Homotopy Theory Conference in Kinosaki, Japan

一场关于同伦理论和代数拓扑的重要国际会议将于7月28日至8月1日在日本木崎召开。会议将在京都大学西田吾郎教授60岁生日之际向他致敬。在过去的十年里，西田教授一直是日本代数拓扑学的主导力量。与他的名字联系在一起的会议将吸引来自世界各地的参与者。这将是数学家们的主要聚会场所，他们通常不会聚在一起。会议将集中讨论西田教授影响的、对今天的研究议程仍然至关重要的广泛主题：局域化、同伦理论中的周期性、Morava k理论、无限环空间、同调和上同调运算、模形、群上同调和分类空间。这项提案是为美国研究人员参加会议的交通提供资金。会议本身是由日本资助的，包括我们的参与者在当地的支持。这次会议将是2003年该领域的主要国际会议。距离和成本使得日本和美国的数学家很难在任何频率上混合这样的规模。对于许多非日本人来说，这将是十多年来（自户田教授60岁生日会议以来）在日本参加该领域会议的最大机会。这样的机会在未来十年可能不会再出现。这项资助将允许几名研究生和新近获得博士学位的学生参加。它还将资助规模最大的美国妇女代表团参加在日本举行的我们领域的会议。此外，它还将资助一些通过以前的访问与日本有经常接触的研究人员和研究生。这种接触将对研究产生更广泛的影响，而不仅仅是会议。参与者将建立持续多年的研究关系，并有助于激发更多的互动。我们还希望招收大量的日本研究生来美国。把这样的学生带到国外是很难安排的，而在这种会议上发生的那种个人互动极大地加快了这一进程。从长远来看，一批在美国有研究经验的日本学生的存在对科学交流非常重要。

AbstractAward: DMS-0304445Principal Investigator: W. Stephen WilsonA major international conference on homotopy theory and algebraictopology will be held July 28 - August 1 in Kinosaki, Japan. Theconference will honor Professor Goro Nishida of Kyoto Universityon the occasion of his 60th birthday. Professor Nishida has beenthe dominant force in algebraic topology in Japan for the last 10years. With his name associated with the conference,participants will be attracted from all over the world. It willbe a major meeting place for mathematicians who do not normallymanage to get together. The conference will focus on the broadrange of subjects which Professor Nishida has influenced whichare still critical to today's research agenda in the field:localization, periodicity in homotopy theory, Morava K-theory,infinite loop spaces, homology and cohomology operations, modularforms, group cohomology and classifying spaces.This proposal is for funding to supply transportation forresearchers from the U.S.A. to attend the conference. Theconference itself is funded by Japan including the local supportof our participants. This conference will be the majorinternational conference in the field for the year 2003.Distance and cost makes it difficult for Japanese and Americanmathematicians to mix on a scale like this with any frequency.This will be the biggest opportunity in over a decade (sinceProfessor Toda's 60th birthday conference) for many non-Japaneseto attend a conference in this field in Japan. Such anopportunity may not come again for another decade. This grantwill allow several graduate students and recent Ph.D.s to attend.It will also fund the largest contingent of U.S. women to everattend a conference in our field in Japan. In addition, it willfund some researchers who have regular contact with Japan throughprevious visits and graduate students. This contact will have amuch broader impact on research than just the conference.Participants will establish research relationships which willlast for many years and help stimulate more interaction. Wewould also expect to recruit numerous Japanese graduate studentsto come to the U.S.A. Bringing such students abroad is difficultto arrange, and the kind of personal interactions that occur atsuch conferences speed up the process enormously. The presence ofa cadre of Japanese students with research experience in the USAis enormously important for scientific exchange in the long run.