Summer Research Conferences: A 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)一直在管理一项研究会议计划，这些会议在夏季期间在不同地点举行，并得到国家科学基金会的资助。在此期间，9000多名美国数学科学家参加了这些会议，这些会议使他们能够推进他们的研究，并与其他科学家建立联系。对于许多年轻的数学家来说，这些夏季会议在他们进入特定的数学研究领域时起到了至关重要的作用。这个项目包括另外三个为期一周的系列会议，将于2007年夏天在犹他州的雪鸟会议中心举行。这三次会议是2005年进行的夏季研究会议(SRCs)提案传统征集的结果。2006年3月，由AMS、IMS和SIAM联合任命的一个由12名成员组成的遴选委员会对它们进行了彻底的审查。本提案要求支持三个为期一周的会议：1.数学和物理派生类别2。随机矩阵理论、可积系统与随机过程的相互作用辛拓扑学和保测动力系统每一次会议都将聚集数学领域的领先研究人员的核心，该领域的研究前沿正在经历积极的扩展。每个组织委员会都由会议领域的领导人组成，其中包括具有成功组织讲习班和会议经验的个人。这些会议的计划将有助于将从不同角度致力于核心问题的个人小组聚集在一起，并导致概念和见解的交流，这种交流可以更容易地通过面对面的沟通进行。赞助社团在吸引优秀的组织委员会并对其进行管理方面有着长期的记录，以最大限度地增加参与者的经验。这些会议对年轻数学家的职业发展起到了重要作用。他们将资深和初级研究人员聚集在一个理想的环境中，建立联系，这种联系通常会在会议本身之后持续多年。从这个意义上说，这些会议有助于培养各个领域的下一代研究人员。这一点尤其正确，因为增加了对包括最近的博士学位的重视。各组织协会也敏锐地意识到有必要增加任职人数不足的群体的参与，会议的所有方面都将反映这一认识。最后，这些会议产生的论文集到达了世界各地的数学家和数学界的每一个角落。通过这种方式，在这些会议上所做的工作可以到达那些在远离特定会议主题的地区工作的科学家，他们与会议的地点和时间都相隔不远。

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, which have been 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, which have allowed them to advance their research and make 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 consists of three additional one-week conferences in this series to be held during the summer of 2007 at the Snowbird Conference Center in Utah. These three conferences were the results of the traditional solicitation for the Summer Research Conferences (SRCs) proposals carried out during 2005. They were thoroughly reviewed in March 2006 by a twelve-member Selection Committee jointly appointed by the AMS, IMS and SIAM.This proposal requests support for three one-week conferences:1. Derived Categories in Mathematics and Physics2. Interactions of Random Matrix Theory, Integrable Systems and Stochastic Processes3. Symplectic Topology and Measure-Preserving Dynamical Systems Each of these conferences will bring together a core of leading researchers in a mathematical area that is experiencing active expansion of the research frontiers in the field. Each of the organizing committees is composed of leaders in the field of the conference and includes individuals with previous experience in organizing successful workshops and conferences. The programs of these meetings will help bring together groups of individuals working on the core problems from different perspectives and lead to exchanges of concepts and insights that can occur more readily with face-to-face communication. The sponsoring societies have a long track record of attracting outstanding organizing committees and administering them so as to maximize the experience of the participants. These conferences play a major role in career development for young 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. Finally, the proceedings that are produced from these conferences reach mathematicians throughout the world and in every part of the mathematical community. In this way, the work done at these conferences can reach scientists who work in areas far from the specific conference topic and who are separated from the meeting by both place and time.