Conference on Geometric Group Theory

该项目将支持即将于2020年2月24日至28日在法国布列塔尼举行的青年几何群论IX会议的美国参与者。这将是青年几何群论会议的第九次迭代，自2012年以来每年举行一次。这些会议通常会吸引100到200名年轻的研究人员。会议将有三种主要类型的活动：由该领域的四位知名专家提供的迷你课程，非正式讨论会议，以及由几何群论的初级研究人员提供的研究报告。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他们的同行和专家那里学习尖端的方法，并提供了一个促进新的和国际合作的机会。几何群论是一个相当年轻和非常活跃的领域，在本次会议上选择的迷你课程和演讲者将反映当前的各种关键研究方向，包括两国变换群，Furstenberg-Poisson边界及其与几何的联系，共形动力学，以及作用于非正弯曲空间的群。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将是研究生和早期职业数学家，他们将能够大大拓宽他们在该领域的知识。通过对演讲者和参与者的选择，会议将促进几何群论所享有的日益增长的多样性。欲了解更多信息，请访问会议网站https://yggt2020.sciencesconf.org/This该奖项反映了NSF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 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.