Graduate Student Conference in Probability

这是为2009年和2010年年度研究生概率会议的参与者提供旅费支持的提案。2007年，威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校（UW）的一群研究生在Thomas Kurtz教授的帮助下组织了第一届研究生概率会议。这次会议为来自全国各地的学生和博士后提供了与同行互动的机会，并从该领域的一些领导者那里了解到令人兴奋的概率论研究的新方向。在成功的首次亮相后，大约有30名参与者，2008年在华盛顿大学再次举行会议，增加到大约75名与会者。第三次和第四次会议将分别于2009年5月和2010年5月在北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校（UNC）举行。会议将由杜克大学数学系和北卡罗来纳大学统计与运筹学系的研究生共同主持。虽然研究生完全负责组织的各个方面-包括撰写本提案-教授Jonathan Mattingly（杜克大学）和Amarjit Budhiraja（北卡罗来纳大学）将担任这项工作的指导教师。该项目得到了统计与应用数学科学研究所的部分支持。该系列的第三次会议将于2009年5月1日至5月3日举行。在为期三天的会议中，参与者（主要是研究生和博士后）将有机会发表和参加关于概率学各种主题的演讲。除了学生和博士后演讲嘉宾外，还将有三位主题演讲嘉宾介绍各自专业领域的最新发展和未来发展方向。这些演讲者将是该领域公认的领导者，并将共同代表概率和随机过程的理论和应用的广泛主题。DavidAldous教授（加州大学伯克利分校）已接受邀请，作为2009年会议的主题演讲嘉宾之一。预计每次会议将有大约80名研究生和博士后参加。国家科学基金会的支持将允许每年最多30名参与者每人最多300美元的部分旅费报销。NSF基金还将用于支付三位主讲人的旅行和其他当地费用。SAMSI的支助将能够为最多20名研究生参加者报销旅费。

This is a proposal for participant travel support for the Annual Graduate Student Probability Conference for the years 2009 and 2010. In 2007, a group of graduate students at the University of Wisconsin at Madison (UW) - with assistance from Professor Thomas Kurtz organized the first Graduate Student Probability Conference. This conference provided students and postdoctoral fellows from across the country with the opportunity to interact withtheir peers and learn about exciting new directions of research in Probability from some ofthe leaders in the field. After a successful debut with roughly 30 participants, the conference was again held at UW in 2008 growing to about 75 attendees. The third and fourth conferences in this series will be held at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC)in May 2009 and 2010 respectively. The conferences will be co-hosted by graduate students in the Department of Mathematics at Duke University and the Department of Statistics and Operations Research at UNC. Although graduate students are fully in charge of all aspects of organization - including the writing of this proposal- Professors Jonathan Mattingly (DukeU.) and Amarjit Budhiraja (UNC) will act as faculty advisors for this effort. The project has received partial support through the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI).The third conference in the series will be held May 1 { May 3, 2009. Over the three days of the conference, participants { which will primarily be graduate students and postdocs will have the opportunity to deliver and attend talks on a variety of topics in Probability.In addition to student and postdoc speakers, there will be three keynote speakers that willsurvey recent developments and future directions in their area of expertise. These speakers will be established leaders in the field and will collectively represent a broad range of topicsin the theory and applications of Probability and Stochastic Processes. Professor DavidAldous (UC Berkeley) has accepted the invitation as one of the keynote speakers for the 2009 conference.It is anticipated that each conference will be attended by approximately eighty graduate students and postdocs. NSF support will enable partial travel reimbursements of up to $300 per participant for up to thirty participants, per year. NSF funds will also be used to cover travel and other local expenses of the three keynote speakers. SAMSI support will enable travel reimbursements for up to additional twenty graduate student participants.