Conference on Advances in Groups, Geometries, Representations, and Galois Theory; October 26-29, 2003; Yale University, New Haven, CT

2003年10月26日至29日，为纪念沃尔特·费特的73岁生日和退休，将在耶鲁大学举行一场题为“群、几何、表示和伽罗瓦理论的进展”的会议。除了耶鲁大学提供的7500美元外，我们还需要15000美元。Walter Feit的工作对有限群论、表示论、有限几何、编码论和伽罗瓦理论的发展产生了深远的影响。这次会议将汇集所有这些领域的研究人员，无论是纯粹的还是应用的，从Feit的伟大同时代人，如Serre和Thompson，到今天崭露头角的年轻研究人员。毫无疑问，这些来自不同时代、不同领域和不同国家的研究人员之间的相互作用将会鼓舞人心，产生新的研究突破，并创造新的研究互动网络，无论是在纯数学领域，还是在编码理论、密码学和群体和组合结构的计算机识别等关键领域的应用中。这里要求的额外资金将有助于保证这次会议的国际性，吸引来自英国、法国和其他地方的主要研究人员和学生。它还将确保美国研究生和最近获得博士学位的学生（其中许多是女性）的参与。（在项目描述的最后特别提到了六名年轻女性参与者。）我们还打算广泛出版和传播本次会议的一套会议记录，这些记录将描述过去50年来该领域的进展，并为未来的研究和应用指明道路。

Abstract for the award DMS-0342708 of Solomon A conference on "Advances in Groups, Geometries, Representations and Galois Theory" will be held on October 26--29, 2003 at Yale University to honor Walter Feit on the occasion of his 73rd birthday and his retirement. We are requesting $15,000 in addition to the $7,500 being provided by Yale University. The work of Walter Feit has profoundly influenced the development of finite group theory, representation theory, finite geometry, coding theory and Galois theory. This conference will bring together researchers in all of these areas, pure and applied, ranging from Feit's great contemporaries, such as Serre and Thompson, to the budding young researchers of today. There is no doubt that the mutual interaction of these researchers from different generations, different fields and different countries will be inspirational and fruitful of new research breakthroughs and create new networks of research interaction, both in pure mathematics and in applications to the crucial areas of coding theory, cryptography and computer recognition of groups and combinatorial structures. The additional funds requested here will help to guarantee the international nature of this conference, bringing in leading researchers and students from England, France and elsewhere. It will also ensure the participation of U.S. graduate students and recent PhD recipients, many of whom are women. (Six young women participants are specifically mentioned at the end of the project description.) We also intend to publish and disseminate broadly a set of proceedings of this conference, which will delineate the advances in the field over the past 50 years and point the way for the research and applications of the future.