Conference: Riverside Workshop on Geometric Group Theory 2024

该奖项为第二届河滨几何群论研讨会提供资金，该研讨会将于2024年5月3日至6日在加州大学河滨大学举行。这个工作坊的特色是由从事几何群论领域的早期数学家们讲授的三门微型课程。这是一个活跃的研究领域，它位于几何、代数和动力系统的交界处，有着许多应用，特别是在低维拓扑方面，在过去的几十年里，它已经看到了许多突破性的结果。每门迷你课程的主题将是讲者开发的尖端技术或想法，考虑到的受众是研究生和博士后。每位演讲者还将就他们的微型课程主题撰写一篇说明性论文，这些论文将被汇编成一本书，反映2023年版的练习。几何群论中的许多机械都是高度技术性的，因此希望进入该领域的研究生将受益于在系列讲座中对该领域的大概念的仔细阐述，这些讲座广泛地阐述了背景和例子。被邀请的小型课程演讲者是：Abdalrazzaq Zalloum(多伦多大学)，他将就CAT(0)和内射空间的几何问题发表演讲；Emily Stark(卫斯理大学)，他将就群的边界问题发表演讲；以及Inhyeok Choi(韩国高等研究院)，他将就群及其应用中的随机行走问题发表演讲。研讨会的网站是https://sites.google.com/view/rivggt24/home.This奖，反映了国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award provides funding for the second Riverside Workshop on Geometric Group Theory, which is to be held May 3-6, 2024, at the University of California Riverside. This workshop will feature three minicourses given by early-career mathematicians working in the field of geometric group theory. This is an active area of research lying at the interface of geometry, algebra, and dynamical systems, with many applications especially to low-dimensional topology, and which has seen many break-through results over the past decades. The topic of each minicourse will be a cutting-edge technique or idea developed by the speaker, with an audience of graduate students and postdocs in mind. Each speaker will also produce an expository paper on the topic of their minicourse, and these papers will be compiled into a book, mirroring the 2023 version of the activity.Much of the machinery in geometric group theory is highly technical, and so graduate students looking to enter the field will benefit from careful exposition of the big ideas of the field in lecture series that elaborate extensively on background and examples. The invited minicourse speakers are: Abdalrazzaq Zalloum (University of Toronto), who will speak on the geometry of CAT(0) and injective spaces; Emily Stark (Wesleyan University), who will speak on boundaries of groups; and Inhyeok Choi (Korea Institute for Advanced Study), who will speak on random walks on groups and their applications. The website of the workshop is https://sites.google.com/view/rivggt24/home.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.