Riemannian Topology and Structures on Manifolds results from a similarly entitled conference held on the occasion of Charles P. Boyer's 65 th birthday. The various contributions to this volume discuss recent advances in the areas of positive sectional curvature, Kähler and Sasakian geometry, and their interrelation to mathematical physics, especially M and superstring theory. Focusing on these fundamental ideas, this collection presents review articles, original results, and open problems of interest.

Focuses on fundamental ideas and recent advances Includes and discusses open problems in Riemannian topology and related areas Contains original survey articles by distinguished researchers

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L 2-Cohomology of Spaces with Nonisolated Conical Singularities and Nonmultiplicativity of the Signature.- Hirzebruch Surfaces and Weighted Projective Planes.- Quaternionic Kähler Moduli Spaces.- Homological Mirror Symmetry and Algebraic Cycles.- Positive Sasakian Structures on 5-Manifolds.- Four-Manifolds, Curvature Bounds, and Convex Geometry.- The 1-Nullity of Sasakian Manifolds.- New Results in SasakiEinstein Geometry.- Some Examples of Toric SasakiEinstein Manifolds.- On the Geometry of Cohomogeneity One Manifolds with Positive Curvature.- The Sasaki Cone and Extremal Sasakian Metrics.