Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics: an International Combinatorics Conference

该奖项将为美国参与者，特别是女性、研究生、博士后和初级教师提供支持，以参加将分别在冰岛雷克雅未克和日本名古屋举行的第23和第24届国际会议，名称分别为Formal Power级数和代数组合(FPSAC)。一年一度的FPSAC会议的持续成功部分源于它们相当大的跨学科广度--将领先的组合数学研究人员与来自纯数学和应用数学、理论计算机科学、物理和生物学领域的强大研究人员联系在一起。这一系列会议的跨度在强调组合数学的国际会议中是独一无二的。2011年和2012年会议的主要主题将是代数、几何和计数组合学。重点是在物理、生物学和计算机科学中的应用，以及与其他数学领域的关系，如代数几何、交换代数、K-理论、几何群论、表示论和辛几何。

This award will provide support for US participants, especially women,graduate students, postdocs, and junior faculty, to attend thetwenty-third and twenty-fourth international conferences entitledFormal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics (FPSAC), to be held,respectively, in Reykjavik, Iceland, and Nagoya, Japan. The continuing success of the annual FPSAC conferences stems in partfrom their considerable interdisciplinary breadth -- linking leadingresearchers in combinatorial mathematics with strong researchers inallied fields drawn from pure and applied mathematics, theoreticalcomputer science, physics, and biology. The span of this conferenceseries is unique among international conferences with an emphasis oncombinatorial mathematics. The principal topics featured during theFPSAC 2011 and 2012 conferences will be algebraic, geometric, andenumerative combinatorics. The emphasis will be on applications inphysics, biology, and computer science and on relations to other areasof mathematics such as algebraic geometry, commutative algebra,K-theory, geometric group theory, representation theory, andsymplectic geometry.