Essays, Surveys and Problems in Foliation Theory

Surveys, Essays and Talks

• Definition of a foliation
  (Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics).
  
  
• Naissance des feuilletages
  (A unique and fascinating survey of the development of the subject from 1942 to 1970, by André Haefliger.)
  
  
• Foliations and Foliated Vector Bundles
  (Lecture notes from a course given at MIT in Fall 1969 by John Milnor.
  This is a 7.5MB PDF file, scanned from 62 mimeographed pages.)
  
  
• Foliations
  (An introdction to foliations by Raymond Barre and Aziz El Kacimi Alaoui)
  
  
• Dynanics and the Godbillon-Vey Classes: a History and Survey
  (Survey article by Steve Hurder prepared for the Warsaw Conference, May 2000)
  
  
• Classifying spaces for groupoid structures
  (Survey article by Takashi Tsuboi prepared for the Rio Conference, August 2001)
  
  
• Characteristic classes of Riemannian foliations
  (Survey talk given by Steve Hurder at Sevilla, Spain in June 2003)

Problem Sets

• Foliation Problem Session
  (Problem list compiled by Remi Langevin for the meeting in Rio de Janeiro, January 1992)
  
  
• Problems in Foliations and Laminations of 3-manifolds
  (Compiled by Danny Calegari for the Georgia Topology Conference 2001)
  
  
• Foliation Geometry/Topology Problem Set (updated October 28, 2003)
  (Compiled by Steve Hurder for the meetings in Kyoto and Tokyo, September 2003)