About
The International Workshop on Algebraic Topology (IWoAT) is a series of conferences and summer schools centered around algebraic topology.
It was initiated at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) in 2018, on the occasion of a joint meeting between the Chinese and American Mathematical Societies. Prior to Covid, in the summer of 2019, the 5-day summer school and 3-day conference at the Shanghai Center for Mathematical Sciences attracted more than 130 participants from around the world. During Covid, IWoAT continued with summer schools online or in a hybrid format, on the topics of equivariant homotopy theory and higher algebra. IWoAT saw its fifth year in 2023 and returned in person, with a week-long conference in July and a summer school in August.
IWoAT has grown along with the strengthening and expanding connections within the greater community of algebraic topology and related fields.
Upcoming events
2026
- Summer school on stable homotopy theory, August 10–14, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- International conference, August 17–21, Peking University
Past events
2025
- Special international conference in honor of Prof. Peter May at SUSTech
- Summer school at Westlake University on computations with the Adams spectral sequence and the Last Kervaire Invariant Problem
- International conference at Zhejiang University
2024
- Summer school at Fudan on motivic homotopy theory
- International conference at Fudan
- Symposium at SUSTech
2023
- International conference at Peking University
- Summer school at BIMSA: “Operads, spectra, and multiplicative structures”
- Winter school at SUSTech on motivic stable homotopy theory and synthetic spectra
2022
Virtual summer school on chromatic homotopy theory and higher (infinity-categorical) algebra, hosted by BIMSA and Fudan2021
Summer school on equivariant homotopy theory, hosted by Fudan2019
2018
- International conference at SUSTech
- Special Session on Algebraic and Geometric Topology in AMS–CMS Joint International Meeting at Fudan