Cascade Topology Seminar

9727583布莱勒该奖项将从1998年开始，在为期三年的“级联拓扑学研讨会”系列会议上为演讲者和其他人提供部分支持。这些会议将在美国西北部和加拿大西南部的多所大学举行。目前活跃的机构包括不列颠哥伦比亚大学、加州大学伯克利分校、内华达大学雷诺分校、俄勒冈大学、普吉特湾大学、华盛顿大学、博伊西州立大学、俄勒冈州立大学和波特兰州立大学。通常情况下，将有六名主要演讲者就广泛涉及几何学和拓扑学的话题发表演讲，包括代数和几何，大多数来自这些机构以外的机构，总共有50多名参与者，其中大约一半是教职员工，一半是研究生，偶尔还有一名本科生。鼓励年轻的数学家、女性和代表不足的少数族裔参与，前两项都取得了显著的成功。财政支助的其他来源包括每一种情况下的主办机构，以及在加拿大举行的会议中完全取代国家科学基金会的加拿大来源。***

9727583 Bleiler This award will provide partial support for speakers and others at semiannual conferences in the series known as the ``Cascade Topology Seminar,'' over a three-year period beginning in 1998. These conferences will be held at various universities in the northwestern United States and southwestern Canada. Among institutions currently active are the University of British Columbia, University of California-Berkeley, University of Nevada-Reno, University of Oregon, University of Puget Sound, University of Washington, Boise State University, Oregon State University, and Portland State University. Typically there will be half a dozen principal speakers on topics ranging widely over geometry and topology, both algebraic and geometric, the majority from outside these institutions, and more than fifty participants altogether, roughly half of them faculty and half of them graduate students, as well as an occasional undergraduate student. Participation by younger mathematicians, by women, and by underrepresented minorities is encouraged, the first two with notable success. Other sources of financial support include the host institutions in each case and, in the case of the conferences held in Canada, Canadian sources, which entirely supplant the National Science Foundation. ***