Principal Investigator: Craig R. Guilbault, Fredric D. Ancel, Dennis J. Garrity, Frederick Tinsley, Gerard A. Venema
This award provides partial support for active research mathematicians and graduate students participating in three meetings in an ongoing series of workshops on geometric topology. The 2004 workshop will be held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, with Peter Teichner of the University of California, San Diego as principal speaker. The 2005 workshop will be take place at Colorado College in Colorado Springs, Colorado and the 2006 meeting will be hosted by Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon. These workshops are designed to focus on recent work, reported by one of its leading investigators, and to provide a serious but informal research atmosphere in which graduate students can meet and learn from others in geometric topology.
An additional component of this award supports work to edit, type, and distribute several unpublished works of longtime workshop participant Bob Edwards. These important contributions to topology include seminal work on double suspensions of homology spheres and approximations of cell-like maps by homeomorphisms, and will be posted on the workshop Web pages as a step toward more formal publication.
