This award provides travel funding to increase US participation in the half-year program on Stochastic Processes in Communication Sciences at the Isaac Newton Institute at Cambridge University, January 11 through July 2, 2010. The program aims at the exposition of the latest developments in mathematical sciences that sit at the boundary between the disciplines of stochastics and communications. The program will bring together experts from the mathematics, probability, engineering, and computer science communities, to advance the field and identify important research directions. Up to twenty Visiting Fellows will be in residence at any time through the period of the program, and additional Program Participants will be invited for shorter periods. Four transversal workshops, a satellite workshop for young researchers and several shorter events are being organized, the primary ones being: (1) New topics at the interface between probability and communications (11 - 15 January 2010); (2) Stochastic Networks (22 - 26 March 2010); (3) Spatial Networks (6 - 9 April 2010); (4) Satellite meeting for young researchers (At ICMS, Edinburgh, 7 - 11 June 2010); (5) Statistics of Networks (21 - 25 June 2010). The NSF funding will be used to facilitate the interaction of young US researchers with the top researchers in these areas who will be in residence at the Newton Institute during this program, by supporting the travel of junior researchers (graduate students, post-docs, and faculty members at most seven years beyond Ph. D.), woman researchers and researchers from underrepresented minorities.

Agency
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Institute
Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS)
Type
Standard Grant (Standard)
Application #
0939914
Program Officer
Tomek Bartoszynski
Project Start
Project End
Budget Start
2009-10-01
Budget End
2011-09-30
Support Year
Fiscal Year
2009
Total Cost
$45,000
Indirect Cost
Name
University of California Berkeley
Department
Type
DUNS #
City
Berkeley
State
CA
Country
United States
Zip Code
94704