Geometry and the Imagination

几何与想象力

• 批准号: 0703633
• 负责人: David Gabai
• 金额: $ 4.96万
• 依托单位: Princeton University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-05-01 至 2008-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0703633&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Geometry; Imagination

This project will partially fund a major international conference to be held at Princeton University June 7-11, 2007. The conference will feature distinguished speakers from a broad array of fields representing many of the areas that William Thurston produced major theorems. These fields include 3-dimensional topology, differential geometry, foliations, contact structures, geometric group theory, dynamics, computer science and education. This conference will not only discuss some of the recent dramatic developments in many of these fields but will introduce graduate students and researchers young and old to various new fields of mathematics. In addition to the research lectures there will be an evening public lecture by Jeffrey Weeks titled "Geometry for children of all ages". There is a long history in mathematics of important breakthroughs occurring as a result of ideas from seemingly disparate areas being combined to provide new insights. Sometimes they arise from the creation of a geometric or physical context in which the similarities become readily apparent. It is this latter process that characterizes the revolutionary work of William Thurston over the last several decades. We expect that this conference will plant seeds for future synergistic efforts.

该项目将部分资助将于2007年6月7日至11日在普林斯顿大学举行的大型国际会议。该会议将以杰出的演讲者为特色，代表威廉·瑟斯顿（William Thurston）制作的主要定理的许多领域。 这些领域包括三维拓扑，差异几何，叶子，接触结构，几何组理论，动力学，计算机科学和教育。 这次会议不仅将讨论许多此类领域的最近一些戏剧性发展，而且还将介绍研究生和研究人员的年轻人和老年人到各个新的数学领域。除了研究讲座外，杰弗里·周（Jeffrey Weeks）的晚间公开演讲名为“所有年龄段的儿童的几何形状”。在数学上，由于看似不同的领域的想法而导致的重要突破的历史悠久，从而提供了新的见解。有时它们是由创造几何或物理背景而产生的，在这种情况下，相似之处很容易显而易见。正是后一个过程是威廉·瑟斯顿（William Thurston）在过去几十年中的革命性作品的特征。 我们希望这次会议将种植种子，以实现未来的协同努力。