30th International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics, July 14-18, 2014

本项目为参加于2014年7月14-18日在比利时根特大学举行的第30届物理学群理论方法国际学术讨论会（ICGTMP）的美国与会者提供部分资助。该系列会议是致力于通过基于几何和对称的数学和数值方法建模物理现象的科学家们非常重要的会议点，也是致力于几何和物理的系列会议中历史最悠久，规模最大的会议。由于几何和代数方法在生命科学和材料科学中的成功应用，它已进一步扩大和多样化。会议汇集了大约250名国际顶级研究人员，他们通常来自不同的背景，但以群体理论或代数方法为共同点。讨论的主题包括：群与表示、量子力学、量子计算与信息论、生物科学中的对称性、小波、几何力学、弦理论、量子引力、精确可解系统、多体系统和随机矩阵理论。2014年ICGTMP是致力于这一跨学科领域的主要会议，是高级研究人员跟上最新令人兴奋的发展并向高度感兴趣的观众展示他们的工作的主要场所，也是该领域的新来者建立有价值的联系并了解未来研究最有前途的领域的主要场所。这是数学家，理论物理学家，实验物理学家，工程师和生物学家就共同感兴趣的对称相关问题进行互动的极少数论坛之一。对称可以说是指导科学探索自然的最重要的概念。数学使人能够利用现代物理理论中固有的对称性。物理学在这些理论中大量利用对称思想来提供结构，包括量子信息论和量子计算等较新的领域。工程领域，如断层扫描和信号处理，包括小波，雷达和声纳与对称分析密切相关。

This project provides partial funding for US participants in the 30th International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics (ICGTMP) which takes place at Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium on July 14-18,2014. The conference series is a very important meeting point for scientists working at modeling physical phenomena through mathematical and numerical methods based on geometry and symmetry and is the oldest and largest among the conference series devoted to geometry and physics. It has been further broadened and diversified due to the successful applications of geometric and algebraic methods in life and materials sciences. The meeting brings together about 250 international top researchers, often from different backgrounds but with group theoretical or algebraic methods as common ground. Among the topics to be addressed are: groups and representations, quantum mechanics, quantum computation and information theory, symmetries in biosciences, wavelets, geometric mechanics, string theory, quantum gravity, exactly solvable systems, many-body systems and random matrix theory.The 2014 ICGTMP is the major meeting devoted to this interdisciplinary field, the prime venue for senior researchers to keep up with the latest exciting developments and to present their work to a highly interested audience, and for newcomers to the area to make valuable contacts and learn about the most promising areas for future research. This is one of the very few forums for mathematicians, theoretical physicists, experimental physicists, engineers and biologists to interact on symmetry-related problems of mutual interest. Symmetry is arguably the most important concept that guides science in its exploration of nature. Mathematics enables one to exploit the symmetries inherent in modern physical theories. Physics draws heavily on symmetry ideas to provide structure in these theories, including such newer fields as quantum information theory and quantum computation. Engineering areas such as tomography and signal processing, including wavelets, radar and sonar are intimately bound up with symmetry analysis.