AWM Travel Grants for Women in the Mathematical Sciences

数学界妇女协会将从2008年10月15日起管理为期三年的国家科学基金会-AWM旅行赠款方案。该计划已运行了20年，支持希望积极参加国内或国际研究会议的女性数学家的旅行，以及与导师一起工作的长期访问。 资金是竞争性分配的，在三年期间可提供大约145笔定期旅费赠款和25笔辅导赠款。 大部分资金用于数学研究，但五分之一的旅费赠款将用于资助数学研究人员参加数学教育研究会议和数学教育研究人员前往参加数学会议，数据表明，妇女参加会议和数学讲习班的比例仍然低于她们在学术部门的比例，特别是在初级职位。通过提供赠款，使妇女注意到分享知识和交流成果的好处，妇发基金正在积极干预，以提高妇女在这一职业中的作用。 一名独立评估员的报告证实，该方案正在向目标群体妇女提供培训，这些妇女受过良好的培训，具有认真的研究潜力，但她们无法持续获得资源，无法参加数学会议。此外，辅导赠款成功地启动了许多年轻的女性参与者在新的新的研究方向，并扩大了他们的视野的数学研究生涯。妇女在其职业生涯的各个阶段开始利用数学教育研究途径，这将促进教育研究人员和数学家对数学的理解。不同社区之间的这种交流有可能为正在进行的关于女孩和妇女学习数学的对话作出建设性贡献。

The Association for Women in Mathematics will administer the NSF-AWM Travel Grants Program for a three-year period beginning October 15, 2008. This program, which has run for the past twenty years, supports the travel of women mathematicians who wish to actively participate in domestic or international research conferences, as well as longer-term visits to work with a mentor. Funding is allocated competitively, and allows approximately one hundred and forty-five regular travel grants and twenty-five mentoring grants to be awarded over the three-year period. Most of the funding is intended to benefit mathematics research, but one fifth of the travel grants will fund mathematics researchers to participate in mathematics education research conferences and mathematics education researchers to travel to mathematics conferences.Data indicate that women's participation rates in conferences and mathematics workshops remain lower than their proportion in academic departments, especially at the junior ranks. By providing grants that draw women's attention to the benefits of sharing their knowledge and communicating their results, AWM is intervening positively to increase the role of women in the profession. Reports by an independent evaluator have confirmed that this program is reaching its target group of women with excellent training and serious research potential who do not have consistent access to resources enabling them to attend mathematics meetings. In addition, the mentoring grants have succeeded in starting many of the young women participants in fresh new research directions and have broadened their view of mathematical research careers. The mathematics education research track is beginning to be utilized by women at all stages of their careers and will advance the understanding of mathematics by education researchers and of education research by mathematicians. This communication between different communities has the potential of contributing constructively to the ongoing dialogue about the learning of mathematics by girls and women.