Conference on Cycles, Calibrations and Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations

石溪大学数学系将于2012年10月22日至28日举办为期一周的会议，主题为“循环、校准和非线性偏微分方程”。在过去的二十年里，校准和循环的研究蓬勃发展，部分是由Strominger， Yau和Zaslow的工作激发的，他们将镜面对称猜想的具体形式与特殊拉格朗日子流形的奇叶联系起来。这次会议将汇集一大批世界专家，从非线性偏微分方程的研究，到特殊完整空间的几何，再到物理学中弦理论的各个方面。将为青年研究人员举办一个内部研讨会，专门促进合作。资金将主要用于研究生和博士后的住房和旅行费用，以及一些没有获得国家科学基金支持的初级教师和一些主要演讲者。会议致力于围绕循环和校准几何的数学，这是最近数学和物理活动的焦点。来自与该主题相关的各个领域的大量杰出研究人员已同意发表演讲。这应导致广泛和富有成果的讨论。会议将重点关注年轻的研究人员。特别是，将为研究生和博士后提供为期一周的内部研讨会，旨在鼓励互动和合作。本次研讨会将由Blaine Lawson （Stony Brook）与Sergei Grigorian （Simons几何和物理中心）和Sema Salur（罗切斯特大学）共同指导。有关会议的更多详情，请访问：http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~cycles2012

The Department of Mathematics at Stony Brook University will host a week-long conference entitled "Cycles, Calibrations and Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations'' from October 22-28, 2012. The last two decades have seen a flourishing of research on calibrations and cycles, sparked in part by the work of Strominger, Yau and Zaslow, which relates a concrete form of the mirror symmetry conjecture to singular foliations by special Lagrangian submanifolds. This conference will bring together a large group of world experts on the many aspects of this topic ranging from the study of nonlinearpartial differential equations, through the geometry of special holonomy spaces, to aspects of string theory in physics. There will be an internal workshop for young researchers aimed specifically at fostering collaboration. Funds will be used largely for housing and travel expenses of graduate students and post-docs, together with some junior faculty who do not have NSF support, and a few of the principal speakers. The conference is dedicated to the mathematics surrounding cycles and calibrated geometry, an area which has been the focus of much recent activity in both mathematics and physics. A large number of eminent researchers, from a variety of fields related to this topic, have agreed to give talks. This should result in wide-ranging and fruitful discussions. There will be a focus on young researchers. In particular, there will be a week-long internal workshop for graduate students and post-docs designed to encourage interaction and collaboration. This workshop will be directed by Blaine Lawson (Stony Brook) together with Sergei Grigorian (Simons Center for Geometry and Physics), and Sema Salur (University of Rochester). Further details on the conference can be found at:http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~cycles2012