Support for US participants in the 2010 West Coast Operator Algebra Seminar

这是第18届西海岸运营商代数研讨会（WCOAS）的奖项，将于2010年9月24日在墨西哥帕丘卡的伊达尔戈州自治大学举行。它将支持美国演讲者，研究生，博士后和其他美国参与者的旅行。预计约有20名美国与会者，包括约10名研究生和博士后，将参加为期三天的研讨会。WCOAS是北美西部算子代数学家20年的传统。它的知识价值包括：为研究人员提供一个传播自己的成果的机会;为研究人员提供一个了解其他人最近研究的机会，并与当前工作保持同步;通过为研究人员提供相互见面和讨论工作的机会，促进合作研究。WCOAS的更广泛的影响是鼓励和培养研究生和博士后，让他们有机会展示自己的工作，了解最近的工作，并满足运营商代数的既定研究人员;创建和维护一个有凝聚力的区域社区运营商代数学家;并培养研究型大学和主要本科院校的教师和学生之间的联系。此外，这个WCOAS将有助于发展墨西哥和北美其他地区数学家之间的联系。

This is an award for the 18th West Coast Operator Algebra Seminar (WCOAS), to be held at the Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Hidalgo, Pachuca, Mexico, 24 September 2010. It will support travel for USA based speakers, graduate students, postdocs, and other USA based participants. Approximately 20 USA based participants are expected, including about 10 graduate students and postdocs, to attend the three day seminar. The WCOAS is a 20 year tradition among the operator algebraists in western North America. Its intellectual merits include: providing an opportunity for researchers to disseminate their own results; furnishing an opportunity for researchers to learn about recent research of others and to stay abreast of current work; fostering collaborative research by giving researchers the opportunity to meet and discuss their work with one another. Among the broader impacts of WCOAS are the encouragement and nurturing of graduate students and postdocs by giving them the opportunity to present their own work, learn about recent work, and meet established researchers in operator algebras; creation and maintenance of a cohesive regional community of operator algebraists; and the fostering of connections between the faculty and students at research universities and those at primarily undergraduate institutions. Moreover, this WCOAS will help develop ties between mathematicians in Mexico and the rest of North America.