Topology Students Workshop

拓扑学学生研讨会将于2022年6月6日至10日在佐治亚理工学院举行。这次会议是一个为期5天的研究和专业发展研讨会，面向几何群论、几何和拓扑学领域的研究生。它的主要目标是a)让研究生接触到当前广泛的拓扑学研究，b)培养他们的沟通、网络和分享问题的技能，以及c)就该专业必要但通常未教授的方面提供指导。大约50名研究生将参加，由10名导师指导，他们来自广泛的职业阶段，代表了几何学和拓扑学中的一系列广泛的主题，包括接触和辛拓扑、3-流形、双曲几何、群体动作和复杂动力学。这次会议为与会者，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内外作为最高级别的科学家取得成功。对许多学生来说，TSW是他们参加的第一次会议，他们在会上展示自己的成果。研讨会旨在促进这种体验(例如，我们的第一次专业发展会议是对会议的介绍以及如何最好地从会议中受益)。目标是在学生中建立信心和研究潜力，以及建立社区。这里讨论的技能通常不是研究生院教授的，从该项目前几次迭代中参与者的反应来看，对少数群体的学生可能会有不成比例的好处。研讨会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提供指导。研讨会包括关于人际关系和礼仪、求职流程、沟通技巧的有组织的会议，以及关于职业道路的小组讨论(来自美国国家安全局、亚马逊、谷歌和私立高中等组织的数学家也参加了讨论)。导师也会进行研究演讲，既是为了示范良好的沟通，也是为了向正在开始研究生涯的学生介绍他们的研究领域(特意选择广泛的)和相关问题。有效的沟通是一个重要的主题：两个晚上的会议以小组形式专门介绍工作；最后的介绍被录制下来，并由与会者进行批评。会议的网站是http://tsw.gatech.eduThis奖，它反映了国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

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.