Workshops in Geometric Topology

这项提议是为了继续支持国家科学基金会在几何拓扑学方面建立的一系列夏季研讨会。该提案是为了支持将于2010年至2014年举行的第27届至第31届几何拓扑学年度研讨会。这些研讨会将在全国范围内进行广告宣传，NSF的资金主要用于支持没有目前NSF支持的活跃研究数学家和从事几何拓扑学工作的研究生的旅行。2010年研讨会将于6月10日至12日在科罗拉多州斯普林斯举行，科罗拉多学院担任东道主；Rob Ghrist已同意担任主要演讲人。2011年的研讨会将由俄勒冈州立大学主办，2012年的研讨会将由加尔文学院(密歇根州大急流城)主办。2013年和2014年研讨会的东道主将分别是杨百翰大学和威斯康星大学密尔沃基分校。这些研讨会的一个主要目标是为数学家提供积极的研究计划，但支持有限，让他们有机会与该领域的其他人讨论他们的工作。另一个重要目标是让一位国家公认的专家讨论与其当前工作重点相关但不在其工作重点之外的领域，从而扩大参与者的利益。第三个目标是提供一个严肃但非正式的研究氛围，几何拓扑学的研究生可以在其中相遇并向该领域的其他人学习。

This proposal is for continued NSF support of an established series of summer workshops in Geometric Topology. The proposal is for support of the 27th through 31st Annual Workshops in Geometric Topology to be held in 2010 through 2014. The workshops will be advertised nationally with NSF funding primarily used to support travel of active research mathematicians without current NSF support and graduate students working in geometric topology. The 2010 workshop will be held in Colorado Springs on June 10-12, with Colorado College serving as host; Rob Ghrist has agreed to be the principal speaker. The 2011 workshop will be hosted by Oregon State University and the 2012 workshop by Calvin College (Grand Rapids, Michigan). The hosts of the 2013 and 2014 workshops will be Brigham Young University and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, respectively. A primary goal of these workshops is to provide mathematicians with active research programs but limited support an opportunity to discuss their work with others in the field. Another important goal is to expand the interests of the participants by having a nationally recognized expert discuss an area that is related to, but outside, the focus of their current work. A third goal is to provide a serious but informal research atmosphere in which graduate students in geometric topology can meet and learn from others in the field.