Supporting the Conference Series: CBMS Regional Research Conferences in the Mathematical Sciences

NSF/CBMS数学区域研究系列会议是一个持续的合作项目，由数学科学会议委员会(CBMS)管理，过去41年来一直得到NSF的支持。建立信任措施促进、管理并为该系列提供支持服务。每一次会议都有一位杰出的讲师，他就当前数学科学领域的一个重要研究领域的一个重要的当前研究主题发表了十场演讲。每一次会议的当地组织者邀请该领域的其他知名研究人员和感兴趣的新来者，包括研究生和博士后研究员参加会议。讲师承诺将根据他或她的演讲准备一本实质性的说明性专著。截至2009年，共举行了320次这样的会议，出版了198部专著。这些会议的目的是促进数学科学领域的研究，这些领域最近取得了重大新成果，并有望继续取得重大发展。会议的目的是让首席讲师在五天的时间里为与会者做10次演讲，他既是会议领域的主要研究人员，也是一名优秀的讲解者。讲座通常涵盖该领域的最新发展，并绘制可能的新方向和有待解决的问题。因此，会议的形式主要是教育性的，但在研究层面。这些会议的参与者中大约有一半是研究生和博士后，这些会议让他们对当前的研究和一个重要的数学领域的有趣的开放问题有了很好的看法。由此产生的专著触及了更广泛的受众，并为希望开始该领域研究的读者提供了一个介绍。此外，这些会议通常在尚未跻身顶尖研究机构之列的机构举行，但它们有兴趣加强当地的研究活动。在接下来的三年里，每年将举办多达六到七次会议。

The NSF/CBMS series of Regional Research Conferences in Mathematics is an ongoing cooperative project administered by the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences (CBMS) and supported continuously by NSF for the past 41 years. CBMS promotes, administers, and provides support services for the series. Each conference features a distinguished lecturer who delivers a sequence of ten lectures on a topic of important current research in one sharply focused area of the mathematical sciences. The local organizer of each conference invites other established researchers in the field and interested newcomers, including graduate students and post doctoral fellows, to participate in the conference. The lecturer promises to prepare a substantial expository monograph based upon his or her lectures. Through 2009, a total of 320 such conferences have been held and 198 monographs have been published in the series. The purpose of these conferences is to promote research in areas of the mathematical sciences which have recently seen significant new results and which hold promise for continued significant development. A conference achieves that purpose by having the principal lecturer, who is both a major researcher in the area of the conference and a good expositor, deliver 10 lectures over a five day period to the participants. The lectures typically cover the recent development of the field and chart the possible new directions and open problems. Thus the format of the conferences is primarily educational, but at the research level. Approximately one-half of the participants at these conferences are graduate students and postdocs and the conferences give them a good perspective on both the current research and the interesting open problems in an important area of mathematics. The resulting monograph reaches a broader audience and provides an introduction to readers who wish to begin research in the field. Moreover, the conferences are typically held at institutions that are not yet among the top research institutions, but which are interested in enhancing their local research activity. Up to six or seven conferences will be offered in each of the next three years.