Geometric and Asymptotic Group Theory with Applications 2017

该国家科学基金会奖为参加2017年7月3日至7日在西班牙毕尔巴鄂巴斯克大学举行的2017年几何与渐近群理论与应用（GAGTA）会议的美国学生和早期职业研究人员的旅行和住宿提供部分支持。这个先前资助的系列年度会议吸引了几何和渐近群论领域的世界领先研究人员。今年，首次为学生和年轻研究人员举办了会前周，其中包括专家的三门迷你课程，年轻研究人员自己的几场演讲，以及非正式互动的时间，目的是让这些早期职业研究人员为下周的会议做好充分准备。GAGTA会议涵盖几何和组合群理论的各个领域，包括渐近和概率方法，以及涉及群体的算法和计算主题。具体的兴趣领域包括群作用，等周函数，增长，渐近不变量，随机游走，群上的代数几何，算法问题及其复杂性，一般性质和一般复杂性，以及在非交换密码学中的应用。与前几届一样，GAGTA 2017将把群论和计算机科学领域的人聚集在一起，加强每个领域之间的联系。会议的主页是https://sites.google.com/site/gagta2017/

This National Science Foundation award provides partial support towards travel and accommodation of U.S. based students and early career researchers attending the Geometric and Asymptotic Group Theory and Applications (GAGTA) conference 2017, being held at the University of the Basque Country in Bilbao, Spain, July 3-7, 2017. The annual conferences in this previously funded series attract the world's leading researchers in geometric and asymptotic group theory. This year, for the first time there is a pre-conference week for students and young researchers that features three mini-courses by experts, several talks by young researchers themselves, and time for informal interaction, with the goal to prepare these early career researchers for full participation in the conference the following week.The GAGTA conferences cover a variety of areas in geometric and combinatorial group theory, including asymptotic and probabilistic methods, as well as algorithmic and computational topics involving groups. Specific areas of interest include group actions, isoperimetric functions, growth, asymptotic invariants, random walks, algebraic geometry over groups, algorithmic problems and their complexity, generic properties and generic complexity, and applications to non-commutative cryptography. Like its predecessors, GAGTA 2017 will bring people from group theory and computer science together and strengthen the connections each field has with the other. The conference homepage is at https://sites.google.com/site/gagta2017/