Cascade Topology Seminar

摘要奖：DMS-0803213首席研究员：Steven A.Bleiler这笔赠款部分支持级联拓扑研讨会(CTS)会议的演讲者和参与者。在2008年5月1日至2011年4月30日的三年赠款期间，CTS的会议每半年举行一次。这些会议将在美国西北部和加拿大西南部的不同大学举行。目前活跃在CTS中的大学有不列颠哥伦比亚大学、卡尔加里大学、内华达-里诺大学、俄勒冈大学、普吉特湾大学、维多利亚大学和华盛顿大学，以及加州博伊西大学、奇科大学、俄勒冈大学和波特兰州立大学。CTS的基本目标包括为类似领域的工作人员提供频繁的联系，让参与者通过从地区外引进演讲者来了解最新发展，使太平洋西北部和加拿大西南部的研究生和拓扑学家能够听到、咨询并可能与外部演讲者和其他机构的成员合作，并为当地人提供关于他们自己工作的演讲机会。所涵盖的主题不受限制，然而，各种组织者的兴趣往往会被参与者的兴趣所反映。因此，研讨会课程通常涉及代数、几何或低维拓扑、微分或代数几何或组合群论。CTS还与太平洋西北几何学研讨会和西部各州几何拓扑学讲习班协调其活动，偶尔还与它们举行联合会议。CascadeTopology研讨会的网址是http://www.mth.pdx.edu/events/cts/.

AbstractAward: DMS-0803213Principal Investigator: Steven A. BleilerThis grant partially supports the speakers and participants atconferences of the Cascade Topology Seminar (CTS). During thethree-year grant period May 1, 2008 - April 30, 2011, meetings ofthe CTS are scheduled at semiannual intervals. These conferenceswill be held at various universities in the Northwestern UnitedStates and Southwestern Canada. Universities currently active inthe CTS are the Universities of British Columbia, Calgary,Nevada-Reno, Oregon, Puget Sound, Victoria, and Washington, andBoise, California-Chico, Oregon, and Portland State Universities.The basic goals of the CTS include providing for frequentcontacts between workers in similar fields, to allow participantsto keep abreast of recent developments by bringing in speakersfrom outside the region, to enable graduate students andtopologists in the Pacific Northwest and Southwestern Canada tohear, consult, and possibly collaborate with the outside speakersand members of other institutions, and to provide an opportunityfor local people to lecture on their own work. Topics coveredare not limited, however, the interests of the various organizerstend to be mirrored by the interests of the participants. Thus,the seminar programs usually concern algebraic, geometric, or lowdimensional topology, differential or algebraic geometry, orcombinatorial group theory. The CTS also coordinates itsactivities with the Pacific Northwest Geometry Seminar and theWestern States Geometric Topology Workshop with whom jointmeetings have occasionally been held. The URL for the CascadeTopology Seminar is http://www.mth.pdx.edu/events/cts/.