Research Conference: Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems

网络与系统数学理论国际研讨会（MTNS）是一个重要的国际会议。它通常会吸引400名从事系统理论方面工作的数学家和其他科学家。研讨会是跨学科的，吸引了在系统理论的各个方面工作的数学家、工程师和研究人员。在上述领域发挥作用的数学方法源于纯数学和应用数学的广泛领域，包括常微分方程和偏微分方程，实分析和复分析，数值分析，概率论和随机分析，算子理论，线性代数和交换代数以及代数和微分几何。2002年8月，MTNS研讨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获得者）和2-3名需要特殊援助的国际研究人员提供旅费支持。研讨会计划将包括全体讲座，专题邀请讲座，小型专题讨论会，小型课程，专题会议和贡献论文。研讨会将讨论严肃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；(4)数学金融领域的系统理论问题。在每个重要的应用领域，2-3名知名研究人员被要求组织一次“小型研讨会”。这是一个分研讨会，通常由一系列辅导课和一系列邀请会议组成，每个会议由4篇研究论文组成。在选择全体会议发言人和专题发言人时，组织者就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.