Travel to Conference in Geometric Group Theory

该提案要求为在美国的研究生和博士后数学家参加一个几何群论的重要会议提供旅费支持。对于这些初级数学家来说，这是一个很好的机会，让他们熟悉这个非常活跃的学科的研究前沿，并在未来为之做出贡献。此外，许多与会者（例如两名主要发言者）预计将是妇女。根据初步调查，如果获得资助，一些美国数学家也可能是女性。几何群论是一个相对较新的数学领域，其对象是通过首先构造一个几何对象，其对称性形成给定的群体，然后分析该对象的几何形状来研究群体。这方面的一个重要例子是自由群的对称群，由Culler和Vogtmann构建，以几何方式实现了所谓的“外层空间”。

The proposal is asking for travel support for US based graduate students and postdoctoral mathematicians to attend a major conference in geometric group theory. This is a great opportunity for these junior mathematicians to familiarize themselves with the frontiers of research in this very active subject and in the future contribute to it. In addition, many of the participants (e.g. two of the main speakers) are anticipated to be women. Based on initial inquiries, it is also likely that several of US based mathematicians that will be supported on this grant, if funded, will be women.Geometric group theory is a relatively new area of mathematics whose object is study groups by first constructing a geometric object whose symmetries form the given group and then to analyze the geometry of this object. An important example of this is the group of symmetries of a free group, realized geometrically as the so called "Outer space", constructed by Culler and Vogtmann.