Modern trends in algebraic graph theory

该奖项提供资金支持将于2014年6月2日至5日在维拉诺瓦大学举行的代数图论会议。组织者计划了一系列广泛的主题；其中一些主题与其他领域有不同的链接。被邀请的参与者名单令人印象深刻，其中包括离散数学领域的一些知名专家，以及许多研究生、博士后和来自代表性不足群体的研究人员。代数图论学科属于更广泛的离散数学领域。正如人们认为微积分是被设计来研究无限区域空间上的函数行为的数学语言一样，离散数学主要适用于有限集。这门学科起源于17世纪的概率统计研究，但由于计算机和理论计算机科学的出现，它的主要发展发生在20世纪。如今，离散数学在现代社会中扮演着不可或缺的角色，为数字通信、纠错码、互联网和社会网络结构、大型数据库中的数据挖掘、基因组测序、实验设计等领域提供工具和框架。

This award provides funds to support a conference on algebraic graph theory, which will be held at Villanova University during June 2-5, 2014. The organizers planned a wide array of topics; some of them have diverse links to other fields. There is an impressive list of invited participants, including some well-known experts in this area of discrete mathematics, as well as many graduate students, post-docs, and researchers from under-represented groups.The subject of Algebraic Graph Theory belongs to the broader field of Discrete Mathematics. Just as one regards Calculus as the mathematical language designed to investigate functional behavior over infinite domain space, Discrete Mathematics applies mainly to finite sets. The subject was initiated in the study of Probability and Statistics in the 17th Century, but its main growth took place in the 20th Century due to the advent of computers and theoretical computer science. These days Discrete Mathematics plays an essential and compulsory role in modern society, providing tools and framework for such areas as digital communication, error-correcting codes, internet and social network structure, data mining in large databases, genome sequencing, experimental design, and many others.