New Research Training Group in the Field of Asymptotic Geometry

A new Research Training Group (RTG) comprised of mathematicians from Heidelberg University and the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology will be exploring special questions in the field of geometry. Following a successful international expert evaluation, the German Research Foundation (DFG) has awarded the "Asymptotic Invariants and Limits of Groups and Spaces" RTG funding in the amount of approximately four million euros for a period of four and a half years. The new training group for young researchers will take up its work in October 2016 with ten PhD candidates and two postdoctoral researchers. Ten additional PhD students and five post-docs will join the RTG as associate members. Roman Sauer (Karlsruhe) and Anna Wienhard (Heidelberg) will serve as spokespersons of the RTG. The focus of the new Research Training Group is asymptotic geometry, which deals with the macroscopic properties of geometric spaces. When such spaces are observed from afar, the difference between a continuous space and its discrete convergence disappears.