Supporting the Conference Series: NSF/CBMS Regional Research Conferences in the Mathematical Sciences

国家科学基金会/建立信任措施区域研究会议系列是一个正在进行的合作项目，由数学科学会议理事会管理，自1969年以来一直得到国家科学基金会的支持。该系列的目标是促进数学科学领域的研究，这些领域最近取得了重大新成果，并有望继续取得重大发展。每个单独的会议都有一位杰出的讲师，他既是会议领域的主要研究人员，也是一位出色的演讲者。讲师在五天的时间里就一个重要的当前数学科学研究领域的重要研究主题发表了十次演讲。讲座通常涵盖该领域的最新发展，并绘制可能的新方向和有待解决的问题。因此，会议的形式主要是教育性的，但在研究层面。每一次会议的当地组织者邀请该领域的其他知名研究人员和感兴趣的新来者，包括研究生和博士后研究员参加会议。讲师还承诺，在会议后的一年里，将根据他或她的演讲编写一本实质性的说明性专著。该专著随后由以下建立信任措施成员学会之一出版：美国数学学会、工业和应用数学学会，或联合出版、美国统计协会和数学统计研究所。这些专著触及的受众比会议本身所能提供的要广泛得多。它们经常被用作研究生开始论文研究的背景读物，或被寻求学习新领域的知名研究人员使用。许多专著已经成为该领域的经典入门著作。到2005年，共举办了302次这样的会议，出版了190本专著。预计未来三年每年平均将举行五六次会议。根据与国家科学基金会的协议，建立信任措施促进、管理并为该系列提供支持服务。每年，建立信任措施都会发出并公布征求建议书的呼吁。个别会议的建议由预期的主办机构直接向国家科学基金会提出。建立信任措施组织了一个审查小组，对收到的提案进行评估，并向国家科学基金会提出资金建议。会议结束后，建立信任措施与讲师和出版商保持联系，鼓励完成以会议讲座为基础的专著。

The NSF/CBMS Regional Research Conference series is an ongoing cooperative project which is administered by the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences (CBMS) and which has been continuously supported by NSF since 1969. The goal of the series is to promote research in areas of the mathematical sciences which have recently seen significant new results and which hold promise for continued significant development. Each individual conference features a distinguished lecturer who is both a major researcher in the area of the conference and a good expositor The lecturer delivers ten lectures over a five day period on a topic of important current research in one sharply focused area of the mathematical sciences. The lectures typically cover the recent development of the field and chart the possible new directions and open problems. Thus the format of the conferences is primarily educational, but at the research level. The local organizer of each conference invites other established researchers in the field and interested newcomers, including graduate students and post doctoral fellows, to participate in the conference. The lecturer also promises, in the year following the conference, to prepare a substantial expository monograph based upon his or her lectures. The monograph is then published by one of the following CBMS member societies: the American Mathematical Society, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, or jointly, the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. The monographs reach a much broader audience than the conferences alone can provide. They are often used as background reading for graduate students beginning thesis research or by established researchers seeking to learn a new field. Many of the monographs have become the classic introduction to the field. Through 2005, a total of 302 such conferences have been held and 190 monographs have been published. It is expected that an average of five or six conferences will be held in each of the next three years. Under its agreement with NSF, CBMS promotes, administers, and provides support services for the series. Each year CBMS issues and publicizes the call for proposals. Proposals for individual conferences are made by prospective host institutions directly to NSF. CBMS organizes a review panel to evaluate the proposals received and to make funding recommendations to NSF. Following the conferences, CBMS maintains contact with the lecturers and the publishers, encouraging completion of the monograph based on the conference lectures.