Conferences on Discrete Geometry and Algebraic Combinatorics

该奖项支持参加2016年5月4日至6日和2017年5月在德克萨斯州南帕德雷岛举行的离散几何和代数组合数学领域的两次为期三天的会议。这些会议是一系列会议中的第八次和第九次，致力于讨论这些活跃的数学研究领域中广泛的古典和现代问题。这些会议聚集了以德克萨斯大学-里奥格兰德山谷为中心的地区的学生和研究人员。由于学生组成的多样性，会议组织者预计能够吸引相当一部分与会者，这些人来自美国数学研究中传统上代表性较低的群体。这笔赠款为研究生和职业生涯早期研究人员以及没有其他支助来源的非本地参与者提供旅行支助。这两项活动是一系列成功会议的延续，最后一次会议于2015年4月举行。会议主题包括：多面体；包装、覆盖和平铺；刚性和灵活性；几何图论；拓扑组合学；关联结构；格子和离散群；几何集划分和横截面；最优配置；球面和欧几里德设计；距离集；编码理论和离散几何中的半定规划；以及强正则图。这些会议包括通过与专题领域有关的问题介绍研究领域，并由该领域的主要专家介绍最新成果。欲了解更多信息，请访问会议网站：www.ucgv.edu/disgeo。

This award supports participation in two three-day conferences in the area of Discrete Geometry and Algebraic Combinatorics, held May 4-6, 2016 and in May 2017 in South Padre Island, TX. The conferences, eighth and ninth in a series, are devoted to a wide range of classical and modern problems in these active areas of mathematical research. The conferences bring together students and researchers in the region centered on the University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley. Due to the diverse composition of the student body, conference organizers expect to be able to attract a sizable fraction of attendees from among groups traditionally underrepresented in U.S. mathematics studies. The grant provides travel support for graduate students and early-career researchers, as well as non-local participants without other sources of support. The two events represent the continuation of a successful series of conferences, the last of which was held in April 2015. The conference topics include: polytopes; packings, coverings, and tilings; rigidity and flexibility; geometric graph theory; topological combinatorics; incidence structures; lattices and discrete groups; geometric set partitioning and transversals; optimal configurations; spherical and Euclidean designs; distance sets; semidefinite programming in coding theory and discrete geometry; and strongly regular graphs. The conferences include an introduction of the research area through problems related to the topical areas and presentations of recent results by the leading experts in the field. More information is available at the conference web site:www.utrgv.edu/discgeo