The Cornell Topology Conference

康奈尔拓扑学节每年五月在纽约伊萨卡的康奈尔大学举行。此奖助金将用于支持第54、55、56届此类节日的参与者。第54届将于2018年5月11日至13日举行。本次会议为拓扑学研究人员提供了一个了解该领域最新发展并与潜在合作者联系的机会。这是唯一的长度和广度的拓扑会议定期在美国东北部举行。拓扑学是一个非常广泛的领域，因此该节日的一个关键方面是每年选择一个“重点领域”：一些较窄的子学科或拓扑学的应用。大约三分之一的演讲者被选中代表重点领域，其中两人被选中就该领域进行介绍性演讲，以便普通与会者可能比他们只从研究报告中更深入地了解该领域。最近的重点领域是“作用于双曲空间的群”（2015），“拓扑组合学”（2016）和“拓扑与物理”（2017）。第54届康奈尔拓扑学节的重点领域是“表示理论和拓扑学”。关于即将到来的和以前的节日的更多细节可以在网站上找到：http://www.math.cornell.edu/~festival/This该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，认为值得支持。

The Cornell Topology Festival is held each May at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. This grant will support participants in the 54th, 55th, and 56th such festivals. The 54th will be held May 11-13, 2018. This conference gives an opportunity for researchers in topology to find out about the latest developments in the field and connect with potential collaborators. It is the only topology conference of its length and breadth held regularly in the Northeastern United States.Topology is an extremely broad field, and so a key aspect of the Festival is the annual choice of an "area of emphasis": some narrower subdiscipline or application of topology. Around one third of the speakers are chosen to represent the area of emphasis and among these two are chosen to give introductory talks about the area, in order that regular attendees might learn about the area in greater depth than they might only from research presentations. Recent areas of emphasis were "Groups Acting on Hyperbolic Spaces" (2015), "Topological Combinatorics" (2016), and "Topology and Physics" (2017). The area of emphasis for the 54th Cornell Topology Festival is "Representation Theory and Topology". More details about the upcoming and previous festivals can be found at the website:http://www.math.cornell.edu/~festival/This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.