Workshop Announcement:

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                  The property of rapid decay
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                January 23 to January 27, 2006

  American Institute of Mathematics Research Conference Center

                     Palo Alto, California

        http://aimath.org/ARCC/workshops/rapiddecay.html


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Description:
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This workshop, sponsored by AIM and the NSF, will be devoted 
to the property of Rapid Decay.

The property of Rapid Decay (abbreviated by property RD) is a 
property of convolution operators that captures certain aspects 
of the asymptotic geometry of a finitely generated group. Property 
RD is a very focused area of research in harmonic analysis and 
operator algebra. However, it has ramifications in geometry, 
topology and algebra 

The workshop is organized by
Indira Chatterji and Laurent Saloff-Coste.

For more details please see the workshop announcement page:
http://aimath.org/ARCC/workshops/rapiddecay.html

Space and funding is available for a few more participants.
If you would like to participate, please apply by filling
out the on-line form (available at the link above) no later
than October 20, 2005. Applications are open to all, and
we especially encourage women, underrepresented minorities,
junior mathematicians, and researchers from primarily
undergraduate institutions to apply.

Before submitting an application, please read the ARCC
policies concerning participation and financial support
for participants.

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AIM Research Conference Center (ARCC):
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The AIM Research Conference Center (ARCC) hosts focused
workshops in all areas of the mathematical sciences. ARCC
focused workshops are distinguished by their emphasis on
a specific mathematical goal, such as making progress on a
significant unsolved problem, understanding the proof of an
important new result, or investigating the convergence between
two distinct areas of mathematics.

For more information about ARCC, please visit
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