Conference on Geometric Analysis and Relativity, July 6-10, 2014

为支持一些美国科学家参加将于7月6日至10日在中国合肥举行的题为“几何分析与相对论”的会议，请提供旅费。会议将由中国科学技术大学主办并提供部分支持，会议的目的是汇集一些世界上研究广义相对论和宇宙学数学方面的领导者，并让他们与几何分析领域的顶尖专家讨论这些领域的最新发展和新的研究方向。会议的一个主要目标是让中国有前途的年轻数学家接触到令人兴奋的数学相对论研究进展。数学相对论与黑洞分析和新宇宙学模型研究的密切联系，以及它在分析和解释激光干涉引力天文台和其他引力波探测设备收集的数据方面的潜在重要性，都强烈地刺激了数学相对论的许多最新进展。几何分析长期以来一直是广义相对论数学的关键组成部分，而几何分析的最新发展-特别是与几何流有关的发展-有望继续激发数学相对论中的新思想和新的分析方法。尤其值得注意的是几何流在彭罗斯不等式（Penrose inequality）的研究中所扮演的角色。彭罗斯不等式将感知质量与黑洞的有效“面积”联系起来。会议组织者希望并期望让新的研究人员接触到数学相对论和几何分析中令人兴奋的思想的相互作用，将刺激这些密切相关领域的进一步发展。更多信息可以在会议网站上找到：//math.ustc.edu.cn/Conference/2014gar/guide.html

Travel funds are requested to support the participation of a number of U.S. scientists in a conference entitled "Geometric Analysis and Relativity", to be held July 6-10 in Hefei, China. The aim of the conference, which will be hosted and partially supported by the University of Science and Technology of China, is to bring together a number of the world's leaders in research on the mathematical aspects of general relativity and cosmology, and to have them discuss recent developments and new directions of research in these areas with leading experts in geometric analysis. A key goal of the conference is to expose promising young mathematicians in China to the exciting research developments in mathematical relativity. Many of the recent advances in mathematical relativity have been strongly stimulated by its close ties to the analysis of black holes and the study of new cosmological models, and by its potential importance in analyzing and interpreting data collected by the Laser Interferometric Gravitational Observatory along with other gravitational wave detection devices. Geometric analysis has long been a key component of the mathematics of general relativity, and the recent developments in geometric analysis - especially those related to geometric flows - are expected to continue to stimulate new ideas and new analytical approaches in mathematical relativity. Especially note-worthy is the role that geometric flows have played in the study of the Penrose inequality, which relates perceived masses and the effective "areas" of black holes. The conference organizers hope and expect that exposing new researchers to the interaction of exciting ideas in the confluence of mathematical relativity and geometric analysis will stimulate further advances in these closely allied areas.More information can be found on the conference websitehttp://math.ustc.edu.cn/Conference/2014gar/guide.html