SM: Proposal to Support The Pacific Rim Conference On Mathematics

第五届环太平洋数学会议将于2010年6月28日至7月2日在斯坦福大学举行。组委会由刘泰平和理查德·舍恩组成。这将是一次备受瞩目的、基础广泛的会议，涵盖了太平洋沿岸地区大学中广泛代表的数学领域。预委会将举行10次会议，每届会议有一名全体发言者和六名会议发言者。课程内容包括：1)代数几何，2)组合数学，3)微分几何，4)电磁波，5)泛函分析，6)动力学方程和气体动力学，7)数学成像，8)非线性偏微分方程组，9)数论，10)随机系统和偏微分方程组。组织者和演讲者的完整名单可在会议网站上查阅，http://math.stanford.edu/PRCMindex.html.The PRCM是由一群来自美国西海岸10多所主要大学的数学家于20世纪90年代中期构思的，这些大学位于加拿大、中国、台湾、日本、新加坡、韩国和澳大利亚。自1998年以来，它每三年在环太平洋的不同地点举行一次。今年夏天的PRCM将是第一次在北美举行。发起这次会议的主要原因之一是认识到环太平洋地区不仅经济充满活力，而且在科学研究方面也变得越来越重要。其目的是向广大受众介绍数学研究的最新趋势，并加强环太平洋地区数学家之间的联系。我们预计将有大约200名来自环太平洋大学的数学家参加PRCM。

The fifth Pacific Rim Conference on Mathematics (PRCM) will be held at Stanford University from June 28, 2010 through July 2, 2010. The organizing committee consists of Tai-Ping Liu and Richard Schoen. It will be a high-profile, broad-based conference covering a wide range of areas of mathematics which are well represented in universities on the Pacific Rim. The PRCM will have 10 sessions each with a plenary speaker and six session speakers. The sessions are in the following areas: 1) Algebraic Geometry, 2) Combinatorics, 3) Differential Geometry, 4) Electromagnetic Waves, 5) Functional Analysis, 6) Kinetic Equations and Gas Dynamics, 7) Mathematical Imaging, 8) Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, 9) Number Theory, and 10) Random Systems and PDEs. The full list of organizers and speakers is available on the conference website at http://math.stanford.edu/PRCMindex.html.The PRCM was conceived in the middle 1990s by a group of mathematicians from over 10 major universities on the west coast of the United States, in Canada, China, Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, Korea, and Australia. It has been held every three years since 1998 in various locations on the Pacific Rim. This summer's PRCM will be the first to be held in North America. One of the main reasons for initiating this meeting was the recognition that the Pacific Rim region is not only economically vibrant, but also becoming increasingly important in scientific research. The objectives are to present the latest trends in mathematical research to a wide audience and to develop stronger ties between mathematicians in the Pacific Rim region. We expect the PRCM to be attended by approximately 200 mathematicians from Pacific Rim universities.