Chico Topology Conference

Chico State Enterprises, Chico CA

Investigators

Abstract

This award provides participant support for the "Chico Topology Conference", to be held at California State University, Chico, on April 24-26, 2020. The purpose of the conference is to bring together leading scholars, post-doctoral researchers, and graduate students to share their research in a variety of fields within topology. NSF funding of this activity will allow participants, particularly early-career mathematicians and graduate students, to attend the conference and benefit from the scientific program. This will in turn promote the long-term viability of research networks in topology along the West Coast. The three day conference will feature hour-long invited talks and thirty-minute contributed talks. Rather than being a specialist conference that serves an already established research community, the conference will promote cross-fertilization of ideas and new professional connections between different branches of topology. The invited speakers include experts in homotopy theory, low-dimensional topology, and applied topology. Since the target audience is broad in scope, the talks are intended to be accessible to a wide audience. More details are available at the conference website http://tmattman.yourweb.csuchico.edu/CTC.html. 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.