Conference: Horizons in Combinatorics

离散数学和计算机科学领域的国际研究会议将于2001年5月21日至24日在田纳西州纳什维尔的范德比尔特大学举行。这次会议的题目是“组合学中的地平线”，将与第16届年度Shanks讲座同时举行。虽然图论、组合学和计算的所有领域都将在会议上受到欢迎，但重点将放在有序集、着色、网络中的路由和流等领域。会议包括由W.T.(Tom)Trotter，Jr.主持的Shanks讲座。(亚利桑那州立大学)。在过去的16年里，这些讲座在范德比尔特大学数学系发挥了突出的作用。许多著名的离散数学数学家(包括罗恩·格雷厄姆和拉兹洛·洛瓦兹)和其他领域的杰出数学家(包括伊斯雷尔·盖尔芬德和英格丽德·多贝希斯)都是特邀讲师。今年会议的其他受邀演讲者是罗格斯大学的杰夫·卡恩、康奈尔大学的伊娃·塔尔多斯、佐治亚理工学院的罗宾·托马斯、南丹麦大学的比亚恩·托夫特和朗讯技术贝尔实验室的彼得·温克勒。组织者是保罗·埃德尔曼、马克·埃林厄姆、乔纳森·法利、迈克尔·普卢默和杰里米·斯宾拉德(均为范德比尔特大学)。拟议的会议将持续四天，为估计70至100篇贡献的论文和与会者之间的讨论提供充足的时间。会议的重点是组合学、图论和计算。这些领域构成了我们许多现代信息基础设施的基本理论背景，以及许多优化活动的现代方法，如交通和调度。来自这些领域的工具被用于生态、互联网等通信网络、经济和商业以及军事后勤等多个领域。会议旨在促进研究人员之间的互动，允许传播最新的研究成果，并宣传这些领域在现代社会中的重要性。

An international research conference in the area of discrete mathematics and computer science will be held at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee from 21st to 24th May, 2001. The conference is entitled `Horizons in Combinatorics,' and will be held in conjunction with the 16th Annual Shanks Lectures. While all areas of graph theory, combinatorics and computing will be welcome at the conference, there will be an emphasis on the areas of ordered sets, colorings, and routing and flows in networks. The conference includes the Shanks Lectures, to be given by W. T. (Tom) Trotter, Jr. (Arizona State University). These lectures have played a prominent role in Department of Mathematics at Vanderbilt University for the past sixteen years. Many distinguished mathematicians in discrete mathematics (including Ron Graham and Laszlo Lovasz) and other areas (including Israel Gelfand and Ingrid Daubechies) have been among the invited lecturers. The other invited speakers for this year's conference are Jeff Kahn (Rutgers University), Eva Tardos (Cornell University), Robin Thomas (Georgia Institute of Technology), Bjarne Toft (University of Southern Denmark) and Peter Winkler (Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories). The organizers are Paul Edelman, Mark Ellingham, Jonathan Farley, Michael Plummer, and Jeremy Spinrad (all Vanderbilt University). The proposed conference will last four days, providing ample time for an estimated 70 to 100 contributed papers and for discussion among the attendees. The conference focuses on combinatorics, graph theory and computing. These areas form the essential theoretical background for much of our modern information infrastructure, and for many modern methods of optimizing activities such as transportation and scheduling. Tools from these areas are used in areas as diverse as ecology, communication networks such as the Internet, economics and business, and military logistics. The conference aims to promote interaction between researchers, to allow for the dissemination of the most recent research results, and to publicize the importance of these areas in modern society.