Support for the Southeastern Probability Conference

该奖项将有助于支持将于2020年5月11日至12日在杜克大学举行的2020年东南概率会议。该奖项还将支持2021-2023年的会议。东南概率研讨会是一个由当地资源支持的小型区域性会议，在过去九年中在杜克大学数学系举办了七次。该奖项将用于(i)继续举办这一系列成功的会议，突出令人兴奋的概率新方向，（ii）为参与者提供支持，并包括来自附近大学的更多概率学家，特别是那些在他们的领域没有同事和无法获得联邦资助的人。与中西部和东北概率会议类似，我们的目标是服务于东南地区的概率学家。然而，与那些吸引了来自广泛领域的大量参与者的会议相比，我们的会议是一个小型会议，为演讲者和其他参与者提供了充足的互动机会。研究生和博士后也将有机会从专家那里了解最新的发展。第一天结束时的海报会议将允许早期职业研究人员展示他们的工作。会议结束后将在会议网页上提供主要演讲的幻灯片，以便更广泛地传播其内容。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，认为值得支持。

This award will help support the 2020 edition of the Southeastern Probability Conference to be held at Duke University May 11-12, 2020. The award will also support the 2021-2023 conferences. The Southeast Probability Symposium is a small regional conference supported by local resources that has been held at the Duke mathematics department seven times in the last nines year. This award will be used to (i) continue this successful series of conferences that highlight exciting new directions in probability, (ii) provide support for participants and include more probabilists from nearby universities, especially those without colleagues in their area and those with limited access to federal funding.Similar to the Midwest and Northeast Probability Conferences, our goal is to serve the probabilists in the Southeast. However, in contrast to those meetings, which attract a large number of participants from a wide area,ours is a small meeting that allows ample opportunity for speakers and other participants to interact. Graduate students and postdocs will also have a chance to learn about recent developments from experts. A poster session at the end of the first day will allow early career researchers to present their work. Slides of the main lectures will be made available after the meeting on the conference web page to more broadly disseminate their content. The Conference web site is: https://services.math.duke.edu/~rtd/SEPC2020/SEPC2020.htmlThis 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.