In order to strengthen graduate education in representation theory and help our graduate students gain international working experiences, the proposed project is to support the travel of U.S. graduate students to attend the second US-China summer program during during June 28-July 10 2011 at South China University of Technology. The summer program will feature 3 or more short courses given by leading experts on algebraic, analytic, combinatorial, and geometric aspects of representation theory. About 50 Chinese students from more than half dozen major mathematical departments and research centers in China will attend the joint US-China summer school.
Representation theory has been a central theme in mathematics and physics for the last several decades. It is so broad that almost all major mathematical areas have connections to it. Many research groups world wide do work related to representation theory from various perspectives using different tools. Thus it is especially important that a graduate student training in this area has exposure to some of the breadth of the area.
in Guangzhou during June 28 to July 8,2011 at South China University of Technology (SCUT). The conference was organized by Drs. A. G. Helminck and N. Jing. The conference was mainly supported by a special grant from SCUT directed by Dr. N. Jing. This Chinese grant has provided international travel support as well as all living expenses of the three principal speakers. The Chinese grant has also subsidiced living expenses to American students as well as Drs. Jing and Helminck's stay in SCUT. In short, we have used limited sources to gain extra effect with help of international cooperation. The conference's three plenary speakers each delivered a short course of 8 lectures: 1) Prof. Hanspeter Kraft, Univ of Basel, Switzerland, geometric invariant theory 2) Prof. Gerald Schwarz, Brandeis Univerisity, Interplay of actions of compact Lie groups and complex reductive groups 3) Prof. Alex Molev, Univ of Sidney, Yangians and invariant theory. The American students have interacted intensively with a group of Chinese Ph.D students in Lie theory. They reported that the confernce has given them a real opportunity to gain knowledge into a new culture and also establish research relations with future mathematicians in Asia.
