Binghamton University Graduate Conference in Algebra and Topology (BUGCAT)

该项目是为了支持宾厄姆顿大学代数和拓扑研究生会议（BUGCAT），该会议是代数和拓扑研究生在其研究的各个阶段展示他们的工作并会见其他有相关研究兴趣的数学家的场所。今年的会议将于2010年11月6日至7日在宾厄姆顿大学校园举行，为期两天。参与者将包括各级研究生、博士后和教授。预计约有150人参加，其中约100人来自宾厄姆顿一小时车程以外的地方。会议的目的是为来自不同背景和学校的研究生提供一个舒适的环境来分享他们的研究。研究生将有优先的谈话空间。此外，密歇根大学安娜堡分校的穆恩·杜钦（Moon Duchin）和佛蒙特大学伯灵顿分校的理查德·富特（Richard Foote）将担任会议的主旨演讲嘉宾。鼓励所有领域的拓扑学和代数的参与。会议旨在加强数学研究生的学术共同体意识。除了让学生接触到高级研究生的研究之外，对于那些还没有选择研究领域的学生来说，这次会议是一个宝贵的机会，可以探索目前正在研究的主题。出席会议的教师在提供新想法、探索研究生的想法、为未来的研究提出建议、鼓励学生与对他们的研究领域感兴趣的人见面和合作方面发挥着重要作用。参加BUGCAT的研究生可以更好地找到学术职位并继续研究和合作。会议还通过鼓励妇女和少数族裔参加会议以及鼓励广泛的研究生项目参与，促进数学科学的多样性。会议组织委员会全部由研究生组成，性别、种族和背景都非常多样化，因此能够很好地鼓励妇女和少数民族的参与。

This project is to support a Binghamton University Graduate Conference in Algebra and Topology(BUGCAT) which is a venue for algebra and topology graduate students in all stages of their research to present their work and meet other mathematicians with related research interests. This year it will be a two-day conference on the Binghamton University campus during November 6-7, 2010. Participants will include graduate students at all levels, postdocs, and professors. Approximately 150 participants are expected, with about 100 of them traveling from outside of a one-hour-driving radius from Binghamton. The aim of the conference is to provide a comfortable environment for graduate students from a diversity of backgrounds and schools to share their research. Graduate students will have the priority for talk space. In addition, Moon Duchin from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and Richard Foote from the University of Vermont at Burlington will serve as keynote speakers at the conference. Participation from all areas of topology and algebra is encouraged.The conference strives to strengthen the sense of academic community among mathematics graduate students. Besides giving exposure to the research of advanced graduate students, the conference is an invaluable opportunity for students who have not chosen a research area yet to explore what topics are currently being fruitfully studied. The faculty members who attend serve an essential role in both providing new ideas as well as probing the ideas of graduate students, suggesting ideas for future study, and encouraging students to meet and work with people interested in their areas of research. Graduate students who attend the BUGCAT are better equipped to find academic positions and continue research and collaboration. The conference also promotes diversity in the mathematical sciences, both by encouraging women and minorities to attend and by encouraging participation from a broad range of graduate programs. The conference organizing committee, all graduate students, is remarkably diverse in gender, ethnicity, and background, and hence is well positioned to encourage participation by women and minorities.