CombinaTexas 2010: a combinatorics conference in the south-central U.S.

德克萨斯州立大学数学系计划于2010年4月24日至25日举办一次年度组合学会议。这个为期两天的会议是联合德克萨斯会议系列的一部分，自2000年以来每年在德克萨斯州的不同学院或大学举行。会议计划包括由国际公认的研究人员进行的五场一小时的特邀演讲。这些特邀讲座将涵盖代数组合学、代数几何、组合优化、计算组合学、量子图论和几何图论等领域的最新成果和开放问题，以及在网络分析、编码理论和蛋白质折叠中的应用。此外，会议还包括几次论文发表会议、海报会议和社会活动，以鼓励参与者之间的交流和合作。特别强调研究生和初级教师对组合学及其应用的参与。在德克萨斯州和邻近的州，组合学领域的研究人员数量不断增加，组合学会议是唯一的定期聚会。这些会议提供了一个论坛，以促进科学合作，并在来自一个大地理区域的大量非常不同的机构的研究人员之间发展研究网络。特别是，这些会议增加了研究生、本科生和博士后的经验，拓宽了他们的数学视野，帮助他们在各自的领域建立了一个专家网络。对于研究人员和教育工作者来说，联合德克萨斯会议系列已经成为一项重要的区域性活动。该公司将继续扩大和多样化参与，并加强研究和教育的基础设施。

The Department of Mathematics at Texas State University plans to host an annual Combinatorics conference on April 24-25, 2010. The two-day conference is part of the CombinaTexas Conference Series, held annually at a different college or university in Texas since the year 2000. The conference program includes five one-hour invited talks delivered by internationally recognized researchers. These invited talks will cover recent results and open problems in the fields of Algebraic Combinatorics, Algebraic Geometry, Combinatorial Optimization, Computational Combinatorics, Quantum Graph Theory and Geometric Graph Theory, as well as applications in Network Analysis, Coding Theory and Protein Folding. In addition, the conference includes several sessions of contributed papers, a poster session, and social events to encourage communication and collaboration among participants. Special emphasis is given to the participation of graduate students and junior faculty in Combinatorics and its applications.The CombinaTexas conferences serve as the only regular gathering for the increasing number of researchers in the field of Combinatorics in Texas and neighboring states. The conferences provide a forum to foster scientific collaboration and to develop research networks among researchers from a large number of very diverse institutions in a large geographic region. In particular, these conferences enhance the experiences of graduate and undergraduate students and postdocs, broadening their mathematical outlook and helping them create a network of experts within their fields. The CombinaTexas Conference Series has become a major regional activity both, for researchers and educators. CombinaTexas will continue to broaden and diversify participation and to enhance the infrastructure for research and education.