US participant support for the Instut Henri Poincare quarter program "Random Walks and the Asymptotic Geometry of Groups"

这项提议是为了支持美国数学家参加将于2014年1月3日至4月6日在法国巴黎亨利·庞加莱研究所(IHP)举行的四分之一项目“随机行走和群体的渐近几何”。本课程研究群上的随机游动理论及其与组合和几何群论的关系和相互作用。该计划的目的是介绍这一研究领域及其最新发展，审查和传播最新进展，并鼓励出现新的研究想法和方向。有些活动专门针对刚开始工作的研究人员，以及对这一研究领域事先没有具体了解的人。其他活动针对的是专家。大多数活动将侧重于最近的发展和研究的新方向。该计划的网站是：http://www.ihp.fr/en/ceb/geowalks.

This proposal is to support participation of mathematicians based in the United States to the quarter program "Random Walks and the Asymptotic Geometry of Groups" to be held at Institut Henri Poincare (IHP) in Paris, France, from January 3rd to April 6th, 2014. This program is concerned with the theory of random walks on groups and its relations and interactions with combinatorial and geometric group theory. The aim of the program is to provide an introduction to this area of research and its most recent developments, to review and disseminate recent progress and to stimulate the emergence of new ideas and directions of research. Some of the activities are aimed specifically at researchers at the beginning of their career and at people who have no prior specific knowledge of this area of research. Other activities are aimed at specialists. Most of the activities will focus on recent developments and new directions of research. The program's website is available at http://www.ihp.fr/en/ceb/geowalks.