2nd Lake Michigan Workshop on Combinatorics and Graph Theory

该奖项为2015年3月7日和8日在圣母大学数学系举行的第二届密歇根湖组合学和图论研讨会的参与者提供旅行支持。该研讨会将惠及离散数学领域的研究生和初级研究人员，他们在密歇根湖周围地区的机构工作。它将围绕两套三次的辅导课展开，侧重于演讲者认为在典型的研究生序列中代表性不足的经典技术和结果，以及演讲者特别有资格阐述的新兴技术。学生和年轻教师也会做一些简短的演讲。周末将有充足的计划外时间，这将允许新的研究合作开始，积极的合作将继续。初级参与者将与更资深的同事建立宝贵的联系，并在轻松和非正式的环境中接受他们的指导。组合学和图论是离散数学中两个非常活跃的研究领域，与统计物理学和网络科学等学科有着重要的联系。在密歇根湖附近，有大量的研究人员和学生在研究各种图论和组合问题。这个讲习班将把许多这样的工人聚集在一起。通过辅导课、简短的谈话、公开问题会议和非正式的合作时间，研讨会将训练初学者学习组合学和图论的重要经典和新兴技术。辅导课的主讲人是芝加哥伊利诺伊大学的Dhruv Mubayi（他将讲极值集理论的方法）和普渡大学的Mark Daniel Ward（他将讲分析组合学和算法分析）。工作坊网址：http://www3.nd.edu/~conf/lmwcgt15/

This award supports travel for participants in the 2nd Lake Michigan Workshop on Combinatorics and Graph Theory, held at the Department of Mathematics at the University of Notre Dame on the weekend of March 7 and 8, 2015. The workshop will benefit graduate students and junior researchers in the field of discrete mathematics, working at institutions in the area around Lake Michigan. It will be built around two sets of three tutorial lectures, focusing on classical techniques and results that the speakers feel are under-represented in typical graduate sequences, and on emerging techniques on which the speakers are particularly qualified to expound. There will also be some short talks by students and younger faculty members. There will be ample unscheduled time during the weekend, which will allow new research collaborations to commence, and active collaborations to be continued. Junior participants will establish valuable connections with more senior colleagues, and receive guidance from them in a relaxed and informal environment.Combinatorics and Graph Theory are two very active areas of research within the broader field of Discrete Mathematics, with important ties to disciplines such as statistical physics and network science. In the immediate vicinity of Lake Michigan there are a large number of researchers and students working on a variety of graph theoretical and combinatorial problems. This workshop will bring many of these workers together. Through tutorial lectures, short talks, an open problem session, and informal collaboration time, the workshop will train beginning researchers in important classical and emerging techniques of Combinatorics and Graph Theory. The tutorial speakers will be Dhruv Mubayi, University of Illinois at Chicago (who will speak on methods in extremal set theory) and Mark Daniel Ward, Purdue University (who will speak on analytic combinatorics and analysis of algorithms).Workshop web site: http://www3.nd.edu/~conf/lmwcgt15/