The award provides funding to help defray the expenses of participants in the conference "Noncommutative Geometry Festival" that will be held April 30-May 3, 2014, on the campus of Texas A&M University.
The main scientific goals of this conference are to highlight the most significant recent advances in noncommutative geometry, to jumpstart promising new research directions, and to immerse graduate students and postdocs in the most current research in the field. The program, which includes talks by most of the major figures in the area, provides ample opportunity for graduate students, postdocs, and other young scientists to present their work.
Conference web site: www.math.tamu.edu/~xie/NCGF14/
Recent advances in noncommutative geometry have given rise to a growing need for an annual meeting specifically dedicated to noncommutative geometry. In response, the first Noncommutative Geometry Festival was held on April 30-May 3, 2014 at Texas A&M University. The Festival was extremely successful. During the festival, 25 mathematicians delivered one-hour lectures. There were about 100 participants, among which over 60 were graduate students or postdocs. Many of the leading experts in noncommutative geometry participated the Festival and gave excellent lectures, all of which were designed to be accessible to graduate students and postdocs. In particular, Fields medalist Alain Connes delivered a series of keynote lectures at the Festival which were extremely well-received among both mathematicians and the broader scientific community. The main scientific goals of the Festival are to highlight the most significant recent advances in noncommutative geometry, to identify and jumpstart promising new research directions, and to immerse graduate students and postdocs in the most current research in the field; indeed, all graduate students, postdocs, and early career mathematicians received support from this NSF grant. The following is the list of speakers: Paul Baum, Pennsylvania State University Jean Bellissard, Georgia Institute of Technology David Berenstein, University of California, Santa Barbara Branimir ?a?i?, Texas A&M University Alain Connes, Collège de France Caterina Consani, Johns Hopkins University Michael Douglas, Stony Brook University Ron Douglas, Texas A&M University Farzad Fathizadeh, University of Western Ontario Dan Freed, University of Texas, Austin Sherry Gong, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alexander Gorokhovsky, University of Colorado, Boulder Nigel Higson, Pennsylvania State University Michel Hilsum, CNRS, Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu Masoud Khalkhali, University of Western Ontario Henri Moscovici, The Ohio State University Markus Pflaum, University of Colorado, Boulder Raphaël Ponge, Seoul National University Bahram Rangipour, University of New Brunswick Jonathan Rosenberg, University of Maryland Dennis Sullivan, Stony Brook University Xiang Tang, Washington University in St. Louis Paula Tretkoff, Texas A&M University Rufus Willett, University of Hawai'i Zhizhang Xie, Texas A&M University
