Rowlee Conference: Random Combinatorial Structures

随机组合结构会议将于2007年4月21日至22日在内布拉斯加大学林肯分校举行。该会议将与第11届霍华德·罗利讲座（Howard Rowlee lecture）一起举行，这是一项每年在UNL举行的捐赠讲座。2007年的Rowlee讲师将是Bela Bollobas教授，他也将在会议上发表演讲。这次会议的主要目的是创造一个环境，在这个领域中，资深教师和年轻研究人员（包括研究生和新博士）之间的互动和研究联系可以蓬勃发展。这些联系将通过高级和初级与会者的会谈以及非正式互动的大量机会来促进。一大批杰出的高级和有前途的初级研究人员已同意在会议上作报告。除了Bollobas教授，还有Paul Balister、Jozsef Balogh、Joshua Cooper、Alan Frieze、Zoltan Furedi、Boris Pittel、Prasad Tetali和Catherine Yan。会议的主要主题是在组合学中随机方法和对象的使用。这是一个非常广泛的领域，包含了大量活跃的研究。演讲者的兴趣涵盖了这一领域的很大一部分，包括经典随机图，无标度随机图，渗透理论和熵的应用。组合学中的随机方法已被证明在广泛的学科中有应用，包括生物学、物理学和许多工程领域。渗透是一个最好的例子，它充满了丰富的模型和由物理问题激发的美丽的开放问题。这次会议将为数学家提供一个与其他学科的研究人员联系的场所。除此之外，我们将鼓励研究生和会议其他参与者之间的互动。将提供一些支持，以帮助旅行和住房费用（包括演讲者和会议的其他与会者）。博士生、研究生优先考虑。

Random Combinatorial Structures is a conference which will take place on April 21st-22nd, 2007 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The conference will run in association with the 11th Howard Rowlee lecture, an endowed lecture given annually at UNL. The 2007 Rowlee Lecturer will be Professor Bela Bollobas, who will also give one of the lectures at the conference.The main purpose of this meeting is to create an environment in which interactions and research links in this field between established senior faculty and younger researchers (both graduate students and new Ph.Ds) can flourish. These links will be fostered through talks by both senior and junior participants, as well as substantial opportunities for less formal interaction. A full complement of prominent senior and promising junior researchers have agreed to give lectures at the conference. Other than Professor Bollobas these are Paul Balister, Jozsef Balogh, Joshua Cooper, Alan Frieze, Zoltan Furedi, Boris Pittel, Prasad Tetali, and Catherine Yan.The primary topic of the meeting is the use of random methods and objects in combinatorics. This is an extremely broad area, encompassing a vast array of active research. The interests of the speakers cover a large portion of this area, including classical random graphs, scale-free random graphs, the theory of percolation, and applications of entropy.Random methods in combinatorics have proven to have applications in a wide range of disciplines, including biology, physics and many areas of engineering. Percolation is a prime example, one which abounds with rich models and beautiful open problems motivated by physical questions. The conference will provide a venue in which mathematicians can connect with researchers from other disciplines. In addition to this we will encourage interactions between graduate students and the other participants at the conference. Some support will be available to help with travel and housing expenses (both for speakers andother attendees of the conference). Recent Ph.Ds and graduate students will receive preference in the allocation of support.