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一次重要国际会议。该会议将有来自各个领域的杰出演讲者，他们代表了 William Thurston 提出的主要定理的许多领域。 这些领域包括 3 维拓扑、微分几何、叶状结构、接触结构、几何群论、动力学、计算机科学和教育。 这次会议不仅将讨论许多这些领域最近的一些重大发展，还将向研究生和年轻和年老的研究人员介绍数学的各个新领域。除了研究讲座之外，杰弗里·威克斯还将举办一场题为“适合所有年龄段儿童的几何”的晚间公开讲座。数学领域有着悠久的历史，由于来自看似不同领域的想法被结合起来以提供新的见解，因此出现了重大突破。有时，它们源于几何或物理环境的创建，其中相似性变得显而易见。正是后一个过程体现了威廉·瑟斯顿过去几十年革命性工作的特点。 我们期待这次会议将为未来的协同努力埋下种子。