Conference on Combinatorics and its Applications

为期三天的组合学及其应用会议将于2018年7月14日至16日在新加坡南洋理工大学（NTU）诺维纳新校区举行。组合设计理论是组合学、代数、几何、数论和计算数学的交叉学科。它在通信、密码学和安全、实验设计、网络、编码理论、软件测试和生物信息学等领域都有广泛的应用。会议包括来自亚洲、欧洲、北美和澳大利亚的九位知名专家的主题演讲，他们的研究涵盖了这些主题。该会议具有强大的国际参与，因此为研究人员和教育工作者在组合学及其应用方面的合作提供了许多机会。本次会议由南洋理工大学（NTU）、南洋理工大学高等研究院、组合学及其应用研究所（ICA）和美国国家科学基金会（NSF）支持。具体来说，这项NSF拨款扩大了美国研究人员在组合设计理论和计算机科学交叉领域的参与，扩大和加强了这个社区。参与者将通过旅行资助申请程序选出，优先考虑妇女、少数民族、代表性不足的群体和初级研究人员。关于会议的更多信息，以及旅行资助申请过程的描述，可以在会议网站上找到：https://tinyurl.com/combinatorics-and-its-appsThis奖励反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，认为值得支持。

The Conference on Combinatorics and its Applications is a three day event to be held at the new Novena Campus of Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, from 14 to 16 July 2018. Combinatorial design theory lies at the crossroads of combinatorics, algebra, geometry, number theory, and mathematics of computation. It has extensive applications in communications, cryptography and security, experimental design, networking, coding theory, software testing, and bioinformatics, to list a few. The conference includes keynote presentations from nine renowned experts from Asia, Europe, North America and Australia, whose research spans these topics. The conference has strong international participation and thus affords many opportunities for collaboration among researchers and educators in combinatorics and its applications.The conference is supported by Nanyang Technological University (NTU), the Institute of Advanced Studies at NTU, The Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications (ICA), and the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). Specifically, this NSF grant broadens the participation of U.S. researchers working at the intersection of combinatorial design theory and computer science, expanding and strengthening this community. The participants will be selected through a travel grant application process, giving preference to women, minorities, under-represented groups, and beginning researchers. More information about the conference, and a description of the travel grant application process, may be found at the conference website: https://tinyurl.com/combinatorics-and-its-appsThis award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.