Mid-Atlantic Topology Conference

首届中大西洋拓扑学会议将于2015年4月25日至26日在夏洛茨维尔的弗吉尼亚大学举行。概括地说，这次会议的主题是代数拓扑学。将有八次全体讲座，由该领域的领导人介绍这一领域的主要最新发展。我们的目标是提供一个刺激的环境，鼓励参与者讨论他们的想法并促进新的合作。像这次这样有重点的研究会议在数学研究的发展和传播中发挥着基础性作用。这样的会议是一个论坛，研究人员可以在这个论坛上宣布新的结果，并向该领域的其他专家解释他们的想法，远在结果发表在被评议的期刊上之前。会议的主题是同伦论、群论(特别是群的上同调)，以及它们之间通过分类空间函子的相互作用。群的上同调在群论和代数拓扑学中都是非常重要的。一方面，代数拓扑学的方法对于群的上同调的计算是有用的。反之，代数拓扑学中的重要问题往往可以归结为群上同调问题。这种现象的例子很多。一个重要的例子是Morava稳定子群的上同调在同伦理论中所起的作用。另一个例子是研究有限群的分类空间的(p-完全)同伦型与其p-Sylow子群上的融合系统的结构之间的关系。我们的全体演讲者是这些主题的领先专家。具体来说，他们是：马克·贝伦斯(圣母院)、保罗·戈尔斯(西北大学)、迈克·希尔(弗吉尼亚大学)、尼图·基奇卢(约翰·霍普金斯大学)、鲍勃·奥利弗(巴黎第13届)、杰弗里·鲍威尔(天使队)、道格拉斯·拉弗内尔(罗切斯特)和克尔斯滕·维克格伦(佐治亚理工学院)。有关会议的更多信息，请访问http://pi.math.virginia.edu/topology/Conference2015/

The first Mid-Atlantic topology conference will take place on April 25-26, 2015, at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. Broadly speaking, the theme of the conference is algebraic topology. There will be eight plenary lectures, giving presentations of major recent developments in this area by leaders in the field. Our goal is to provide a stimulating setting in which participants will be encouraged to discuss their ideas and foster new collaborations. Focused research conferences such as this one play a fundamental role in the development and dissemination of research in mathematics. Such conferences serve as a forum in which researchers can announce new results and explain their ideas to other experts in the field, long before results appear in refereed journals.The themes of the conference are homotopy theory, group theory (especially cohomology of groups), and interactions between them via the classifying space functor. Cohomology of groups is important both in group theory and algebraic topology. On one hand, methods of algebraic topology are useful for the calculation of cohomology of groups. Conversely, important questions in algebraic topology often can be reduced to questions about group cohomology. There are many instances of this phenomenon. One important example is the role played in homotopy theory by the cohomology of Morava stabilizer groups. Another example occurs in the study of the connection between the (p-completed) homotopy type of the classifying space of a finite group and the structure of the fusion system on its p-Sylow subgroup. Our plenary speakers are leading experts in these subjects. Specifically, they are: Mark Behrens (Notre Dame), Paul Goerss (Northwestern), Mike Hill (University of Virginia), Nitu Kitchloo (Johns Hopkins), Bob Oliver (Paris 13), Geoffrey Powell (Angers), Douglas Ravenel (Rochester) and Kirsten Wickelgren (Georgia Tech).More information about the conference can be found at http://pi.math.virginia.edu/topology/Conference2015/