Young Topologists Meeting 2016

这笔旅行资助为美国参加2016年7月4日至8日在丹麦哥本哈根大学举行的2016年青年拓扑学家会议提供部分支持。青年拓扑学家会议（YTM）是一年一度的欧洲会议，专注于拓扑学领域的研究生和年轻研究人员的工作，吸引了来自世界各地的参与者。在YTM，初级拓扑学家向大量的国际观众展示他们的工作，并参加由高级拓扑学家讲授的迷你课程。会议为与会者提供了结识新同事和导师以及形成研究合作的机会。其开放和支持的氛围鼓励年轻数学家，包括那些来自代表性不足的群体，追求拓扑学的研究事业。YTM是一项年度活动，于2007年首次举办，在丹麦哥本哈根和瑞士洛桑轮流举办。会议的特点是研究生和年轻研究人员的平行会议，涵盖了拓扑学的广泛主题。除了这些讲座之外，还有三位资深拓扑学家的迷你课程，讨论代数拓扑学与其他领域的联系，包括表示理论和k理论，几何拓扑学和数学物理。今年，Akhil Mathew（美国哈佛大学）将开设一门关于麦基结构和代数k理论的课程。Oscar Randall-Williams（英国剑桥大学）和Nathalie Wahl（丹麦哥本哈根大学）将讲授同调稳定性、微分同构群、共序范畴和拓扑场理论等课程。会议网页可访问：http://www.math.ku.dk/english/research/conferences/2016/ytm2016/

This travel grant provides partial support for U.S. participation in the Young Topologists Meeting 2016, held at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, July 4th-8th, 2016. The Young Topologists Meeting (YTM) is an annual European conference focused on the work of graduate students and young researchers in topology, that brings in participants from all over the world. At the YTM, junior topologists present their work to a large international audience, and also attend mini-courses taught by senior topologists. The conference provides opportunities for the participants to meet new colleagues and mentors, and to form research collaborations. Its open and supportive atmosphere encourages young mathematicians, including those from underrepresented groups, to pursue research careers in topology.The YTM is an annual event, first started in 2007, and alternating between Copenhagen, Denmark and Lausanne, Switzerland. The conference features parallel sessions of contributed talks by graduate students and young researchers, covering a broad spectrum of topics in topology. In addition to these talks, there will be mini-courses by three senior topologists, discussing the connections between algebraic topology and other fields, including representation theory and K-theory, geometric topology, and mathematical physics. This year Akhil Mathew (Harvard University, US) will give a course on Mackey structure and algebraic K-theory. Oscar Randall-Williams (Cambridge University, UK) and Nathalie Wahl (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) will give courses on homological stability, diffeomorphism groups, cobordism categories, and topological field theories. The conference web page is available at http://www.math.ku.dk/english/research/conferences/2016/ytm2016/