The 47th Annual Spring Topology and Dynamical Systems Conference will be hosted by the Mathematical Sciences Department at Central Connecticut State University from Saturday March 23 through Monday March 25, 2013. The conference will offer special sessions in Continuum Theory, Dynamical Systems, General/Set-Theoretic Topology, Geometric Group Theory, and Geometric Topology/Low Dimensional Topology, as well as six plenary talks and 12 semi-plenary talks covering the breadth of the special sessions. The conference is organized by the special session organizing committees, the conference steering committee, the local organizing committee and the principal investigator on the grant. The grant provides funds to support travel for graduate students and young researchers, in addition to the invited speakers.
The Annual Spring Topology and Dynamical Systems Conference Series is one of the longest running in mathematics. In the spring of 1967, the first conference was held at Arizona State University, and it was primarily a conference on general topology and continuum theory. In the past 45 years, the conference has grown in size and scope. It has continued to be the most important conference of the year in set-theoretic topology and continuum theory, while expanding to include the areas of dynamical systems, geometric group theory, and geometric topology. Over the years, the conference has made special efforts to broaden participation by women, underrepresented groups, graduate students, and young researchers, while expanding to cover a broader section of topology. Many of the most famous results of the last 45 years have been first announced at this conference. The conference proceedings will be published in the refereed journal Topology Proceedings.
Conference website: www.ccsu.edu/STDC2013/
was held from March 23 to March 25, 2013 at Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT. The main goal of this international conference was to bring together leading topologists from around the world to share the most recent developments in their areas of topology and to exchange ideas for future research and collaborations. The conference attracted 209 participants from 18 countries spanning across 5 continents. Thanks to the financial support from the National Science Foundation, 17 plenary/semi-plenary speakers, 34 graduate students, 9 conference organizers and 14 early career mathematicians or mathematicians without other support were able to attend this conference. Special efforts had been made to support and broaden participation by women, underrepresented groups, graduate students, and young researchers. Thanks to the funding they were able to present their research and had the great opportunity to interact with other speakers and participants at the conference. The intellectual merit of the conference was showcased by the breadth of the research topics discussed, the depth and significance of the presented results and their relevance to other disciplines. The conference featured six plenary lectures in a variety of subfields of topology by the following researchers: Marcus M. Marsh (California State University, Sacramento), Piotr Minc (Auburn University), Michal Misiurewicz (Indiana University – Purdue University, Indianapolis), Lee Mosher (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey), Dieter Remus (Universität Paderborn, Germany) and Daniel Wise (McGill University, Canada). Additionally, there were 12 semi-plenary and 120 contributed talks in the following special sessions: Continuum Theory, Dynamical Systems, General/Set-Theoretic Topology, Geometric Group Theory, Geometric Topology/Low Dimensional Topology. The special session in General/Set-Theoretic Topology was dedicated to Professor W. W. Comfort (Wesleyan University) on the occasion of his 80th birthday and the special session in Continuum Theory was dedicated to Professor Marcus M. Marsh (California State University, Sacramento), on the occasion of his 65th birthday. The proceedings of the conference were published in volume 44 (2014) of the refereed journal Topology Proceedings.
