What Next? The Mathematical Legacy of Bill Thurston, June 23 - 27, 2014

“下一步是什么？比尔·瑟斯顿的数学遗产”会议将于2014年6月23日至27日在纽约伊萨卡的康奈尔大学举行。比尔·瑟斯顿是我们这个时代最深刻、最有影响力的数学思想家之一。他对各种各样的数学学科做出了根本性的贡献，但也许更重要的是，他引入了思考和看待数学的新方法。他发现的学科之间的联系拓宽了人们的视野，改变了他们处理问题的方式。他还对交流数学和许多关于如何做到这一点的想法有着浓厚的兴趣。这次会议将汇聚来自许多不同领域的数学家，分享最近的进展，并探索受瑟斯顿变革性思想推动的未来方向。会议将包括以不同的方式向其他数学家和公众交流数学的活动。这个奖项支持初级研究人员和特邀演讲者参加这个大型会议，会议的中心是比尔·瑟斯顿对拓扑学、几何学和动力学系统的基本贡献。这次会议的目标是将来自广泛领域的数学家聚集在一起，描述最新的进展，并探索受瑟斯顿变革性思想推动的未来方向。会议发言的视频档案将在网上提供。有关会议的详细信息，请访问网站www.math.cornell.edu/~thurston。

The conference "What Next? The Mathematical Legacy of Bill Thurston" will be held at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York on June 23-27, 2014. Bill Thurston was one of the most profound and influential mathematical thinkers of our time. He made fundamental contributions to a wide variety of mathematical disciplines, but perhaps even more importantly he introduced new ways of thinking about and of seeing mathematics. The connections he discovered between disciplines broadened people's perspective and changed the way they approach problems. He also had a deep interest in communicating mathematics and many ideas about how this should be done. This meeting will bring together mathematicians from many different areas to share recent advances and explore future directions motivated by Thurston's transformative ideas. The meeting will include events featuring different ways of communicating mathematics, both to other mathematicians and to the general public.This award supports participation by junior researchers and invited speakers in this large conference, which is centered on the fundamental contributions of Bill Thurston to topology, geometry, and dynamical systems. The goal of this meeting is to bring together mathematicians from a broad spectrum of areas to describe recent advances and explore future directions motivated by Thurston's transformative ideas. Video archives of conference presentations will be made available online. Details about the conference are available at the web site www.math.cornell.edu/~thurston.