US-Iceland Workshop: The Jonsson Symposium; July 2-6, 1990; Laugarvatn, Iceland

该奖项支持11位美国数学家参加将于1990年7月在冰岛举行的小型国际研讨会。由南卡罗来纳大学的乔治·麦克纳尔蒂担任主席的组委会有来自几个国家的代表。当地的组织者是冰岛数学协会主席Ragnar Sigurdsson教授。这次会议是由这个学会、冰岛大学和几所美国大学共同主办的。研讨会的目的是为格理论、通用代数和代数逻辑等前沿数学研究领域的思想和成果交流提供一个国际论坛。这次研讨会恰逢比雅尼·琼松（Bjarni Jonsson） 70岁生日，他于1920年出生在冰岛，但他的学术训练和职业生涯都是在美国进行的。他在上述领域的基础性贡献使他成为近四十年来的领军人物。今天普遍代数和格理论的活力在很大程度上可以追溯到琼森教授开创的新的研究方向。“琼森研讨会”讨论的领域是在过去四十年中发展迅速的重要的主流数学领域；这些领域的主要研究人员分散在世界各地。虽然这些主题在小型的国家或区域数学会议上定期讨论，但这将是第一次将大量来自北美的专家聚集在一起，与来自西欧和中欧的同事会面。本次研讨会计划紧凑，中心位置便利，应能吸引广泛的国际参与，并有力地促进合作研究。国家科学基金会的资助将特别针对美国年轻数学家的参与。

This award supports the participation of eleven U.S. mathematicians in a small international symposium to be held in Iceland in July, 1990. The organizing committee, chaired by George McNulty of the University of South Carolina, has representatives from several countries. The local organizer is Professor Ragnar Sigurdsson, President of the Icelandic Mathematical Society. The meeting is co- sponsored by this Society as well as the University of Iceland and several U.S. universities. The purpose of the symposium is to provide an international forum for the exchange of ideas and results at the leading edge of mathematical research in lattice theory, universal algebra and algebraic logic. The occasion for the symposium is the seventieth birthday of Bjarni Jonsson, who was born in Iceland in 1920, though his academic training and career were pursued in the United States. His fundamental contributions in the above topics have made him a leading figure for nearly forty years. The present day vitality of universal algebra and of lattice theory can be traced, in large part, to new research directions initiated by Professor Jonsson. The areas addressed by the "Jonsson Symposium" are important mainstream fields of mathematics that have grown enormously in the past forty years; the main researchers in these fields are scattered around the world. Although these topics are addressed regularly at small national or regional mathematics meetings, this will be the first conference to bring together a substantial number of specialists from North America to meet their colleagues from Western and Central Europe. The symposium offers a strong program and a convenient central location that should attract broad international participation and provide a strong stimulus to cooperative research. NSF funding will be directed especially at the participation of young U.S. mathematicians.