Cascade Topology Seminar

该奖项将为“级联拓扑研讨会”系列的半年度会议的演讲者和其他人提供部分支持，从1998年开始为期三年。这些会议将在美国西北部和加拿大西南部的各所大学举行。目前活跃的机构包括英属哥伦比亚大学、加州大学伯克利分校、内华达大学里诺分校、俄勒冈大学、普吉特海湾大学、华盛顿大学、博伊西州立大学、俄勒冈州立大学和波特兰州立大学。通常会有六名主讲人就几何和拓扑，代数和几何等广泛的主题发表演讲，大多数来自这些机构之外，总共有50多名参与者，大约一半是教师，一半是研究生，偶尔也会有本科生。鼓励年轻数学家、女性数学家和未被充分代表的少数族裔数学家的参与，前两者取得了显著的成功。其他财政支持来源包括主办机构，如果是在加拿大举行的会议，则是完全取代国家科学基金会的加拿大来源。＊＊＊

9727583 Bleiler This award will provide partial support for speakers and others at semiannual conferences in the series known as the ``Cascade Topology Seminar,'' over a three-year period beginning in 1998. These conferences will be held at various universities in the northwestern United States and southwestern Canada. Among institutions currently active are the University of British Columbia, University of California-Berkeley, University of Nevada-Reno, University of Oregon, University of Puget Sound, University of Washington, Boise State University, Oregon State University, and Portland State University. Typically there will be half a dozen principal speakers on topics ranging widely over geometry and topology, both algebraic and geometric, the majority from outside these institutions, and more than fifty participants altogether, roughly half of them faculty and half of them graduate students, as well as an occasional undergraduate student. Participation by younger mathematicians, by women, and by underrepresented minorities is encouraged, the first two with notable success. Other sources of financial support include the host institutions in each case and, in the case of the conferences held in Canada, Canadian sources, which entirely supplant the National Science Foundation. ***