Workshop on Distance Geometry: Theory and Applications

该奖项支持参加2016年7月26日至29日在罗格斯大学离散数学和理论计算机科学中心(DIMACS)举行的关于距离几何：理论和应用的研讨会。距离几何的应用在日常生活中广泛可见，包括蜂窝电话网络的管理、药物合成、制造中的机器人自动化和建筑设计。通过将研究涉及距离几何的不同领域的科学家聚集在一起，研讨会具有相当大的潜力，在推动相关理论的同时，对重要应用产生影响。研讨会将包括四个教程演示，一个海报会议，以及20多个额外的特邀演示。这将是第一次在美国举办的距离几何研讨会。工作坊的网页目前由http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/Workshops/Distance/，维护，其中包含工作坊的公告和征集。工作坊将突出距离几何中重要的数学和计算挑战，并将图形刚性、半定规划和矩阵补全等密切相关的数学问题联系起来。研讨会计划由领先的研究人员参加，他们将距离几何学应用于广泛的科学领域。此外，工作坊将有一大批学生和职业生涯初期的研究人员参加，并将提供新的资源，向新手介绍距离几何的概念和应用。

This award supports participation in the Workshop on Distance Geometry: Theory and Applications held at the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS) at Rutgers University on July 26-29, 2016. Applications of distance geometry are widely visible in everyday life and include management of cellular telephone networks, drug synthesis, robotic automation in manufacturing, and architectural design. By bringing together scientists from diverse fields whose research involves distance geometry, the workshop has considerable potential to impact important applications while advancing related theory. The workshop will include four tutorial presentations, a poster session, and over 20 additional invited presentations. This will be the first workshop on distance geometry held in the United States. The workshop webpage is currently maintained at http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/Workshops/Distance/, which contains the workshop announcement and call for participation.The workshop will highlight important mathematical and computational challenges in distance geometry and draw connections to closely related mathematical problems in graph rigidity, semidefinite programming, and matrix completion, among others. The workshop is scheduled to involve leading researchers who are applying distance geometry to a wide range of scientific fields. In addition, the workshop will involve a large group of students and early-career researchers, and will create new resources that will be made available to introduce newcomers to the concepts and applications of distance geometry.