2013 Redbud Geometry/Topology Conferences

2013年紫荆几何/拓扑会议将于2013年3月8日至10日在阿肯色州大学举行，2013年秋季在俄克拉荷马州州立大学举行。这些会议将延续2013年两年一度的Redbud几何/拓扑会议系列。 2013年春季会议将重点关注低维拓扑的不同领域之间的联系，包括Heegaard Floer同调，辛几何和接触几何，3-和4-流形，纽结理论和映射类群。春季会议还包括一个研究生研讨会，举行星期五，2013年3月8日。2013年秋季的会议将主要由来自阿肯色州、俄克拉荷马州和周边州的早期职业数学家参加。它将围绕三所学校教师的研究兴趣，就拓扑学和几何群论的一系列主题进行讲座。这些会议延续了2011年秋季、2012年春季和2012年秋季分别在阿肯色州大学、俄克拉荷马州州立大学和俄克拉荷马州大学举行的一系列雷德巴德会议。从各方面来看，这些会议都取得了成功，将全国各地的许多优秀研究人员带到了该地区，并在这些机构的研究人员之间建立了联系，并与全国各地的研究人员建立了联系。雷德巴德会议的目的是把全国公认的研究人员带到阿肯色州和俄克拉荷马州地区，并扩大地区学校之间的联系。我们希望并期待该系列会议在未来几年继续发展。会议网址：http://comp.uark.edu/~jv002/redbud/。

The 2013 Redbud Geometry/Topology Conferences will be held March 8-10, 2013 at the University of Arkansas, and Fall 2013 at Oklahoma State University. These conferences will continue the biannual Redbud Geometry/Topology conference series for 2013. The spring 2013 conference will focus on connections between different areas of low dimensional topology, including Heegaard Floer homology, symplectic and contact geometry, 3- and 4-manifolds, knot theory and mapping class groups. The spring conference also includes a graduate workshop, held Friday, March 8, 2013. The fall 2013 conference will predominantly consist of talks by early-career mathematicians from Arkansas, Oklahoma and surrounding states. It will feature talks on a range of topics in topology and geometric group theory, based around the research interests of faculty at the three schools.These meetings continue the series of Redbud conferences held in Fall 2011, Spring 2012, and Fall 2012 at the University of Arkansas, Oklahoma State University and the University of Oklahoma, respectively. By all accounts, these conferences were a success, bringing many outstanding researchers from across the country to the area and creating connections between researchers among these institutions, and to those from around the country. The Redbud conferences serve to bring nationally recognized researchers to the Arkansas and Oklahoma areas and to broaden connections between the areas schools. We hope and expect the conference series to continue and grow in the coming years. The conference website is: http://comp.uark.edu/~jv002/redbud/.