Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics: an International Combinatorics Conference

2006年6月，第十八届形式幂级数与代数组合学国际会议（FPSAC）将在美国加州的太平洋海滩召开。 这些年度FPSAC会议具有相当的跨学科的广度-将组合数学领域的领先研究人员与相关领域的优秀研究人员联系起来。FPSAC 2006年会议期间的主要议题将是代数和枚举组合学及其与数学、物理、生物和计算机科学等领域的应用和关系。 跨学科的跨度是证明了全体发言人的选择，包括法师拜耳，范忠，吉姆Haglund，布鲁斯萨根，和米歇尔瓦克斯从美国，来自荷兰的Tom Koorniwinder，来自韩国的Seok-Jin Kang，来自英国的奈杰尔Ray。FPSAC会议的一个显着特点是一致努力表彰和鼓励杰出的年轻科学家。 这是通过为年轻研究人员的最杰出贡献指定一个奖项的传统，并选择突出年轻研究人员作为全体发言人的一些恒星工作来实现的。每年FPSAC会议都会看到代数和枚举组合学领域的一些重大进展的公告。今年也不例外，托马斯林，吉勒舍费尔，马克Shimozono和许多其他人介绍了美丽的结果。

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.