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24-25日主办一次年度组合学会议。这次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，该系列会议每年在德克萨斯州的不同学院或大学举行。会议计划包括五个一小时的受邀演讲，由国际公认的研究人员发表。这些受邀的讲座将涵盖代数组合学、代数几何、组合最优化、计算组合学、量子图论和几何图论以及在网络分析、编码理论和蛋白质折叠中的应用等领域的最新成果和公开问题。此外，会议还包括几个会议的投稿会议、海报会议和社交活动，以鼓励与会者之间的沟通和合作。特别强调了组合数学及其应用领域的研究生和初级教师的参与。组合德克萨斯会议是德克萨斯州和邻近各州组合数学领域越来越多的研究人员唯一的定期聚会。这些会议提供了一个论坛，以促进科学合作，并在一个很大的地理区域内的大量不同机构的研究人员之间建立研究网络。特别是，这些会议增进了研究生、本科生和博士后的经验，拓宽了他们的数学视野，并帮助他们在各自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，德克萨斯联合会议系列已经成为一项重要的地区性活动。德克萨斯州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.