US-Nigeria Planning Visit: Exploring Collaboration in Computer Science and Mathematics, Abuja, Nigeria, October, 2007

该奖项支持对尼日利亚阿布贾的规划访问，这将使一个由四名美国研究人员和一名研究生组成的团队能够在数学和计算机科学方面开展更强有力的合作。 计划合作的领域包括数据挖掘中的安全问题（由PI Arun Sood、乔治梅森大学和A. Osofian，伊巴丹大学），非线性优化问题（由Roman Polyak，乔治梅森大学和Chukwuma Nwozo，伊巴丹大学领导），动力系统和应用（由Barbara Keyfitz，休斯顿大学和G.O.S. Ekhaguere，伊巴丹大学）和分叉理论和奇点理论（由休斯顿大学的Martin Golubitsky和V.F. Payne，University of Ibadan）.美方人员还将会见尼日利亚政府代表和尼日利亚有关专业团体的代表，讨论如何加强美国在尼日利亚的军事力量。尼日利亚合作。此次访问的时机还将使美国人员能够参加在阿布贾举行的国际数学与计算机科学中心（ICMCS）年会的几届会议，在那里，他们将有机会会见来自尼日利亚许多大学的更多研究人员。计划中的访问将加强美国和非洲数学家和计算机科学家之间的关系，并确定机会和机制，加强共同感兴趣的研究和教育合作。

This award supports a Planning Visit to Abuja, Nigeria that will enable a team of four U.S. researchers and a graduate student to develop stronger collaborations in mathematics and computer science. The areas of planned collaboration include Security Issues in Data Mining (led by PI Arun Sood, George Mason University and A. Osofian, University of Ibadan), Nonlinear Optimization Problems (lead by Roman Polyak, George Mason University and Chukwuma Nwozo, University of Ibadan), Dynamical Systems and Applications (led by Barbara Keyfitz, University of Houston and G.O.S. Ekhaguere, University of Ibadan), and Bifurcation Theory and Singularity Theory (led by Martin Golubitsky, University of Houston and V. F. Payne, University of Ibadan). The U.S. personnel will also meet with representative of the Nigerian government and representatives of relevant Nigerian professional societies to discuss ways to strengthen U.S.-Nigerian collaborations. The timing of the visit will also allow the U.S. personnel to attend several sessions of the Annual Meeting of the International Centre for Mathematical and Computer Sciences (ICMCS) in Abuja, where they will have the opportunity to meet with more researchers from many Nigerian universities.The planning visit will strengthen relationships between U.S. and African mathematicians and computer scientists and identify opportunities and mechanisms for enhancing research and education collaborations of mutual interest.