7th Lake Michigan Workshop on Combinatorics and Graph Theory

第七届组合学和图论密歇根湖研讨会将于2020年4月4日至5日（周六至周日）在芝加哥伊利诺伊大学（UIC）数学、统计和计算机科学系举行。这个年度研讨会的目标是在密歇根湖附近地区的机构离散数学研究人员。该奖金将用于支持研讨会参与者的差旅费。研讨会将以两个系列为中心，每个系列三次辅导课，重点介绍组合学的最新技术。学生和早期职业研究人员也将进行密切相关的简短演讲。在研讨会期间，将有充足的非预定时间，以便开始新的研究合作，并继续积极的合作。通过向本科生、研究生和初入职场的研究人员介绍新的研究方向，并帮助他们与更资深的同事建立有价值的联系，研讨会将特别有利于他们。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、概率论、算法和网络科学等学科有着重要的联系。已确认的教程主讲人是Wojciech Samotij（特拉维夫大学）和Cynthia Vinzant（北卡罗来纳州立大学），他们将讲述自己最近在组合学方面的一些突破。Samotij将讨论组合学和概率组合学中的熵方法，Vinzant将讨论多项式的对数凹性以及概率和算法的应用。这两个系列讲座将涵盖广泛的组合学和图论，从极值组合到概率组合和代数组合，但这两个主题仍然有一些共同的主题，特别是离散概率分布的基本性质。更多信息请访问研讨会网站：https://willp.people.uic.edu/lakemichigan2020/。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The 7th Lake Michigan Workshop on Combinatorics and Graph Theory will be held at the Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science at the University Illinois at Chicago (UIC) on April 4--5, 2020 (Saturday--Sunday). This annual workshop is targeted towards researchers in discrete mathematics at institutions in the area around Lake Michigan. This award will support travel expenses for workshop participants. The workshop will be centered around two series of three tutorial lectures each, focusing on state-of-the-art techniques in combinatorics. There will also be closely related short talks by students and early-career researchers. There will be ample unscheduled time during the workshop to allow new research collaborations to commence and active collaborations to be continued. The workshop will particularly benefit undergraduates, graduate students, and early-career researchers by introducing them to new research directions and helping them establish valuable connections with more senior colleagues. 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, probability theory, algorithms, and network science. The confirmed tutorial speakers, Wojciech Samotij (Tel Aviv University) and Cynthia Vinzant (North Carolina State University), will speak about some of their own recent breakthroughs in combinatorics. Samotij will speak about entropy methods in combinatorics and probabilistic combinatorics while Vinzant will speak about the log-concavity of polynomials and probabilistic and algorithmic applications. The two lecture series will cover a broad spectrum of combinatorics and graph theory ranging from extremal combinatorics to probabilistic combinatorics and algebraic combinatorics, but the two topics nevertheless share some common themes, notably fundamental properties of discrete probability distributions For more information please consult the workshop website: https://willp.people.uic.edu/lakemichigan2020/ .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.