Oxtoby Centennial Conference

该奖项将为将于2010年10月30-31日在布林莫尔学院举行的“牛津比百年纪念大会”的参与者，特别是女性、研究生、博士后和年轻教师提供支持。这次会议的目的是庆祝约翰·C·奥克斯托比(John C.Oxtoby，1911-1991)的遗产，他是布林莫尔学院(Bryn Mawr College)的长期教员，也是该学院强大的数学课程发展的推动力。会议的焦点集中在遍历理论和测量理论领域，其中奥克斯托比凭借其在测量理论方面的研究贡献和开创性的研究生论文，是一位具有巨大影响力的人物。这两个主题，尤其是遍历理论，仍然是当前研究的中心和极其活跃的主题。会议的形式使年轻人，包括本科生，将有充分的机会发言，并以其他方式参与各种会议活动。

This award will provide support for participants, especially women, graduate students, postdocs, and young faculty, in the "Oxtoby Centennial Conference" that will be held at Bryn Mawr College on October 30-31, 2010. The purpose of this conference is to celebrate the legacy of John C. Oxtoby (1911-1991), a longtime faculty member at Bryn Mawr College and a driving force in the evolution of that institution's strong mathematics program. The focus of the conference is on the areas of ergodic theory and measure theory, in which Oxtoby was a figure of great influence by virtue of both his research contributions and his pioneering graduate text on measure theory. Both topics, but especially ergodic theory, remain central and extremely active subjects of current research. The format of the meeting is such that young people, including undergraduates, will have ample opportunities to speak and be otherwise engaged in the various conference activities.