Graduate Student Combinatorics Conference

该奖项提供资金支持2014年研究生组合会议（GSCC）的运行，该会议将于2014年4月4日至6日在奥本大学举行。这将是该系列的第十届年会。本次会议的主要目的是将组合学的研究生聚集在一起，实现以下目标：向与会者介绍组合学的许多领域；分享当前的研究课题和开放性问题；让参与者与来自全国各地的组合学研究生见面并建立联系；并提供在当前研究中合作的机会。这种形式还允许垂直整合，因为刚刚开始研究生生涯的年轻研究生能够与更年长的研究生见面并学习他们在研究方面的经验和方法。这次会议的独特之处在于，它不仅是专门为研究生设计的，而且基本上是由研究生自己组织和运行的。奥本大学的组合学教授和受邀的演讲者将在整个过程中担任学生的导师。让年轻的研究人员有机会聚在一起，彼此分享他们的想法和方法，并学习组合学的不同领域，这是本次会议的一个主要主题。组合学有许多研究领域，包括多种类型的图论、设计理论、编码理论、枚举和集合系统。许多学校都有特定的重点，他们的研究生没有意识到其他领域的问题或证明技术。本次会议旨在帮助研究生了解组合学的广度，来自不同背景的学生将在非正式的支持环境中展示和分享他们的结果和证明技术。这样做，这些研究生很可能会建立专业关系，我们希望这种关系能很好地延伸到他们的研究生生涯中，从而在随后的几年里增加创造性研究的组合。

This award provides funds to support the running of the 2014 Graduate Student Combinatorics Conference (GSCC) to be held at Auburn University from April 4 to 6, 2014. This will be the 10th annual conference held in this well-established series. The main purpose of this conference is to bring together graduate students in combinatorics with the following goals: to educate participants about the many areas of combinatorics; to share current research topics and open questions; to have participants meet and network with fellow combinatorics graduate students from across the country; and to provide the opportunity to work together on current research. This format also allows for vertical integration in that young graduate students who are just beginning their graduate careers are able to meet and learn from more senior graduate students about their experiences in and approaches to doing research.This conference is unique in that it is both designed specifically for graduate students, and it is organized and run essentially by the graduate students themselves. Combinatorics faculty at Auburn and the invited speakers will act as mentors for the students through this process. Giving young researchers the opportunity to come together to share their ideas and methods with each other and to learn about different areas of combinatorics is a major theme of this conference. There is a multitude of areas of research in combinatorics, including graph theory of many types, design theory, coding theory, enumeration, and set systems. Many schools have a specific focus and their graduate students are not aware of problems or proof techniques from other areas. This conference is designed to help graduate students appreciate the breadth of combinatorics, with students from many different backgrounds presenting and sharing their results and proof techniques in an informal supportive environment. In so doing, these graduate students are likely to forge professisonal relationships which we expect to extend well into their post-graduate careers, thereby adding to the mix of creative research in subsequent years.