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差旅支持的提案。2007 年，威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校 (UW) 的一群研究生在 Thomas Kurtz 教授的协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研究员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令人兴奋的概率研究新方向。该会议首次成功举办，约有 30 名与会者参加，之后于 2008 年再次在华盛顿大学举行，与会者人数增至约 75 名。该系列的第三次和第四次会议将分别于 2009 年 5 月和 2010 年在北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校 (UNC) 举行。这些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办。尽管研究生完全负责组织的各个方面，包括撰写本提案，但 Jonathan Mattingly 教授（杜克大学）和 Amarjit Budhiraja 教授（北卡罗来纳大学）将担任这项工作的教师顾问。该项目得到了统计与应用数学科学研究所 (SAMSI) 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有关概率论各种主题的演讲。除了学生和博士后演讲者外，还将有三位主旨演讲者，他们将调查其领域的最新发展和未来方向专业知识。这些演讲者将成为该领域的公认领导者，并将共同代表概率和随机过程的理论和应用中的广泛主题。 DavidAldous 教授（加州大学伯克利分校）已接受邀请，作为 2009 年会议的主讲人之一。预计每次会议将有大约 80 名研究生和博士后参加。 NSF 的支持将为每位参与者每年最多 300 美元的部分旅费报销。 NSF 资金还将用于支付三位主讲人的旅行和其他当地费用。 SAMSI 支持将为最多 20 名研究生参与者提供差旅费报销。

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.