Texas Geometry and Topology Conference

2015年秋季德克萨斯几何与拓扑学会议将于2015年11月6日至8日在莱斯大学举行。到目前为止，德克萨斯几何与拓扑大会自成立以来已在春秋两季举行，共52届。该会议已成为西南地区一项极为成功的半年一度的活动。接下来的一系列会议将有七所主要主办大学：莱斯大学、德克萨斯农工大学、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。按照设计，德克萨斯几何和拓扑学会议有两个高影响力的焦点。首先，这次会议使来自德克萨斯州和周边各州(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会面并分享数学。通过这样做，会议致力于让国内和国际知名的研究人员讨论他们的研究，并为地区学者和年轻人提供一个场所。这刺激了个人的研究，并在学校之间产生了富有成效的合作努力。第二，大会致力于加强和丰富数学人才基础。为了不设参会门槛，大会广为宣传，开放参会，不收取报名费。特别鼓励研究生、初级教员、妇女、少数民族和残疾人参与并申请支持。此外，大会还与两所历史悠久的黑人大学(费耶特维尔州立大学和普莱里维尤农工大学)合作开展了一个项目，旨在为这些机构精选的年轻教员培养研究机会。即将在莱斯大学举行的会议的主题将集中在“度量和保形几何”。在格罗莫夫工作的推动下，度量技术在黎曼几何中获得了重要的地位，特别是在保形结构的研究中。这一发展深刻地影响了人们对TeichMuller空间、保角动力学、双曲3-流形和非正曲率对称空间的理解。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发挥了重要作用。这次会议的特点是这些不同领域的领先研究人员，每个领域都植根于度量几何和保形几何。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/