International Topology of Manifolds Conference

该奖项为参加2016年6月27日至7月1日在葡萄牙里斯本举行的“流形拓扑”会议的美国参与者提供旅费。该活动将包括高级研究人员的全体会议和初级与会者的专题会议。流形是空间的广义概念，广泛地出现在数学和科学中。例如，一组方程的解通常具有光滑流形的结构。对于数学及其应用来说，进一步理解流形及其对称性是很重要的。会议的参与者将包括研究流形的主要专家，会议的目的是进一步加深我们对这一核心概念的理解。会议的特色是由十二位世界顶尖专家作全体演讲。演讲者所代表的专业知识的广度反映了会议主题的广度，即流形的拓扑。在流形的拓扑中，会议将集中在三个特定的领域，模空间的研究，函子演算和代数K-和l -理论，所有这些都为我们对低维和高维流形的理解做出了惊人的经典和最近的进展。全体会议和专题讨论将涵盖流形理论研究的前沿。会议将为年轻的研究人员提供交流知识、建立网络以及与国际同行和未来同事建立合作的机会。该奖项将通过支持美国研究生和演讲者的旅行来增加美国的参与。会议将有大约14个专题演讲，由科学委员会选择，并注重多样性，其中至少一半的演讲由年轻研究人员进行。会议网页可访问：https://sites.google.com/site/manifoldslisbon2016/

This award supports travel for US-based participants in the conference "Topology of Manifolds," held June 27 - July 1, 2016, in Lisbon, Portugal. The event will consist of both plenary talks by senior researchers and contributed talks by junior participants. Manifolds are a generalized notion of space, appearing throughout mathematics and science more broadly. For example, the solutions to a set of equations will often have the structure of a smooth manifold. It is important for both mathematics and its applications to further our understanding of manifolds and their symmetries. Participants in the conference will include leading experts on the study of manifolds, and the purpose of the conference is to further our understanding of this central concept. The conference features plenary lectures by twelve leading world experts. The breadth of the expertise represented by the speakers reflects the breadth of the topic of the conference, the topology of manifolds. Within the topology of manifolds, the conference will focus on three specific areas, the study of moduli spaces, calculus of functors, and algebraic K- and L-theory, all of which have contributed to spectacular classical and recent advances in our understanding of manifolds of low and high dimension. The plenary and contributed talks will cover the forefront of research into the theory of manifolds. The conference will provide younger researchers with opportunities for exchange of knowledge, for networking, and for building collaborations with international peers and future colleagues. This award will increase US participation by supporting travel for US graduate students and speakers. There will be approximately 14 contributed talks at the conference, selected by the scientific committee with attention to diversity, with at least half the talks by young researchers. The conference web page is available at https://sites.google.com/site/manifoldslisbon2016/