International Congress of Mathematicians 2018: Administration of Travel Grants for US Participants

2018 年国际数学家大会：美国参会者旅费补助管理

• 批准号: 1745396
• 负责人: Thomas Barr
• 金额: $ 29.7万
• 依托单位: American Mathematical Society
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-11-01 至 2019-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1745396&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: International; Congress; Mathematicians; 2018; Administration

The quadrennial International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on August 1-9, 2018. Between 5,000 and 6,000 mathematical scientists, teachers, students, and others from around the world will share new results of research, directions of future investigation, applications, ideas for pedagogy, and methodologies for disseminating and archiving mathematical knowledge. Participants from the United States, who will contribute to the activities through presentation of their research to the worldwide mathematical community, and they will also enrich the nation's STEM infrastructure through activities at the Congress with their counterparts from abroad. As a world leader in mathematical research, the US sustains this position by supporting basic research, fostering activities that disseminate the results of this work, and enabling researchers to benefit from ideas and collaborations with researchers in other countries. In the mathematical sciences, research is reliant on in-person interactions, the work is increasingly collaborative, and the efforts are often international in scope. Activities of US participants at ICM 2018 contribute directly to the vitality of the US's knowledge-based economy, and from a technical and diplomatic point of view they support national security. This National Science Foundation award would enable the American mathematical Society to provide substantial support for approximately ninety US-based mathematicians to participate in the Congress. Recommendations for awards will be made by a panel of mathematicians drawn from among the members of several US-based professional organizations focused in the mathematical sciences. Mathematicians of all career stages are welcome to apply, women and members of underrepresented groups are especially encouraged to apply, and early-career applicants will receive priority for funding. Since the 1950s, the ICM has been held under the auspices of the International Mathematical Union (IMU), a consortium of mathematics societies from more than eighty member nations, including the US. For the 2018 Congress the IMU's Program Committee has set nineteen sections on topics of current research: Logic and Foundations, Algebra, Number Theory, Algebraic and Complex Geometry, Geometry, Topology, Lie Theory and Generalizations, Analysis and Operator Algebras, Dynamical Systems and Ordinary Differential Equations, Partial Differential Equations, Mathematical Physics, Probability and Statistics, Combinatorics, Mathematical Aspects of Computer Science, Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing, Control Theory and Optimization, Mathematics in Science and Technology, Mathematics Education and Popularization of Mathematics, and History of Mathematics. Participants in the Congress will have opportunities in these sections to hear many invited lectures, visit poster sessions, and interact with mathematicians engaged in similar research. A number of the invited speakers will have support from the ICM travel grant program. In addition to section lectures, the ICM incorporates the Emmy Noether and Abel Lectures and twenty stand-alone plenary lectures on recent major developments. The Congress is also the occasion for conferring some of the most prestigious awards in the mathematical sciences: the Fields Medal, Nevanlinna Prize, Gauss Prize, Chern Medal Award, and Leelavati Prize. All of these recognize singular achievements of individuals involved in in the forefront of mathematical research. Since its inception in 1897 in Zurich, the ICM has been a significant impetus to international cooperation in mathematical research, and it is often a historic occasion for the mathematical community and the wider world. Information about ICM 2018 can be found at http://www.icm2018.org/portal/en/home/.

四年一度的国际数学家大会（ICM）将于2018年8月1日至9日在巴西里约热内卢举行。来自世界各地的5,000至6,000名数学科学家、教师、学生和其他人士将分享新的研究成果、未来研究的方向、应用、教育学思想以及传播和存档数学知识的方法。来自美国的参与者将通过向全世界数学界展示他们的研究成果为活动做出贡献，他们还将通过与国外同行在大会上的活动来丰富国家的 STEM 基础设施。作为数学研究的世界领导者，美国通过支持基础研究、促进传播这项工作成果的活动以及使研究人员能够从与其他国家研究人员的想法和合作中受益来维持这一地位。在数学科学中，研究依赖于面对面的互动，工作越来越具有协作性，而且工作范围往往是国际性的。 ICM 2018美国参与者的活动直接促进了美国知识经济的活力，从技术和外交的角度来看，他们支持国家安全。国家科学基金会的这一奖项将使美国数学会能够为大约 90 名美国数学家参加大会提供实质性支持。奖项推荐将由数学家小组提出，小组成员来自美国几个专注于数学科学的专业组织的成员。欢迎各个职业阶段的数学家申请，特别鼓励女性和代表性不足的群体成员申请，早期职业申请者将获得优先资助。 自 20 世纪 50 年代以来，ICM 一直在国际数学联盟 (IMU) 的赞助下举办，该联盟是由包括美国在内的 80 多个成员国的数学学会组成的联盟。对于 2018 年大会，IMU 程序委员会针对当前研究主题设置了 19 个部分：逻辑和基础、代数、数论、代数和复几何、几何、拓扑、李理论和概括、分析和算子代数、动力系统和普通数学微分方程、偏微分方程、数学物理、概率与统计、组合数学、计算机的数学方面科学、数值分析与科学计算、控制理论与优化、科技数学、数学教育与数学普及、数学史。大会参与者将有机会在这些部分聆听许多特邀讲座、参观海报会议并与从事类似研究的数学家互动。许多受邀演讲者将获得 ICM 旅行补助计划的支持。除了部分讲座之外，ICM 还包含艾美·诺特和阿贝尔讲座以及 20 个关于最新重大发展的独立全体讲座。大会还颁发了数学科学领域一些最负盛名的奖项：菲尔兹奖、内万林纳奖、高斯奖、陈省身奖和里拉瓦蒂奖。所有这些都认可了参与数学研究前沿的个人的非凡成就。自 1897 年在苏黎世成立以来，ICM 一直是数学研究国际合作的重要推动力，对于数学界和更广泛的世界来说，这往往是一个历史性的时刻。有关 ICM 2018 的信息可在 http://www.icm2018.org/portal/en/home/ 找到。