1. Seven short stories on blowups and resolutions, H. HAUSER; 2. Real algebraic structures, S. AKBULUT; 3. Lefschetz decomposition and the cd-index of fans, K. KARU; 4. Some remarks on G2-structures, R. L. BRYANT; 5. The exceptional holonomy groups and calibrated geometry, D. JOYCE; 6. Ricci-flat deformations of asymptotically cylindrical Calabi Yau manifolds, A. KOVALEV; 7. Deformations of Special Lagrangian submanifolds: an approach via Fredholm alternative, S. SALUR; 8. Plane curves and contact geometry, L. NG; 9. An open book decomposition compatible with rational contact surgery, B. OZBAGCI; 10. Virtual links and orientations of chord diagrams, O. VIRO.