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

该奖项提供差旅资金，以增加美国在2010年1月11日至7月2日期间参加剑桥大学艾萨克·牛顿研究所传播科学随机过程半年项目的参与度。该项目旨在展示处于随机学和通信学科之间的数学科学的最新发展。该计划将汇集来自数学、概率、工程和计算机科学界的专家，以推动该领域的发展并确定重要的研究方向。在整个计划期间的任何时候，最多将有20名访问学者驻留，更多的计划参与者将被邀请较短的时间。正在为青年研究人员举办四个横向讲习班、一个卫星讲习班和几个较短的活动，主要活动是：(1)概率与通信之间的接口的新专题(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(2010年4月6日至9日)；(4)青年研究人员卫星会议(2010年6月7日至11日，爱丁堡国际空间研究中心)；(5)网络统计(2010年6月21-25日)NSF的资助将用于促进年轻的美国研究人员与这些领域的顶尖研究人员的互动，这些研究人员将在该计划期间常驻牛顿研究所，通过支持初级研究人员(研究生、博士后和最多七年博士毕业后的教职员工)、女性研究人员和来自代表不足的少数族裔的研究人员的旅行。

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.