for graduate students and postdocs. The fee is payable in cash when you arrive at the Festival. Please reserve places for you and your guests (if any) on the registration form, so that we can plan for the banquet. There is no registration fee.
Confirmed Speakers:
Simon Brendle (Columbia University)
Daniel Cristofaro-Gardiner (U-Maryland)
Tamas Darvas (U-Maryland)
Sven Hirsch (Columbia University)
Yi Lai (Irvine)
Chi Li (Rutgers)
Ben Lowe (Chicago)
Andrew Sageman-Furnas (NC State University)
Bruno Staffa (Rice University)
Geometry Festival Organizing Committee: Hubert Bray, Robert Bryant, Ilyas Khan
Please direct inquiries to Robert Bryant < rlbryant@duke.edu > or call the Duke Math Department at (919) 660-2800 and ask for Stacy Dalton.
Funding: The Geometry Festivals are supported in part by the National Science Foundation Grant DMS-2512510 and by contributions from the host schools.
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