Young Geometric Group Theory Conference

这项提议将支持美国与会者参加将于2013年2月3-7日在以色列海法理工学院数学科学中心举行的第二届“青年几何群论”会议。将有4名高级演讲者就基本主题进行迷你课程，以及7名优秀的博士后就他们的工作进行简短的演讲。计划中的迷你课程和讲座将涵盖几何群论的各个方面，如CAT(0)-立方体复形、准等距刚性、自由群的自同构和收缩复形，并与其他数学领域联系起来，包括表示论、几何测度论、遍历理论、微分几何和模型论。几何群论是一个相当年轻和充满活力的领域，被国际研究人员所研究。大多数参加研讨会的人将是职业生涯早期的数学家；计划安排是为了最大限度地增加年轻研究人员之间的互动，并让他们与该领域的领先专家进行更广泛的接触。会议的网址为：http://www.math.technion.ac.il/cms/decade_2011-2020/year_2012-2013/.。

This proposal will support U.S.-based participants attending the second session of the "Young Geometric Group Theory" meeting to be held at the Center for Mathematical Sciences at the Technion in Haifa, Israel on February 3-7, 2013.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 mini-courses and talks will cover various aspect of geometric group theory such as CAT(0)-cube complexes, quasi-isometric rigidity, automorphisms of free groups and systolic complexes, and make connections with other fields of mathematics including representation theory, geometric measure theory, ergodic theory, differential geometry and model theory.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 is at http://www.math.technion.ac.il/cms/decade_2011-2020/year_2012-2013/.