Lusternik-Schnirelmann Category and Related Topics

This collection is the proceedings volume for the AMS-IMS-SIAM Joint Summer Research Conference, Lsternik-Schnirelmann Category, held in 2001 at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts. The conference attracted an international group of 37 participants that included many leading experts. The contributions included here represent some of the field's most able practitioners. With a surge of recent activity, exciting advances have been made in this field, including the resolution of
several long-standing conjectures.