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DMS Division Of Mathematical Sciences |
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| Initial Amendment Date: | December 13, 2016 |
| Latest Amendment Date: | December 13, 2016 |
| Award Number: | 1643027 |
| Award Instrument: | Standard Grant |
| Program Manager: |
Tomek Bartoszynski
tbartosz@nsf.gov (703)292-4885 DMS Division Of Mathematical Sciences MPS Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences |
| Start Date: | December 15, 2016 |
| End Date: | May 31, 2017 (Estimated) |
| Total Intended Award Amount: | $40,000.00 |
| Total Awarded Amount to Date: | $40,000.00 |
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| Recipient Sponsored Research Office: |
506 S WRIGHT ST URBANA IL US 61801-3620 (217)333-2187 |
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| Primary Place of Performance: |
Paris FR |
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| NSF Program(s): |
PROBABILITY, ALGEBRA,NUMBER THEORY,AND COM, Combinatorics |
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| Award Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Fund Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Assistance Listing Number(s): | 47.049 |
ABSTRACT
The thematic program "Combinatorics and Interactions" will take place at the Institut Henri Poincaré (IHP) in Paris from January to March, 2017. The program will feature an introductory school, three week-long workshops, and five mini-courses. The program is an outgrowth of regular combinatorics workshops which have been held at IHP in recent years. The Institut Henri Poincaré has a long history of organizing such thematic quarters on active domains of research in mathematics/theoretical physics. This quarter will attract more than two hundred participants. World-leading experts will present the basics of the field in graduate courses, while the workshops will give the opportunity to participants to learn the newest results. The support from NSF enable fifteen young researchers from US based institutions to participate to this quarter. This is a unique opportunity for them to learn about or deepen their knowledge of this flourishing domain, in order to be able to contribute to it in the future. A website for the conference is maintained at http://www.ihp.fr/en/CEB/T1-2017.
The program will bring together three distinct, rapidly evolving areas of combinatorics: random maps and dimer models; enumerative geometry and moduli spaces; and asymptotic representation theory. The mini-courses will be taught by world experts and there will be many opportunities for junior researchers to interact with some of the senior participants. These include A. Borodin (Loeve and the Poincaré prizes, 2015); B. Eynard (Aisenstaedt Chair at CRM Montréal, 2015); J.-F. Le Gall (2009 CNRS silver medal) ; M. Bousquet-Mélou (2013 CNRS silver medal); N. Curien (Rollo-Davidson prize 2015); G. Miermont and I. Corwin (Rollo-Davidson prizes 2009 and 2014).
PROJECT OUTCOMES REPORT
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NSF support was used to enable the participation of US researchers in an international program on "Combinatorics and interactions" at the Institut Henri Poincare in Paris.
The title includes three areas of intense current research in mathematics which share a common denominator which can be called "combinatorics": Large 2-dimensional random objects, Asymptotic representation theory (the intersection of representation theory of probability theory), and enumerative geometry.
The program lasted 3 months, and included a winter school, three international workshops, and five graduate lecture courses. In addition to the lecture courses, there were research seminars and graduate research seminars each week, for a total of 4-6 hours of lectures and seminars each day on non-workshop days.
Hundreds of participants from dozens of countries took part, including 58 from the US. The grant supported the participation of 16 US-based researchers, 5 of whom were female, and 9 of whom were PhD students.
Support for long-term stays for graduate students enabled them to follow the lecture courses, present their work, make contacts with new collaborators and future employers, and broaden their understanding of their chosen field of research. There is evidence that this opportunity has affected the career paths of several of the graduate students.
Public outreach activities included a public lecture on "mathematics and music"; a publicly accessible two-hour radio interview about the topics covered in the semester which included a popularization of mathematics; a blog featuring interviews with women participants, and lectures for high-school students.
The graduate lecture courses, which consisted of 16 lectures each, were video-taped and made accessible on a dedicated YouTube channel.
Last Modified: 06/19/2017
Modified by: Rinat Kedem
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