Texas Geometry and Topology Conference

德克萨斯州几何和拓扑会议的2015年秋季会议将于2015年11月6日至8日在莱斯大学举行。迄今为止，德克萨斯州几何和拓扑会议自1989年成立以来已举行春季和秋季，共52次。该会议已成为西南地区一个非常成功的半年一次的活动。接下来的一系列会议将有七所主要的主办大学：莱斯大学，德克萨斯A M大学，德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校，休斯顿大学，德克萨斯理工大学，以及（联合）德克萨斯基督教大学和德克萨斯大学阿灵顿分校。通过设计，得克萨斯州几何和拓扑会议有两个高影响力的焦点。首先，会议使得克萨斯州和周边国家（一个巨大的地理区域）的几何学家和拓扑学家社区有可能定期见面和分享数学。通过这样做，会议致力于使国家和国际地位的研究人员讨论他们的研究，并为区域学者和年轻人提供一个场所。这刺激了个人研究，并在学校之间产生了富有成效的合作努力。第二，会议致力于加强和丰富数学人才基础。为了使与会者没有障碍，会议广做广告，开放参加，不收登记费。特别鼓励研究生、初级教师、妇女、少数民族和残疾人参与并申请支持。此外，会议还与两所历史悠久的黑人大学（费耶特维尔州立大学和大草原视图A M大学）合作开展一个项目，为这些机构的精选年轻教师提供研究机会。即将在莱斯大学举行的会议的主题将集中在“度量和共形几何”。由于格罗莫夫的工作，度量技术在黎曼几何中获得了重要的地位，特别是在共形结构的研究中。这一发展深深地影响了人们的理解，特别是Teichmuller空间、共形动力学、双曲三维流形和非正曲率的对称空间。近年来，其中一些度量技术在某些随机共形过程的研究中也很重要。会议的特点是领先的研究人员在这些不同的领域，其中每一个都有根在度量和共形几何。http://math.rice.edu/NewsEvents/Conferences/TGTC2015/

The Fall 2015 meeting of the Texas Geometry and Topology Conference will be at Rice University on November 6-8, 2015. To date the Texas Geometry and Topology Conference has been held spring and fall since its founding in 1989, a total of 52 times. The conference has become an extremely successful semiannual event in the Southwest. The next series of conferences will have seven primary host universities: Rice University, Texas A&M University, The University of Texas at Austin, University of Houston, Texas Tech University, and (jointly) Texas Christian University and The University of Texas at Arlington. By design, the Texas Geometry and Topology Conference has two high-impact foci. First, the conference makes it possible for the community of geometers and topologists from Texas and surrounding states (a huge geographic region) to meet and share mathematics on a regular basis. In so doing, the conference is committed to bring researchers of national and international stature to discuss their research as well as offering a venue for regional scholars and young people. This stimulates individual research and generates productive cooperative efforts between schools. Second, the conference is committed to the strengthening and enrichment of the mathematics personnel base. In order that there be no barrier to participation, the conference is widely advertised, participation is open, and there are no registration fees. Graduate students, junior faculty, women, minorities, and persons with disabilities are especially encouraged to participate and to apply for support. Furthermore the conference is partnering with two historically black universities (Fayetteville State University and Prairie View A&M University) on a project to foster research opportunities for select young faculty at these institutions. The theme of the upcoming conference at Rice University will concentrate on "Metric and Conformal Geometry". Accelerated by the work of Gromov, metric techniques have gained an important place in Riemannian geometry, especially in the study of conformal structures. This development has deeply affected understanding, particularly of Teichmuller spaces, conformal dynamics, hyperbolic 3-manifolds, and symmetric spaces of non-positive curvature. In recent years, some of these metric techniques have also been important in the study of certain random conformal processes. The conference features leading researchers in these various fields, each of which has roots in metric and conformal geometry. http://math.rice.edu/NewsEvents/Conferences/TGTC2015/