Principal Investigator: Gilbert A. Weinstein, Mohammad Ghomi, John E. McCuan, Vladimir I. Oliker, Fernando A. Schwartz
The proposed program continues in expanded format a multi-year a series of semiannual one-day events focussing on geometric analysis titled Southeast Geometry Seminar (SGS). These events will be hosted in rotation by the following institutions: The University of Alabama at Birmingham, The Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University, and The University of Tennessee Knoxville. Five speakers will be invited for each event. A poster session will be hosted. Annual proceedings, including an open problems section, will be published. The main goal of these short and frequent meetings will be to attract researchers and students, working in geometry and related fields, who can travel to the sites above at a relatively low financial cost, and to foster collaboration between neighboring geometric analysis research groups.
Geometric analysis is at the intersection of a number of important fields of mathematics and mathematical physics. It has enjoyed a fast growing interest in recent years, partly due to the interaction with other scientific and technological fields. The activities proposed are aimed at fostering collaboration between geometers and researchers in related fields in the southeast. SGS has been running for seven years and has had an strong impact on geometric analysis in the southeast. A continuation of this program will assure that geometry research groups at participating institutions and other neighboring institutions grow further, and attract graduate students and post-doctoral trainees. The training of these young researchers will supply personnel needed in this area both for academic positions and in related technological and scientific disciplines.
The website for the conference series is: www.math.uab.edu/sgs/
