<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:9.75pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Passing this on by request. I'm planning on attending:</span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"><span style="font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">----------------------</span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:9.75pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:9.75pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Dear colleagues,</span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:9.75pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:9.75pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)">We're excited to announce the return of the Mid-Atlantic Topology Conference, to be held at Northeastern University the weekend of March 23–24, 2024. In addition to a </span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:9.75pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b>poster session for graduate students</b></span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:9.75pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)">, the conference will feature the following speakers.</span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:9.75pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:9.75pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Henry Adams (Florida)</span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:9.75pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Christin Bibby (Louisiana State)</span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:9.75pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Elden Elmanto (Toronto)</span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:9.75pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Hana Kong (Harvard)</span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:9.75pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Piotr Pstragowski (Harvard)</span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:9.75pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Martina Rovelli (UMass Amherst)</span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:9.75pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Nick Salter (Notre Dame)</span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:9.75pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Maru Sarazola (Minnesota)</span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:9.75pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Lori Ziegelmeier (Macalester)</span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:9.75pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:9.75pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Registration and further information can be found here:</span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px"><div style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:9.75pt;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><br><a href="https://sites.google.com/northeastern.edu/matc2024/home" id="m_2929677486898255043OWA96312036-a970-bbf1-d123-d74c98a7112b" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;text-decoration-line:none;margin:0px">https://sites.google.com/northeastern.edu/matc2024/home</a></span></div></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:9.75pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:9.75pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Please note the </span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:9.75pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b>funding deadline of January 19</b></span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:9.75pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)">. We hope to be able to cover travel and lodging for graduate students and early career researchers. We particularly encourage members of historically underrepresented demographic and gender groups to apply.</span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:9.75pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:9.75pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Best wishes,</span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:9.75pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Thomas Brazelton</span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:9.75pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Iva Halacheva</span></div><font color="#888888" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><div style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:9.75pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Ben Knudsen</span></div><div style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:9.75pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Jose Perea</span></div></font></div>