Workshops in Geometric Topology

该奖项将资助一系列行之有效的几何拓扑夏季研讨会的三次会议，第一次会议将于2018年6月14日至16日在密歇根州大急流城的卡尔文学院举行。该奖项还将资助2019年在威斯康星大学密尔沃基分校和2020年在德克萨斯州沃斯堡的德克萨斯基督教大学举办的研讨会。这些研讨会为几何拓扑学数学领域的活跃研究人员和研究生提供了一个每年一次的机会，在一个提供多种有形利益的环境中进行互动。包括：1)参加主讲人的讲座，接受由国家认可的专家进行的重要研究的深入介绍；2)通过参加其他研讨会参与者的简短讲座，了解广泛的其他研究活动；3)有机会在一个适宜的环境中进行讲座，分享自己的工作。4)重要的非正式讨论和参与者之间的互动，并与主讲人。这些工作坊定期邀请数学领域代表性不足群体的成员参加并发表演讲。为了进一步扩大工作坊的影响力，主讲人的演讲将被录下来并上传到互联网上。讲习班还为研究生提供了一个严肃但非正式的研究氛围，使他们能够在该领域与他人见面并向他们学习，这对他们也有很大的好处。NSF资金将用于支付研讨会参与者的出席费用。更具体地说，研讨会为几何拓扑学家提供了互动和分享想法的机会，从而导致研究合作。此外，拟议的讲习班将继续每年邀请一位著名的首席演讲者就他或她所选择的主题提供一系列三次讲座的传统，以便通过邀请一位国家公认的专家讨论当前感兴趣的一个重要领域来扩大与会者的兴趣。2018年的研讨会将邀请到Renyi数学研究所的Andras Stipsicz。这个研讨会的网址是http://www.calvin.edu/~venema/workshop18/。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award will fund three meetings of a well-established series of summer Workshops in Geometric Topology, with the first to be held at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, MI, June 14-16, 2018. The award will also fund workshops at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2019 and at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, TX, in 2020. These workshops provide an annual opportunity for active researchers and graduate students in the mathematical field of geometric topology to interact in a setting that provides multiple tangible benefits, including:1) attending the lectures of a principal speaker to receive an in-depth introduction to important current streams of research being performed by nationally-recognized experts,2) learning about a breadth of other research activities by attending shorter talks given by the other workshop participants,3) the opportunity to share their own work by giving talks in a congenial environment, and4) important time for informal discussion and interaction among participants and with the principal speaker.These workshops regularly feature participation and talks by members of underrepresented groups in mathematics, and, to further broaden the impact of the workshops, the talks of the principal speaker will be recorded and posted to the internet. The workshops also provide significant benefits to graduate students by providing a serious but informal research atmosphere in which they can meet and learn from others in the field. NSF funding will be used to cover the attendance costs of workshop participants.More specifically, the workshops provide opportunities for geometric topologists to interact and share ideas, leading to research collaborations. Furthermore, the proposed workshops will continue the tradition of inviting each year a renowned principal speaker to provide a series of three lectures on a topic of his or her choice for the purpose of expanding the interests of the participants by having a nationally-recognized expert discuss an important area of current interest. The 2018 workshop will feature Andras Stipsicz of the Renyi Institute of Mathematics. The web site for this workshop will be http://www.calvin.edu/~venema/workshop18/ .This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.