Supporting the Conference Series: NSF/CBMS Regional Research Conferences in the Mathematical Sciences

NSF/CBMS系列数学科学区域研究会议是由数学科学会议委员会（CBMS）管理的一个正在进行的项目，并在过去41年中得到NSF的持续支持。每个会议都有一位杰出的讲师，他就数学科学的一个重点领域的一个重要的当前研究课题进行了十次讲座。 该奖项授予美国数学学会，与CBMS合作，支持CBMS努力宣传会议并管理由此产生的出版物，促进更多地传播与前沿主题相关的材料，并增加会议在社区中的影响。 NSF/CBMS系列会议的目的是促进数学科学领域的研究，这些领域最近取得了重大的新成果，并有望继续取得重大发展。会议通过让主要演讲者（他既是会议领域的主要研究人员，也是一个很好的主持人）在五天内向与会者发表10场演讲来实现这一目的。讲座通常涵盖该领域的最新发展，并绘制可能的新方向和开放问题。因此，会议的形式主要是教育性的，但在研究一级。大约一半的与会者在这些会议是研究生和博士后和会议给他们一个很好的角度对目前的研究和有趣的开放问题的一个重要领域的数学科学。演讲者承诺根据他或她的演讲准备一份实质性的专著。 由此产生的专着达到更广泛的受众，并提供了一个介绍给读者谁希望开始研究领域。此外，会议通常在尚未跻身顶级研究机构之列的机构举行，但这些机构有兴趣加强其当地的研究活动。

The NSF/CBMS series of Regional Research Conferences in the Mathematical Sciences is an ongoing project administered by the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences (CBMS) and supported continuously by NSF for the past 41 years. Each conference features a distinguished lecturer who delivers a sequence of ten lectures on a topic of important current research in one sharply focused area of the mathematical sciences. This award to the American Mathematical Society, with subcontract to CBMS, supports CBMS in its efforts to publicize conferences and administer the resulting publications, fostering greater dissemination of material related to cutting edge-topics and increasing the impact of the conferences in the community. The individual conferences are supported on separate NSF awards to host institutions.The purpose of the NSF/CBMS conference series is to promote research in areas of the mathematical sciences which have recently seen significant new results and which hold promise for continued significant development. A conference achieves that purpose by having the principal lecturer, who is both a major researcher in the area of the conference and a good expositor, deliver 10 lectures over a five day period to the participants. The lectures typically cover the recent development of the field and chart the possible new directions and open problems. Thus the format of the conferences is primarily educational, but at the research level. Approximately one-half of the participants at these conferences are graduate students and postdocs and the conferences give them a good perspective on both the current research and the interesting open problems in an important area of the mathematical sciences. The lecturer promises to prepare a substantial expository monograph based upon his or her lectures. The resulting monograph reaches a broader audience and provides an introduction to readers who wish to begin research in the field. Moreover, the conferences are typically held at institutions that are not yet among the top research institutions, but which are interested in enhancing their local research activity.