Big Sky Conference on Discrete Mathematics

这个奖项为离散数学大天空会议提供了支持。这是一系列的三个会议，将在蒙大拿大学举行。“大天空”的目标是(1)将来自地理区域对离散数学感兴趣的研究人员聚集在一起，以便他们会面、分享研究兴趣并展示最新成果；(2)为该地区的学生、教师和其他数学家提供更多了解当代数学的机会。会议将以一位著名数学家的主题演讲开始，该演讲将针对普通观众。会议期间，将邀请一位在离散数学领域取得成功的研究人员进行演讲，并由地区参与者提供演讲。此外，还将为本科生组织特别活动，让他们有机会与活跃的研究人员互动。这次会议的主题是组合学。组合学的目标之一是找到有效的方法来研究如何排列或有效地枚举离散的对象集合。离散系统的行为对现代通信极为重要。例如，大型网络的设计，比如那些出现在电话系统中的网络，以及计算机科学中处理离散对象集的算法设计，这就利用了组合研究。

9802078 McNulty This award provides support for the Big Sky Conferences on Discrete Mathematics. This is a series of three conferences to be held at the University of Montana. The goals of the Big Sky are (1) to bring together researchers from the geographical area with interests in discrete mathematics in order for them to meet, share research interests, and present recent results, and (2) to provide an opportunity for students, teachers, and other mathematicians in the region to learn more about contemporary mathematics. The conference will begin with a keynote address by a prominent mathematician that will be aimed at a general audience. During the conference, there will be an invited lecture from a successful researcher in discrete mathematics as well as contributed talks by regional participants. In addition, there will be special activities organized for undergraduate students giving them the opportunity to interact with active researchers. This conference is in the general area of combinatorics. One of the goals of combinatorics is to find efficient methods of studying how discrete collections of objects can be arranged or effectively enumerated. The behavior of discrete systems is extremely important to modern communications. For example, the design of large networks, such as those occurring in telephone systems, and the design of algorithms in computer science deal with discrete sets of objects, and this makes use of combinatorial research.