Big Sky Conference on Discrete Mathematics

小行星9802078 该奖项为离散数学大天空会议提供支持。这是一个系列的三个会议将在蒙大拿大学举行。Big Sky的目标是（1）将地理区域内对离散数学感兴趣的研究人员聚集在一起，以便他们会面，分享研究兴趣并展示最新成果，以及（2）为该地区的学生，教师和其他数学家提供更多了解当代数学的机会。会议将以一位著名数学家针对普通观众的主题演讲作为开始。在会议期间，将有一个邀请演讲，从一个成功的研究人员在离散数学以及贡献的会谈，由区域参与者。此外，还将为本科生组织特别活动，让他们有机会与活跃的研究人员互动。 这次会议是在组合学的一般领域。组合数学的目标之一是找到有效的方法来研究如何安排或有效地枚举对象的离散集合。离散系统的行为对现代通信极为重要。例如，大型网络的设计，如电话系统中的网络设计，以及计算机科学中的算法设计，都要处理离散的对象集，这就需要使用组合研究。

9802078 McNulty This award provides support for the Big Sky Conferences on Discrete Mathematics. This is a series of three conferences to be held at the University of Montana. The goals of the Big Sky are (1) to bring together researchers from the geographical area with interests in discrete mathematics in order for them to meet, share research interests, and present recent results, and (2) to provide an opportunity for students, teachers, and other mathematicians in the region to learn more about contemporary mathematics. The conference will begin with a keynote address by a prominent mathematician that will be aimed at a general audience. During the conference, there will be an invited lecture from a successful researcher in discrete mathematics as well as contributed talks by regional participants. In addition, there will be special activities organized for undergraduate students giving them the opportunity to interact with active researchers. This conference is in the general area of combinatorics. One of the goals of combinatorics is to find efficient methods of studying how discrete collections of objects can be arranged or effectively enumerated. The behavior of discrete systems is extremely important to modern communications. For example, the design of large networks, such as those occurring in telephone systems, and the design of algorithms in computer science deal with discrete sets of objects, and this makes use of combinatorial research.