CombinaTexas: A Combinatorics Conference for the South-Central U.S.

CombinaTexas：美国中南部组合学会议

• 批准号: 0070834
• 负责人: Jon McCammond
• 金额: $ 0.82万
• 依托单位: Texas A&M Research Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-05-01 至 2000-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0070834&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CombinaTexas; Combinatorics; Conference; South; Central

Abstract:The Principal Investigators are organizing a conference on combinatorics to be held at Texas A&M University in late March, 2000. The intent is to establish an annual combinatorics conference to be held each spring at a university in the South-Central United States. There are currently several regional combinatorics/graph theory conferences held annually, including the Southeastern Combinatorics Conference, the Midwest Graph Theory Conference, the Cumberland Conference in the Ohio River Valley, and the Smith Conference in Massachusetts. No similar series of meetings are currently being held in Texas or any of the surrounding states. At the same time, the number of combinatorialists in the region has been rising steadily in recent years, creating a need for a regular vehicle for communication. The conference series will strive to bring in speakers from diverse subfields of combinatorics, at varying career stages, and from different universities within the region, as well as a small number of distinguished speakers from outside the region. Speakers for the first talk include two international speakers (Guenter Ziegler of the Technische Universitaet Berlin and Dominic Welsh of Oxford University) as well as five speakers from the region (Margaret Bayer of the University of Kansas, Joseph Kung of the University of North Texas, James Oxley of Louisiana State University,William Trotter of Arizona State University, and Catherine Yan of Texas A&M University). The funds provided by the NSF will enable the proposers to offer stipends to graduate students and postdocs from other institutions to allow them to attend the conference as well as to provide domestic travel expenses and modest honoraria for the seven primary speakers.The growth of the combinatorics community in the region is reflective of the growth in the activity and importance of combinatorics in the last few decades. The proliferation of computer technology has only accelerated this trend, since combinatorics and discrete mathematics provide the foundations on which the theories and practices of computation are based. The speed of this growth and the breadth of the field's application increases the need for regular communication between researchers. This is especially true in this part of the country, in which the geographical distances between researchers impedes more impromptu communication. The format of the conference addresses these needs, encouraging broad-based talks from diverse subfields and including a poster session and other occasions for informal discussions.

翻译后摘要：主要研究人员正在组织一次会议，在得克萨斯州A M大学举行的组合数学在2000年3月下旬。 其目的是每年春天在美国中南部的一所大学举行年度组合学会议。 目前每年举行几次区域组合学/图论会议，包括东南组合学会议、中西部图论会议、俄亥俄州河谷的坎伯兰会议和马萨诸塞州的史密斯会议。 目前在得克萨斯州或周边任何州都没有举行类似的一系列会议。 与此同时，近年来该地区组合学家的数量一直在稳步上升，这就需要一个定期交流的工具。会议系列将努力吸引来自组合学不同子领域的演讲者，在不同的职业阶段，来自该地区不同的大学，以及来自该地区以外的少数杰出演讲者。第一场讲座的讲者包括两名国际讲者（柏林工业大学的Guenter齐格勒及牛津大学的Dominic Welsh），以及五名区内讲者（堪萨斯大学的Margaret Bayer、北德克萨斯大学的Joseph Kung、路易斯安那州立大学的James奥克斯利、亚利桑那州立大学的William Trotter及德克萨斯农工大学的Catherine Yan）。 NSF提供的资金将使提案者能够为其他机构的研究生和博士后提供津贴，使他们能够参加会议，并为七位主要发言人提供国内差旅费和适度的酬金。该地区组合数学界的发展反映了过去几十年来组合数学活动和重要性的增长。 计算机技术的发展加速了这一趋势，因为组合数学和离散数学为计算的理论和实践提供了基础。 这种增长的速度和该领域应用的广度增加了研究人员之间定期交流的必要性。 在美国的这一地区尤其如此，研究人员之间的地理距离阻碍了更多的即兴交流。会议的形式满足了这些需要，鼓励从不同的分领域进行基础广泛的讨论，并包括海报会议和其他非正式讨论的场合。