Conference on Algebraic, Enumerative and Topological Combinatorics

2015年1月5日至1月9日，将在佛罗里达州科勒尔盖布尔斯的迈阿密大学举行“代数学、拓扑学和计数组合学会议”。这次会议将为知名专家和早期职业数学家提供一个机会，分享在代数、计数和拓扑组合数学领域的想法和成果。组合学是研究离散的、通常是有限的数学结构的学科。这种结构的例子是网络，如互联网、电话系统和交通系统。虽然有限结构原则上很容易理解，但一旦结构变得太大，这实际上就变得不可能了。因此，有必要采用更多的理论方法。这一领域的实践者运用了来自不同数学领域的技术，这些技术涉及的抽象概念超出了人们对手头问题的性质的预期。会议将就该领域当前研究的前沿课题进行演讲。在会谈和非正式讨论中可能讨论的话题包括组合学与其他各种领域的联系，包括代数几何、拓扑学、交换代数、表示论和概率论。有关会议的更多信息，请访问会议网址：websitehttp://www.math.miami.edu/~galloway/wachsfest.html。

From January fifth through January ninth of 2015, ``A Conference on Algebraic, Topological and Enumerative Combinatorics" will be held at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida. This conference will provide an opportunity for established experts and early career mathematicians to share ideas and results in the field of algebraic, enumerative and topological combinatorics. Combinatorics is the study of discrete, usually finite, mathematical structures. Examples of such structures are networks, such as the internet, phone systems and transportation systems. While finite structures are in principle easy to understand through exhaustive examination, this becomes practically impossible once the structures become too large. Thus more theoretical approaches are necessary. Practitioners in the field bring to bear techniques from various areas of mathematics that involve abstraction beyond what one might expect given the nature of the problems at hand.The conference will feature talks on topics at the forefront of current research in the field. Among the likely topics of discussion both in talks and informal discussions are connections between combinatorics and various other areas, including algebraic geometry, topology, commutative algebra, representation theory and probability. Further information on the conference can be found at the conference websitehttp://www.math.miami.edu/~galloway/wachsfest.html