Young Geometric Group Theory Meeting

该提案支持参加将于2012年1月9日至13日在波兰贝德勒沃巴拿赫中心举行的“青年几何群论”会议的美国参与者。届时将有4位资深讲者讲授基础主题的迷你课程，以及7位杰出的博士后就他们的工作做简短的演讲。讲座内容包括几何群论的基本例子，如Artin群、CAT(0)群、极限群、李群中的格；这些迷你课程与其他数学领域建立了联系，包括表示理论、射影几何、几何测量理论和逻辑学。几何群论是一个相当年轻和充满活力的领域，受到国际学者的广泛研究。大多数研讨会参加者将是早期的数学家；该计划旨在最大限度地促进年轻研究人员之间的互动，并使他们与该领域的顶尖专家有更广泛的接触。会议的网址是http://bcc.impan.pl/12Young/

This proposal supports U.S.-based participants attending the "Young Geometric Group Theory" meeting to be held at the Banach Center in Bedlewo, Poland from January 9-13, 2012. There will be four senior speakers giving mini-courses on fundamental topics, as well as seven outstanding postdocs giving short talks on their work. The planned talks cover basic examples in geometric group theory such as Artin groups, CAT(0) groups, limit groups, and lattices in Lie groups; the mini-courses make connections with other fields of mathematics including representation theory, projective geometry, geometric measure theory, and logic.Geometric group theory is a fairly young and dynamic field studied by an international community of researchers. Most of the workshop attendees will be early-career mathematicians; the schedule is designed to maximize the interactions among young researchers, as well as to give them extended contact with leading experts in the field. A website for the conference can be found at http://bcc.impan.pl/12Young/