40th and 41st Arkansas Spring Lecture Series in the Mathematical Sciences

第40届数学科学春季系列讲座将于2015年3月5日至7日举行，第41届数学科学春季系列讲座将于2016年4月14日至16日举行；这两场讲座都将由阿肯色州费耶特维尔的阿肯色大学数学科学系主办。这笔赠款支持被邀请的专家演讲者以及参加会议但没有自己的资助手段的研究生、博士后学者和年轻教授的旅费和住宿费。这些会议为研究成果的传播、导致新发现和合作的讨论以及初级参与者的专业发展提供了机会。这些会议的更广泛影响还包括一些完全由阿肯色大学赞助的活动，包括每年一次的公开数学讲座，以及面向数学专业女性和研究生的网络活动。更具体地说，2015年的会议将由芝加哥大学的本森·法布教授讲授表征稳定性，2016年的会议将由普林斯顿大学的彼得·奥兹瓦特教授讲授希加德·弗洛尔同源。除了主要讲师外，两个会议都将有十位专家特邀演讲者的演讲，以及与会者的贡献演讲。2015年的会议将探索拓扑学、几何群论、代数几何、抽象代数和其他学科中出现的群的表示序列，并在这些不同的领域之间建立联系。2016年的会议将集中于Heegaard Floer同调和3-和4-流形的有边Floer同调以及接触和辛拓扑的新技术和应用。会议系列的网站是http://math.uark.edu/3742.php。

The 40th Spring Lecture Series in the Mathematical Sciences (SLS) will take place March 5th--7th, 2015, and the 41st Spring Lecture Series in the Mathematical Sciences will take place April 14th--16th, 2016; both will be hosted by the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Arkansas, in Fayetteville, Arkansas. This grant supports travel and lodging, both for the expert speakers who have been invited, and for the graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and young professors who attend the conferences but do not have their own means of support. These conferences provide opportunities for dissemination of research results, discussions that lead to new discoveries and collaborations, and for professional development of the junior participants. The broader impact of the conferences also includes some events that will be supported entirely by the University of Arkansas, including a public mathematics lecture each year, and networking events for women in mathematics and for graduate students.More specifically, the 2015 conference will feature lectures by Professor Benson Farb of the University of Chicago on representation stability, and the 2016 conference will feature lectures by Professor Peter Ozsvath of Princeton University, on Heegaard Floer Homology. Both conferences will have talks by ten expert invited speakers in addition to the principal lecturer, as well as contributed talks by participants. The 2015 conference will explore sequences of representations of groups that arise in topology, geometric group theory, algebraic geometry, abstract algebra and other subjects, and make connections between these diverse fields. The 2016 conference will focus on new techniques and applications of Heegaard Floer Homology and Bordered Floer Homology to 3- and 4-manifolds, as well as to contact and symplectic topology. The website for the conference series is http://math.uark.edu/3742.php .