NSF/AWM Travel Grants for Women in the Mathematical Sciences

数学界妇女协会将继续为女数学家参加国内外研究会议提供旅费支持。建议的资金水平将允许大约75笔赠款，金额从250美元到1,500美元，将在三年内颁发。额外的资金将被要求建立一个奖励女数学家旅行的试点计划，与特定的个人在他们的研究领域进行短期工作。这两个项目都旨在提高女性数学家的研究能力和知名度，扩大她们工作的影响力，并提高她们激励处于较低水平的女性追求数学的能力。（或继续）数学、科学或其他需要大量实践训练的领域的职业。这两个项目都试图（直接或间接地）让女性出现在研究报告或研究工作的地方，并缓解在许多学术会议上女性发言人太少的长期问题。这两个项目都应该成为留住女数学家的重要工具。为了评估该计划的影响，并看看是否有方法可以改善该计划，将采取的研究，过去的NSF赠款AWM的有效性为旅行补助金。

The Association for Women in Mathematics will continue the program ofawarding travel support for women mathematicians to attend domestic orforeign research conferences. The proposed level of funding will allowapproximately 75 grants, in amounts from $250 to $1,500, to be awardedover a three year period.Additional funds are requested to establish a pilot program of awardsto women mathematicians for travel, to work with particularindividuals in their research area for brief periods of time. Theproposed level of funding for these mentoring travel grants wouldallow three to six grants per year of $4000 each over a period of 3years.Both programs are intended to enhance the research capability and thevisibility of women mathematicians, to expand the influence of theirwork, and to increase their ability to inspire women at less advancedlevels to pursue (or continue) careers in mathematics, in thesciences, or in other fields requiring substantial mathematicaltraining. Both programs seek (directly or indirectly) to make thepresence of women at places where research is being reported or done anormal professional expectation, and to mitigate the persistantproblem of having too few women speakers at many mathematicalconferences. Both programs should be important tools for the retentionof women mathematicians in academic life. To assess the impact of thisprogram, and to see if there are ways the program could be improved, astudy will be taken of the effectiveness of past NSF grants to AWM fortravel grants.