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

自1981年以来，美国数学学会（AMS），数理统计研究所（IMS）和工业与应用数学学会（SIAM）管理了一个研究会议计划，这些会议由国家科学基金会资助，于夏季在不同地点举行。在此期间，超过9,000名美国数学科学家参加了这些会议，这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一个特定的数学研究领域时发挥了至关重要的作用。该项目包括本系列中另外三个为期一周的会议，将于2007年夏天在犹他州雪鸟会议中心举行。这三次会议是2005年夏季研究会议（src）提案传统征集的结果。2006年3月，由医疗辅助队、医疗管理学会和SIAM联合委任的十二人遴选委员会对这些奖项进行了全面评审。这项提案要求支助三次为期一周的会议：数学和物理中的派生范畴2。随机矩阵理论、可积系统与随机过程的相互作用每一次会议都将汇集一个数学领域的核心领先研究人员，这些研究人员正在积极扩展该领域的研究前沿。每个组织委员会都由会议领域的领导者组成，其中包括具有成功组织研讨会和会议经验的个人。这些会议的项目将有助于把从不同角度研究核心问题的个人团体聚集在一起，并促进概念和见解的交流，而面对面的交流更容易实现。主办协会在吸引优秀的组委会和管理他们方面有着悠久的历史，从而最大限度地提高了参与者的体验。这些会议对年轻数学家的职业发展起着重要作用。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，这种联系通常会在会议结束后持续多年。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。这一点在强调包括最近的博士学位时尤其如此。各组织协会也敏锐地意识到需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认识。最后，由这些会议产生的论文集被全世界的数学家和数学界的每一个部分所接受。通过这种方式，在这些会议上所做的工作可以接触到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开。

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.