Summer School on Mathematical Statistical Physics

本提案的目的是为选定的美国参与者提供财政支持，主要是有很大前途的初级研究人员，参加2005年7月在法国著名的les Houches会议中心举行的数学统计物理暑期学校。B. Duplantier和W. Werner的共形不变性，F. Guerraon的无序系统，K. Johansson的随机矩阵，a.s。Sznitman研究随机环境下的随机漫步，a.d。Sokal研究蒙特卡罗模拟，a.l。复杂网络中的Barabasi。2005年7月在法国Les Houches开设的专为高级研究生、博士后和初级教员开设的学校，将重点研究近年来数学家和物理学家都非常感兴趣的各种涉及随机性的模型。为年轻的美国研究人员提供的财政支持将使他们有可能参与其中，这将对他们的职业生涯产生重大影响，从而对美国在这一领域的持续领导作用产生重大影响。对于欧洲参与者，可以从欧洲科学基金会获得支持；该提案的主要目标是确保美国的初级研究人员不会因为缺乏支持而错过这个机会。

The purpose of this proposal is to provide financial support for selected USparticipants, primarily beginning researchers showing great promise, to attendthe July 2005 summer school in mathematical statistical physics at the well-known conference center of les Houches in France. Some of the speakers andtheir topics are B. Duplantier and W. Werner on conformal invariance, F. Guerraon disordered systems, K. Johansson on random matrices, A.-S. Sznitman onrandom walks in random environments, A.D. Sokal on Monte Carlo simulations,and A.-L. Barabasi on complex networks.The July 2005 school in Les Houches, France, for advanced graduate students,postdocs, and junior faculty, will focus on a variety of models involvingrandomness that have been of intense interest in recent years among bothmathematicians and physicists. The financial support that will be made available to young US researchers will make possible their participation, which can be expected to have a major impact on their careers, and hence on the continuedleadership role of the US in this area. For European participants, support is available from the European Science Foundation; the main objective of this proposal is to ensure that US based junior researchers do not miss thisopportunity because of lack of support.