The CUNY Workshop on Differential Cohomologies, August 12-14, 2014

这笔赠款提供支持的“纽约市立大学差异cohomologies研讨会”将在纽约市立大学研究生中心，2014年8月12日至14日举行。本次研讨会的主题处于21世纪数学的前沿，在拓扑学，几何学和物理学家的量子场论中发挥着越来越重要的作用。本次研讨会将在几个相互关联的领域提供领先的研究人员之间富有成效的交流，将使研究生在这些主题的十字路口进行研究，并将促进这些学生和高级研究人员之间的互动。 通过这种方式，最新的发现可以有效地分享和交流，新的问题和研究方向将出现，从而推进数学相关科学领域的知识。 讲习班的组织者鼓励学生和研究人员谁是在数学代表性不足的群体的成员的参与。这个研讨会的范围将包括微分上同调理论，包括普通上同调和微分K理论，阿贝尔格贝斯，代数K理论，自由回路空间，以及与拓扑场论的联系。组织者计划接待大约40名参与者，其中包括20名左右的当地与会者，其余20人将获得这笔赠款的旅行和住宿支持。讲习班的目标是将这些领域的研究人员，从研究生到高级研究人员聚集在一起，介绍基本材料，并就最近的进展交换意见，为研究制定新的方向。讲习班的网站可在http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/~swilson/cunyworkshop14.html上找到。

This grant provides support for the "CUNY workshop on differential cohomologies" to be held at the CUNY Graduate Center, August 12-14 of 2014. The topics of this workshop are at the forefront of 21st-century mathematics, playing an increasingly important role in topology, geometry and the physicists' quantum field theories. This workshop will provide a fruitful exchange between leading researchers in several interrelated areas, will expose graduate students to research at the crossroads of these topics, and will facilitate interaction between these students and senior researchers. In this way, recent discoveries can effectively be shared and communicated, and new questions and directions for research will arise, thereby advancing knowledge in this area of mathematics the related sciences. The workshop organizers encourage the participation of students and researchers who are members of groups that are underrepresented in mathematics. The scope of this workshop will consist of differential cohomology theories, including ordinary cohomology and differential K-theory, abelian gerbes, algebraic K-theory, free loop spaces, and connections with topological field theories. The organizers plan to host approximately forty participants, including twenty or so local attendees, and the remaining twenty receiving travel and accommodations support by this grant. The workshop goals are to bring together researchers in these areas, from graduate students to senior researchers, to present fundamental material as well as to exchange ideas on recent progress and to lay out new directions for research. A website for the workshop can be found at http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/~swilson/cunyworkshop14.html.