Number Theory Meetings in the Southeast

田纳西大学诺克斯维尔将于2017年9月举办棕榈数论系列（PANTS）秋季会议。当地的组织者将是路易斯·菲诺蒂和玛丽·詹姆森。 第二次会议将于12月初在克莱姆森大学举行;当地组织者将是吉姆·布朗、凯文·詹姆斯和薛慧。 今年的第三次会议，东南地区会议的数字（SERMON），暂定于2018年4月在东田纳西州立大学在约翰逊城，田纳西州与当地组织者罗德尼基顿。 虽然ETSU对主办会议表示了热情，但SERMON的会议地点传统上是在前一年的SERMON会议上决定的。 关于这些会议的进一步信息，包括地点、日期、发言者名单、与会者名单和登记信息，将在会议主页上提供。 定于2017年举行的会议将是棕榈数论系列的第28次和第29次会议（http：//www.math.sc.edu/pantboylan/pantars/pantshome.html）。PANTS是一系列数论会议，成立于2006年，由克莱姆森大学和南卡罗来纳州大学共同管理，这是南卡罗来纳州的两个旗舰研究机构，棕榈州。东南区域会议的数字（http：//www.math.clemson.edu/serkevja/SERMON/）的第31次会议将于2018年春季举行。 SERMON是一个更大的区域会议成立于1988年; SERMON轮流到学校在一个更大的地理区域比裤子。最近的SERMON会议平均有40 - 60名与会者。PANTS和SERMON包括参与者在数论所有领域的当前研究，包括解析数论，算术几何，自守和模形式。这些主题反映了在东南部工作的数论家的研究兴趣。每次PANTS会议都有国内和国际公认的该领域领导人的全体会议，研究生和博士后研究人员的邀请演讲，以及各级数学家（包括本科生和研究生，以及初级和高级教师）的大量贡献演讲。 来自东南部以外的数论家将应邀参加全体会议，而区域研究人员将参加大部分的会议。 2018年春季的SERMON将以独家贡献的演讲为特色。 该棕榈数论系列和东南地区会议号码提供了一个论坛，东南数论社区传播自己的研究，以及了解新的和重大成果数论。 学生和初级教师在会议中发挥了突出的作用，无论是通过提供会谈，以及通过形成研究合作，在该地区的其他人以及全体发言人。来自NSF的资金使组织者能够以较低的成本实现他们的目标。这些会议将区域数学家融入社区，他们可能很少或根本没有资金用于专业旅行，例如不授予博士学位的研究生和教师。组织者将继续努力吸引包括妇女和少数民族在内的人口多样化的参与者。

The University of Tennessee at Knoxville will host the fall meeting of the Palmetto Number Theory Series (PANTS) in September of 2017. The local organizers will be Luis Finotti and Marie Jameson. The second meeting will be hosted at Clemson University at the beginning of December; local organizers will be Jim Brown, Kevin James, and Hui Xue. The third meeting of the year, the Southeastern Regional Meeting on Numbers (SERMON), is tentatively scheduled to be held in April 2018 at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, Tennessee with local organizer Rodney Keaton. While ETSU has expressed enthusiasm for hosting the meeting, the meeting location of SERMON is traditionally decided at the previous year's SERMON meeting. Further information on these meetings including the locations, dates, lists of speakers, lists of participants, and registration information will be linked to the conference home pages as it becomes available. The conferences slated for 2017 will be the 28th and 29th meetings of the Palmetto Number Theory Series (http://www.math.sc.edu/~boylan/seminars/pantshome.html). PANTS is a series of number theory conferences that was founded in 2006 and is managed jointly by Clemson University and the University of South Carolina, the two flagship research institutions in South Carolina, the Palmetto State. The 31st meeting of the Southeast Regional Meeting on Numbers (http://www.math.clemson.edu/~kevja/SERMON/) will be held in spring 2018. SERMON is a larger regional meeting founded in 1988; SERMON rotates to schools in a larger geographical region than PANTS. Recent meetings of SERMON have averaged 40 - 60 participants. PANTS and SERMON consist of participant talks on current research in all areas of number theory, including analytic number theory, arithmetic geometry, and automorphic and modular forms. These topics reflect the research interests of number theorists working in the Southeast. Each PANTS meeting features plenary talks by nationally and internationally recognized leaders in the field, invited talks by graduate students and postdoctoral researchers, and a larger number of contributed talks by mathematicians at all levels including undergraduate and graduate students, and junior and senior faculty. Number theorists from outside the Southeast will give the invited and plenary talks, while regional researchers will give most of the contributed talks. SERMON in spring 2018 will feature exclusively contributed talks. The Palmetto Number Theory Series and the Southeastern Regional Meeting on Numbers provide the Southeastern number theory community with a forum to disseminate their own research as well as to learn about new and significant results in number theory. Students and junior faculty play a prominent role in the meetings both through delivering talks as well as by forming research collaborations to others in the region as well as plenary speakers. Funding from the NSF allows the organizers to achieve their goals at a low cost to individual participants. These meetings integrate regional mathematicians into the community who may have little or no funds for professional travel such as graduate students and faculty at institutions that do not award Ph.Ds. The organizers will continue efforts to attract a demographically diverse participant base including women and racial and ethnic minorities.