Harvey Mudd College Mathematics Conference Series

该奖项将支持从1999年开始在加州克莱蒙特的哈维穆德学院举行的一系列年度数学会议。这些会议不同寻常，因为每年的主题都不同，旨在让教师和高级本科生接触前沿数学，并通过促进学生、教师和会议参与者之间的互动来增强哈维马德学院的研究环境。该奖项将为四名演讲者提供支持，提供海报会议和社区范围的会前演讲。它还将通过为研究生和刚获得博士学位的学生提供旅费支持，并优先考虑代表性不足的群体的成员，从而大大扩大参加会议的地理范围。每年秋天，这些会议都会邀请顶尖的研究人员来到哈维马德学院（Harvey Mudd College），让参与者接触到广泛的数学知识。过去的主题包括分析，应用数学，微分几何，应用代数和组合，以及数学生物学。该奖项涵盖的会议计划主题有：几何、代数和系统发育树（2004年）；科学计算（2005）；以及枚举组合学（2006）。这些会议为Harvey Mudd学院的数学课程提供了活动和项目。它们也为南加州的数学家和数学学生提供了一个方便的聚会场所，促进了几个数学社区的互动和合作。这些会议每年将影响超过250人，在鼓励数学研究的同时也加强了公众对数学的认识。

This award will support a series of annual mathematics conferences begun in 1999 and held at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California. These conferences, unusual because the topics vary from year to year, are designed to expose faculty and advanced undergraduate students to cutting-edge mathematics, and to enhance the Harvey Mudd College research environment by fostering interactions between its students and faculty and the participants of the conference. This award will provide support for four speakers, a contributed poster session, and a community-wide pre-conference talk. It will also significantly broaden the geographic participation in the conferences by providing travel support for graduate students and recent Ph.D.'s, with preference given to members of underrepresented groups.By bringing topflight researchers to Harvey Mudd College each fall, the conferences expose participants to a wide range of mathematics. Past topics have included analysis, applied mathematics, differential geometry, applied algebra and combinatorics, and mathematical biology. The planned topics for the conferences covered by this award are: geometry, algebra, and phylogenetic trees (2004); scientific computing (2005); and enumerative combinatorics (2006). The conferences give rise to activities and projects in mathematics courses taught at Harvey Mudd College. They also serve as a convenient gathering place for mathematicians and mathematics students in Southern California, fostering interaction and collaboration in several mathematical communities. With community-wide pre-conference talks that emphasize the impact and beauty of mathematics, these conferences will annually influence over 250 people, encouraging mathematical research while also strengthening public awareness of mathematics.