Conference Travel Funding: Manifolds, K-Theory, and Related Topics, June 23-27, 2014

流形、k理论及相关主题会议将于2014年6月23日至27日在克罗地亚杜布罗夫尼克大学间中心举行。集中的国际研究会议，如本次会议，在发展和传播开创性的数学研究方面发挥了根本性的作用。这次会议将成为一个论坛，在这个论坛上，研究人员可以宣布新的重大成果，并向该领域的其他专家解释他们的想法，而这些成果将在评审期刊上发表。与会议相关主题的研究人员在地理上分布广泛。这次会议将为他们在同一个地方共同努力提供机会。参与者将能够与该领域的其他人见面并向他们学习，继续合作，并开发新的合作。为来自美国机构的参与者提供的资金将使这些参与者有可能了解拓扑学前沿发生的事情，并分享他们的想法，向来自欧洲和世界其他地区的拓扑学家学习。这对于早期职业数学家来说尤其重要，因为他们正在扩大自己的研究兴趣，并寻找新的合作。会议将汇集流形拓扑、k理论和同伦理论方面的专家，以了解这些领域的最新进展并促进研究人员之间的合作。会议的全体会议发言人将是Gunnar Carlsson（斯坦福），Michael Ching（阿默斯特），Ralph Cohen（斯坦福），Bjorn Dundas（伯根），Kathryn Hess (EPFL), John Klein（韦恩州立大学），Nick Kuhn（弗吉尼亚），Ib Madsen（哥本哈根），Randy McCarthy (UIUC), Charles Rezk (UIUC), Hiro Lee Tanaka（哈佛），Ulrike Tillmann（牛津），Nathalie Wahl（哥本哈根），Shmuel Weinberger（芝加哥）和Michael Weiss（明斯特）。全体会议发言人的工作反映了流形界面、k理论和同伦理论的主要主题，这将是会议的焦点。这些主题包括流形的映射空间、函子的演算、因式分解同调、代数k理论的局部和全局结构、同伦理论和拓扑学的应用。会议计划将包括全体发言人的演讲，以及与会者的平行会议。有关会议的更多信息可在https://sites.google.com/a/wellesley.edu/dubrovnik-topology-2014/上找到。

The conference on Manifolds, K-theory, and Related Topics will take place June 23-27, 2014 at the Inter-University Center in Dubrovnik, Croatia. Focused international research conferences such as this one play a fundamental role in the development and dissemination of ground-breaking research in mathematics. This conference will serve as a forum in which researchers can announce major new results and explain their ideas to other experts in the field, long before such results will appear in refereed journals. Researchers in topics related to the conference are widely scattered geographically. This conference will provide the opportunity for them to work together in the same place. Participants will be able to meet and learn from others in the field, continue collaborations, and develop new ones. Funding for participants from U.S. institutions will make it possible for these participants to learn about what is happening at the forefront of topology, and to share their ideas and learn from topologists from Europe and other parts of the world. This is especially important for early-career mathematicians as they are expanding their research interests, and looking for new collaborations. The conference will bring together experts in manifold topology, K-theory, and homotopy theory to learn about recent advances and promote collaboration among researchers in these fields. Plenary speakers for the conference will be Gunnar Carlsson (Stanford), Michael Ching (Amherst), Ralph Cohen (Stanford), Bjorn Dundas (Bergen), Kathryn Hess (EPFL), John Klein (Wayne State), Nick Kuhn (Virginia), Ib Madsen (Copenhagen), Randy McCarthy (UIUC), Charles Rezk (UIUC), Hiro Lee Tanaka (Harvard), Ulrike Tillmann (Oxford), Nathalie Wahl (Copenhagen), Shmuel Weinberger (Chicago) and Michael Weiss (Munster). The work of the plenary speakers reflects the major themes at the interface of manifolds, K-theory, and homotopy theory that will be the focus of the conference. These themes include mapping spaces of manifolds, the calculus of functors, factorization homology, the local and global structure of algebraic K-theory, homotopy theory, and applications of topology. The conference program will consist of lectures by the plenary speakers, together with parallel sessions of contributed talks by conference participants. More information about the conference can be found at https://sites.google.com/a/wellesley.edu/dubrovnik-topology-2014/.