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The most important activity of the center is the annual Arizona Winter School, held in March at the University of Arizona.
The Arizona Winter School is an intensive five-day meeting where advanced graduate students work closely with senior faculty and post-docs. In contrast to a typical conference where individual researchers present their work in relative isolation, the AWS features a small number of extended courses on a set of closely related topics. We go to great lengths to ensure significant interaction among all participants, especially between students and the senior lecturers. For example, each speaker is assigned a group of students who work with him or her on a project during the Winter School and students typically present the results of their project in a lecture at the end of the meeting. To facilitate work on the projects, speakers and students meet for evening working sessions. Many participants describe the AWS as a highly intense and productive experience.
We have written a Guide for participants, both speakers and students.
The Center has sponsored a number of distinguished lectures series and more information and notes about these lectures are available. The grant also provides summer support for graduate students, travel support, and computers, including the server that hosts this site. Travel funding from the grant supported an AMS special session on “Results from the Arizona Winter School” in January 2001 in New Orleans.
The Southwest Center has one Principal Investigator and four co-Principal Investigators. They are:
| William Stein | (University of Washington, co-PI) |
| David Savitt | (University of Arizona, PI) |
| Matt Papanikolas | (Texas A&M University, co-PI) |
| Fernando Rodriguez-Villegas | (University of Texas, Austin, co-PI) |
| Dinesh Thakur | (University of Arizona) |