CRM 2008-9 Thematic Program: Probabilistic Methods in Mathematical Physics

数学研究中心（CRM）将在2008年6月1日至2009年6月30日期间开展为期13个月的“数学物理中的概率方法”密集计划。该计划已获得CRM科学顾问小组的批准，获得484，000加元的资金。在此期间，大量的研究人员和博士后研究员将在CRM居住，更多的人将参观该计划的10个研讨会。计划开办两所与讲习班主题有关的预备学校，对象是研究生和初级研究人员。还将有三个艾森斯塔特主席系列讲座，与研讨会协调。艾森斯塔特主席系列讲座将由安德烈Okounkov（普林斯顿），Wendelin沃纳（巴黎六）和克雷格特雷西（加州大学戴维斯分校）。 该申请寻求美国国家科学基金会提供60，000美元的资金，以支持美国年轻研究人员参加该计划十个研讨会中的六个。这项支持将大大增加获得和参与该计划的美国年轻研究人员的数量。为了支持其他四个讲习班的年轻美国研究人员，以更明显的物理方向，正在向物理系数学物理方案提交另一份赠款申请。该计划旨在代表数学物理研究的一些当前活跃领域的最新技术，特别强调概率论在其中发挥核心作用的领域。除了为这些领域最重要的新研究成果的交流提供一个工具外，主要目标还包括：1）为所代表的不同领域之间的交流提供机会，2）通过这种交流激发新的想法，3）提供一个年轻研究人员可以学习并鼓励他们为这些领域令人兴奋的新发展做出贡献的环境。

The Centre de Recherches Mathematiques (CRM) will mount an intensive 13 months program on "Probabilistic Methods in Mathematical Physics" during the period June 1, 2008 - June 30, 2009. The program has been approved by the CRM Scientific Advisory Panel to receive funding $484,000 CAD. A large number of researchers and postdoctoral fellows will be in residence at CRM during this period, and more will visit the program's 10 workshops. Two preparatory schools relating to the themes of the workshops are planned, aimed at graduate students and junior researchers. There will also be three Aisenstadt Chair lecture series, coordinated with the workshops. The Aisenstadt Chair lecture series will be given by Andrei Okounkov (Princeton), Wendelin Werner (Paris VI), and Craig Tracy (UC Davis). This application seeks funding of $60,000 US from the NSF to support participation of young American researchers in six out of ten workshops of the program. The support will substantially increase the number of young American researchers gaining access to and participating in this program. To support young American researchers in the other four workshops, with a more pronounced physics orientation, another grant application is being submitted to the Program in Mathematical Physics of the Division of Physics. This program is meant to represent the state of the art in a number of currently active areas of research in mathematical physics, with special emphasis on those in which probability theory plays a central role. Besides providing a vehicle for communicating the most significant new research results in these domains, the principal objectives include: 1) giving an opportunity for cross-fertilization between the different domains represented, 2) stimulating new ideas through such cross-fertilization and 3) providing an environment in which young researchers may learn about and be encouraged to contribute to the exciting new developments in these domains.