2017 Redbud Geometry/Topology Conference

该NSF奖将为Redbud几何/拓扑会议系列的两次会议的演讲者和参与者提供部分支持。第一次会议将于2017年4月27日至29日在阿肯色州费耶特维尔的阿肯色大学举行。秋季会议将于2017年秋季在俄克拉何马州诺曼的俄克拉何马大学举行。Redbud会议系列的一个关键目标是增加阿肯色州和俄克拉何马州EPSCoR州的几何学家和拓扑学家之间的互动和合作。这些会议延续了自2011年秋季开始每年两次在阿肯色大学、俄克拉荷马州立大学和俄克拉荷马大学轮流举行的红芽会议系列。2017年春季会议的数学重点是几何群论和低维拓扑。春季会议的开幕日是一个研究生研讨会，由会议的演讲者进行三场说明性的演讲。这给来自阿肯色-俄克拉荷马地区的研究生提供了与更大的数学界互动的机会。秋季会议旨在展示来自该地区的研究生、博士后学者和初级教师的工作。每次会议的具体重点如下。春季会议将有十场关于几何群论和低维拓扑的演讲。这些都是深入研究的领域，利用群体行为的动态和它们所作用的空间的几何之间的相互作用来理解代数结构。具体的主题包括自由群或直角Artin群的外自同构群、曲面的映射类群和双曲几何。秋季会议将以五场讲座为特色，主要由早期职业数学家围绕拓扑和几何群论的一系列主题，围绕三所学校教师的研究兴趣。组织者将在会议网站上发布演讲笔记和/或幻灯片。会议网站是comp.uark.edu/~mattclay/Redbud/

This NSF award will provide partial support for speakers and participants of two meetings in the Redbud Geometry/Topology Conference series. The first meeting will take place at the University of Arkansas, in Fayetteville, Arkansas on April 27-29, 2017. The fall meeting will be held at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma in fall of 2017. A key objective of the Redbud Conference series is to increase interaction and collaboration between geometers and topologists in the EPSCoR states of Arkansas and Oklahoma. These meetings continue the series of Redbud Conferences held twice per year beginning in Fall 2011 on a rotating basis at the University of Arkansas, Oklahoma State University, and the University of Oklahoma. The mathematical focus of the spring meeting in 2017 is geometric group theory and low dimensional topology. The opening day of the spring meeting is a graduate student workshop featuring three talks of an expository nature delivered by speakers from the conference. This gives graduate students from the Arkansas-Oklahoma region the opportunity to interact with the larger mathematical community. The fall meeting is intended to showcase the work of graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and junior faculty from the region. The specific focus of each meetings is as follows. The spring meeting will feature ten talks on geometric group theory and low dimensional topology. These are areas of intense research that utilize the interaction between the dynamics of group actions and the geometry of the spaces they act on to understand algebraic structure. Specific topics to be included are the outer automorphism group of a free group or a right-angled Artin group, the mapping class group of a surface and hyperbolic geometry. The fall meeting will feature five talks primarily by early-career mathematicians on a range of topics in topology and geometric group theory, based around the research interests of faculty at the three schools. The organizers will post notes and/or slides from the talks on the conference website. The conference website is comp.uark.edu/~mattclay/Redbud/