Mini Conferences on Harmonic Analysis, Real Analysis, and Related Areas

自1984年以来，奥本大学数学系的教师们在谐波分析、实分析和相关领域共组织了25次为期一天和两天的会议。这些会议的主要目的是使东南地区大学的数学家和数学专业的学生能够相互交流，并与参加会议的该地区以外的数学家和学生进行交流，并提供一个论坛，介绍最近的数学研究。1986年，美国国家科学基金会开始定期支持这些两年一次的会议。目前的奖金将用于在1998-2001年期间继续这一会议活动。三次谐波分析及相关领域的小型会议将于1998年、1999年和2000年秋季在奥本大学举行。三场关于真实分析和相关领域的小型会议将分别在奥本大学（1999年春季）、路易斯维尔大学（2000年春季）和圣贝纳迪诺加州州立大学（2001年春季）举行。每次会议将有2到3位受邀主讲人进行一个小时的演讲，外加20分钟的演讲和问题讨论。所有资助款项将用于支付小型会议参加者的费用。主要演讲者的费用全部支付，并为所有参与者提供当地住房，当地交通和部分膳食。为学生参加者提供额外的食物津贴和一些旅行支助。没有挂号费。这些会议有效地激发了“专业研究数学家”在所代表的数学领域的研究活动。在过去的13年里，演讲者来自30多个州和多达14个外国国家。可能更重要的是，这项活动对举办会议的机构的教职员工和学生以及来自该州和地区其他大学的教职员工和学生参与者产生了影响。这类参与者通常约占与会总人数的一半。在奥本举行的会议，参与者通常来自塔斯卡卢萨大学、伯明翰大学、特洛伊州立大学、西阿拉巴马大学、杰克逊维尔州立大学、南阿拉巴马大学、斯普林希尔学院、莫比尔大学、蒙特瓦洛大学、阿拉巴马州立大学、蒙哥马利大学和塔斯基吉学院，以及邻近佛罗里达州、佐治亚州、田纳西州和密西西比州的机构。对于许多参与者，特别是学生来说，这次与数学家和来自全国其他地区的数学学生接触的机会是一年中最能激发智力的经历。预计将在肯塔基州和加利福尼亚州举行的会议将产生类似的区域效益。

Since 1984, faculty in the Department of Mathematics at Auburn University have organized a total of 25 one- and two-day conferences in harmonic analysis, real analysis, and related areas. The main purpose of these meetings was to enable mathematicians and mathematics students in the universities in the Southeast to interact with each other and with mathematicians and students from outside the region who have also been attending the conferences and to provide a forum for presentation of recent mathematical research. The National Science Foundation began regular support of these biannual meetings in 1986. The current award will be used to continue this conference activity for the period 1998-2001. Three Miniconferences on Harmonic Analysis and Related Areas will be held at Auburn University during the fall semesters of 1998, 1999, and 2000. Three Miniconferences on Real Analysis and Related Areas will be held at Auburn University (spring 1999), University of Louisville (spring 2000), and California State University at San Bernardino (spring 2001), respectively. Each meeting will feature hour talks by the (usually 2 or 3) Invited Principal Speakers plus contributed 20-minute talks and problem sessions. All of the funds provided by the grant will be used to pay expenses of participants attending the miniconferences. Expenses for Principal Speakers are paid in full and local housing, local transportation, and some meals will be provided for all participants. Additional support in the form of additional food allowances and some travel support is provided for student participants. There are no registration fees.These conferences have been effective in stimulating research activity of "professional research mathematicians" in the areas of mathematics represented. Speakers have been attracted from over 30 states and as many as 14 foreign countries in the past 13 years. Possibly of more importance is the impact this activity has had on the faculty and students at the institution where the conferences are held as well as on faculty and student participants from other universities in the state and region. Such participants usually make up about half the total who attend. For the meetings held at Auburn, participants regularly come from UA Tuscaloosa, UA Birmingham, Troy State U, U West Ala, Jacksonville State U, U South Ala, Spring Hill Coll, U Mobile, U Montevallo, Ala State U, AU Montgomery, and Tuskegee Institute, as well as from institutions in the neighboring states of Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, and Mississippi. For many of these participants, especially the students, this opportunity for contact with mathematicians and mathematics students from other parts of the country is the most intellectually stimulating experience of the year. The meetings to be held in Kentucky and California are expected to yield similar regional benefits.