Conference on Advances in Groups, Geometries, Representations, and Galois Theory; October 26-29, 2003; Yale University, New Haven, CT

所罗门DMS-0342708奖摘要 2003年10月26日至29日，在沃尔特·费特73岁生日和退休之际，耶鲁大学将举行一次题为“群、几何、表示和伽罗瓦理论的进展”的会议。 除了耶鲁大学提供的7,500美元外，我们还要求15,000美元。 费特的工作深刻地影响了有限群理论、表示论、有限几何、编码理论和伽罗瓦理论的发展。 这次会议将汇集研究人员在所有这些领域，纯和应用，从费特的伟大的同时代人，如塞尔和汤普森，以今天的萌芽青年研究人员。 毫无疑问，这些来自不同世代、不同领域和不同国家的研究人员的相互作用将对新的研究突破产生启发和成果，并创造新的研究互动网络，无论是在纯数学还是在编码理论、密码学和计算机识别群体和组合结构等关键领域的应用中。 这里要求的额外资金将有助于保证这次会议的国际性质，吸引来自英国，法国和其他地方的主要研究人员和学生。 它还将确保美国研究生和最近的博士学位获得者的参与，其中许多人是女性。 (Six在项目说明的末尾特别提到了年轻妇女参与者。 我们还打算出版和广泛传播这次会议的一套会议记录，它将描述过去50年来该领域的进展，并为未来的研究和应用指明方向。

Abstract for the award DMS-0342708 of Solomon A conference on "Advances in Groups, Geometries, Representations and Galois Theory" will be held on October 26--29, 2003 at Yale University to honor Walter Feit on the occasion of his 73rd birthday and his retirement. We are requesting $15,000 in addition to the $7,500 being provided by Yale University. The work of Walter Feit has profoundly influenced the development of finite group theory, representation theory, finite geometry, coding theory and Galois theory. This conference will bring together researchers in all of these areas, pure and applied, ranging from Feit's great contemporaries, such as Serre and Thompson, to the budding young researchers of today. There is no doubt that the mutual interaction of these researchers from different generations, different fields and different countries will be inspirational and fruitful of new research breakthroughs and create new networks of research interaction, both in pure mathematics and in applications to the crucial areas of coding theory, cryptography and computer recognition of groups and combinatorial structures. The additional funds requested here will help to guarantee the international nature of this conference, bringing in leading researchers and students from England, France and elsewhere. It will also ensure the participation of U.S. graduate students and recent PhD recipients, many of whom are women. (Six young women participants are specifically mentioned at the end of the project description.) We also intend to publish and disseminate broadly a set of proceedings of this conference, which will delineate the advances in the field over the past 50 years and point the way for the research and applications of the future.