Summer Research Conferences: A Continuing Collaboration Between AMS, IMS & SIAM

自1981年以来，美国数学学会（AMS），数学统计研究所（IMS）和工业与应用数学学会（SIAM）已经管理了一个研究会议计划，在夏季在不同地点举行，并由国家科学基金会资助。在此期间，超过9，000名美国数学科学家参加了这些会议，推进他们的研究并与其他科学家建立联系。 对于许多年轻的数学家，这些夏季会议发挥了至关重要的作用，因为他们进入一个特定的数学研究领域。这个项目支持四个额外的为期一周的会议，在这个系列将于2006年夏季在雪鸟会议中心在犹他州举行。这四次会议是2004年夏季研究会议（SRCS）提案传统征集的结果。由AMS、IMS和SIAM联合任命的12人遴选委员会于2005年2月对这些会议进行了全面审查。 多面体中的顶点：几何学，数论，表示论，代数，最优化， 统计数字2. 真实的约化李群的表示3. 机器与统计学习：预测与发现 离散和计算几何-二十年后这些会议在初级数学家的职业发展中发挥着重要作用。他们将高级和初级研究人员聚集在一个理想的环境中建立联系，这种联系往往在会议结束后持续多年。从这个意义上说，会议有助于培养各个领域的下一代研究人员。这是特别真实的，包括最近的博士学位的额外重点。各主办协会也敏锐地意识到有必要增加代表人数不足的群体的参与，会议的所有方面都将反映出这种意识（各协会的大多数活动也是如此）。最后，从这些会议中成长起来的程序到达世界各地的数学家，在数学界的每一个部分。通过这种方式，在会议上完成的工作可以接触到那些在远离特定会议主题的领域工作的科学家，他们在地点和时间上都与会议分离。

Since 1981, the American Mathematical Society (AMS), the Institute for Mathematical Statistics (IMS), and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) have managed a program of research conferences, held during the summers at various locations and funded by the National Science Foundation. During this time, more than 9,000 U.S. mathematical scientists have participated in these conferences, advancing their research and making connections with other scientists. For many young mathematicians, these summer conferences have played a crucial role as they enter a specific area of mathematical research.This project supports four additional one-week conferences in this series to be held during the summer of 2006 at the Snowbird Conference Center in Utah. These four conferences were the results of the traditional solicitation for the Summer Research Conferences (SRCS) proposals carried out during 2004. They were thoroughly reviewed in February 2005 by twelve-member Selection Committee jointly appointed by the AMS, IMS and SIAM.The four one-week conferences are:1. Integer Points in Polyhedra: Geometry, Number Theory, Representation Theory, Algebra, Optimization, Statistics2. Representations of Real Reductive Lie Groups3. Machine and Statistical Learning: Prediction and Discovery4. Discrete and Computational Geometry-Twenty Years LaterThese conferences play a major role in career development for junior mathematicians. They bring together senior and junior researchers in an ideal environment to establish connections, which often last for many years after the conference itself. In this sense, the conferences help to train the next generation of researchers in various fields. This is especially true with the added emphasis on including recent Ph.D.s. The organizing societies are also keenly aware of the need to increase participation of under-represented groups, and all aspects of the conferences will reflect that awareness (as do most activities of the societies). Finally, the proceedings that grow from these conferences reach mathematicians throughout the world, in every part of the mathematical community. In this way, the work done at conferences can reach scientists who work in areas far from the specific conference topic, who are separated from the meeting in both place and time.