Mathematical Sciences: The Quebec-Vermont Number Theory Seminar

这笔赠款支持魁北克-佛蒙特州数论研讨会。本次研讨会的参与者来自美国和加拿大的研究机构和主要是本科生机构。这笔赠款将使研讨会能够继续其传统，邀请杰出的数学家报告最令人兴奋的新结果，从而有利于学生和教师参与者的研究。数论是研究全体数的性质的学科，是数学中最古老的分支。在现代，数论中的问题提供了在纯代数、分析和几何领域创造新数学的动力；一些最新和最令人惊讶的数论应用出现在理论计算机科学和编码理论中。

This grant supports the Quebec-Vermont Number Theory Seminar. The participants in this seminar come from both research institutions and principally undergraduate institutions in both the United States and Canada. This grant will allow the seminar to continue its tradition of inviting outstanding number theorists to report on the most exciting new results thereby benefiting the research of the student and faculty participants. Number theory, the study of the properties of the whole numbers, is the oldest branch of mathematics. In modern days, problems in number theory have furnished the driving force to creation of new mathematics in the fields of pure algebra, analysis, and geometry; some of the most recent and most astonishing applications of number theory have appeared in theoretical computer science and coding theory.