2003 Summer Conference on Topology and its Applications; July 9-12, 2003; Washington, DC

摘要奖：DMS-0302516主要研究员：Neil Hindman2003年夏季拓扑及其应用会议将于2003年7月9日至12日在华盛顿特区霍华德大学举行。这将是一系列会议中的第18届会议，该会议于1984年在纽约城市学院开始，最近于2000年在俄亥俄州牛津迈阿密大学城市学院举行2001年在纽约大学，2002年在新西兰奥克兰大学。将有六位特邀全体演讲嘉宾：俄亥俄州立大学的 Vitaly Bergelson、卫斯理大学的 W. Wistar Comfort、麦吉尔大学的 Niky Kamran、自由大学的 Jan van Mill、明尼苏达大学的 Peter Olver 和爱丁堡大学的 Alex Simpson。由多伦多大学的 Stevo Todorcevic 领导的集合理论拓扑学研讨会将举行。 所有的全体发言者都是各自领域公认的权威，托多尔切维奇被广泛认为是世界上最好的两位理论家之一。此外，还计划安排六场特别会议：集合理论拓扑、拓扑动力学和遍历理论、拓扑群类及其应用、拓扑群和半群、拓扑和计算机科学以及W. Wistar Comfort会议。本次会议以及整个系列会议的目标是：（1）为与会者带来拓扑及相关领域的领先研究人员和最新进展； (2) 促进拓扑学在这些相关领域的应用； (3)让研究生接触到此类会议的兴奋和激烈的研究活动，并帮助培训他们从事拓扑应用方面的工作； (4) 在一年中对许多教职人员来说方便的时间，促进来自国内外广泛地理区域的拓扑学家之间的交流和合作。 正如拓扑与计算机科学专场所见证的那样，近年来通用拓扑的应用不断增长。 该系列会议的一个特别好处是它成功地鼓励了妇女和代表性不足的少数群体的参与。 （霍华德大学最近的三名博士毕业生均为黑人女性，每人都参加了该系列会议中的至少一场会议并发表了演讲。）本次会议的地点在霍华德大学将方便几位黑人研究生的积极参与。

AbstractAward: DMS-0302516Principal Investigator: Neil HindmanThe 2003 Summer Conference on Topology and its Applications willbe held July 9-12, 2003, at Howard University, Washington, DC.It will be the 18th in a series of conferences begun at CityCollege of New York in 1984 and held recently at MiamiUniversity, Oxford, Ohio, in 2000, at City College of New York in2001, and at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, in2002. There will be six invited plenary speakers: VitalyBergelson of Ohio State, W. Wistar Comfort of WesleyanUniversity, Niky Kamran of McGill University, Jan van Mill ofVrije Universitaat, Peter Olver of the University of Minnesota,and Alex Simpson of the University of Edinburgh. There will be aworkshop in Set Theoretic Topology led by Stevo Todorcevic of theUniversity of Toronto. All of the plenary speakers arerecognized authorities in their fields, and Todorcevic is widelyrecognized as one of the two best set theorists in the world. Inaddition, six special sessions are planned: Set TheoreticTopology, Topological Dynamics and Ergodic Theory, TopologicalGroupoids and Their Applications, Topological Groups andSemigroups, Topology and Computer Science, and a session in honorof W. Wistar Comfort.The goals of this conference, and of the entire series are: (1)bring to the participants the leading researchers and the latestdevelopments in topology and related areas; (2) fosterapplications of topology to these related areas; (3) exposegraduate students to the excitement and intense research activityof such a conference and help train them to do work inapplications of topology; and (4) facilitate communication andcollaboration among topologists from a wide geographic area, bothfrom this country and overseas, at a time of year which isconvenient to many faculty members. As is witnessed by thespecial session on Topology and Computer Science, applications ofgeneral topology have been growing in recent years. A particularbenefit of this conference series has been the extent to which ithas successfully encouraged the participation of women andunderrepresented minorities. (Three of the most recentPh.D. graduates from Howard university, all black females, eachattended and presented talks at at least one of the conferencesin the series.) The location of this conference at HowardUniversity will make it convenient for the active participationof several black graduate students.