Midwest Probability Colloquium (2014-2016)

中西部概率研讨会（2014-2016）

• 批准号: 1449300
• 负责人: Elton Hsu
• 金额: $ 6.9万
• 依托单位: Northwestern University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-09-15 至 2018-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1449300&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Midwest; Probability; Colloquium; 2014; 2016

The 36th Midwest Probability Colloquium will be held at Northwestern University on October 9-11, 2014. The Midwest Probability Colloquium (MPC) is an annual conference series on probability theory and related topics held every year during the second weekend (Thursday to Saturday) of October at Northwestern University. It has been financially supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation for the past 35 years. Northwestern University is the other major sponsor by providing the meeting venue and staff support. Each year October is the time just before the hiring season for mathematics Ph.D's and postdoctors gets earnestly under way. For this reason the conference has always been eagerly anticipated by graduate students and young researchers all over the country. It provides them with a great opportunity to interact with senior mathematicians and to broaden their employment prospects. Among the conferences of similar nature, the MPC stands out for its unique format in dividing its program into tutorial and research programs. The speakers of these programs are selected by a scientific committee elected at the previous year's conference. They are chosen not only for their outstanding research records but also for their excellent lecturing style. Probability theory is a major branch of modern mathematics. It aims at a rigorous mathematical investigation of collective behavior of random phenomena and is one of the most applicable branches of mathematics. Mathematical models established with the aid of probability theory have been successfully applied in diverse areas such as applied physics, biological science, and finance. Probabilistic models can be roughly classified into two major classes: continuous and discrete. The most important representative of the first class is Brownian motion and general diffusion processes. The second class includes random walks and percolation models. Besides its wide applications in applied sciences and social sciences, the last few decades have also seen probabilistic methods making its sometime unexpected way into other branches of pure mathematics such as differential geometry, number theory, partial differential equations, mathematical physics. The common underlying theme for such applications is that probability theory puts a measure on a space (often a function space or a configuration space) much larger than original problems dictate, thus providing much richer structures and selections of tools to solve original problems. Mathematicians working in probability and related fields are scattered around the country in universities. It is very important for them to have a regular forum at which they can exchange ideas and results and keep informed with the latest development in their respective special areas and to broaden their research prospects. The annual Midwest Probability Colloquium provides such a forum and is one of the most successful and longest running annual meetings of probabilists around the country.The conference website is at http://www.math.northwestern.edu/mwp/

第36届中西部概率研讨会将于2014年10月9日至11日在西北大学举行。中西部概率研讨会(MPC)是每年10月第二个周末(星期四至星期六)在西北大学举行的关于概率理论和相关主题的年度会议系列。在过去的35年里，它一直得到国家科学基金会的资助。西北大学是另一个主要赞助商，提供会议场地和工作人员支持。每年的10月份都是数学博士和博士后招聘旺季开始前的时间。正因为如此，这次会议一直受到全国研究生和青年研究人员的热切期待。它为他们提供了一个与高级数学家互动的绝佳机会，并拓宽了他们的就业前景。在类似性质的会议中，MPC以其独特的形式脱颖而出，将其计划分为辅导计划和研究计划。这些项目的发言人是由前一年会议上选出的科学委员会选出的。他们之所以被选中，不仅是因为他们出色的研究成绩，也是因为他们优秀的演讲风格。概率论是现代数学的一个重要分支。它旨在对随机现象的集体行为进行严格的数学调查，是数学中最适用的分支之一。借助于概率论建立的数学模型已经成功地应用于应用物理、生物科学和金融等不同领域。概率模型大致可分为两大类：连续模型和离散模型。第一类最重要的代表是布朗运动和一般扩散过程。第二类包括随机游动和渗流模型。除了在应用科学和社会科学中的广泛应用，在过去的几十年里，概率方法有时也以意想不到的方式进入纯数学的其他分支，如微分几何、数论、偏微分方程式、数学物理。这类应用的共同基本主题是，概率论将度量放在比原始问题指示的空间(通常是函数空间或配置空间)大得多的空间上，从而提供了更丰富的结构和工具选择来解决原始问题。在概率及其相关领域工作的数学家分散在全国各地的大学里。对他们来说，非常重要的是有一个定期论坛，在这个论坛上，他们可以交流想法和结果，了解各自专门领域的最新发展，并拓宽他们的研究前景。一年一度的中西部概率研讨会提供了这样一个论坛，是全国最成功、持续时间最长的概率学家年度会议之一。该会议的网站是：http://www.math.northwestern.edu/mwp/