Conference: Horizons in Combinatorics

离散数学和计算机科学领域的国际研究会议将于2001年5月21日至24日在田纳西州纳什维尔的范德比尔特大学举行。这次会议的主题是“组合学的视野”，将与第16届香克斯讲座同期举行。虽然图论、组合学和计算的所有领域都将在会议上受到欢迎，但重点将放在有序集、着色、网络中的路由和流等领域。会议包括尚克斯讲座，由亚利桑那州立大学的小w·t·汤姆·特罗特（w.t. Tom Trotter, Jr.）主讲。这些讲座在范德比尔特大学数学系近16年来发挥了重要作用。许多离散数学领域的杰出数学家（包括Ron Graham和Laszlo Lovasz）和其他领域的杰出数学家（包括Israel Gelfand和Ingrid Daubechies）都被邀请为讲座嘉宾。今年会议的其他受邀演讲者有Jeff Kahn（罗格斯大学）、Eva Tardos（康奈尔大学）、Robin Thomas（佐治亚理工学院）、Bjarne Toft（南丹麦大学）和Peter Winkler（朗讯科技贝尔实验室）。组织者是Paul Edelman， Mark Ellingham, Jonathan Farley， Michael Plummer和Jeremy Spinrad（均来自Vanderbilt大学）。会议将持续四天，预计将有70至100篇论文发表，与会者将有充足的时间进行讨论。会议的重点是组合学、图论和计算。这些领域构成了我们许多现代信息基础设施和许多优化活动（如运输和调度）的现代方法的基本理论背景。这些领域的工具被广泛应用于生态、互联网等通信网络、经济和商业以及军事后勤等领域。会议旨在促进研究人员之间的互动，传播最新的研究成果，并宣传这些领域在现代社会中的重要性。

An international research conference in the area of discrete mathematics and computer science will be held at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee from 21st to 24th May, 2001. The conference is entitled `Horizons in Combinatorics,' and will be held in conjunction with the 16th Annual Shanks Lectures. While all areas of graph theory, combinatorics and computing will be welcome at the conference, there will be an emphasis on the areas of ordered sets, colorings, and routing and flows in networks. The conference includes the Shanks Lectures, to be given by W. T. (Tom) Trotter, Jr. (Arizona State University). These lectures have played a prominent role in Department of Mathematics at Vanderbilt University for the past sixteen years. Many distinguished mathematicians in discrete mathematics (including Ron Graham and Laszlo Lovasz) and other areas (including Israel Gelfand and Ingrid Daubechies) have been among the invited lecturers. The other invited speakers for this year's conference are Jeff Kahn (Rutgers University), Eva Tardos (Cornell University), Robin Thomas (Georgia Institute of Technology), Bjarne Toft (University of Southern Denmark) and Peter Winkler (Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories). The organizers are Paul Edelman, Mark Ellingham, Jonathan Farley, Michael Plummer, and Jeremy Spinrad (all Vanderbilt University). The proposed conference will last four days, providing ample time for an estimated 70 to 100 contributed papers and for discussion among the attendees. The conference focuses on combinatorics, graph theory and computing. These areas form the essential theoretical background for much of our modern information infrastructure, and for many modern methods of optimizing activities such as transportation and scheduling. Tools from these areas are used in areas as diverse as ecology, communication networks such as the Internet, economics and business, and military logistics. The conference aims to promote interaction between researchers, to allow for the dissemination of the most recent research results, and to publicize the importance of these areas in modern society.