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

AbstractAward：DMS-0302516主要研究者：2003年夏季拓扑学及其应用会议将于2003年7月9日至12日在华盛顿的霍华德大学举行。这是1984年在纽约城市学院开始并于2000年在迈阿密大学、牛津大学、俄亥俄州举行的一系列会议中的第18届2001年在纽约城市学院，2002年在新西兰的奥克兰大学。将有六个受邀的全体发言人：俄亥俄州的维塔利·伯格森，W。卫斯理大学的维斯塔·康福特、麦吉尔大学的尼基·卡姆兰、自由大学的扬·货车·米尔、明尼苏达大学的彼得·奥尔弗和爱丁堡大学的亚历克斯·辛普森。将有一个研讨会在集理论拓扑领导的stevotodorcevic的多伦多大学。 全体会议的发言人都是各自领域公认的权威，Todorcevic被广泛认为是世界上最好的两个集合理论家之一。此外，还计划举办六个专题会议：集合理论拓扑学、拓扑动力学和遍历理论、拓扑群胚及其应用、拓扑群和半群、拓扑学和计算机科学，以及一个纪念W.这次会议以及整个系列会议的目标是：（1）使与会者了解拓扑学和相关领域的主要研究人员和最新发展;（2）促进拓扑学在这些相关领域的应用;（3）使研究生接触到这样一个会议的兴奋和激烈的研究活动，并帮助培训他们在拓扑学应用方面的工作;以及（4）在一年中对许多教职员工来说方便的时间，促进来自国内和海外广泛地理区域的拓扑学家之间的沟通和合作。 正如拓扑学与计算机科学专题所证明的那样，一般拓扑学的应用近年来一直在增长。 这一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。（三个最新的Ph.D.霍华德大学的毕业生都是黑人女性，每个人都参加了至少一次系列会议并发表了演讲。） 这次会议的地点在霍华德大学，这将方便一些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.