Great Lakes Geometry Conference

五大湖几何会议（GLGC）将于2015年3月13日至15日在密歇根大学安阿伯举行。GLGCs是一个行之有效的国际会议系列，每年在五大湖地区举行，在不同的大学之间轮换。下一届GLGC的目标是邀请几何学和物理学领域的杰出演讲者，庆祝过去30年来四维流形和规范理论的丰硕成果。该计划的一个主要目标是让研究生和早期职业数学家接触这些领域中一些最重要的新发展。此外，我们希望主题的混合将鼓励不同领域的研究人员之间的合作。我们还将强调与数学物理的联系，这将有望促进跨学科的合作。 四维流形拓扑与物理学规范理论的耦合是20世纪80年代数学与物理学相互作用新时代的重大创新之一。从那时起，我们见证了巨大的进步，如唐纳森理论，Seiberg-Witten理论和各种Floer同调理论的发明。除了在会议上庆祝这些成就外，我们还旨在评估当前的发展并展望该主题的未来。已经建立了一个会议网站，向社区通报opportunity.https://homepages.warwick.ac.uk/~masmak/greatlakes2015

The Great Lakes Geometry Conference (GLGC) will be held March 13-15, 2015 at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The GLGCs are a well-established international conference series held annually in the Great Lakes region, rotating among different universities. The aim of the next GLGC is to bring in distinguished speakers in geometry and physics to celebrate the fruitful union of 4-manifolds and gauge theory for the last 30 years. One primary goal of this program is to expose graduate students and early career mathematicians to some of the most important new developments in these areas. In addition, we hope that the intermingling of the subject matter will encourage collaborations between researchers in different areas. We will also highlight the connections with mathematical physics which will hopefully foster interdisciplinary collaborations. The coupling of the 4-manifold topology and gauge theory from physics was one of the major creations in the new era of the interactions between mathematics and physics in the 1980's. Since then we have witnessed tremendous progresses such as the invention of Donaldson theory, Seiberg-Witten theory and various Floer homology theories. In addition to celebrating these achievements in the conference, we aim to assess the current developments and look into the future of the subject. A conference website has been set up to inform the community of the opportunity.https://homepages.warwick.ac.uk/~masmak/greatlakes2015