Conference and school in Poisson geometry

摘要奖：DMS-0556398首席研究员：艾伦·D·魏因斯坦我们建议支持美国与会者(主要是研究生和博士后)前往日本参加将于6月5日至9日在东京举行的会议Poisson 2006，会议之前将举行为期三天的告别“学校”活动。这次会议的全名是“数学和物理中的泊松几何”，其目的是将对泊松几何及其应用有共同兴趣的数学家和数学物理学家聚集在一起。泊松几何学起源于大约200年前的经典力学和大约一个世纪前索菲斯的工作，在20世纪70年代的S中，李奇诺维茨和基里洛夫的工作形成了泊松几何。它的影响现在扩展到广泛的领域，包括辛几何和拓扑学、形变理论、表示理论、代数几何、可积哈密顿系统和场论。在学校和会议上的演讲者之所以被选中，不仅是因为他们的结果的重要性，而且因为他们向广大数学家和物理学家传达这些结果的能力。会议记录将以低成本(或免费)向广大读者公布，以促进对快速增长的泊松几何领域的进一步学习和研究。有关活动的详细信息可在网站上找到：http://www.u-bourgogne.fr/monge/g.dito/poisson2006/.

AbstractAward: DMS-0556398Principal Investigator: Alan D. WeinsteinWe propose to support travel to Japan for US participants(primarily graduate students and postdocs) at the conferencePoisson 2006, to be held in Tokyo June 5-9, preceded by apreparatory "school" of three days in length. The aim of themeeting, whose full title is "Poisson Geometry in Mathematics andPhysics," is to bring together mathematicians and mathematicalphysicists with common interests in Poisson geometry and itsapplications. With roots in classical mechanics about 200 yearsago and work of Sophus Lie about a century ago, the subject ofPoisson geometry crystallized through work of Lichnerowicz andKirillov in the 1970's. Its influence now extends to a widevariety of areas, including symplectic geometry and topology,deformation theory, representation theory, algebraic geometry,integrable hamiltonian systems, and field theory.Speakers at the school and conference have been chosen not onlyfor the importance of their results but also for their ability tocommunicate them to a broad audience of mathematicians andphysicists. Proceedings will be published in a manner whichmakes them accessible at low (or no) cost to a wide readership,in order to stimulate further study and research in the rapidlygrowing area of Poisson geometry.Detailed information about the activities may be found at thewebsite: http://www.u-bourgogne.fr/monge/g.dito/poisson2006/.