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。组织委员会由南卡罗来纳大学的乔治·麦克纳尔蒂担任主席，有来自几个国家的代表。当地的组织者是冰岛数学学会主席Ragnar Sigurdsson教授。这次会议是由该协会以及冰岛大学和几所美国大学共同主办的。研讨会的目的是提供一个国际论坛，交流格论、泛代数和代数逻辑数学研究的前沿领域的思想和成果。这次研讨会是比亚尔尼·琼森的70岁生日，他1920年出生于冰岛，尽管他的学术培训和职业生涯都是在美国进行的。他在上述主题上的根本性贡献使他成为近40年来的领军人物。在很大程度上，普适代数和格论的生命力可以追溯到琼森教授开创的新的研究方向。“琼森研讨会”所涉及的领域是数学的重要主流领域，在过去的40年里得到了极大的发展；这些领域的主要研究人员分散在世界各地。虽然这些议题经常在国家或地区的小型数学会议上讨论，但这将是第一次将大量来自北美的专家聚集在一起与西欧和中欧的同事见面的会议。研讨会提供了一个强大的项目和一个便利的中心位置，应该会吸引广泛的国际参与，并为合作研究提供强大的刺激。NSF的资金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.