I. M. Gelfand Centennial Conference: A View of 21st Century Mathematics

拟于2013年8月28日至9月2日在麻省理工学院举行的会议“I.M.Gelfand百年会议：21世纪数学观”将在麻省理工学院举行。这将是在各个领域工作的数学家的一次重要聚会，将回顾自本世纪初以来数学领域最重要的一些进展，并在已故的现代数学巨人I·M·盖尔凡诞辰一百周年之际纪念他。会议上的演讲者大多是数学家，他们在过去十年里在盖尔方可能感兴趣的领域取得了基本成果，但不一定与他的工作或他的学生的工作密切相关。盖尔方是为现代数学的主要思想奠定基础的天才之一。他还创建了一个独特的学派，以其博大精深、开放的思想和独创性而闻名。盖尔凡德学校的成功建立在他发现有才华的年轻学生、教育他们以及与年轻和知名研究人员和谐共事方面的非凡能力。会议将通过吸引杰出的数学家来延续这一传统，并将包括许多研究生和博士后研究员。后者将特别受益于将在会议上提出的广泛的议题和宏大的想法。演讲的幻灯片和其他会议信息将通过其网站传播，这将使讨论的想法能够接触到世界各地的广大受众。会议网址为：http://math.mit.edu/conferences/Gelfand/index.php。

The proposed conference "I. M. Gelfand Centennial conference: A view of 21st century mathematics" will be held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on August 28 - September 2, 2013. It will be a major gathering of mathematicians working in a large variety of fields, which will review some of the most significant advances in mathematics since the turn of the century, and commemorate the late I. M. Gelfand, a giant of modern mathematics, on the occasion of the centennial of his birth. The speakers at the conference are mostly mathematicians who have obtained fundamental results in the last ten years in areas that would be have been of interest to Gelfand, but not necessarily close to his work or the work of his students.I. M. Gelfand was one of the geniuses who laid the foundation for the main ideas of modern mathematics. He also created a unique school known for its breadth, open-mindedness and originality. The success of Gelfand's school was based on his remarkable ability to discover talented young students, to educate them, and to work in harmony with young and established researchers. The conference will continue this tradition by attracting outstanding mathematicians and will include many graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. The latter groups will especially benefit from the broad spectrum of the topics and big ideas to be presented at the conference. The slides of the talks and other conference information will be disseminated through its website, which will allow the discussed ideas to reach a wide audience throughout the world. The conference website is available at http://math.mit.edu/conferences/Gelfand/index.php