Fiftieth Anniversary YAMABE MEMORIAL SYMPOSIUM

获奖：dms -1219789首席研究员：Albert Marden， Anar Ahmadov, Tian-Jun litian - jun。2012年山部纪念研讨会将于2012年10月5日至7日（周五至周日）中午在明尼苏达大学明尼阿波利斯校区数学学院举行。今年是山部计划的五十周年纪念。每两年，数学学院的几何小组决定一个专题讨论会的主题。今年的主题是几何分析。主讲人将是曹怀东、法国格勒诺布尔利海伊大学Jean-Pierre Demailly、Benson Farb、芝加哥大学Robert Hardt、莱斯大学Misha Kapovich、加州大学Davis Conan Leung、香港中文大学Natasa Sesum、罗格斯大学Ben Weinkove、加州大学圣地亚哥分校，他们代表了广泛的主题。作为对会谈的重要补充，与会者将有相当多的机会与发言者以及彼此进行讨论。今天的数学家广泛使用互联网来探索以前的工作，特别是与合作者快速方便地交流。然而，尽管有这种对互联网的依赖，事实上正因为如此，参加专题讨论会和会议是一位多产数学家生活中的常态。它有助于跟上正在发生的事情、正在取得的新发现以及正在探索的新途径的“大局”。它有助于巩固合作、友谊和建立新的数学联系。私人讨论经常激发新的想法，新的道路，新的合作。人与人之间的接触在数学家中和在人类活动中一样重要。美国国家科学基金会是这些专题讨论会和会议的主要资助者，这些讨论会和会议涵盖了数学界的广泛领域。有关山部研讨会的详细信息，请访问www.math.umn.edu/yamabe。

AbstractAward: DMS-1219789Principal Investigator: Albert Marden, Anar Ahmadov, Tian-Jun LiThe 2012 Yamabe Memorial Symposium will be held from Friday through Sunday noon, October 5-7, 2012, at the School of Mathematics, on the Minneapolis campus of the University of Minnesota. This year is the fiftieth anniversary of the Yamabe program. Each biennium, the geometry group of the School of Mathematics decides on a theme for the Symposium. The theme for this year is Geometric Analysis. The principal speakers will be Huaidong Cao, Lehigh University Jean-Pierre Demailly, Grenoble, France Benson Farb, University of Chicago Robert Hardt, Rice University Misha Kapovich, University of California, Davis Conan Leung, Chinese University of Hong Kong Natasa Sesum, Rutgers University Ben Weinkove, University of California, San Diego Together they represent a wide spectrum of the topic. As an essential complement to the talks, the participants will have considerable opportunity to have discussions with the speakers and with each other.Mathematicians today make extensive use of the internet to explore previous work, and especially to communicate quickly and easily with collaborators. Yet in spite of this internet dependence, in fact because of it, attendance at symposia and conferences is a regular occurrence in the life of a productive mathematician. It helps in keeping abreast of the "larger picture" of what is going on, what new discoveries are being made, and what new avenues are being explored. It helps to cement collaborations, friendships, and establish new mathematical contacts. Private discussions often inspire new ideas, new roads to follow, and new collaborations, Human to human contact is as essential among mathematicians as it is in human activity at large. The National Science Foundation is the principal funder of such symposia and conferences which encompass the great breadth of the mathematical community.Details of the Yamabe Symposium are at www.math.umn.edu/yamabe.