Conference on Geometric Group Theory

该项目将支持即将于2020年2月24-28日在法国布列塔尼举行的青年几何理论第九届会议的美国与会者。这将是自2012年以来每年都举行的青年几何群论会议的第九次迭代。这些会议通常会吸引100到200名年轻研究人员。会议将有三种主要类型的活动：由该领域四位知名专家讲授的微型课程，非正式讨论会议，以及由几何群论初级研究人员进行的研究演讲。这种形式允许年轻的研究人员宣传他们的工作，允许研究生和博士后从同行和专家那里学习尖端方法，并提供了促进新的国际合作的机会。几何群论是一个相当年轻和非常活跃的领域，在这次会议上选择的小课程和演讲者将反映当前各种主要研究方向，包括双态变换群、Furstenberg-Poisson边界及其与几何的联系、保形动力学以及作用在非正曲线空间上的群。参与者将接触到几何群论研究前沿的非常广泛的主题。由于大多数参与者预计是研究生和职业生涯早期的数学家，他们将能够极大地拓宽该领域的知识。通过选择演讲者和参与者，会议将促进几何群论所享有的日益多样化。有关更多信息，请参阅会议网站https://yggt2020.sciencesconf.org/This奖，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智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project will support US-based participants in the upcoming Young Geometric Group Theory IX conference to be held February 24-28, 2020 in Brittany, France. This will be the ninth iteration of the Young Geometric Group Theory meetings, which have been held every year since 2012. The conferences typically attract between 100 and 200 young researchers. The meeting will have three main types of events: minicourses given by four established experts in the field, informal discussion sessions, and research talks given by junior researchers in geometric group theory. This format allows young researchers to publicize their work, allows graduate students and postdocs to learn cutting-edge methods from their peers and from experts, and provides an opportunity to foster new and international collaborations. Geometric group theory is a fairly young and very active field, and the selection of minicourses and speakers at this conference will reflect various current key directions of research, including groups of birational transformations, Furstenberg-Poisson boundaries and their connections to geometry, conformal dynamics, and groups acting on non-positively curved spaces. Participants will be exposed to a very broad spectrum of topics at the forefront of research in geometric group theory. As most of the participants are expected to be graduate students and early-career mathematicians, they will be able to greatly broaden their knowledge of the field. Through the selection of speakers and participants, the conference will promote the growing diversity that geometric group theory enjoys.For more information, please see the conference website https://yggt2020.sciencesconf.org/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.