Symmetry and Geometry on the Southern Great Plains Conference

该奖项为将于2019年4月26日至28日在俄克拉何马大学举行的“南部大平原上的对称和几何”会议提供参与者支持。会议的目标是在对称存在的情况下推进黎曼几何。对称性在黎曼几何中一直被用作构建自然类别的例子和测试/形成猜想的工具。会议将汇集广泛的专家和年轻数学家，以帮助促进新的思想和技术交流。组织者将向妇女和代表性不足的群体宣传会议，以增加她们对会议的参与。会议将邀请各种各样的演讲者，从研究生到博士后再到知名研究人员。组织者计划将这次会议作为春季学期在俄克拉何马大学和威奇托州立大学轮流举行的一系列年度会议中的第一次会议。“南部大平原上的对称和几何”会议将围绕对称和几何之间的相互作用展开，代表的关键领域来自：齐次和低齐次空间，李群，度量几何，爱因斯坦度量，里奇孤子，亚历山德罗夫几何，以及正曲率和非负曲率的流形。将会有研究和说明性的演讲。该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 award provides participants support to the conference "Symmetry and Geometry on the Southern Great Plains" which will take place at the University of Oklahoma, April 26-28, 2019. The goal of the conference is to advances in Riemannian geometry in the presence of symmetry. Symmetry has long been used in Riemannian geometry as a tool for building natural classes of examples and for testing/forming conjectures. The meeting will bring together a broad cross-section of experts and young mathematicians to help promote new exchanges of ideas and techniques. The organizers the organizers will promote the conference to women and under-represented groups so as to increase their participation in the meeting. The meeting will feature a diverse array of speakers with speakers ranging from graduate students to postdocs to established researchers.The organizers plan for this meeting to be the first one in the series of yearly conferences held alternately at the University of Oklahoma and Wichita State University during the Spring semester. "Symmetry and Geometry on the Southern Great Plains" conferences will revolve around the interaction between symmetry and geometry, with key areas represented coming from: Homogeneous and low-cohomogeneity Spaces, Lie Groups, Metric geometry, Einstein metrics, Ricci solitons, Alexandrov geometry, and manifolds of positive and non-negative curvature. There will be a mix of research and expository talks.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.