Focused Collaborative Research at ARCC

AIM研究会议中心（ARCC）将继续通过赞助重点研讨会促进数学科学的进步。ARCC研讨会的特点是强调一个特定的数学目标，例如一个重要的未解决问题，一个重要的新结果，或者解释两个不同数学领域之间的收敛。每个研讨会的中心是一个公共网站，它将概述研讨会的范围并为参与者提供资源。讲习班结束后，该网站将扩大，既作为讲习班的记录，又作为重要问题和成果现状的综合资源。在此期间，ARCC还将举办一系列结构化四重奏研究合奏。这些团队是垂直整合的团队，由4到8名研究人员组成，他们在AIM工作一到四周，从事一个重点研究项目。数学已经成为一项越来越多的协作努力，今天许多未解决的问题将需要来自数学科学的几个领域的技术。ARCC研讨会是研究人员团队构建重要问题进展框架的理想论坛。为了确保这些合作取得成功，每个领域的领导人都将参与讲习班的规划。同样重要的是，青年科学家和研究生积极参与讲习班。特别注意促进包括妇女、少数民族和主要是本科院校的研究人员在内的合作。

The AIM Research Conference Center (ARCC) will continue to foster progress in the mathematical sciences through the sponsorship of focused workshops. ARCC workshops are distinguished by their emphasis on a specific mathematical goal, such as a significant unsolved problem, an important new result, or the explanation of the convergence between two distinct areas of mathematics. Central to each workshop is a public website which will outline the scope of the workshop and provide resources for the participants. Following the workshop, the website will be expanded to serve as both a record of the workshop and as a comprehensive resource for the current status of important problems and results. ARCC will also host a sequence of Structured Quartet Research Ensembles during this award. These ensembles are vertically integrated teams of 4 to 8 researchers who work at AIM for one to four weeks on a focused research project.Mathematics has become an increasingly collaborative endeavor, and many of today's unsolved problems will require techniques from several areas of the mathematical sciences. The ARCC workshops are an ideal forum for teams of researchers to construct a framework for progress on important problems. To ensure that these collaborations will be successful, the leaders in each field will be involved in the planning of the workshops. Equally important is the active involvement of junior scientists and graduate students in the workshops. Special attention is paid to facilitating those collaborations which include women, minorities, and researchers at primarily undergraduate institutions.