Young Geometric Group Theory Meeting, Luminy

该提案将支持参加2014年1月20日至24日在法国卢明国际数学中心（CIRM）举行的“青年几何群论”会议的美国参与者。届时将有四位资深讲者讲授基础主题的迷你课程，以及几位杰出的博士后就他们的工作进行简短的演讲。迷你课程和简短讲座将以几何群论为中心，但也将探索与其他领域的联系，包括动力学、逻辑、拓扑、代数几何和测量理论。深入的迷你课程的主题包括动力学和圆包装，双曲几何和扩张，和汤普森的群。简短的讲座将涵盖CAT(0)几何、双曲群、Teichmuller理论和其他当前感兴趣的领域的各种主题。几何群论是一个年轻而充满活力的数学领域，受到国际研究人员的广泛研究。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://math.univ-lille1.fr/~kassel/yggt3.html

This proposal will support U.S.-based participants attending the ``Young Geometric Group Theory'' meeting to be held at the Centre International de Recontres Mathematiques (CIRM) at Luminy, France on January 20--24, 2014. There will be four senior speakers giving mini-courses on fundamental topics, as well as several outstanding postdocs giving short talks on their work. The mini-courses and short talks will be on subjects central to geometric group theory, but will also explore connections with other fields, including dynamics, logic, topology, algebraic geometry and measure theory. The topics of the in-depth mini-courses include dynamics and circle packings, hyperbolic geometry and expanders, and Thompson's groups. The shorter talks will cover various topics in CAT(0) geometry, hyperbolic groups, Teichmuller theory, and other areas of current interest.Geometric group theory is a young and dynamic field of mathematics, 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://math.univ-lille1.fr/~kassel/yggt3.html