Workshop on "Dynamics Under Constrants"

讲习班于2006年1月13日至20日在巴巴多斯的麦吉尔大学贝莱尔斯研究所举行。麦吉尔大学和其他大学的教师组织了一系列的研讨会。今年的研讨会是跨学科的，一半的参与者来自生物学、化学、生物物理学和机械工程。活动涉及从应用领域推导出的数学和算法问题。目前的研究兴趣是生物学中产生的几何问题：蛋白质折叠，核磁共振结构测定和蛋白质柔韧性建模。其目标是突出该领域的开放问题和持续挑战，旨在将开放问题的形式化陈述有助于形成新的研究和创新解决方案的催化剂，同时激励新的研究人员，特别是学生，参与一些依赖于离散和计算几何的跨学科研究问题的攻击。讲习班的成果将通过互联网广泛传播，并附上讨论摘要和提出的未解决问题的详细清单。

The workshop took place on January 13-20, 2006 at the McGill University Bellairs Research Institute in Barbados. A series of workshops has been organized by faculty from McGill and from other universities. This year the workshop is interdisciplinary, with half of the participants from Biology, Chemistry, Biophysics and Mechanical Engineering. Activities involve formulating mathematical and algorithmic problems derived from applied fields. Current research interest is in geometric problems arising from biology: protein folding, NMR structure determination and protein flexibility modeling. The goal is to highlight open problems and ongoing challenges to the field, with the intention that formalized statements of open problems will help form a catalyst for new investigations and innovative solutions, while motivating new researchers, particularly students, to engage in attacking some of the interdisciplinary research questions that rely on discrete and computational geometry. The results of the workshop will be widely disseminated by means of the internet, with talk abstracts and a detailed list of open problems raised.