The Central Region Conference on Numerical Analysis and Dynamical Systems

该奖项将为参加2013年5月3日至5月4日在堪萨斯大学校园举行的“中部数值分析与动力系统会议”的参与者，特别是来自科学领域代表性不足群体的初级研究人员、女性和数学家提供费用支持。在过去的几十年里，数值分析和动力系统之间的互动和合作越来越多，这促使了会议的召开。数值分析是科学计算的核心，涉及研究、开发和分析算法，以获得现实世界问题的各种数学模型的数值解。采用模拟来缩小应该应用昂贵的实验程序的范围，并深入了解观察到的实验现象背后的原理，通常是具有成本效益的。动力系统理论是应用数学的一个领域，研究复杂动力系统的行为，通常采用定性方法。定性分析已被发现在开发鲁棒可靠的数值算法和证明数值结果方面非常有用，数值模拟已日益成为动力系统中的强大工具，并已广泛用于获得复杂动力系统的定量表征，提供必要的动机，并验证理论发现。这次会议将达到几个目标。除了促进数值分析和动力系统研究人员之间的更多互动外，中部地区数值分析和动力系统会议还将为美国中部地区的年轻研究人员、研究生和博士后提供一个论坛，让他们了解研究前沿的当前问题，展示自己的工作，并与该领域的资深数学家进行互动。此外，会议将为数值分析和动力系统之间的跨学科合作提供强大的动力。最后，会议将在促进应用数学和加强该地区大学应用数学小组方面发挥积极作用。

This award will provide support to defray expenses of participants, especially junior investigators, women and mathematicians from under-represented groups in the sciences to attend the conference ``The Central Region Conference on Numerical Analysis and Dynamical Systems'' from May 3 to May 4, 2013 on the campus of the University of Kansas. The conference is motivated by the increased interaction and collaboration between numerical analysis and dynamical systems in the last decades. Numerical analysis is at the core of scientific computing and involves the study, development, and analysis of algorithms for obtaining numerical solutions to various mathematical models of real world problems. It is often cost effective to employ simulations to narrow down where expensive experimental procedures should be applied and to provide insight into the principles behind observed experimental phenomena. Dynamical systems theory is an area of applied mathematics where the behavior of complex dynamical systems is studied and qualitative methods are typically employed. Qualitative analysis has been found to be extremely useful in the development of robust and reliable numerical algorithms and in justifying numerical results, and numerical simulation has increasingly become a powerful tool in dynamical systems and has been used extensively to gain quantitative characterization of complex dynamic systems, provide necessary motivations, and verify theoretical findings.The conference will serve several goals. In addition to facilitating greater interaction between researchers in numerical analysis and dynamical systems, The Central Region Conference on Numerical Analysis and Dynamical Systems will provide a forum in which young researchers, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in the Central region of the United States can acquaint themselves with current issues at the forefront of research, present their own work, and interact with senior mathematicians in the field. Furthermore, the conference will provide strong motivation for interdisciplinary collaboration between numerical analysis and dynamical systems. Finally, the conference will play an active role in motivating applied mathematics and strengthening applied mathematics groups at universities in the region.