Travel Grant for Junior Researchers for Program on Stochastic Processes in Communication Science; Cambridge, United Kingdom

该奖项提供旅行资金，以增加美国在通信科学中的随机过程在剑桥大学艾萨克牛顿研究所，从2010年1月11日至7月2日半年计划的参与。该计划旨在阐述数学科学的最新发展，这些科学位于随机学和通信学科之间的边界。该计划将汇集来自数学，概率，工程和计算机科学界的专家，以推进该领域并确定重要的研究方向。在整个计划期间，将有多达20名访问学者在任何时候居住，并将邀请更多的计划参与者参加较短的时间。目前正在组织四个横向讲习班、一个为研究人员举办的附属讲习班和几个较短的活动，主要活动是：（1）概率与通信之间的新专题（2010年1月11日至15日）;（2）随机网络（2010年3月22日至26日）;（3）空间网络（4）青年研究人员卫星会议（2010年6月7日至11日，爱丁堡，ICMS）;（5）网络统计（2010年6月21日至25日）美国国家科学基金会的资金将用于促进美国年轻研究人员与这些领域的顶尖研究人员的互动，这些研究人员将在美国国家科学基金会的驻地工作。牛顿研究所在这个项目中，通过支持初级研究人员（研究生，博士后和教职员工最多七年后博士）的旅行，女性研究人员和来自代表性不足的少数民族的研究人员。

This award provides travel funding to increase US participation in thehalf-year program on Stochastic Processes in Communication Sciences at theIsaac Newton Institute at Cambridge University, January 11 through July2, 2010. The program aims at the exposition of the latest developments inmathematical sciences that sit at the boundary between the disciplines ofstochastics and communications. The program will bring together expertsfrom the mathematics, probability, engineering, and computer science communities, to advance the field and identify important research directions. Upto twenty Visiting Fellows will be in residence at any time through the periodof the program, and additional Program Participants will be invited forshorter periods. Four transversal workshops, a satellite workshop for youngresearchers and several shorter events are being organized, the primary onesbeing: (1) New topics at the interface between probability and communications(11 - 15 January 2010); (2) Stochastic Networks (22 - 26 March 2010);(3) Spatial Networks (6 - 9 April 2010); (4) Satellite meeting for young researchers(At ICMS, Edinburgh, 7 - 11 June 2010); (5) Statistics of Networks(21 - 25 June 2010).The NSF funding will be used to facilitate the interaction of young USresearchers with the top researchers in these areas who will be in residenceat the Newton Institute during this program, by supporting the travel ofjunior researchers (graduate students, post-docs, and faculty members atmost seven years beyond Ph. D.), woman researchers and researchers fromunderrepresented minorities.