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日期间开设一个为期13个月的强化课程，主题是“数学物理中的概率方法”。该项目已获得客户关系管理科学咨询小组的批准，将获得484,000加元的资金。在此期间，大量研究人员和博士后研究员将常驻CRM，更多的人将参观该项目的10个研讨会。计划开办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。还将举办三次艾森施塔特教席系列讲座，与讲习班协调。艾森施塔特教席系列讲座将由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。这项申请寻求从美国国家科学基金会获得60,000美元的资金，以支持年轻的美国研究人员参加该计划十分之六的研讨会。这一支持将大大增加获得并参与这一计划的年轻美国研究人员的数量。为了支持其他四个以物理学为导向的研讨会上的年轻美国研究人员，另一项拨款申请正在提交给物理系数学物理项目。本课程旨在展示当前数学物理研究活跃领域的最新水平，特别强调概率论在其中发挥核心作用的那些领域。除了提供一个交流这些领域最重要的新研究成果的工具外，主要目标包括：1)提供一个在不同领域之间进行交叉培养的机会，2)通过这种交叉培养激发新的想法，以及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.