Conference Proposal: CURRENT AND CLASSICAL THEMES IN HOMOTOPY THEORY

PI将于2009年10月在伊利诺斯州芝加哥市的芝加哥大学组织一次关于代数拓扑、同伦理论及其应用的会议，以纪念J. Peter May的70岁生日。会议将包括星期五由一位主要研究人员举行的讨论会，随后是两天的会谈。会议的演讲者将代表来自不同机构的知名研究人员和新近获得博士学位的人。讲座将介绍代数拓扑和同伦理论领域的最新发展和趋势，例如拓扑场论、高等范畴论以及与算术代数几何的相互作用。重点将放在鼓励研究生、刚获得博士学位的学生、女性和未被充分代表的少数群体成员的参与上。这次会议将促进数学科学一个主要分支的研究。会议的提议形式旨在促进对代数拓扑感兴趣的本科生和研究生的发展，让他们有机会接触该领域的主要研究人员。会议的主题与数学的许多不同分支相关，因此会议有可能为数学科学的研究人员群体带来新的合作和发现。将建立一个网页，在互联网上分发报告的内容，从而增加会议的可访问性。

The PI will organize a conference on Algebraic Topology, Homotopy theory, and its applications in October 2009, to be held at the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, honoring J. Peter May on the occasion of his 70th birthday. The conference will consist of a Friday colloquium by a leading researcher, followed by two days of talks. The speakers in the conference will represent a cross-section of established researchers and recent Ph.D.'s from a variety of institutions. The talks will describe the leading current developments and trends in the fields of Algebraic Topology and Homotopy Theory such as those pertaining to topological field theories, higher category theory, and interactions with arithmetic algebraic geometry. Emphasis will be placed on encouraging participation by graduate students, recent Ph.D.'s, women, and members of underrepresented minority groups.The conference will stimulate research in a major branch of the mathematical sciences. The proposed format of the conference is designed to foster the development of undergraduate and graduate student participants with an interest in algebraic topology, by giving them access to leading researchers in the field. The subject matter of the conference is interrelated to many different branches of mathematics, and the conference therefore has the potential to bring about new collaborations and discoveries to groups of researchers in the mathematical sciences. The accessibility of the conference will be augmented by the creation of a web page which will distribute the contents of the presentations on the internet.