Conference: Groups and Computation, March 24 - 29, 2003, The Ohio State University

该奖项资助了2003年3月24-28日在俄亥俄州立大学举行的“组与计算”会议。会议的重点是计算理论与实践之间的相互作用，计算算法是会议的核心。会议的主要目标是为计算群理论家，数学家和计算机科学家提供一个论坛，以便与同事会面，以了解该领域的最新研究进展，学习和研究新的开放问题，进一步推进该领域现有的大型项目，并为处理群计算的大型计算机系统开发软件。第二个目标是给研究生和新近获得博士学位的学生一个学习该领域新工作和开放问题的机会。群论通常被描述为抽象的对称代数理论。群论出现并被广泛应用于各种其他领域，包括固态物理，化学（晶体学），编码理论和密码学。了解群体的结构是群论的主要任务。会议的主题是这一数学学科与使用这些基本代数对象进行广泛计算机计算的算法问题之间的相互作用。

This award funds a conference in Groups and Computation at theOhio State University, March 24-28, 2003. The conference focuseson the interplay between theory and practice in computing withgroups, algorithms for computation being at the heart of theconference. The primary conference goal is to provide a forumfor computational group theorists, both mathematicians andcomputer scientists, to meet with colleagues in order to learnof recent research developments in this area, to learn of andwork on new open problems, to further existing large projects inthis area, and to develop software for large computer systemsthat handle group computations. A second goal is to give graduatestudents and recent Ph.D's an opportunity to learn of new work andof open problems in the area.Group theory is often described as the algebraic theory ofsymmetry in the abstract. Group theory arises and is used in awide variety of other fields, including solid state physics,chemistry (crystallography), coding theory and cryptography. Understanding the structure of groups is the major task of grouptheory. The subject of the conference is the interaction betweenthis mathematical discipline and algorithmic questions used inextensive computer computations with these fundamental algebraicobjects.