Finite Simple Groups, Geometries, Buildings, and Related Topics - Conference in Honor of Ernest Shult

纪念厄尼·舒特的会议将于2001年3月22日至3月25日在堪萨斯州立大学举行。这次会议将包括大约30场关于舒特教授在漫长而杰出的职业生涯中对代数和几何做出重大贡献的部分的演讲。因此，会议将关注有限单群理论的发展，与这些群有关的几何，以及这些几何的推广。群论可以被描述为与对称有关的代数，特别是有限群提供了丰富的数学结构和丰富的应用。有限单群可以看作是构成所有有限群的“原子”，因此，20年前宣布有限单群的分类是数学上的一个里程碑。会议将集中讨论有望提供--也许是第一次--令人满意的这一根本结果的事态发展。几何学和群论之间的相互作用一直在丰富这两门学科的内容，并将成为本次会议的第二个焦点。

A conference in honor of Ernie Shult will be held at Kansas State University, from March 22 through March 25, 2001. The conference will involve approximately thirty talks on those parts of algebra and geometry to which Professor Shult has made significant contributions in a long and distinguished career. Thus, the conference will be concerned with developments in the theory of finite simple groups, with geometries related to those groups, and with generalizations of such geometries.Group theory can be described as the algebra associated with symmetry, and finite groups in particular afford a rich mathematical structure and wealth of applications. The finite simple groups may be viewed as the "atoms" of which all finite groups are composed, and for this reason, the announcement, twenty years ago, of the classification of the finite simple groups was a milestone in mathematics. The conference will focus on developments which promise to provide, perhaps for the first time, a satisfactory treatment of this fundamental result. The interplay between geometry and group theory has always been enriching for both subjects and will provide a second focus for this conference.