Biodiversity and Evolution-Support for U.S. Participants

该奖项支持年轻的美国研究人员，允许研究生和那些处于职业生涯早期阶段的人参加将于2013年下半年在蒙特利尔数学研究中心（CRM）举行的生物多样性和进化主题学期。这是“行星地球数学”主题年（MPE2013）更广泛计划的一部分。五个研讨会致力于(i)随机树，它出现在各种各样的生物学应用中，（ii）模拟复杂的进化动力学，形成当代生物多样性的结构，（iii） DNA序列进化模型，（iv）聚结理论和其他谱系过程，以及(v)进化博弈论的应用。这项资助将允许25-30名年轻的美国研究人员参与这个令人兴奋的项目。要理解物种之间以及与环境相互作用的兴衰，更不用说物种内部惊人的可变性，需要结合不同科学学科的方法（基因组学、生态学、经济学、计算生物学、数学建模、统计遗传学和生物信息学）。生物多样性和进化主题学期将于2013年8月至11月在蒙特利尔的数学研究中心（CRM）举行，届时将举行会议，重点研究各种各样的数学、统计和计算方法。参加会议将使25-30名年轻研究人员了解丰富和重要的研究方向，并与各自领域的主要研究人员进行互动。

This award supports junior U.S. researchers, allowing graduate students and those in early stages of their career to participate in the thematic semester on Biodiversity and Evolution that will be held at the Centre de Recherches Mathematiques (CRM) in Montreal during the second half of 2013. This is part of the more general program of the thematic year on Mathematics of Planet Earth (MPE2013). Five workshops are devoted to (i) random trees, which arise in a wide variety of biological application, (ii) modeling the complex evolutionary dynamics that have shaped the structure of contemporary biodiversity, (iii) models of DNA sequence evolution, (iv) coalescent theory and other genealogical processes, and (v) applications of evolutionary game theory. This grant will allow 25-30 young U.S. researchers to participate in this exciting program.Understanding the rise and decline of species in interaction with one another and with the environment, not to mention the astonishing variability within species, requires a combination of approaches from distinct scientific disciplines (genomics, ecology, economics, computational biology, mathematical modeling, statistical genetics and bioinformatics). The thematic semester on Biodiversity and Evolution that will be held at the Centre de Recherches Mathématiques (CRM) in Montreal August-November 2013 will have conferences featuring research on a wide variety of mathematical, statistical, and computational approaches. Participating in conferences will allow 25-30 young researchers to learn about fertile and important research directions, and to interact with the leading researchers in their field.