Great Lakes Geometry Conference

五大湖几何会议将于2015年3月13日至15日在密歇根州安娜堡的密歇根大学举行。GLGCs是一个久负盛名的国际会议系列，每年在大湖区举行，在不同的大学之间轮换。下一届GLGC的目标是引入几何和物理方面的杰出演讲者，以庆祝过去30年来4-流形和规范理论的卓有成效的结合。这个项目的一个主要目标是让研究生和早期职业数学家接触到这些领域中一些最重要的新发展。此外，我们希望主题的混合将鼓励不同领域的研究人员之间的合作。我们还将强调与数学物理的联系，这有望促进跨学科合作。4-流形拓扑和规范理论与物理学的耦合是20世纪80年代S数学与物理相互作用新时代的主要创新之一，自那时起，我们见证了唐纳森理论、塞贝格-威腾理论和各种Floer同调理论的发明等巨大进步。除了在会议上庆祝这些成就外，我们的目标是评估当前的发展并展望该主题的未来。已经建立了一个会议网站，向社区通报opportunity.https://homepages.warwick.ac.uk/~masmak/greatlakes2015

The Great Lakes Geometry Conference (GLGC) will be held March 13-15, 2015 at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The GLGCs are a well-established international conference series held annually in the Great Lakes region, rotating among different universities. The aim of the next GLGC is to bring in distinguished speakers in geometry and physics to celebrate the fruitful union of 4-manifolds and gauge theory for the last 30 years. One primary goal of this program is to expose graduate students and early career mathematicians to some of the most important new developments in these areas. In addition, we hope that the intermingling of the subject matter will encourage collaborations between researchers in different areas. We will also highlight the connections with mathematical physics which will hopefully foster interdisciplinary collaborations. The coupling of the 4-manifold topology and gauge theory from physics was one of the major creations in the new era of the interactions between mathematics and physics in the 1980's. Since then we have witnessed tremendous progresses such as the invention of Donaldson theory, Seiberg-Witten theory and various Floer homology theories. In addition to celebrating these achievements in the conference, we aim to assess the current developments and look into the future of the subject. A conference website has been set up to inform the community of the opportunity.https://homepages.warwick.ac.uk/~masmak/greatlakes2015