Spring 1999 Topology Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah

DMS-9817688 Bestvina该奖项将为特色演讲者和一些研究生提供部分支持，以参加由犹他大学在杨百翰大学的帮助下主办的1999春季拓扑会议。这次会议是每年在美国各地不同机构举行的系列会议之一，现已进入第33个年头，可能是美国规模最大、当然也是最成功的年度拓扑会议之一。近年来，它的传统重点已扩大到包括动力系统。最近，对几何拓扑学中较新的主题的强调已经加速，这肯定会在1999年再次出现。一般形式是在会议的三个上午举行全会(半解释性)会议，然后在下午举行3至4次特别会议，其中包括一小时的特邀演讲和较短的发言。根据会议网站的最终会前版本，受邀专题演讲者的人数为22人，登记的演讲者总数为67人。专题讲座包括几何拓扑学、流形理论、几何群论、大尺度几何、连续体理论、动力系统和集合论拓扑学。鼓励年轻的数学家、女性和代表不足的少数族裔参与，前两项都取得了显著的成功。事实上，主讲嘉宾中有四位是女性。

DMS-9817688BestvinaThis award will provide partial support for the featured speakers and for some graduate students to attend the 1999 Spring Topology Conference hosted by the University of Utah with the help of Brigham Young University. This conference, one of a series held annually at different institutions around the country, is now in its 33rd year and has established itself as perhaps the largest and certainly one of the most successful annual topology conferences in the U.S. Its traditional emphasis has been broadened in recent years to include dynamical systems. Still more recently an emphasis on newer topics in geometric topology has been accelerated, and this will most definitely again be the case in 1999. The general format will be plenary (semi-expository) talks on the three mornings of the conference, followed in the afternoons by 3-4 special sessions consisting of invited one-hour talks and shorter contributed talks. The number of invited featured speakers is 22, and the total number of registered speakers is 67, according to the final preconference version of the conference website. The featured talks will be in geometric topology, manifold theory, geometric group theory, large scale geometry, continuum theory, dynamical systems, and set theoretic topology. Participation by younger mathematicians, by women, and by underrepresented minorities has been encouraged, the first two with notable success. In fact, four of the featured speakers are women.***