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

2003年夏季拓扑学及其应用会议将于2003年7月9日至12日在华盛顿特区的霍华德大学举行，这将是1984年在纽约城市学院开始的一系列会议中的第18次，最近于2000年在俄亥俄州牛津的迈阿密大学举行，2001年在纽约城市学院举行，2002年在新西兰奥克兰大学举行。将有六位受邀的全体演讲者：俄亥俄州立大学的VitalyBerelson、卫斯理大学的W.Wistar Comfort、麦吉尔大学的Niky Kamran、Vrije University的Jan van Mill、明尼苏达大学的Peter Olver和爱丁堡大学的Alex Simpson。多伦多大学的Stevo Todorcevic将主持一个关于集合论拓扑学的研讨会。所有全体演讲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，还计划举办六个专题会议：集合论拓扑学、拓扑学动力学与遍历理论、拓扑群及其应用、拓扑群与半群、拓扑学与计算机科学，以及W.Wistar的荣誉。本次会议及整个系列的目的是：(1)向与会者介绍拓扑学及相关领域的最新研究成果；(2)促进拓扑学在这些相关领域的应用；(3)使研究生接触到此类会议令人兴奋和激烈的研究活动，并帮助训练他们在拓扑学应用方面的工作；以及(4)促进来自国内外广泛地理区域的拓扑学家之间的交流与合作，在一年中对许多教职员工来说方便的时候。正如拓扑学和计算机科学专题会议所证明的那样，近几年来，一般拓扑学的应用越来越多。这一系列会议的一个特别好处是，它在很大程度上成功地鼓励妇女和代表不足的少数群体参加。(霍华德大学最近的三位博士毕业生都是黑人女性，他们每人至少参加了一次系列会议并发表了演讲。)这次会议的地点设在霍华德大学，将为几位黑人研究生的积极参与提供便利。

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.