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

自 1981 年以来，美国数学会 (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，这些会议于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，这使他们能够推进研究并与其他科学家建立联系。 对于许多年轻数学家来说，这些夏季会议在他们进入数学研究的特定领域时发挥了至关重要的作用。该项目包括该系列中另外三场为期一周的会议，将于 2007 年夏季在犹他州的雪鸟会议中心举行。 这三场会议是 2005 年期间进行的夏季研究会议（SRC）提案传统征集的结果。它们于 2006 年 3 月由 AMS、IMS 和 SIAM 联合任命的 12 名成员组成的遴选委员会进行了彻底审查。该提案请求支持三场为期一周的会议：1。数学和物理的派生类别2。随机矩阵理论、可积系统和随机过程的相互作用3。辛拓扑和保测动力系统每次会议都将汇集数学领域的核心研究人员，该领域的研究前沿正在积极扩展。 每个组委会均由会议领域的领导者组成，其中包括具有组织成功研讨会和会议经验的个人。 这些会议的计划将有助于聚集从不同角度研究核心问题的个人小组，并通过面对面的交流更容易地交流概念和见解。 赞助协会在吸引优秀组委会并对其进行管理以最大限度地提高参与者的经验方面有着悠久的记录。这些会议在年轻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，这种联系通常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。 尤其是在增加强调包括最近的博士学位的情况下尤其如此。 组织协会也敏锐地意识到需要增加代表性不足的群体的参与，会议的各个方面都将反映这种意识。 最后，这些会议产生的会议记录到达了世界各地和数学界各个角落的数学家。 这样，这些会议上所做的工作就可以接触到那些在远离特定会议主题的领域工作以及与会议在地点和时间上相隔较远的科学家。

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.