Current Developments in Mathematics Conference, November 21-22, 2014

该奖项为将于2014年11月21日至22日、2015年11月20日至21日、2016年11月18日至19日在哈佛大学科学中心举行的“当前数学发展”系列会议的参与者提供支持。自1995年以来，“当前数学发展”会议每年在哈佛大学举行一次，在感恩节前的周末汇集了来自世界各地的数学家。本次数学发展会议邀请演讲者报告数学各个领域和密切相关学科的最新突破，这些突破有望对数学研究产生影响。这次会议的及时性和重要性在2014年尤为明显，因为两位确认的受邀演讲者最近被授予了菲尔兹奖，这是数学领域最负盛名的荣誉。本次会议为众多年轻学生、研究人员和专家提供了一个机会，让他们熟悉最新的数学成就，获得新的想法，相互交流，建立新的合作。会议在接待波士顿数学界的参与者方面取得了进一步的成功；让他们进一步发展自己的职业生涯，结识各自领域的专家，并在非正式的氛围中促进新的合作。会议为与会者提供了一个更广泛的研究概况，这对他们自己的数学工作应该是有意义的。这次会议做了广泛的广告宣传，以便许多学生和年轻的研究人员能够参加。这次会议的形式非常成功。演讲者通常被要求将他们的讲座分为两部分，其中一部分旨在为更广泛的听众所接受，并给出最近工作的总体想法，另一部分包含更多细节。这种努力是演讲者过去已经很好地掌握的挑战。在数学和其他领域的研究变得越来越专业化的时代，努力保持对事物总体规划的概观是非常重要的。因此，会议可以被视为一个密集的为期两天的座谈会式的概述许多令人兴奋的发展。在会议上提出的结果事先收集在手稿中，并在会议期间分发给与会者。会议记录随后公布。有关2014年会议的更多细节，请访问http://www.math.harvard.edu/cdm/。

The award provides support for participants to the Current Developments in Mathematics Conference series that will take place at the Science Center of Harvard University on the following dates: November 21-22, 2014November 20-21, 2015November 18-19, 2016.The Current Developments in Mathematics conference has been taking place yearly since 1995 at Harvard University and brings together mathematicians from all over the world during the weekend preceding Thanksgiving.The speakers of the Current Developments in Mathematics conference are invited to report on recent breakthroughs in various fields of mathematics and closely related disciplines, which are expected to impact mathematical research. The timeliness and importance of the conference is particularly manifest this year, 2014, since two of the confirmed invited speakers have very recently been awarded the Fields Medal, the most prestigious distinction in mathematics. This conference provides an opportunity for a large audience of young students, researchers and specialists to get familiar with recent mathematical achievements, to obtain new ideas, to interact with each other and forge new collaborations. The conference has been further very successful in hosting the participants in the Boston mathematics community; allowing them to further their careers, get to know experts in their fields and foster new collaborations in an informal atmosphere. The conference provides the participants with a broader research overview, which should be of significance for their own mathematical work. The conference is advertised widely so that many students and young researchers can attend it. The format of the conference has been very successful. The speakers are usually asked to divide their lectures into two parts, one of which is intended to be accessible to a broader audience and giving a general idea of the recent work and the other part containing more details. This endeavor is a challenge that the speakers have mastered very well in the past. In a time where research in mathematics and other fields becomes more and more specialized it is of great importance to make the effort to maintain an overview of the grand scheme of things. The conference can be thus regarded as an intensive two-day colloquium style overview of many exciting developments. The results presented at the conference are collected in manuscripts beforehand and are distributed to the participants during the conference. The proceedings are later published. More details on the 2014 conference can be found at http://www.math.harvard.edu/cdm/.