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

该奖项提供旅费资助，以增加美国参与剑桥大学艾萨克·牛顿研究所为期半年的“通信科学随机过程”项目（2010年1月11日至7月2日）。该计划旨在展示位于随机学科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，以推进该领域并确定重要的研究方向。最多20名访问学者将在项目期间的任何时间驻留，并将在较短的时间内邀请其他项目参与者。正在组织四个横向研讨会、一个面向青年研究人员的卫星研讨会和几个较短的活动，主要是：(1)概率与通信界面的新主题（2010年1月11日至15日）；(2)随机网络（2010年3月22 - 26日）；(3)空间网络（2010年4月6 - 9日）；(4)青年科学家卫星会议（2010年6月7 - 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项目期间驻留在牛顿研究所，通过支持初级研究人员（研究生、博士后和博士学位超过7年的教职员工）、女性研究人员和少数族裔研究人员的旅行。

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.