Cascade Topology Seminar

摘要奖：DMS-0803213主要研究者：Steven A. BleilerThis grant particularly supports the speaker and participants atconferences of the Cascade Topology Seminar（CTS）. 在2008年5月1日至2011年4月30日的三年资助期内，CTS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各个大学举行。 目前活跃于CTS的大学有不列颠哥伦比亚省、卡尔加里、内华达-里诺、俄勒冈州、普吉特海湾、维多利亚和华盛顿大学，以及博伊西、加利福尼亚-奇科、俄勒冈州和波特兰州立大学。CTS的基本目标包括为类似领域的工作者提供经常的联系，让参与者通过引入该地区以外的演讲者来了解最新的发展，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，并为当地人提供一个机会来讲述他们自己的工作。 所涵盖的主题不受限制，然而，各种组织者的利益往往反映了参与者的利益。 因此，研讨会的计划通常涉及代数，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研讨会和西部各州几何拓扑研讨会协调其活动，偶尔与他们举行联席会议。 级联拓扑研讨会的URL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/.