The Lars Ahlfors Centennial Conference

该提案是为了资助美国的数学家参加2007年8月在赫尔辛基举行的拉尔斯·阿尔福斯百年纪念会议。阿尔福斯是第一个菲尔兹奖获得者;他的工作影响了，事实上，预示了现代数学的主要部分。本次会议的重点是分享当前的知识流，这些知识流来源于Ahlfors的工作或由Ahlfors的工作重新定义-演讲者的专业领域包括偏微分方程和几何，三维拓扑，迭代，拟共形映射，简化，概率数论，弦理论和太多的分析领域。 我们期望这种互动将为这些思想的现代表现形式提供一种交叉施肥，这些思想值得他们的根源。令人惊讶的是，近一半的菲尔兹奖获得者发表了基于阿尔福斯工作的论文，或者受到阿尔福斯工作的强烈影响。会议已组织，使与会者可以更好地了解为什么他的工作是如此中央，以及如何通过重新互动，它将继续发挥重大影响的未来方向的数学。

The proposal is to fund the participation of mathematicians, based in the United States, in the Lars Ahlfors Centennial Conference in Helsinki in August, 2007. Ahlfors was the first Fields Medallist; his work has influenced and, indeed, foreshadowed a major portion of modern mathematics. The emphasis of this conference is to share the current intellectual streams which have their source in or were redefined by Ahlfors' work --- the areas of expertise of the speakers include partial differential equations and geometry, 3-dimensional topology, iterations, quasiconformal mappings, percolations, probabilistic number theory, string theory and too many areas of analysis to list. We expect that this interaction will provide a cross-fertilization of the modern manifestations of these ideas which are worthy of their roots.It is astounding that near half of the Fields medallists have published papers based on, or strongly influenced by, Ahlfors' work. The conference has been organized so that participants can better understand why his work is so central and how, through renewed interaction, it will continue to exert a major influence on the future direction of mathematics.