Conference: Midwest Probability Colloquium 2023-2025

中西部概率研讨会是一个已经持续了40多年的系列会议。该奖项分三期颁发，分别于2023年、2024年和2025年10月在西北大学校园（伊利诺伊州埃文斯顿）举行。这些会议的重点是概率论，即随机现象行为的数学研究。概率论可以说是纯数学中最适用的分支，在自然科学和社会科学中有着广泛的应用。这也是一个非常活跃的研究领域，预计每次会议大约有100名与会者，不仅包括概率学家，还包括来自其他数学领域和其他自然科学和社会科学的研究人员。这些会议的形式为研究生和早期职业研究人员提供了一个包容性的研究环境，促进了处于不同职业阶段的研究人员之间的互动和合作。组委会的成员定期更新，他们的兴趣广泛，并就当前感兴趣的主题招募演讲者。会议包括研究讲座和辅导课，后者旨在向研究生介绍概率论的活跃领域。该奖项的大部分资金将用于支持研究生、早期职业研究人员、来自代表性不足群体的研究人员以及无法获得其他资助的研究人员的参与。有关会议系列的更多信息可在http://sites.math.northwestern.edu/mwp/This上找到。奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，认为值得支持。

The Midwest Probability Colloquium is a series that has run for over 40 years. This award supports three installments, held on the Northwestern University campus (Evanston, IL) in October 2023, 2024, and 2025. The focus of these conferences is probability theory, the mathematical study of the behavior of random phenomena. Probability is arguably the most applicable branch of pure mathematics and has wide applications to across the natural and social sciences. It is also an extremely active field of research and approximately 100 participants are expected at each meeting, including not only the probabilists, but also researchers from other areas of mathematics and other natural and social sciences.The format of these conferences provides an inclusive research environment for graduate students and early career researchers, fostering interaction and collaboration among those at different stages of their careers. The organizing committee, whose membership is regularly updated, has a broad range of interests and recruits speakers on topics of current interest. The meetings include both research lectures and tutorial lectures, with the latter intended to introduce graduate students to an active area within probability. The bulk of this award will support the participation of graduate students, early career researchers, those from underrepresented groups, and those without access to other funding. Further information on the conference series can be found at http://sites.math.northwestern.edu/mwp/This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.