First Arkansas-Oklahoma workshop in topology and geometry

首届阿肯色州-俄克拉何马州拓扑学和几何学研讨会将于2005年5月18日至20日在阿肯色大学举行。会议的目的是聚集来自该地区的研究人员，以及他们的工作与该领域的研究人员直接相关的研究人员，在三维流形(双曲三维流形，Dehnery，Heegaard分裂，有效三角剖分)和相关学科(二维和三维双曲几何和几何群论)领域的研究人员。更广泛地说，拓扑学是数学的一个分支，很像几何，研究形状。近年来，在理解三维和四维拓扑结构方面取得了很大的进展。尽管拓扑学忽略了几何学的一些基本术语(如长度、面积或体积)，但最近的许多进展表明，拓扑学和几何学之间存在着非常深的联系，特别是双曲几何。我们在这次会议上的目标是将来自密切相关(但不同)领域的人员聚集在一起，以便相互了解最近的发展并建立未来的合作。

he first Arkansas-Oklahoma workshop in topology and geometry will beheld at the University of Arkansas May 18-20, 2005. The purpose ofthe conference is to bring together researcher from the region as wellas researcher whose work is directly relevant to researchers in thearea, in the fields of 3-manifolds (hyperbolic 3-manifolds, Dehnsurgery, Heegaard splittings, efficient triangulations) and relatedsubjects (2 and 3 dimensional hyperbolic geometry and geometric grouptheory).In more general terms, topology is the branch of mathematics that,much like geometry, studies shapes. In recent years much progress hasbeen made in understanding 3 and 4 dimensional topology. Althoughtopology ignores some of the basic terms of geometry (such as lengtharea or volume) much of recent progress shows very deep connectionbetween topology and geometry, especially hyperbolic geometry. Ourgoal in this conference is bringing together people from closelyrelated (yet distinct) fields in order to update each other on recentdevelopments and establish future collaboration.