Georgia Topology Conference

该格鲁吉亚拓扑会议是一个一年一度的事件已确立了自己作为一个支柱的美国拓扑社会在过去的50年。它发生在雅典的格鲁吉亚大学在春季或夏季。会议的重点是拓扑学的一个子领域，每年都有所不同;最近的主题包括三维和四维流形、纽结理论、接触和辛拓扑以及函子演算。每年，会议聚集了一个核心的高级研究人员一起与一个更大的群体的年轻数学家，大多是最近的博士学位。和研究生。 代表性不足的群体成员的参与受到鼓励和资助;特别是发言者和组织者通常包括几名妇女。 会议的形式旨在帮助传播重要的新研究，并为早期职业数学家提供形成经验。 从广义上讲，拓扑学是研究空间（如我们生活的宇宙）的性质，这些性质在空间连续变形时保持不变。 该主题与物理学有许多联系，并应用于机器人和图像分析等主题。 本次会议的目的是作为一个场所，新的方法，在拓扑学的基本问题，并促进职业发展的年轻数学家在外地工作。更多信息可在会议网站：http://www.ams.org/meetings/calendar/2011_may18-22_athens.html

The Georgia Topology Conference is an annual event which has established itself as a mainstay of the American topology community over the past 50 years. It takes place at the University of Georgia in Athens in the Spring or Summer. The focus of the conference is a subfield of topology which varies from year to year; recent topics have included three- and four-dimensional manifolds, knot theory, contact and symplectic topology, and the calculus of functors. Each year, the conference gathers a core of senior researchers together with a larger group of young mathematicians, mostly recent Ph. D.'s and graduate students. Participation by members of under-represented groups is encouraged and funded; in particular the speakers and organizers generally include several women. The conference format is designed both to help disseminate important new research and to provide a formative experience for early-career mathematicians. Broadly speaking, topology is the study of the properties of a space (such as the universe that we live in) which are preserved when the space is continuously deformed. The subject has many connections to physics and has applications to such topics as robotics and image analysis. This conference is designed to serve as a venue for new approaches to fundamental questions in topology and to facilitate the career development of young mathematicians working in the field.More information is available on the conference website:http://www.ams.org/meetings/calendar/2011_may18-22_athens.html