Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics: an International Combinatorics Conference

2006年6月，将在加利福尼亚州的太平洋海滩举行第18届国际会议，题为ForMalPower级数和代数组合(FPSAC)。这些一年一度的FPSAC会议具有相当大的跨学科广度-将组合数学领域的领先研究人员与相关领域的强大研究人员联系起来。FPSAC 2006会议的主要主题将是代数和枚举组合学及其应用以及它们与数学、物理、生物学和计算机科学的其他领域的关系。跨学科的跨度从全体演讲者的选择中可见一斑，其中包括来自美国的Mage Bayer、Fan Chung、Jim Haglund、Bruce Sagan和Michelle Wks，来自荷兰的Tom Koorniwinder，来自韩国的Seok-jin Kang，来自英国的Nigel Ray。这是通过为初级研究人员提交的最杰出的论文指定一个奖项，并选择突出年轻研究人员作为全体演讲者的一些杰出工作的传统来实现的。每年，FPSAC会议都会宣布代数和枚举组合学领域的一些主要进展。今年也不例外，Thomas Lam、Gilles Schaeffer、Mark Shimozono和其他许多人都展示了美丽的结果。

In June 2006, the eighteenth international conference entitled FormalPower Series and Algebraic Combinatorics (FPSAC) will be held inPacific Beach, California. These annual FPSAC conferences have considerableinterdisciplinary breadth---linking leading researchers incombinatorial mathematics with strong researchers in allied fields.The principal topics featured during the FPSAC 2006 conference willbe algebraic and enumerative combinatorics and their applications and relations to other areas of mathematics, physics, biology and computer science. The interdisciplinary span is evidenced by the choice of plenary speakers, including Mage Bayer, Fan Chung, Jim Haglund, Bruce Sagan, and Michelle Wachs from the U.S., Tom Koorniwinder from the Netherlands, Seok-Jin Kang from Korea, Nigel Ray from he United Kingdom.A distinguishing characteristic of FPSAC conferences is the concertedeffort to recognize and encourage outstanding young scientists. This is accomplished by the tradition of designating an award for most outstanding submission by a junior researcher and by choosing to highlight some stellar work of younger researchers as plenary speakers.Each year the FPSAC conference sees announcements of some of the major advancements in the field of algebraic and enumerative combinatorics. This year will be no exception with presentations of beautiful results by Thomas Lam, Gilles Schaeffer, Mark Shimozono and many others.