2014 Spring Topology and Dynamics Conference

该基金将于2014年3月13日至3月15日在弗吉尼亚州里士满大学举办春季拓扑与动力系统会议。Spring Topology Conference是美国规模最大、最成功的年度拓扑会议之一。会议通常会吸引来自美国、加拿大和墨西哥的150-200名与会者，而且越来越多的与会者来自欧洲、亚洲甚至新西兰。会议允许参与者与大量活跃的拓扑学家互动，无论是在他们的专业内部还是外部。会议已经扩展到包括拓扑的大多数主要分支，以及动力系统，现在包括集论/一般拓扑，连续统理论，动力系统，几何拓扑和几何群论的会议。这笔赠款将用于支持18位全体会议/半全体会议发言人以及缺乏机构支持的研究生和年轻研究人员的旅行。会议的参与者来自范围广泛的机构，从小型文理学院到研究型大学，从研究生到高级研究人员。大多数参与者在自己的部门没有与自己的研究兴趣相近的同事。他们依靠这个会议来跟上拓扑学和动力系统的最新工作，与那些有接近自己研究兴趣的同事见面，并展示他们自己能够做出的贡献。欲了解更多信息，请访问会议网站：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