SM: 2009 Georgia International Topology Conference

2009年佐治亚国际拓扑会议将于2009年5月18日至29日在乔治亚州雅典的佐治亚大学举行。自1961年以来，佐治亚大学的拓扑学家每8年组织并主办一次为期两周的大型国际拓扑学会议。在1961年、1969年、1977年、1985年、1993年和2001年的会议上，一些基本的新思想浮出水面，为随后几年的拓扑学研究指明了方向。我们的会议突出了这些想法，并将注意力集中在新的有希望的研究方向上。我们的目标是在2009年的会议上做同样的事情，通过突出令人兴奋的新发展，包括Heegaard flower同调，接触和辛拓扑，破缺Lefschetz纤维，双曲三流形，Ricci流的应用，结和链接的量子不变量以及其他新发展。2009年会议的目的是将过去几年在几何拓扑和相关几何方面获得的最重要的成果呈现给广泛的拓扑受众，并成为交流和交换新思想的场所。从历史上看，我们的会议引起了既有研究人员的极大兴趣，也引起了研究生和最近的博士学位的兴趣。我们一直特别注意邀请拓扑学领域的年轻研究人员来演讲。演讲者和主题的结合将为学生和刚获得博士学位的学生提供一个很好的机会，让他们可以听取该领域的领导者以及职业生涯初期成功的数学家的意见并与他们互动。我们将出版一份会议记录，类似于1961年Prentice-Hall、1969年Markam、1977年学术出版社、1985年Dekker、1997年AMS和国际出版社以及2003年AMS出版的会议记录。乔治亚拓扑会议以前的会议记录是所有会议记录中最好的。为了延续这一传统，我们将邀请所有的演讲者提交文章，我们将邀请与会者帮助审查提交的文章。

The 2009 Georgia International Topology Conference will be held at the University of Georgia in Athens, GA, from May 18 - 29, 2009. Since 1961, topologists at the University of Georgia have organized and hosted a major two week long international topology conference every 8 years. The 1961, 1969, 1977, 1985, 1993 and 2001 conferences came at times when fundamental new ideas were surfacing that set the direction of research in topology in the following years. Our conferences highlighted these ideas and focused attention on new promising directions of research. We aim to do the same with the 2009 conference, by highlighting exciting new developments, including advances in Heegaard Floer homology, contact and symplectic topology, broken Lefschetz fibrations, hyperbolic three-manifolds, applications of Ricci flow, quantum invariants of knots and links, and other new developments.The purpose of the 2009 conference is to have the most important results obtained during the last few years in geometric topology and related geometry presented to a wide topological audience and to be a place for communication and interchange of new ideas. Our conference has historically generated great interest among established researchers, but also among graduate students and recent PhD's. We have always paid special attention to inviting young researchers in topology to speak. The combination of speakers and topics to be presented will offer students and fresh PhD's a great opportunity to listen to and interact with the leaders in the subject as well as with successful mathematicians at the beginning of their careers. We will publish a proceedings, similar to those published by Prentice-Hall in 1961, Markam in 1969, Academic Press in 1977, Dekker in 1985, AMS and International Press in 1997, and AMS in 2003. Previous proceedings of the Georgia Topology Conference have been among the best of any conference proceedings. To continue the tradition, we will invite all speakers to submit articles, and we will enlist conference participants to help review submitted articles for the proceedings.