Southern California Number Theory Day Conference Series at UC San Diego

这个奖项是为了支持南加州数论日（SCNTD）会议系列在加州大学圣地亚哥分校。 第一次会议将于2013年9月20日至22日举行。 另外两次SCNTD会议将在2014年和2015年的一个星期六举行，为期一天，将包括4或5个一小时的高质量讲座，内容涉及数论和相关领域（例如模型论、密码学或代数几何）的最新研究，由这些领域的研究领导者主讲，他们也以出色的演讲技巧而闻名。 前八次会议（2005-2012年）平均每一次都有40名来自南加州大学、FFRDC和文科学院的参与者，从刚开始的研究生到高级教师和研究人员。 SCNTD会议的演讲者是一群来自国际上的数论家，他们就各种各样的主题发表演讲。 这些讲座旨在促进研究，并鼓励研究人员在其职业生涯的各个阶段进行富有成效的互动。 会议的主要目标之一是传播数论和相关领域的最新研究。 SCNTD会议为与会者提供了与其他机构学者互动的机会，也为研究生和博士后提供了在非正式环境中与更资深的数学家互动的机会，这有利于学习和合作。 大多数大学和学院在南加州有小数论小组这使得很难保持定期和积极的数论研讨会。 SCNTD会议已经成为一个非常有效的方式来汇集一个临界质量的数论家的方式，大多数这些机构单独不可能负担得起。目前的奖项将资助未来三个南加州数论日会议在加州大学圣地亚哥分校在2013年，2014年和2015年。 由于斯塔克猜想相关研究领域最近的几项突破，（称为L函数的分析数学对象和称为全局单位的离散数学对象之间的深层结构联系），这些会议中的第一个将于2013年9月20日至22日组织，将是为期三天的题为“斯塔克猜想和相关主题”的会议，包括15个一小时的讲座，由最近的主要贡献者在现代数论这一令人兴奋的研究领域提供。 会议已广泛宣传，组织者将作出特别努力，鼓励和资助对这一研究领域表现出兴趣和潜力的研究生和年轻研究人员参加会议。 会议的网址是http://www.math.ucsd.edu/~scntd/。

This award is for the support of the Southern California Number Theory Day (SCNTD) Conference Series at the University of California-San Diego. The first conference will be held September 20-22, 2013. The other two SCNTD conferences will be one-day meetings that are organized on a Saturday in 2014 and 2015 and will consist of 4 or 5 one-hour, high-quality lectures on the latest research in number theory and related areas (for example, model theory, cryptography, or algebraic geometry), given by research leaders in these fields who also have a reputation for their excellent expository skills. The first eight meetings (2005-2012) have each brought together an average of 40 participants from universities, FFRDC's, and liberal arts colleges in Southern California, ranging from beginning graduate students to senior faculty and researchers. The speakers at the SCNTD conferences are an internationally diverse group of number theorists, speaking on a wide variety of topics. The lectures are designed to promote research and to encourage fruitful interactions among researchers at various stages of their careers. One of the main goals of the conferences is to disseminate the latest research in number theory and related areas. The SCNTD conferences offer their participants the opportunity to interact with scholars from other institutions, and also give graduate students and postdocs the opportunity to interact with more senior mathematicians in an informal setting, conducive to learning and collaboration. Most universities and colleges in Southern California have small number theory groups which makes it difficult to maintain regular and active number theory seminars. The SCNTD conferences have become a very effective way to bring together a critical mass of number theorists in a way that most of these institutions individually could not possibly afford.The current award will fund the next three Southern California Number Theory Day meetings at UC San Diego in 2013, 2014 and 2015. Due to several recent breakthroughs in the area of research related to Stark's Conjectures (deep conjectural links between analytic mathematical objects called L-functions and discrete mathematical objects called global units), the first of these meetings, to be organized on September 20-22 of 2013, will be a three-day conference entitled "Stark's Conjectures and related topics", consisting of 15 one-hour lectures delivered by the most recent main contributors to this exciting area of research in modern number theory. The conference has been broadly advertised and the organizers will make special efforts to encourage and fund the participation of graduate students and young researchers who have showed interest and potential in this area of research. The conference website can be found at http://www.math.ucsd.edu/~scntd/.