This award provides partial support for active research mathematicians with limited means of support to attend and participate in the Workshop on "Geometry and Topology of Quotients" to be held at the University of Arizona in December of 2002. The main speakers are Igor Dolgachev (Michigan), Mikhail Kapranov (Toronto)*, Janos Kollar (Princeton)*, Robert MacPherson (IAS and Princeton)*, Jun Li (Stanford), Reyer Sjamaar (Cornell), (* - to be confirmed). The plenary lectures will survey recent progress and current directions of research in Geometric Invariant theory and Symplectic Reductions, explain connections with other disciplines and applications to physics. In addition to principal lectures, there will be sessions of contributed talks and round-table discussions. The workshop will provide a forum for young researchers to meet and interact with leading specialists as well as for interactions across the traditional boundaries of disciplines. Women and minority researchers are encouraged to participate. Further information is available at
