Spring 1999 Topology Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah

DMS-9817688 Bestvina这个奖项将提供部分支持的特色发言人和一些研究生参加1999年春季拓扑会议主办的犹他州大学与杨百翰大学的帮助。 这次会议，一系列每年举行的不同机构在全国各地，现在是在其第33个年头，并已确立了自己也许是最大的，当然是最成功的年度拓扑会议之一，在美国其传统的重点已经扩大，近年来，包括动力系统。 最近还强调新的主题在几何拓扑已加速，这将是最肯定的情况下，在1999年。 会议的一般形式是在会议的三个上午举行全体（半临时）会谈，下午举行3-4次特别会议，包括一小时的邀请会谈和较短的贡献会谈。 根据会议网站的最终会前版本，邀请的专题发言者人数为22人，登记发言者总数为67人。 特色会谈将在几何拓扑，流形理论，几何群论，大规模几何，连续统理论，动力系统，和集理论拓扑。 年轻的数学家、女性和代表性不足的少数民族的参与受到了鼓励，前两个方面取得了显著的成功。 事实上，四位演讲者都是女性。

DMS-9817688BestvinaThis award will provide partial support for the featured speakers and for some graduate students to attend the 1999 Spring Topology Conference hosted by the University of Utah with the help of Brigham Young University. This conference, one of a series held annually at different institutions around the country, is now in its 33rd year and has established itself as perhaps the largest and certainly one of the most successful annual topology conferences in the U.S. Its traditional emphasis has been broadened in recent years to include dynamical systems. Still more recently an emphasis on newer topics in geometric topology has been accelerated, and this will most definitely again be the case in 1999. The general format will be plenary (semi-expository) talks on the three mornings of the conference, followed in the afternoons by 3-4 special sessions consisting of invited one-hour talks and shorter contributed talks. The number of invited featured speakers is 22, and the total number of registered speakers is 67, according to the final preconference version of the conference website. The featured talks will be in geometric topology, manifold theory, geometric group theory, large scale geometry, continuum theory, dynamical systems, and set theoretic topology. Participation by younger mathematicians, by women, and by underrepresented minorities has been encouraged, the first two with notable success. In fact, four of the featured speakers are women.***