Travel Support for the 2008 Conference on Stochastic Networks, June 2008, Paris, France

将为来自美国机构的8名年轻研究人员提供旅行支持，以参加2008年的随机网络会议。将优先支持最近五年内获得博士学位的研究人员和博士课程最后一年的研究生。随机网络模型在现代制造业、电信和计算机系统的发展中发挥了基础性作用。对这些模型的兴趣跨越了许多科学学科，包括运筹学、计算机科学、工程学、数学和统计学。通常，重要的问题是从非常不同的角度来攻击的，将具有广泛不同视角的研究人员聚集在一起有很大的好处。为了解决这些问题，我们需要新的数学模型和分析技术。会议的主要目标是确定这样的模型以及必要的分析和计算方法，这将有助于对系统行为的基本了解，并有助于这些网络的设计和控制。来自不同应用领域的思想相互交融是这些会议的主要贡献之一。

Travel support will be provided for 8 young researchers from US institutions to attend the 2008 Conference on Stochastic Networks. Priority for support will be given to researchers who have received their PhD within the last five years and to graduate students in the last year of their PhD programs.Stochastic network models have played a fundamental role in the development of modern manufacturing, telecommunications, and computer systems. Interest in these models cuts across many scientific disciplines including operations research, computer science, engineering, mathematics, and statistics. Frequently, important problems are attacked from very different points of view, and there is great benefit to bringing together researchers with a wide variety of perspectives. In order to address these problems, we need new mathematical models and analysis techniques. The primary goal of the conference is to identify such models and the requisite analytic and computational methodologies that will help in basic understanding of system behavior and in the design and control of these networks. The cross-fertilization of ideas from diverse areas of application is one of the major contributions of these conferences.