Research Conference: Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems

0139236 RosenthalThe International Symposium on the Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems（MTNS）是一个重要的国际会议。它吸引了典型的400名数学家和其他科学家在系统理论的理论方面的工作。研讨会是跨学科的，吸引了数学家，工程师和研究人员在系统理论的各个方面工作。在上述领域发挥作用的数学方法来自广泛的纯数学和应用数学领域，包括普通和偏微分方程、真实的和复分析、数值分析、概率论和随机分析、算子理论、线性和交换代数以及代数和微分几何。2002年8月，MTNS专题讨论会将在圣母大学校园举行。 该奖项将为大约20名新研究人员（研究生和最近的博士生）和2-3名需要特别援助的国际研究人员提供旅行支持。研讨会的内容包括全体报告、专题邀请报告、小型研讨会、小型课程、专题会议和投稿。研讨会将涵盖严重的数学问题以及一些重要的应用领域。选择了几个广泛的应用领域：（1）生物学中的系统理论问题，（2）电信领域的应用，（3）控制和系统理论中出现的计算问题，以及（4）数学金融领域的系统理论问题。在这些重要应用领域的每个领域，都要求2-3名知名研究人员组织一次“小型研讨会”。这是一个分专题讨论会，通常包括一系列的辅导讲座以及一系列的邀请会议，每个会议由4篇研究论文组成。组织者在挑选全体发言人和专题发言人时考虑到了这些研究领域。

0139236RosenthalThe International Symposium on the Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS) is a major international conference. It attracts typically 400 mathematicians and other scientists working in theoretical aspects of systems theory. The symposium is interdisciplinary and attracts mathematicians, engineers and researchers working in all aspects of systems theory. Mathematical methods which play a role in the areas mentioned above stem from a broad range of fields of pure and applied mathematics, including ordinary and partial differential equations, real and complex analysis, numerical analysis, probability theory and stochastic analysis, operator theory, linear and commutative algebra as well as algebraic and differential geometry. In August 2002 the MTNS symposium will be held on the campus of the University of Notre Dame. Travel support will be provided by this award for approximately twenty new researchers (graduate students and recent doctoral recipients) and 2-3 international researchers needing special assistance to attend this conference. The symposium program will include plenary lectures, special topic invited lectures, mini-symposia, mini-courses, special topic sessions and contributed papers. The symposium will cover serious mathematical issues as well as some important applied areas. Several broad application areas were selected: (1) Systems theoretic questions in biology, (2) Applications in the area of telecommunications, (3) Computational questions arising in control and systems theory and (4) Systems theoretic questions in the area of mathematical finance. In each of these important application areas 2-3 established researchers were asked to organize a "Mini-symposium". This is a sub-symposium which typically consists of a sequence of tutorial lectures as well as a sequence of invited sessions each consisting of 4 research papers. The organizers had these areas of research in mind at the time the plenary speakers and the special topics speaker were selected.