2014 Spring Topology and Dynamics Conference

这笔赠款支持2014年3月13日至3月15日在弗吉尼亚州里士满的里士满大学举行的春季拓扑和动态系统会议。春季拓扑会是美国规模最大、最成功的年度拓扑会之一。会议吸引了来自美国、加拿大和墨西哥的150-200名与会者，越来越多的人来自欧洲、亚洲，甚至新西兰。会议允许与会者与大量活跃的拓扑学家互动，无论是在他们的专业范围内还是在他们的专业之外。会议已经扩展到包括拓扑学的大多数主要分支以及动力系统，现在包括集合论/一般拓扑学、连续体理论、动力系统、几何拓扑学和几何群论的会议。这笔赠款将资助18位全体会议/半全体会议发言者以及缺乏旅行机构支助的研究生和年轻研究人员的旅费。这些会议的参与者来自从小型文理学院到研究型大学的广泛机构，从研究生到高级研究人员。大多数参与者在自己的部门中没有同事，他们的研究兴趣与自己相近。他们依靠这次会议来跟上拓扑学和动力系统方面的最新工作，与确实有与自己相近的研究兴趣的同事见面，并展示他们自己所能做出的贡献。欲了解更多信息，请访问会议网站site.http://math.richmond.edu/resources/topology-conference/index.html

This grant supports the Spring Topology and Dynamical Systems Conference at the University of Richmond in Richmond, Virginia from March 13 to March 15, 2014. The Spring Topology Conference is one of the largest and most successful annual topology conferences in the United States. The conference generally attracts 150-200 participants from the United States, Canada, and Mexico, and, increasingly, from Europe, Asia, and even New Zealand. The conference allows participants to interact with a large number of active topologists, both within and outside their specialties. The conference has expanded to encompass most of the major branches of topology, as well as dynamical systems, and now includes sessions in set theoretic/general topology, continuum theory, dynamical systems, geometric topology, and geometric group theory. This grant will support travel for the 18 plenary/semi-plenary speakers and for graduate students and younger researchers who lack institutional support for travel. Participants in the sessions come from a broad range of institutions from small liberal arts colleges to research universities, and range from graduate students to senior researchers. Most participants do not have colleagues in their home departments with research interests close to their own. They rely on this conference to keep up with recent work in topology and dynamical systems, meet with colleagues who do have research interests close to their own, and present what they themselves have been able to contribute. For more information visit the conference web site.http://math.richmond.edu/resources/topology-conference/index.html