2006 Summer Conference on Topology and its Applications

摘要奖：DMS-0603294主要研究人员：Frederic Mynard和Francis Jordan 2006年夏季拓扑学及其应用会议将于2006年7月6-9日在佐治亚州斯塔茨伯勒的佐治亚南方大学举行。这次会议是1984年在纽约城市学院开始的系列会议中的第21次，除了1986年，每年都在美国和国外的地点举行。将有七位受邀的全体发言者，他们都是各自领域的国际领袖。此外，还将举办“物理与领域理论”和“拓扑学中的选择原则”两个工作坊，每个工作坊将举行三次会议。这些研讨会将为研究人员和学生提供机会，以获得特定和特别活跃的研究领域的最新概述。最后，计划举行六次特别会议，每一次会议将由相应领域的三名主要研究人员组织，有一名半全体发言者和二十多名其他发言者。专题课程有：集合论与拓扑学、拓扑群与半群、非对称拓扑学、动力系统拓扑学、分形与平铺和范畴拓扑学。全体发言者的专长领域反映了特别会议主题的多样性。二十多年来，这一系列会议一直是拓扑学和相关领域研究人员的主要论坛之一。拓扑学是纯数学的一个领域，它几乎与数学的其他所有分支相互作用，还与许多其他科学领域相互作用。拓扑学在数学、物理和计算机科学的其他领域的应用一直是这一系列会议的焦点。2006年会议将延续这一传统，拟举办的各种讲习班和特别会议反映了这一点。这个会议通常聚集了来自美国和其他25个国家的125多名研究人员和研究生。本次会议的目标是向与会者展示拓扑学和相关领域的领先专家和最新研究；促进拓扑学和相关领域研究人员之间的合作和互动；为研究生和未被充分代表的群体提供机会接触拓扑学相关领域的最新研究并与这些领域的领先研究人员互动。特别会议的范围和建议的研讨会类型将为研究人员和学生在与拓扑学相关的不同领域的新的互动和合作提供理想的环境。欲了解更多信息，请访问会议的网站：http://www.cs.georgiasouthern.edu/faculty/mynard_f/STC06.htm.

AbstractAward: DMS-0603294Principal Investigator: Frederic Mynard and Francis JordanThe 2006 Summer Conference on Topology and its Applications willbe held July 6-9, 2006, at Georgia Southern University inStatesboro, GA. This conference is the twenty-first in a seriesthat began at City College of New York in 1984 and has been heldevery year, except 1986, at locations in the United States andabroad. There will be seven invited plenary speakers, all ofwhich are international leaders in their fields. Additionally,two workshops will be conducted on "Physics and Domain Theory"and "Selection principles in topology", each of which will meetthree times. These workshops will provide opportunities forresearchers and students to obtain an up-to-date overview ofspecific and particularly active areas of research. Finally, sixspecial sessions are planned, each of which will be organized bya group of three leading researchers in the corresponding fieldand feature one semi-plenary speaker and more than twenty otherspeakers. The special sessions are: Set-theory and Topology,Topological Groups and Semi-groups, Asymmetric Topology, Topologyin Dynamical Systems, Fractals and Tilings, and CategoricalTopology. The areas of expertise of the plenary speakers reflectthe diversity of themes of the special sessions.For more than twenty years, this series of conferences has beenone of the main forums for researchers in topology and relatedfields. Topology is an area of pure mathematics that interactswith virtually every other branch of mathematics in addition tomany other scientific fields. Applications of topology in otherareas of mathematics, physics, and computer science have longbeen a focus of this series of conferences. The 2006 conferencewill continue this tradition, as reflected by the variety ofworkshops and special sessions proposed. This conference usuallybrings together over 125 researchers and graduate students fromacross the United States and more than 25 other countries. Thegoals of this conference are to present participants with theleading experts and latest research in topology and relatedfields; foster collaborations and interactions betweenresearchers in topology and related fields; provide theopportunity for graduate students and underrepresented groups tobe exposed to the latest research in topology-related fields andto interact with leading researchers in these areas. The widerange of special sessions and the types of workshops proposedwill provide the ideal environment for new interactions andcollaborations between researchers and students in differentfields related to topology.For more information see the conference Web site,http://www.cs.georgiasouthern.edu/faculty/mynard_f/STC06.htm.