Women and Mathematics Program

妇女与数学计划

• 批准号: 1720963
• 负责人: Peter Sarnak
• 金额: $ 80万
• 依托单位: Institute For Advanced Study
• 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: 2017-06-15 至 2023-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1720963&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Women; Mathematics; Program

The Women and Mathematics Program (WAM) at the Institute for Advanced Study is an annual program with the mission to recruit and retain more women in mathematics. WAM aims to counter the initial imbalance in the numbers of men and women entering mathematics training as well as the higher attrition rate of female mathematicians compared to their male counterparts at every critical transition stage in mathematical careers. WAM encourages female mathematicians to form collaborative research relationships and to become active in a vertical mentoring network spanning a continuum from undergraduates to emerita professors, which provides support and reduces the sense of isolation experienced by many women in mathematics.The program is organized around a mathematical topic of current research interest. The scientific program is comprised of lecture series accompanied by daily problem sessions designed to offer top quality instruction and research experience; research seminars by post-doctorates and advanced graduate students; and colloquia by prominent women mathematicians. In addition, evening Women in Science seminars explore wide ranging topics of concern to women mathematicians. Since 1994, both the scientific and mentoring aspects of WAM have had a lasting impact on over 1000 women mathematicians. In bringing WAM into its third decade, the following are seen as the key new aims in broadening the reach and longevity of the program and its effects on the national STEM community: expand the footprint of WAM so that more women benefit from both mathematical and mentoring aspects of the program; increase visibility of women mathematicians to both the mathematics community and the society at large; spread effective paradigms developed at WAM to the wider mathematical community; facilitate opportunities for women mathematicians in both research mathematics and careers outside academia.

高等研究院的女性与数学项目 (WAM) 是一项年度项目，其使命是招募和留住更多数学领域的女性。 WAM 旨在解决进入数学培训的男女人数最初不平衡的问题，以及在数学职业的每个关键过渡阶段女性数学家相对于男性数学家更高的流失率。 WAM 鼓励女性数学家建立合作研究关系，并积极参与从本科生到荣誉教授的垂直指导网络，这为许多女性数学家提供支持并减少他们所经历的孤立感。该计划围绕当前研究兴趣的数学主题进行组织。科学课程由系列讲座和每日问题会议组成，旨在提供高质量的指导和研究经验；博士后和高级研究生的研究研讨会；以及著名女数学家的座谈会。 此外，晚间女性科学研讨会探讨了女性数学家关注的广泛主题。自 1994 年以来，WAM 的科学和指导方面对 1000 多名女性数学家产生了持久影响。 在使 WAM 进入第三个十年的过程中，以下目标被视为扩大该计划的影响范围和寿命及其对国家 STEM 社区的影响的关键新目标：扩大 WAM 的足迹，使更多女性受益于该计划的数学和指导方面；提高女数学家在数学界和整个社会的知名度；将 WAM 开发的有效范式传播到更广泛的数学界；为女性数学家提供研究数学和学术界以外职业的机会。