Underrepresented Students In Topology and Algebra Research Symposium (USTARS)

第六届未被充分代表学生拓扑与代数研究研讨会（USTARS）年会将于2016年4月15日至17日在山姆休斯顿州立大学举行。演讲者将在拓扑和代数的各个子领域进行30分钟的研究演讲；这些子领域包括代数组合学、枚举几何、结理论和表示理论。两位杰出的研究生将做一个小时的演讲，一位受邀的教职员工，威斯康星大学奥克莱尔分校的Abakuse Mbrika博士将做一个小时的主题演讲。受邀的本科生研究人员将参加海报会议。USTARS通过提供协作和专业发展的平台来促进数学界的多样性。参与者将接触到各种各样的当前研究、想法和结果，并会见那些将成为未来合作者或同事的未被充分代表的教授和学生。会议还通过鼓励妇女和少数民族参加并发表演讲来促进多样性。事实上，会议组织委员会在性别、种族和教育背景上都是多样化的，因此能够很好地鼓励来自不同群体的学生参与。会议的参与者将继续影响下一代学生，作为急需的导师，鼓励数学科学领域的学生提高自己，参与研究和会议活动。研讨会的主要目标是展示被低估的研究生所进行的数学研究。这是通过组织会议来实现的，这样演讲者就会进行30分钟的平行研究演讲，重点是他们毕业论文的研究。研究生将做至少75%的报告。前几年报告的主题包括：组合学、编织群、图论、结论、表示论、数论和代数几何。除了平行会议外，还将选择两名杰出的研究生和一名特邀教师进行1小时的讲座，并计划邀请本科生参加海报会议。鉴于高质量和多样性的会谈和参与者，“拓扑和代数研究中未被充分代表的学生研讨会（USTARS）邀请卷”于2014年创建。这是一个新的系列，专门用于传播USTARS参与者的研究。本邀请卷的意图是为研究生提供一个机会，以发表他们的结果，以进一步发展他们的数学研究人员。有鉴于此，将在每次年度研究研讨会结束时出版年度在线卷。http://www.ustars.org

The sixth annual meeting of the Underrepresented Students in Topology and Algebra Research Symposium (USTARS) is to be held at Sam Houston State University on April 15-17, 2016. Speakers will give 30-minute research talks in various subfields of topology and algebra; these subfields include algebraic combinatorics, enumerative geometry, knot theory, and representation theory. Two distinguished graduate students will give hour-long presentations and one invited faculty member, Dr. Abakuse Mbrika of the University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire, will give a one-hour keynote address. Invited undergraduate researchers will participate in a poster session. USTARS promotes diversity within the mathematical community by providing a platform for collaboration and professional development. Participants are exposed to a variety of current research, ideas, and results, and meet underrepresented professors and students who will become future collaborators or colleagues. The conference also promotes diversity by encouraging women and minorities to attend and give talks. Indeed, the conference organizing committee is diverse in gender, ethnicity, and educational background, and hence is well-positioned to encourage participation from a diverse group of students. The participants of the conference will continue to influence the next generation of students by serving as much needed mentors and encouraging students in the mathematical sciences to advance themselves and participate in research and conference events.The primary goal of the symposium is to showcase the mathematical research being conducted by underrepresented graduate students. This is done by structuring the meeting so that speakers will give 30-minute parallel research talks focusing on research leading to their graduate theses. Graduate students will give at least 75% of these presentations. Topics of prior years' presentations include: combinatorics, braid groups, graph theory, knot theory, representation theory, number theory, and algebraic geometry. In addition to the parallel sessions, two distinguished graduate students and one invited faculty member are chosen to give 1-hour lectures and a poster session featuring invited undergraduates is also planned. Given the high quality and diversity of talks and participants "The Underrepresented Students in Topology and Algebra Research Symposium (USTARS) Invited Volume" was created in 2014. This is a new series aimed specifically at disseminating the research of USTARS participants. The intention of this Invited Volume is to provide graduate students with an opportunity to publish their results in order to further their development as mathematical researchers. In light of this, a yearly online volume will be published at the conclusion of each annual research symposium.http://www.ustars.org