Workshop on Advances in Discrete Networks

题为“离散网络的进展”的研讨会将于2014年12月12日至14日在匹兹堡大学举行。网络是一个非常一般的概念，包括可以表示为离散节点集合的任何结构，其中一些节点由称为边的链接连接。非常广泛的系统可以被表示为网络；这些网络的范围从诸如电网、互联网和刚性结构的人造构造，到诸如社会互动和疾病接触网络的抽象实体，再到诸如神经元或遗传网络的生物系统。正在开发的用于分析此类网络的数学和计算工具提供了巨大的影响潜力，因为可以使用相同的数学框架来表示如此广泛的多样性系统。为期三天的讲习班将提供一个论坛，交流有关网络的量化研究的想法，以各种视角和方法进行研究。这次活动将汇集该领域的领先研究人员，他们具有应用数学、数学生物学、统计物理和计算方法等领域的背景，以及不同的研究生、博士后和其他处于职业生涯早期的科学家。通过这样做，它将突出网络动力学和结构分析方面的前沿进展，将促进跨越数学领域和学科的联系，并将促进该领域初级研究人员的参与。

A workshop entitled, "Advances in Discrete Networks," will be held at the University of Pittsburgh on December 12-14, 2014. A network is a very general concept, encompassing any structure that can be represented as a collection of discrete nodes, some of which are joined by links called edges. An extremely broad variety of systems can be represented as networks; these range from man-made constructs such as power grids, the internet, and rigid structures, to abstract entities such as social interaction and disease contact networks, to biological systems such as neuronal or genetic networks. Mathematical and computational tools being developed to analyze such networks offer great potential for impact, given that the same mathematical framework can be used to represent such a wide diversity of systems. The three-day workshop will provide a forum for the exchange of ideas relating to quantitative research about networks, pursued with a variety of perspectives and approaches. The event will bring together leading researchers in the field, with backgrounds in areas such as applied mathematics, mathematical biology, statistical physics, and computational methods, along with a diverse pool of graduate students, postdocs, and other scientists who are early in their careers. By doing so, it will highlight cutting edge advances in the analysis of network dynamics and structures, it will foster connections across mathematical areas and disciplines, and it will promote the involvement of junior researchers in the field.