Principal Investigator: Frederic Mynard and Francis Jordan
The 2006 Summer Conference on Topology and its Applications will be held July 6-9, 2006, at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, GA. This conference is the twenty-first in a series that began at City College of New York in 1984 and has been held every year, except 1986, at locations in the United States and abroad. There will be seven invited plenary speakers, all of which are international leaders in their fields. Additionally, two workshops will be conducted on "Physics and Domain Theory" and "Selection principles in topology", each of which will meet three times. These workshops will provide opportunities for researchers and students to obtain an up-to-date overview of specific and particularly active areas of research. Finally, six special sessions are planned, each of which will be organized by a group of three leading researchers in the corresponding field and feature one semi-plenary speaker and more than twenty other speakers. The special sessions are: Set-theory and Topology, Topological Groups and Semi-groups, Asymmetric Topology, Topology in Dynamical Systems, Fractals and Tilings, and Categorical Topology. The areas of expertise of the plenary speakers reflect the diversity of themes of the special sessions.
For more than twenty years, this series of conferences has been one of the main forums for researchers in topology and related fields. Topology is an area of pure mathematics that interacts with virtually every other branch of mathematics in addition to many other scientific fields. Applications of topology in other areas of mathematics, physics, and computer science have long been a focus of this series of conferences. The 2006 conference will continue this tradition, as reflected by the variety of workshops and special sessions proposed. This conference usually brings together over 125 researchers and graduate students from across the United States and more than 25 other countries. The goals of this conference are to present participants with the leading experts and latest research in topology and related fields; foster collaborations and interactions between researchers in topology and related fields; provide the opportunity for graduate students and underrepresented groups to be exposed to the latest research in topology-related fields and to interact with leading researchers in these areas. The wide range of special sessions and the types of workshops proposed will provide the ideal environment for new interactions and collaborations between researchers and students in different fields related to topology.
For more information see the conference Web site, www.cs.georgiasouthern.edu/faculty/mynard_f/STC06.htm.
