PARTICIPANT TRAVEL SUPPORT: MOORE 50TH CONFERENCE

C.L.E.摩尔数学导师制是五十年前作为博士后培训的早期实验而创立的。它取得了辉煌的成功，并树立了一个被广泛效仿的模式。的确，后苏联人造卫星时代纯数学和应用数学研究的迅猛发展，正是摩尔导师计划的校友们在其中发挥了至关重要的作用。最近，应用数学导师的职位吸引了一群同样有才华的人，而纯数学导师的职位，其接受者总是与“摩尔人”相媲美，并被用来补充奖学金（通常是国家科学基金会的奖学金），也同样成功。这三个项目总共有大约540名校友分散在全国各地（包括学术和非学术数学），并参与了非常广泛的研究。麻省理工学院将于今年10月举办为期三天的会议，以庆祝摩尔应用导师制成立五十周年。组织者邀请了所有的前教师参加这次会议（并要求NSF帮助支付该小组年轻成员的旅行费用）。我们的目的不仅是庆祝这个项目成立50年来的成功，也是为了探索未来：很明显，今天的研究数学专业正处于十字路口，我们希望从这个有才华的团队中获得洞察力，了解这个机构未来应该朝着什么方向发展，以促进美国在数学科学领域的持续领导地位。

The C.L.E. Moore Instructorship in Mathematics was created fifty years ago as an early experiment in postdoctoral training. It succeeded brilliantly and set a pattern which has been widely emulated. Indeed, the spectacular growth of research in pure and applied mathematics in the post-sputnik era was a development in which alumni of the Moore Instructorship program played a vital role. More recently the Instructorship in Applied Mathematics has attracted a similarly talented group, and the Instructorship in Pure Mathematics, whose recipients were always comparable to the "Moores", and has been used to supplement fellowship funds (typically NSF fellowships), has been equally successful. Altogether there are some five hundred and forty alumni of these three programs scattered across the country (both in academic and non-academic mathematics) and involved in a very wide range of research. MIT will host a three day conference this October to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the creation of the Moore-Applied Instructorship. The organizers have invited ALL ex-instructors to this conference (and have asked the NSF to help defray the travel costs of younger members of this group.) Our aim is not only to celebrate the success of this program in its first fifty years of existence, but also to explore the future: Clearly the profession of research mathematics is at something of a crossroads today, and we hope to gain insight from this talented group into what directions this institution should move in the future to contribute to the continuing leadership by the US in the Mathematical Sciences.