CONFERENCE--SUPPORT FOR IMA WORKSHOP ON INFECTIOUS DISEA

数学及其应用研究所（IMA）是一个部分由美国国家科学基金会资助的研究所，其使命是发现和利用数学研究其他科学、工程和工业问题的新兴机会。我们向国家医学科学院提议，由它部分资助将于1999年5月17日至21日在美国医学科学院1998-1999年“生物学中的数学”年度计划期间举行的“新发和再发传染病的数学方法”讲习班。该研讨会将在IMA位于明尼苏达大学明尼阿波利斯校区的设施中举行。主要组织者是康奈尔大学/霍华德大学的Carlos Castillo-Chavez教授，共同组织者是加州大学旧金山分校的Sally Blower，波莫纳学院的Kenneth Cooke，密歇根大学的Denise Kirschner和不列颠哥伦比亚省维多利亚大学的Pauline van den Driessche。讲习班的参观者将加入一个由10名数学生物学博士后和大约40名长期参与者组成的核心小组，他们将在整个项目中常驻。选择参与者的方式是将数学家和生物学家聚集在一起，他们可以从相互交流中受益，但可能不会这样做。我们还鼓励从行业和学术界以及他们职业生涯的各个阶段选择参与者。我们特别渴望从代表性不足的群体和处于职业生涯早期的研究人员中吸引参与者，包括那些最近才获得博士学位的研究人员。因此，我们建议使用赠款来扩大所有这些团体的参与者人数，而不是我们目前的核心资金所允许的。会议记录将作为“IMA数学及其应用卷”（施普林格Verlag）系列的一卷出版，会议记录将在IMA网站上提供。

The Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) is a partially NSF funded institute with a mission to discover and exploit emerging opportunities for mathematics research on problems in the other sciences, engineering and industry. We are proposing to the NIGMS that it partially fund the workshop "Mathematical Approaches for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases," that will be held May 17-21 1999, during the IMA's 1998-1999 annual program on "Mathematics in Biology." This workshop will take place in the IMA's facilities located on the Minneapolis campus of the University of Minnesota. The lead organizer is Professor Carlos Castillo-Chavez of Cornell University/Howard University and the co-organizers are Sally Blower of the University of California, San Francisco, Kenneth Cooke of Pomona College, Denise Kirschner of The University of Michigan and Pauline van den Driessche, University of Victoria, British Columbia. The workshop visitors will join a core group of 10 math biology postdocs and about 40 long-term participants who will be in residence for the full program. Participants are being chosen in such a way as to bring together communities of mathematicians and biologists who can benefit from interacting with each other but might not otherwise do so. We are also encouraging the selection of participants from industry as well as academe and at a range of stages of their careers. We are particularly eager to draw participants from underrepresented groups and from researchers at early in their careers, including those who have only recently achieved their doctorates. As such, we propose to use funds granted to expand numbers of participants from all these groups further than our current core funding will allow. The proceedings will be published as a volume in the series "IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications" (Springer Verlag) and a record of the talks will be made available on the IMA website.