Travel Support for Junior Mathematicians

这笔赠款用于资助大约150名美国数学家在获得博士学位后6年内获得的旅行奖励，用于参加2000年8月在洛杉矶加州大学校园举行的AMS特别会议--“21世纪的数学挑战”。这次会议的计划包括30位世界著名数学家的演讲。在过去的半个世纪里，数学研究取得了惊人的进步，既包括解决数百年来著名的数学问题，也包括将复杂的数学概念和工具应用于其他科学和应用。美国数学界在这一发展中发挥了核心作用，该社区培养的一批杰出的年轻数学家也是如此。世纪之交(以及新千年)无疑将看到这些趋势的加剧和加速。特别是，过去二十年的发展表明，与前几十年相比，研究数学与其他科学前沿领域之间的关系更加深入和密切。在世纪之交的这一点上，至关重要的和多样化的数学家群体自然会评估最近的数学进步，并展望将构成下个世纪研究发展核心的数学主题。这些旅行补助金将使美国许多年轻的数学家成为这一过程中不可或缺的一部分。

This grant provides funds to support approximately 150 travel awards to US mathematicians within six years of receipt of their doctoral degree to attend the special AMS meeting in August, 2000, "The Mathematical Challenges of the 21st Century," to be held on the campus of the University of California at Los Angeles. The program for this meeting includes lectures by thirty world-renowned mathematicians.The phenomenal advances in mathematical research during the past half-century has involved both the solution of centuries-old celebrated mathematical problems as well as major applications of sophisticated mathematical concepts and tools to the other sciences and in applications. The U.S. mathematical community has played a central role in this development, as has the cadre of brilliant young mathematicians fostered by that community.The turn of the century (and the new millennium) will undoubtedly see an intensification and acceleration of these trends. In particular, developments of the last two decades indicate a deeper and closer relation between research mathematics and other front-line areas in the sciences than was the case in earlier decades. At this point of transition between centuries, it is natural that the vital and diverse community of mathematicians take stock of recent mathematical advancements and look forward to the mathematical themes that will form the core of research developments in the coming century. These travel grants will enable many of the US's young mathematicians to be an integral part of this process.