CRM 2008-9 Thematic Program: Probabilistic Methods in Mathematical Physics

数学研究中心（CRM）将在2008年6月1日至2009年6月30日期间开展为期13个月的“数学物理中的概率方法”密集项目。该项目已被CRM科学顾问小组批准，获得484,000加元的资助。在此期间，大量的研究人员和博士后将常驻CRM，更多的人将参观该计划的10个研讨会。计划开设两所与讲习班主题有关的预备学校，面向研究生和初级研究人员。还将有三个Aisenstadt Chair系列讲座，与研讨会协调。Aisenstadt Chair系列讲座将由Andrei Okounkov（普林斯顿大学）、Wendelin Werner（巴黎第六大学）和Craig Tracy（加州大学戴维斯分校）主讲。该申请向美国国家科学基金会寻求6万美元的资助，以支持美国年轻研究人员参加该计划10个研讨会中的6个。这项支持将大大增加获得和参与该计划的年轻美国研究人员的数量。为了支持其他四个车间的年轻美国研究人员，具有更明显的物理方向，另一项拨款申请正在向物理系数学物理项目提交。本计划旨在代表数学物理中一些当前活跃的研究领域的艺术状态，特别强调那些概率论发挥核心作用的领域。除了提供交流这些领域中最重要的新研究成果的工具外，主要目标还包括：1)为不同领域之间的交叉受精提供机会；2)通过这种交叉受精激发新思想；3)提供一个环境，让年轻的研究人员可以了解并鼓励他们为这些领域中令人兴奋的新发展做出贡献。

The Centre de Recherches Mathematiques (CRM) will mount an intensive 13 months program on "Probabilistic Methods in Mathematical Physics" during the period June 1, 2008 - June 30, 2009. The program has been approved by the CRM Scientific Advisory Panel to receive funding $484,000 CAD. A large number of researchers and postdoctoral fellows will be in residence at CRM during this period, and more will visit the program's 10 workshops. Two preparatory schools relating to the themes of the workshops are planned, aimed at graduate students and junior researchers. There will also be three Aisenstadt Chair lecture series, coordinated with the workshops. The Aisenstadt Chair lecture series will be given by Andrei Okounkov (Princeton), Wendelin Werner (Paris VI), and Craig Tracy (UC Davis). This application seeks funding of $60,000 US from the NSF to support participation of young American researchers in six out of ten workshops of the program. The support will substantially increase the number of young American researchers gaining access to and participating in this program. To support young American researchers in the other four workshops, with a more pronounced physics orientation, another grant application is being submitted to the Program in Mathematical Physics of the Division of Physics. This program is meant to represent the state of the art in a number of currently active areas of research in mathematical physics, with special emphasis on those in which probability theory plays a central role. Besides providing a vehicle for communicating the most significant new research results in these domains, the principal objectives include: 1) giving an opportunity for cross-fertilization between the different domains represented, 2) stimulating new ideas through such cross-fertilization and 3) providing an environment in which young researchers may learn about and be encouraged to contribute to the exciting new developments in these domains.