BEST Conferences, Boise, Idaho

点击翻译按钮获取中文摘要

9812810Scheepers This award will provide partial support for the featured speakersand also for some graduate students and other young mathematicians toattend the 1999, 2000, and 2001 BEST conferences, `BEST' being adeceptively lighthearted acronym for `Boise Extravaganzas in Set Theory,'a series of conferences devoted to one of the oldest and deepest topicsin the Foundations of Mathematics. The general format will be to buildeach of the three-day conferences around four one-hour lectures bydistinguished set theorists and to round out the program with shorter talkscontributed by those attracted to the featured speakers. This strategy hasbeen successful in the past---the series of conferences began in 1992---andparticipants are widely representative of set theoretic research acrossthe U.S. and Canada, with increasing participation from countriesoverseas. Participation by younger mathematicians, by women, and byunderrepresented minorities has been encouraged. The talks are held inbarrier free classrooms at Boise State University, and efforts are madeto accommodate special needs among the roughly twenty annual participants.The host institution provides office support and secretarial facilitieswithout cost to the participants or to the government.***