Boise Extravaganza in Set Theory, June 17-20, 2014

集合论中的Boise Extravanza是一个长期的地区性会议，专注于集合论及其应用。其第二十一次会议将于2014年6月17日至20日在加州大学河滨分校举行，作为美国科学促进会太平洋分会(AAAS-PD)第95届年会的专题讨论会。同样，BEST第二十二次会议将于2015年6月16日至19日在旧金山州立大学校园举行，作为AAAS-PD第96届年会的专题讨论会。BEST为美国西部地区提供了一个强调多样性的集合论会议。该会议积极寻求招募和整合学生和早期职业传播在集合论及其附属的数学学科的研究进入会议议程。会议还招募了四名全体发言者，以促进实地不同职业阶段之间的互动。BEST还通过与AAAS-PD年度会议整合而产生的机会，促进数学和科学之间更广泛的理解。BEST致力于增加集合论和数学中代表不足的群体的参与。集合论是数学的基础，也是自然科学中建模和演绎推理的基础。因此，在AAAS太平洋分部年度会议上提供最佳方案，有可能产生重大而广泛的影响。数学总是受益于其他科学中的思想和问题的涌入，反之亦然。当这种交叉受精的机会得到培育和促进时，它有利于自然科学，也有利于集合论。对于2014年和2015年的BEST会议，会议为最多10名学生演讲者、4名博士后演讲者、2名终身教职前演讲者和4名特邀演讲者提供差旅支持。会议网站：http://diamond.boisestate.edu/~best/

The Boise Extravaganza in Set Theory is a longstanding annual regional conference that focuses on Set Theory and its Applications. Its twenty-first meeting will be held on the campus of the University of California, Riverside, during June 17 - 20, 2014 as a symposium of the 95th annual meeting of the Pacific Division of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS-PD). Likewise, BEST's twenty-second meeting will be held on the campus of San Francisco State University during June 16-19, 2015, as a symposium of the 96th annual meeting of the AAAS-PD. BEST provides the western region of the United States with a conference in Set Theory that emphasizes diversity. The conference actively seeks to recruit and integrate student and early career dissemination of research in Set Theory and its affiliated mathematical disciplines into the conference agenda. The conference promotes interaction between different career stages in the field by also recruiting four plenary speakers. BEST also promotes broader understanding between mathematics and the sciences through opportunities arising from integration with the annual meeting of the AAAS-PD. BEST seeks to increase participation by underrepresented groups in Set Theory and Mathematics. Set Theory is the foundation of Mathematics, and as such, of modeling and deductive reasoning in the natural sciences. Offering BEST at the Annual Meeting of the Pacific division of the AAAS thus provides potential for significant broader impact. Mathematics has always benefited from an influx of ideas and problems in other sciences, and conversely. It benefits the natural sciences, and also Set Theory, when opportunities for such cross fertilization are nurtured and facilitated. For each of the 2014 and 2015 meeting of BEST, the conference provides travel support for up to 10 student speakers, 4 postdoc speakers, 2 pre-tenure faculty speakers and 4 invited speakers.Conference web site: http://diamond.boisestate.edu/~best/