q-Series 2011: an international conference on q-series partitions and special functions

佐治亚州斯塔茨伯勒的佐治亚南方大学将于2011年3月14日至16日举办为期三天的Q系列2011：关于Q系列、分区和特殊功能的会议。这次会议将是在美国东南部举行的关于Q系列和相关主题的一系列国际会议中的第六次。前五次成功的会议都是在盖恩斯维尔的佛罗里达大学举行的(1999年、2003年、2004年、2008年、2009年)。这次会议紧随3月12-13日在佐治亚州南部举行的AMS东南部分会议之后举行，以方便感兴趣的各方参加这两个活动。将有7名全体发言者，他们将发表50分钟的演讲；以及大约23名20分钟的发言者。会议的主要目标之一是将来自世界各地的对Q系列和相关主题感兴趣的数学家聚集在一起，了解彼此的研究现状，并促进他们之间的合作。演讲将由数学家进行，从研究生到荣誉退休教授，以及介于两者之间的每个级别。会议还将纪念两位杰出的数学家莫拉德·E·H·伊斯梅尔和丹尼斯·W·斯坦顿的一生成就。分拆和Q-级数理论是数论、组合学和经典分析的交叉学科，在物理、计算机科学和顶点算子代数理论中有应用。演讲者将发表演讲，这些演讲将共同涵盖这一广泛而深入的主题领域。

Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, GA will host q-series 2011: A Conference on q-series, Partitions, and Special Functions over a three day period from March 14-16, 2011. This conference will be the sixth in a series of international conferences on q-series and related topics held in the Southeastern United States. The previous five successful conferences were all held at the University of Florida in Gainesville (1999, 2003, 2004, 2008, 2009). The conference immediately follows the AMS Southeast Sectional Meeting at Georgia Southern March 12-13, to make it convenient for interested parties to attend both events. There will be seven plenary speakers, who will give 50 minute talks; and about twenty-three 20-minute speakers. One of the main goals of the conference is bring together mathematicians from around the world who are interested and q-series and related topics to learn about each other's current research, and to facilitate collaborations among them. Talks will be presented by mathematicians from the level of graduate student through Professor Emeritus, and every level in between. The conference will also honor the lifetime achievements of two distinguished mathematicians, Mourad E. H. Ismail and Dennis W. Stanton.The theory of partitions and q-series lies in the intersection of number theory, combinatorics, and classical analysis, and has applications in physics, computer science, and vertex operator algebra theory. Speakers will present talks which collectively will cover the breadth of this wide and deep subject area.