Georgia Topology Conference

摘要奖：DMS-0308719首席研究员：Gordana Mics佐治亚拓扑学会议是由佐治亚大学几代拓扑学家组织了40多年的年度会议。会议集中讨论了拓扑学的许多领域，包括双曲几何、分层、分层、4-流形、3-流形不变量、辛拓扑和接触拓扑学。这次会议一直以拓扑学的新兴研究领域为特色。拓扑学可以看作是对我们所居住的空间的结构和形状的研究。因此，拓扑学、几何学和物理学之间存在着深刻的联系。正是这种解决中心问题的方法的多样性一直激励着拓扑学的研究。我们鼓励和资助有代表性的团体的成员参与。我们的参与者和组织者包括许多女性。我们的会议通常只有几位资深研究人员和一大群年轻研究人员，大多是新近获得博士学位的S和一些研究生。这种关注新兴研究领域的形式，有助于这次会议在传播最新研究成果和为研究生和博士后在数学研究生涯中取得成功做好准备方面发挥重要作用。

AbstractAward: DMS-0308719Principal Investigator: Gordana MaticThe Georgia Topology Conference is an annual conference that hasbeen organized by several generations of topologists at theUniversity of Georgia for over forty years. The conference hasfocused on many areas of topology including hyperbolic geometry,laminations, foliations, 4-manifolds, 3-manifold invariants,symplectic topology and contact topology. The conference hasalways featured emerging areas of research in topology.Topology can be viewed as the study of the structure and shape ofthe space we live in. As such there are deep relationshipsbetween topology, geometry, and physics. It is this diversity ofapproaches to central problems that has always energized researchin topology. We encourage and fund participation by members ofunderrepresented groups. Our participants and organizers haveincluded many women. Typically our conferences feature a fewsenior researchers and a large group of young researchers, mostlyrecent Ph.D.'s and some graduate students. This format, with itsattention to emerging areas of research, helps this conferenceplay a significant role in both disseminating the newest researchand preparing graduate students and postdocs for a successfulresearch career in mathematics.