Conference in Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics

该奖项将为参加第29届和第30届正式幂级数和代数组合学（FPSAC）国际会议的美国参与者，特别是女性、研究生、博士后和初级教师提供支持。2017年版将于2017年7月9日至13日在英国伦敦举行（更多信息请访问网站https://sites.google.com/site/fpsac2017/）。2018年将于2018年7月16日至20日在加拿大温哥华举行（更多信息请访问网站http://fpsac.org）。作为世界上最重要的代数组合年度会议系列，FPSAC为年轻的美国研究人员提供了与来自许多国家的顶尖数学家密切互动的独特机会。每次会议包括9个1小时的全体演讲，30个半小时的贡献演讲和40个海报，将吸引来自世界各地的200多名参与者。FPSAC会议的一个显著特点是共同努力表彰和鼓励杰出的青年科学家。至少有一名全体会议发言人是“新星”，有才华的年轻研究人员在被选中进行贡献演讲的演讲者中有很好的代表性。FPSAC会议的另一个特点是持续的包容性传统。会议力求吸引代表性不足的群体的大量参与。此外，英语和法语已被指定为2017年和2018年FPSAC的官方语言，以促进参与者的多样化。参加这次会议对于研究生和初级研究人员来说是非常有价值的。在某种程度上，这些会议将组合学的研究与纯数学中的其他主题（如代数几何、交换代数、表示理论、k理论和辛几何）以及其他科学（如计算机科学、物理学和生物学）的主题联系起来。

This award will provide support for US participants, especially women, graduate students, postdocs, and junior faculty, to attend the twenty-ninth and thirtieth international conferences in Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics (FPSAC). The 2017 edition will be held in London, United Kingdom, on July 9-13, 2017 (more info on the website https://sites.google.com/site/fpsac2017/). The 2018 edition will be held in Vancouver, Canada, on July 16-20, 2018 (more info on the website http://fpsac.org). The most important annual conference series in algebraic combinatorics in the world, FPSAC offers young American researchers a unique opportunity to interact closely with top mathematicians from many countries. Each conference, which includes nine one-hour plenary lectures, thirty half-hour contributed talks, and forty posters, will attract over 200 participants from all over the world.A distinguishing characteristic of FPSAC conferences is the concerted effort to recognize and encourage outstanding young scientists. At least one plenary speaker is an "emerging star," and talented young researchers are well represented among the speakers selected for contributed talks. Another special feature of the FPSAC conferences is a continued tradition of inclusiveness. The conference seeks to draw substantial participation from underrepresented groups. Furthermore, English and French have been designated as official languages for FPSAC 2017 and 2018 to promote a diverse pool of participants. Attendance at this conference will be exceptionally valuable for graduate students and junior researchers. Somewhat interdisciplinary, the conferences link research in combinatorics to other topics in pure mathematics such as algebraic geometry, commutative algebra, representation theory, K-theory and symplectic geometry, and to topics in other sciences such as computer science, physics, and biology.