Building Bridges: 2nd EU/US Summer School & Workshop on Automorphic Forms and Related Topics, June 30-July 1, 2014

该基金将支持于2014年6月30日至7月11日在英国布里斯托尔大学举行的国际会议“搭建桥梁：第二届欧盟/美国暑期学校暨自同构形式及相关主题研讨会”。具体网址是http://www.maths.bris.ac.uk/~mamjd/bb/index.html。赠款资金将用于支持美国参加国际暑期学校和讲习班的参与者。本次会议是继2012年8月在德国亚琛成功举办的“搭建桥梁：第一届暑期学校&研讨会”之后召开的。自同构形式几乎出现在现代数论的每一个领域，它们在数学物理中变得越来越重要。目前对自同构形式的研究受到“模形式和l函数的显式方法”、“拉马努金的遗产”和“朗兰兹纲领”等主题的影响，这是暑期学校的三个迷你课程主题。每门迷你课程都由两名国际知名的研究人员组成的团队领导，每天上午授课三小时，下午以小组形式进行工作，重点是由讲师开发的练习。指定的博士后研究人员和导师将在这些会议期间提供指导支持。在暑期学校之后是一个关于自同构形式和相关主题的会议，参与者将在自同构形式相关的所有领域介绍前沿研究。本次研讨会不仅旨在促进和加强欧盟和美国自同构形式研究人员之间的长期交流，而且还旨在创造和维持友好，支持的氛围，为年轻研究人员提供鼓励，为更成熟的研究人员提供指导机会，并作为交流思想和形成新合作的论坛。

This grant supports the international meeting "Building Bridges: 2nd EU/US Summer School & Workshop on Automorphic Forms and Related Topics," which will take place June 30 to July 11, 2014, at the University of Bristol, England. The website with details is http://www.maths.bris.ac.uk/~mamjd/bb/index.html. Grant funds will be used to support US-based participants in the international summer school and workshop. This conference follows the success of the meeting "Building Bridges: 1st Summer School & Workshop," held in Aachen, Germany, in August 2012. Automorphic forms are present in almost every area of modern number theory, and they are becoming increasingly important in mathematical physics. Current research on automorphic forms is being impacted by such topics as "Explicit Methods for Modular Forms and L-functions," "The Legacy of Ramanujan," and "The Langlands Program," which are the three mini-course topics for the summer school. Each mini-course is led by a team of two internationally-recognized researchers, and will consist of three hours of lecture each morning, followed by work sessions (in small groups) in the afternoon, focused on exercises developed by the instructors. Designated post-doctoral researchers and the instructors will provide tutorial support during these sessions. Following the summer school is a conference on automorphic forms and related topics, where participants will present cutting-edge research in all areas related to automorphic forms. This workshop aims not only to foster and strengthen a long-lasting exchange between automorphic forms researchers in the EU and the US, but also to generate and sustain a friendly, supportive atmosphere, providing encouragement to young researchers, establishing mentoring opportunities for more established researchers, and serving as a forum for exchanging ideas and forming new collaborations.