Conferences and Meetings: Southwest Center for Arithmetic Geometry

西南算术几何中心将在2013年、2014年、2015年继续举办一年一度的冬季学校，2013年亚利桑那州冬季学校将于2013年3月9日至13日在亚利桑那州图森市的亚利桑那大学举行。西南算术几何中心成立于1997年。自该中心成立以来，国家科学基金会一直为该中心提供主要支持，并于2002年、2006年、2009年和2012年续签了资金。西南中心的主要活动是亚利桑那州冬季学校(AWS)，这是一个年度会议，已成为全国知名活动，为研究生提供算术几何方面的高水平培训和研究经验。AWS是一个为期五天的密集会议，每年围绕不同的中心主题组织，由领先和新兴专家提供一系列课程。AWS不是一个传统的会议：演讲者组织四个讲座的课程，提前提供讲座笔记，并提出项目供研究生在会议期间工作。每晚关于这些项目和单独的问题集的工作会议由演讲者和博士后研究员主持。在最后一天，学生们向会议的参与者展示他们的发现。结果是，每个参与者都将进行为期五天的特别紧张和专注的数学活动。最近冬季学校的主题包括数论和动力学，斯塔克-海格纳点，以及分支和几何。即将到来的冬季学校的主题将以未来的数学发展为指导。在冬季学校，同龄人之间建立了联系，学生和高级研究人员之间建立了指导关系。与以往冬季学校的情况一样，各级参与者之间随后的合作是常态。学生们朝着成为研究数学家的方向迈出了具体的步伐，博士后助理在他们的学术生涯中获得了宝贵的指导经验，教师们培养了新的兴趣，看到了新的联系，导致了重要的出版成果。西南中心网站共享冬季学校的可重复使用的内容，包括课堂讲稿、项目描述和讲座的音频和视频。通过这些透彻的记录，在AWS开始的对话扩展到更大的数学社区，AWS参与者的努力自由和无限期地向所有人提供。有关即将和过去的亚利桑那州冬季学校项目的更多信息，请访问西南中心的网站：http://swc.math.arizona.edu/

The Southwest Center for Arithmetic Geometry will continue its series of annual "Winter Schools" in 2013, 2014, 2015, with the 2013 Arizona Winter School taking place March 9-13, 2013 at the University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ. The Southwest Center for Arithmetic Geometry was founded in 1997. The NSF has provided the primary support for the center since its inception, with renewal of funding in 2002, 2006, 2009, and 2012. The primary activity of the Southwest Center is the Arizona Winter School (AWS), an annual meeting which has become a prominent national event and provides high-level training and research experience for graduate students in arithmetic geometry. The AWS is an intensive five-day meeting, organized around a different central topic each year, that features a set of courses by leading and emerging experts. The AWS is not a traditional conference: the speakers organize courses of four lectures, provide lecture notes in advance, and propose projects for graduate students to work on during the meeting. Nightly working sessions on these projects and on separate problem sets are run by the speakers and postdoctoral fellows. On the last day, students present their findings to the participants of the meeting. The result is a particularly intense and focused five days of mathematical activity for everyone involved. Recent Winter School topics have included Number Theory and Dynamics, Stark-Heegner Points, and Ramification and Geometry. The topics of upcoming Winter Schools will be guided by future mathematical developments.At the Winter School, connections among peers are formed, and mentoring relationships between students and senior researchers are developed. As has been the case at previous Winter Schools, subsequent collaborations between participants at all levels are the norm. Students make concrete strides toward becoming research mathematicians, post-doctoral assistants gain valuable mentoring experience in their academic careers, and faculty develop new interests and see new connections that lead to important published results. The Southwest Center website shares reusable content from the Winter Schools, including lecture notes, project descriptions, and audio and video of lectures. Through these thorough records, the dialogues begun at the AWS are extended to the greater mathematical community, and the efforts of the AWS participants are made freely and indefinitely available to all. More information about the upcoming and past Arizona Winter School programs can be found at the Southwest Center's website: http://swc.math.arizona.edu/