Topology Students Workshop

拓扑学学生研讨会（TSW）将于2022年6月6日至10日在乔治亚理工学院举行。本次会议是一个为期5天的研究和专业发展研讨会，面向几何群论、几何和拓扑领域的研究生。它的主要目标是a)让研究生接触到广泛的当前拓扑学研究，b)建立他们的沟通、网络和问题分享技能，以及c)就该专业的必要但通常未教的方面提供指导。大约50名研究生将在10名导师的指导下参加，他们来自不同的职业阶段，代表几何和拓扑领域的广泛主题，包括接触和辛拓扑、3流形、双曲几何、群体行为和复杂动力学。会议为与会者，特别是那些来自代表性不足的群体的与会者提供了许多工具，这些工具将帮助他们在研究生院及以后成为最高级别的科学家。对许多学生来说，TSW是他们参加的第一次会议，也是他们展示自己成果的第一次会议。研讨会旨在促进这种体验（例如，我们的第一个专业发展课程是介绍会议以及如何最好地从中受益）。目标是在学生中建立信心和研究潜力，以及建立社区。这里所讨论的技能通常不会在研究生院教授，并且可以对少数群体的学生产生不成比例的好处，正如之前项目参与者的反应所表明的那样。工作坊的专业发展和研究方面是同步进行的，导师在这两个领域都给予指导。研讨会的内容包括网络和礼仪、求职流程、沟通技巧，以及关于职业道路的小组讨论（也包括来自NSA、亚马逊、b谷歌和私立高中等组织的数学家）。导师们也会进行研究讲座，既可以建立良好的沟通模式，也可以向正在从事研究工作的学生介绍他们的研究领域（故意选择的范围很广）和相关问题。有效的沟通是一个主要主题：两个晚上的会议专门用于小组研讨会；最后的演讲被录下来，并由出席者进行评论。会议的网站是http://tsw.gatech.eduThis，该奖项反映了NSF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，认为值得支持。

The Topology Students Workshop (TSW) will be held at Georgia Institute of Technology during June 6-10, 2022. This conference is a 5-day research and professional development workshop for graduate students in the fields of geometric group theory, geometry, and topology. Its primary goals are to a) expose graduate students to a wide range of current research in topology, b) build their communication, networking, and problem-sharing skills, and c) give guidance on necessary but typically untaught aspects of the profession. Approximately 50 graduate students will participate, guided by 10 mentors, who come from a wide range of career stages and represent a broad array of topics within geometry and topology including contact and symplectic topology, 3-manifolds, hyperbolic geometry, group actions, and complex dynamics. The conference provides the participants, especially those from underrepresented groups, with many tools that will help them to succeed as scientists at the highest levels, in graduate school and beyond.For many of the students, the TSW is the first conference they attend and at which they present their own results. The workshop is designed to facilitate this experience (for instance, our first professional development session is an introduction to conferences and how best to benefit from them). The goal is to build confidence and research potential among students, as well as to build community. The skills addressed here are not typically taught in grad school and can be disproportionately beneficial to students from minority groups, as indicated from responses from participants in previous iterations of the program. The professional development and research sides of the workshop run in tandem, with mentors giving guidance in both areas. The workshop includes structured sessions on networking and etiquette, the job application process, communication skills, and a panel discussion on career paths (which also involves mathematicians from organizations such as NSA, Amazon, Google, and private high schools). Mentors also give research talks, both to model good communication and introduce their research areas (deliberately chosen broadly) and relevant problems to students who are embarking on a research career. Effective communication is a major theme: two evening sessions are devoted to workshopping presentations in small groups; the final presentations are videotaped and critiqued by those in attendance. The web site for the conference is http://tsw.gatech.eduThis 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.