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

2003年“拓扑及其应用”夏季会议将于2003年7月9日至12日在华盛顿霍华德大学举行。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，最近在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会议发言人：俄亥俄州立大学的VitalyBergelson，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。将有一个由多伦多大学的Stevo Todorcevic领导的关于集合论拓扑的研讨会。全体会议的演讲者都是各自领域公认的权威，而Todorcevic被广泛认为是世界上最好的两位集合理论家之一。此外，还计划举办六个专题会议：集合理论拓扑、拓扑动力学和遍历理论、拓扑群及其应用、拓扑群和半群、拓扑和计算机科学，以及纪念W. Wistar Comfort的会议。本次会议和整个系列会议的目标是：(1)向与会者介绍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)使研究生接触到这种会议的兴奋和激烈的研究活动，并帮助训练他们从事拓扑学应用方面的工作；(4)促进来自广泛地理区域的拓扑学家之间的交流和合作，无论是来自国内还是海外，在一年中的这个时候，这对许多教职员工来说都是方便的。从“拓扑学与计算机科学”专题会议上可以看出，近年来，一般拓扑学的应用得到了很大的发展。这个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民族的参与。(最近的三位博士。霍华德大学（Howard university）的毕业生都是黑人女性，每个人都参加了该系列会议中的至少一个会议并发表了演讲。这次会议的地点在霍华德大学，将为一些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.