Conference in Honor of Ronald Fintushel

纪念罗纳德·芬图谢尔的会议

• 批准号: 0506737
• 负责人: Thomas Mark
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Southeastern Louisiana University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-07-01 至 2007-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0506737&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; Honor; Ronald; Fintushel

AbstractAward: DMS-0506737Principal Investigator: Thomas Mark, Scott J. Baldridge, Terry LawsonThis proposal funds a conference in honor of Professor RonaldFintushel's sixtieth birthday, to be held in late October or November2005 at Tulane University. Dr. Fintushel has led a distinguishedcareer as a researcher in low-dimensional topology, particularly thedifferential topology of 3- and 4-dimensional manifolds andapplications of gauge theory to that study. His work with variousco-authors on group actions on low-dimensional manifolds, and morerecent results with Ronald Stern on the homology cobordism group ofhomology 3-spheres, gauge theory, and constructions of ``exotic''4-manifolds, has been an inspiration to contemporary topologists andcontinues to provide new directions for inquiry in these areas. Thepast two decades have been a period of remarkable progress inlow-dimensional topology, particularly the theory of smooth4-manifolds. This conference, involving leading figures in this area,will provide participants with both a context in which to understandrecent advances and a framework for future endeavors. The speakerswill include experts in fields that Fintushel has contributed to, witha focus on smooth 4-manifolds, and the audience will include graduatestudents and recent Ph.D.'s who will benefit from exposure toFintushel's fascinating and creative work. Both Ronald Stern (UCIrvine) and Peter Ozsvath (Columbia) have already expressed interestin giving lectures; other invited speakers may include John Morgan(Columbia), Tomasz Mrowka (MIT), Allan Edmonds (Indiana), DannyRuberman (Brandeis), Zoltan Szabo (Princeton), and Clifford Taubes(Harvard). The final schedule will be determined closer to the time ofthe conference in consultation with Dr. Fintushel; the influence ofthe guest of honor can often sway the balance in a speaker's decisionto attend.As a conference in honor of an individual, the lectures will naturallycenter on those areas of research most influenced by thatindividual. Dr. Fintushel has made many contributions to an area ofmathematics that has relatively recently become a crossroads amongdisciplines, both within mathematics and in theoreticalphysics. Conferences such as this are therefore increasinglyimportant, providing researchers with a variety of perspectives onproblems that are nevertheless united by common themes. As a jointproject of Tulane University, Southeastern Louisiana University, andLouisiana State University, this conference will provide exposure forthese mathematics departments on a national level and boost thereputation of the region as a center of research. This will increasethe potential for the universities in this area to attract morehigh-quality faculty and students from around the country. Likewise,the conference will enhance the exposure of local current graduatestudents to the latest developments in research and to the researchersthemselves.

AbstractAward：DMS-0506737首席研究员：托马斯马克、斯科特J.鲍德里奇、特里劳森本提案资助将于2005年10月底或11月在杜兰大学举行的一次会议，以荣誉罗纳德·芬图舍尔教授的六十岁生日。Fintushel博士作为低维拓扑的研究人员，特别是3维和4维流形的微分拓扑以及规范理论在该研究中的应用，拥有丰富的职业生涯。他的工作与variousco-authors组行动的低维流形，以及最近的结果与罗纳德斯特恩的同源cobordism组的同源3球，规范理论，和建设的“异国情调”4流形，一直是一个灵感当代topologists和继续提供新的方向调查在这些领域。在过去的二十年里，低维拓扑学取得了显著的进展，特别是光滑4-流形理论。这次会议，涉及在这一领域的领军人物，将为与会者提供一个背景下，了解最近的进展和未来的努力框架。演讲者将包括Fintushel所贡献领域的专家，重点是光滑的4-流形，观众将包括研究生和最近的博士。谁将受益于接触芬图舍尔的迷人和创造性的工作。加州大学欧文分校的罗纳德斯特恩和哥伦比亚大学的彼得·奥兹瓦特都表示有兴趣做讲座;其他受邀的演讲者可能包括哥伦比亚大学的约翰·摩根、麻省理工学院的托马斯·姆洛卡、印第安纳州的艾伦·埃德蒙兹、布兰迪斯大学的丹尼·鲁伯曼、普林斯顿大学的佐尔坦·萨博和哈佛大学的克利福德·陶伯斯。最终的日程安排将在与芬图舍尔博士协商后在会议召开前确定;荣誉的影响力往往会左右演讲者是否出席会议。作为一个以个人荣誉为主题的会议，讲座自然会集中在受个人影响最大的研究领域。Fintushel博士在数学和理论物理学领域做出了许多贡献，数学领域最近已成为学科交叉点。因此，像这样的会议越来越重要，为研究人员提供了关于问题的各种观点，但这些观点都被共同的主题所统一。作为杜兰大学、东南路易斯安那大学和路易斯安那州立大学的一个联合项目，这次会议将在国家一级为这些数学系提供曝光机会，并提高该地区作为研究中心的地位。这将增加该地区大学吸引全国更多高素质教师和学生的潜力。此外，研讨会亦会让本地应届研究生有机会接触最新的研究发展和研究人员。