Young Geometric Group Theory VIII

该项目旨在支持2019年6月30日至7月5日在西班牙毕尔巴鄂巴斯克大学举行的“青年几何群论VIII”会议的美国参与者。几何群论是一个活跃的数学分支，它关注数学空间的几何和拓扑与捕捉其对称性的代数对象之间的相互作用。由于大多数参与者将是研究生和早期职业数学家，会议将帮助他们了解该领域的新发展，交流他们的研究成果，并激发新的研究合作。会议还将通过选择演讲者和参与者来促进几何群论日益增长的多样性。本次会议是“青年几何群论”系列会议的第八次会议，自2012年以来每年举行一次。会议包括四种类型的活动，旨在将研究生和博士后与早期职业和成熟的研究人员聚集在一起，以营造学习和合作的环境。这些活动包括由四名该领域资深专家讲授的小型课程、初级研究人员讲授的全体会议、非正式讨论会议、研究生讲授的海报和闪电演讲。这些迷你课程允许研究生和博士后从他们的同龄人和专家那里学习几何群论的前沿方法。主题范围从展开器到几何结构和离散群的表示。青年讲座是宣传青年研究人员工作、获得反馈和促进新合作的一种方式。会议的网站可以在https://sites.google.com/site/yggt2019bilbao.This上找到。奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project is aimed at supporting U.S.-based participants at the meeting "Young Geometric Group Theory VIII" to be held at the University of the Basque Country in Bilbao, Spain, from June 30th to July 5th, 2019. Geometric group theory is an active branch of mathematics that focuses on the interactions between the geometry and topology of mathematical spaces and the algebraic objects which capture their symmetries. As most of the participants will be graduate students and early-career mathematicians, the conference will help them learn about new developments in the field, communicate their research results, and spark new research collaborations. The conference will also promote the growing diversity that geometric group theory has enjoyed through the selection of its speakers and participants.This conference is the eighth meeting of the "Young Geometric Group Theory" series, which has been held each year since 2012. The meeting features four types of events that are designed to bring graduate students and postdocs together with early-career and well-established researchers in order to foster an environment of learning and collaboration. The events include mini courses given by four established experts in the field, plenary talks given by junior researchers, informal discussion sessions, and poster sessions and lightning talks given by graduate students. The mini courses allow graduate students and postdocs to learn cutting-edge methods in geometric group theory both from their peers and from experts. Topics range from expanders to geometric structures and representations of discrete groups. The junior talks are a way to publicize the work of young researchers and to obtain feedback and foster new collaborations. A website for the conference can be found at https://sites.google.com/site/yggt2019bilbao.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.