The 2010 Barrett Lectures: Discrete Differential Geometry and Applications

该提案寻求资金支持为期五天的会议，代表2010年巴雷特纪念讲座。这些讲座是众所周知的，受到高度重视的，每年举办一次，涉及各种主题，并有杰出的演讲者和参加者。2010年巴雷特讲座的题目是“离散微分几何及其应用”。这将是一个为期五天的会议，由Kenneth Stephenson教授（田纳西州）和Alexander Bobenko教授（柏林工业大学）组织。会议延续了从德国开始的序列，并在将离散微分几何（Discrete Differential Geometry）作为一个连贯的主题方面发挥了重要作用。三位杰出的研究人员，Rick Kenyon， Igor Pak和Peter Schroeder，将参与组织五天的会议，每个人都致力于DDG的不同方面，包括一小时的讲座和较短的讲座。一个晚上将有一个贡献海报会议，一个晚上将有一个贡献软件演示会议。会议的目的是介绍离散微分几何及其独特的混合理论，计算和应用更广泛地在美国。青年研究人员和研究生是听众中特别重要的组成部分，将尽一切努力吸引多样化和跨学科的听众，包括妇女和少数民族。

The proposal seeks funds to support a five day conference representing the 2010 Barrett Memorial Lectures. The Lectures, which are well known and highly regarded, have been organized annually on a variety of topics and with a distinguished list of speakers and participants. The 2010 Barrett Lectures are entitled "Discrete Differential Geometry and Applications". This will be a five-day conference organized by Professor Kenneth Stephenson (Tennessee), and Professor Alexander Bobenko (Technical University, Berlin). The conference continues a sequence which started in Germany and has been instrumental in founding Discrete Differential Geometry) as a coherent topic. Three distinguished researchers, Rick Kenyon, Igor Pak, and Peter Schroeder, will be involved in organizing the five days, each devoted to a different aspect of DDG through hour talks and sessions for shorter talks. One evening there will be a contributed poster session, and one evening a contributed software demonstration session. The conference is intended to introduce Discrete Differential Geometry and its unique mixture of theory, computation, and application more broadly in the US. Young researchers and graduate students are particularly important parts of the audience, and every effort will be made to attract a diverse and interdisciplinary audience, including women and minorities.