===== Research Session on Real, Tropical, and Symplectic Geometry, and Low-Dimensional Manifolds =====
=====(Oct 1-Oct 10, 2026)=====

The research session will focus on recent progress and new challenges in tropical, symplectic, and real algebraic geometry, as well as the study of 4-dimensional smooth manifolds. Topics will include classical problems concerning (complex or real) plane singular curves, the analysis of separating morphisms of real curves, theta-characteristics of real curves, Lagrangian and Legendrian embeddings, and refined enumerative invariants. Additionally, the session will address recent developments in the Gluck twisting problem on the 4-sphere.

=== List of Participants ===

|Selman Akbulut (GGTI)| Sergey Finashin (METU) | Vassily Gorbounov (HSE U)|
|Ilia Itenberg (Sorbonne U) | Ernesto Lupercio (Cinvestav) |Grigory Mikhalkin (Geneva U) |
|Stepan Orevkov (IMT UPS) | Mikhail Shkolnikov (IMI BAS) |Eylem Z Yıldız (GGTI & Muğla U)|


**Organizing Committee**: [[sfinashin@gmail.com|Sergey Finashin]] [[ilia.itenberg@imj-prg.fr|Ilia Itenberg]] [[grigory.mikhalkin@unige.ch|Grigory Mikhalkin]] and [[eylemzeliha@gmail.com|Eylem Zeliha Yıldız]].