Triangle Lectures in Combinatorics

组合学中的三角形讲座

• 批准号: 1400355
• 负责人: Nathan Reading
• 金额: $ 2.08万
• 依托单位: North Carolina State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-04-01 至 2017-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1400355&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Triangle; Lectures; Combinatorics

This award supports participation in the Triangle Lectures in Combinatorics (http://www.math.ncsu.edu/TLC). These are one-day (Saturday) conferences, held once a semester. Each conference brings four outstanding mathematicians from around the country to give talks about significant and exciting developments in combinatorics. The Triangle Lectures in Combinatorics workshops play numerous roles: they enhance the national infrastructure for research and education by creating and strengthening a regional network of interacting researchers; facilitate the dissemination of cutting-edge research ideas, methods and results among researchers in the Southeastern United States; promote the teaching and training of graduate students by exposing them to the perspectives of leading researchers; increase awareness and understanding of combinatorics, on the part of faculty and students in the Southeast; support the development of young faculty at various schools and help them build local support and research networks; broaden participation of underrepresented groups, particularly women; and foster research interactions among participants, leading to new research results.Combinatorics is a growing and important area of mathematics. The focus of combinatorics is the structure of discrete (as opposed to continuous) sets of objects. Combinatorics is critical to many areas of mathematics, and plays a key role in computational, scientific, and engineering applications. The states of North Carolina, Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky, and Tennessee have significant research strength in combinatorics and adjacent areas. In particular, there are remarkably many tenure-track researchers, senior researchers, postdoctoral scholars, and graduate students in combinatorics and related fields at various colleges and universities within driving distance of the Research Triangle region of North Carolina (Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill). A relatively large proportion of these researchers are from underrepresented groups. The lecture series provides valuable opportunities for interactions among these researchers.

该奖项支持参加组合数学三角讲座（http：//www.math.ncsu.edu/TLC）。 这些都是为期一天（星期六）的会议，每学期举行一次。 每次会议都有来自全国各地的四位杰出数学家参加，讨论组合数学的重大和令人兴奋的发展。组合数学三角讲座讲习班发挥了许多作用：通过建立和加强相互作用的研究人员区域网络，加强国家研究和教育基础设施;促进在美国东南部研究人员中传播最先进的研究思想、方法和成果;通过让研究生接触主要研究人员的观点，促进研究生的教学和培训;提高东南部教师和学生对组合数学的认识和理解;支持各个学校的年轻教师的发展，帮助他们建立当地的支持和研究网络;扩大代表性不足的群体，特别是妇女的参与;促进参与者之间的研究互动，导致新的研究成果。 组合学的重点是离散（与连续相反）对象集的结构。 组合数学对数学的许多领域都至关重要，在计算、科学和工程应用中起着关键作用。 北卡罗来纳州、弗吉尼亚州、南卡罗来纳州、格鲁吉亚、肯塔基州和田纳西州在组合学和邻近领域具有重要的研究实力。 特别是，在北卡罗来纳州的研究三角区（罗利、达勒姆和查佩尔山）的车程范围内，有许多终身制研究人员、高级研究人员、博士后学者和研究生在各个学院和大学从事组合学和相关领域的研究。 这些研究人员中有相当大一部分来自代表性不足的群体。 系列讲座为这些研究人员之间的互动提供了宝贵的机会。