Georgia Topology Conference

佐治亚州拓扑学会议是一年一度的活动，在过去的50年里，它已经成为美国拓扑界的中流砥柱。它于春季或夏季在雅典的佐治亚大学举行。会议的焦点是拓扑学的一个子领域，每年都有不同的变化；最近的主题包括三维和四维流形，纽结理论，接触和辛拓扑，以及函子的演算。每年，该会议都会聚集一批资深研究人员和一大批年轻的数学家，他们大多是新近获得博士学位的S和研究生。鼓励和资助任职人数不足的群体成员参加会议；特别是发言者和组织者一般包括几名妇女。会议形式的设计既是为了帮助传播重要的新研究，也是为了为职业生涯早期的数学家提供形成经验。广义地说，拓扑学是研究空间(如我们生活的宇宙)的属性，这些属性在空间不断变形时保持不变。这门学科与物理学有许多联系，并应用于机器人学和图像分析等主题。这次会议旨在为拓扑学基本问题的新方法提供一个场所，并促进在该领域工作的年轻数学家的职业发展。如需更多信息，请访问会议website:http://www.ams.org/meetings/calendar/2011_may18-22_athens.html

The Georgia Topology Conference is an annual event which has established itself as a mainstay of the American topology community over the past 50 years. It takes place at the University of Georgia in Athens in the Spring or Summer. The focus of the conference is a subfield of topology which varies from year to year; recent topics have included three- and four-dimensional manifolds, knot theory, contact and symplectic topology, and the calculus of functors. Each year, the conference gathers a core of senior researchers together with a larger group of young mathematicians, mostly recent Ph. D.'s and graduate students. Participation by members of under-represented groups is encouraged and funded; in particular the speakers and organizers generally include several women. The conference format is designed both to help disseminate important new research and to provide a formative experience for early-career mathematicians. Broadly speaking, topology is the study of the properties of a space (such as the universe that we live in) which are preserved when the space is continuously deformed. The subject has many connections to physics and has applications to such topics as robotics and image analysis. This conference is designed to serve as a venue for new approaches to fundamental questions in topology and to facilitate the career development of young mathematicians working in the field.More information is available on the conference website:http://www.ams.org/meetings/calendar/2011_may18-22_athens.html