Conference Proposal - Rigidity and Flexibility in Dimensions 2, 3 and 4

这笔赠款将支持美国数学家参加2012年5月14日至18日在法国卢米尼国际数学中心举行的第2、3和4维刚性和灵活性会议。本次会议将集中讨论几何结构的变形理论的最新发展，主题包括Teichmüller理论，3-流形，Kleinian群，锥流形，双曲4-流形和曲面群的表示。本次会议将汇集来自几何和拓扑学不同学科领域的国际研究人员。 领先的专家将介绍他们领域的前沿研究。这些演讲将使研究生和早期职业数学家接触到这些领域中一些最重要的新发展。主题的混合将鼓励不同领域的研究人员之间的合作。 会议的网址是www.math.utah.edu/rigflex。

This grant will support the participation of US mathematicians at a conference on Rigidity and Flexibility in Dimensions 2, 3 and 4 at the Centre International de Recontres Mathématiques in Luminy, France, May 14-18, 2012. This conference will focus on recent developments in the deformation theory of geometric structures and topics will include Teichmüller theory, 3-manifolds, Kleinian groups, cone manifolds, hyperbolic 4-manifolds and representations of surface groups.This conference will bring together international researchers from a diverse array of subject areas in geometry and topology. Leading experts will give presentations on cutting edge research in their fields. These presentations will expose graduate students and early career mathematicians to some of the most important new developments in these areas. The intermingling of subject matter will encourage collaborations betweenresearchers in different areas. The conference website can be found at www.math.utah.edu/rigflex.