International Conference: Developments in Language Theory 2020

该奖项资助学生参加国际语言理论发展会议(2020年5月11日至15日)，该会议与同期在佛罗里达州坦帕市南佛罗里达大学举行的分子生物学离散和拓扑模型研讨会一起举行。该项目资助研究生和初级研究人员的旅行。自2006年以来，该会议首次在美国举办。这些会议汇集了来自世界各地的各种演讲者，从领先的理论计算机科学家到积极与实验者合作的理论家。这两个活动的一个重要组成部分是通过教程、海报会议和小组讨论面向年轻的研究人员和研究生。会议的目标之一是促进来自世界各地和不同学科的研究生和初级博士之间的互动，因为这些互动往往会导致长期的研究合作，因此对该领域的发展非常有益。非政府组织在吸引来自代表不足群体的妇女和学生方面取得了重大成功，过去曾组织会议并计划采用类似的战略，以增加不同背景，特别是少数群体和代表不足群体的参与。会议涵盖了理论计算机科学领域，重点是单词和语言的组合和代数属性，包括生物分子中的字符串模式；仿生计算；量子计算；图片的符号描述及其分析；字符串、树、图、数组的接受器和换能器；代码理论；高效文本算法；符号动力学和细胞自动机；决策问题；与复杂性理论和逻辑的关系；多项式和二维模式；密码学和并发性。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award supports student travel to the International Conference on Developments in Language Theory (May 11-15, 2020) which is held in conjunction with a workshop on Discrete and Topological Models in Molecular Biology during the same period at the University of South Florida, Tampa FL. The project funds travel of graduate students and junior researchers. The conference is organized in the USA for the first time since 2006. These meetings bring together a wide range of speakers from all around the world, from leading theoretical computer scientists through theoreticians who actively collaborate with experimentalists. A significant component of the two events is aimed toward young researchers and graduate students through tutorials, poster sessions, and panel discussions. One of the goals of the conference is to promote interaction among graduate students and junior PhDs from around the world and from different disciplines, as these interactions often result in long-lasting research collaborations and are consequently highly beneficial for the development of the field. The PI had significant success in attracting women and students from underrepresented groups in the past organized conferences and plans to follow similar strategies to increase participation from diverse backgrounds, specifically minorities and underrepresented groups. The conference covers the field of theoretical computer science focused on combinatorial and algebraic properties of words and languages including topics on string patterns in biomolecules; bio-inspired computing; quantum computing; symbolic descriptions of pictures and their analysis; acceptors and transducers for strings, trees, graphs, arrays; theory of codes; efficient text algorithms; symbolic dynamics and cellular automata; decision problems; relationships to complexity theory and logic; polyominoes and bi-dimensional patterns; cryptography and concurrency.This 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.