Mathematical Sciences: Computing Equipment for Research in Mathematics

这是国家科学基金会数学科学部数学科学计划科学计算研究设备项目的一项资助。该计划支持购买专门用于进行数学科学研究的专用计算设备。这种设备是几个研究项目所需要的，很难单独为一个项目辩护。国家科学基金会的支持伴随着制造商的折扣和贡献，以及提交提案的机构的大量费用分摊。该项目是学术、企业和政府合作支持数学科学基础研究的一个范例。该设备将用于支持伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳分校数学系的五个研究项目。研究人员和项目标题如下：Robert Craggs，3-和4-流形中2-复形的可视研究；Wolfgang Haken，3-流形的算法拓扑；Ward Henson，指数；Derek Robinson，群论；Douglas West，图论和偏序集中的存在和极端问题。

This is a grant under the Scientific Computing Research Equipment for the Mathematical Sciences program of the Division of Mathematical Sciences of the National Sciences Foundation. This program supports the purchase of special purpose computing equipment dedicated to the conduct of research in the mathematical sciences. This equipment is required for several research projects and would be difficult to justify for one project alone. Support from the National Science Foundation is coupled with discounts and contributions from manufacturers and with substantial cost-sharing from the institutions submitting the proposal. This program is an example of academic, corporate, and government cooperation in the support of the basic research in the mathematical sciences. This equipment will be used to support five research projects in the Department of Mathematics of the University of Illinois, Urbana. The investigators and the projects titles follow: Robert Craggs, Visual Study of 2-Complexes in 3- and 4- Manifolds; Wolfgang Haken, Algorithmic Topology of 3-Manifolds; Ward Henson, Exponentiation; Derek Robinson, Group Theory; and Douglas West, Existence and Extremal Problems in Graph Theory and Partially Ordered Sets.