CONFERENCE--SUPPORT FOR IMA WORKSHOP ON INFECTIOUS DISEA

数学及其应用研究所(IMA)是一个由美国国家科学基金会部分资助的研究所，其使命是发现和利用数学研究在其他科学、工程和工业问题上出现的机会。我们向NIGMS提议，它将部分资助将于1999年5月17日至21日在IMA的1998-1999年“生物学中的数学”年度计划期间举行的“新出现和重新出现的传染病的数学方法”研讨会。研讨会将在IMA位于明尼苏达大学明尼阿波利斯校区的设施中举行。主要组织者是康奈尔大学/霍华德大学的卡洛斯·卡斯蒂略-查韦斯教授，联合组织者是加州大学旧金山分校的萨利·鲍尔、波莫纳学院的肯尼斯·库克、密歇根大学的丹尼斯·基什内尔和不列颠哥伦比亚省维多利亚大学的波林·范登德里什。研讨会的参观者将加入一个核心小组，该小组由10名数学生物学博士后和大约40名长期参与者组成，他们将常驻参加整个项目。参与者的选择方式是将数学家和生物学家的社区聚集在一起，他们可以从彼此的互动中受益，但可能不会这样做。我们还鼓励从工业界和学术界以及在其职业生涯的不同阶段挑选参与者。我们尤其渴望从代表性不足的群体和研究人员的职业生涯早期吸引参与者，包括那些最近才获得博士学位的人。因此，我们建议使用已拨出的资金，在我们目前的核心资金所允许的范围之外，进一步扩大所有这些团体的参与者人数。会议记录将作为丛书“IMA数学及其应用卷”(Springer Verlag)出版，并将在IMA网站上提供讲座的记录。

The Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) is a partially NSF funded institute with a mission to discover and exploit emerging opportunities for mathematics research on problems in the other sciences, engineering and industry. We are proposing to the NIGMS that it partially fund the workshop "Mathematical Approaches for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases," that will be held May 17-21 1999, during the IMA's 1998-1999 annual program on "Mathematics in Biology." This workshop will take place in the IMA's facilities located on the Minneapolis campus of the University of Minnesota. The lead organizer is Professor Carlos Castillo-Chavez of Cornell University/Howard University and the co-organizers are Sally Blower of the University of California, San Francisco, Kenneth Cooke of Pomona College, Denise Kirschner of The University of Michigan and Pauline van den Driessche, University of Victoria, British Columbia. The workshop visitors will join a core group of 10 math biology postdocs and about 40 long-term participants who will be in residence for the full program. Participants are being chosen in such a way as to bring together communities of mathematicians and biologists who can benefit from interacting with each other but might not otherwise do so. We are also encouraging the selection of participants from industry as well as academe and at a range of stages of their careers. We are particularly eager to draw participants from underrepresented groups and from researchers at early in their careers, including those who have only recently achieved their doctorates. As such, we propose to use funds granted to expand numbers of participants from all these groups further than our current core funding will allow. The proceedings will be published as a volume in the series "IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications" (Springer Verlag) and a record of the talks will be made available on the IMA website.