Summer Research Conferences: A Continuing Collaboration Between AMS, IMS & SIAM

自1981年以来，美国数学学会(AMS)、数学统计研究所(IMS)和工业与应用数学学会(SIAM)一直在管理一项研究会议计划，该计划于夏季在不同地点举行，由国家科学基金会资助。在此期间，9000多名美国数学科学家参加了这些会议，推动了他们的研究，并与其他科学家建立了联系。对于许多年轻的数学家来说，这些夏季会议在他们进入特定的数学研究领域时起到了至关重要的作用。这个项目支持在这个系列中另外四个为期一周的会议将于2006年夏天在犹他州的雪鸟会议中心举行。这四次会议是2004年进行的夏季研究会议(SRCS)提案传统征集的结果。2005年2月，由AMS、IMS和SIAM联合任命的12人推选委员会对它们进行了彻底的审查。四个为期一周的会议是：1.多面体中的整数点：几何、数论、表示论、代数、最优化、统计学2。实约化李群的表示3.机器与统计学习：预测与发现4。离散几何和计算几何-二十年后这些会议在初级数学家的职业发展中发挥着重要作用。他们将资深和初级研究人员聚集在一个理想的环境中，建立联系，这种联系通常会在会议本身之后持续多年。从这个意义上说，这些会议有助于培养各个领域的下一代研究人员。这一点尤其正确，因为增加了对包括最近的博士学位的重视。组织协会也敏锐地意识到有必要增加任职人数不足的群体的参与，会议的所有方面都将反映这种认识(协会的大多数活动也是如此)。最后，从这些会议中产生的会议过程影响到世界各地的数学家，在数学界的每一个部分。通过这种方式，在会议上所做的工作可以到达那些在远离特定会议主题的领域工作的科学家，他们在时间和地点上都与会议分开。

Since 1981, the American Mathematical Society (AMS), the Institute for Mathematical Statistics (IMS), and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) have managed a program of research conferences, held during the summers at various locations and funded by the National Science Foundation. During this time, more than 9,000 U.S. mathematical scientists have participated in these conferences, advancing their research and making connections with other scientists. For many young mathematicians, these summer conferences have played a crucial role as they enter a specific area of mathematical research.This project supports four additional one-week conferences in this series to be held during the summer of 2006 at the Snowbird Conference Center in Utah. These four conferences were the results of the traditional solicitation for the Summer Research Conferences (SRCS) proposals carried out during 2004. They were thoroughly reviewed in February 2005 by twelve-member Selection Committee jointly appointed by the AMS, IMS and SIAM.The four one-week conferences are:1. Integer Points in Polyhedra: Geometry, Number Theory, Representation Theory, Algebra, Optimization, Statistics2. Representations of Real Reductive Lie Groups3. Machine and Statistical Learning: Prediction and Discovery4. Discrete and Computational Geometry-Twenty Years LaterThese conferences play a major role in career development for junior mathematicians. They bring together senior and junior researchers in an ideal environment to establish connections, which often last for many years after the conference itself. In this sense, the conferences help to train the next generation of researchers in various fields. This is especially true with the added emphasis on including recent Ph.D.s. The organizing societies are also keenly aware of the need to increase participation of under-represented groups, and all aspects of the conferences will reflect that awareness (as do most activities of the societies). Finally, the proceedings that grow from these conferences reach mathematicians throughout the world, in every part of the mathematical community. In this way, the work done at conferences can reach scientists who work in areas far from the specific conference topic, who are separated from the meeting in both place and time.