2018 Field of Dreams Conference

该奖项将部分支持2018年梦想领域会议，该会议将于2018年11月2日至4日在密苏里州圣路易斯的圣路易斯机场万丽酒店举行。“梦想领域”会议是由全国数学科学博士研究联盟（Math Alliance）组织的，该组织的目标是增加来自数学科学背景不足的学生在这些领域获得博士学位的人数。大约有200名学生将参加这次会议，其中约75%是少数族裔。该会议与联盟的研究生入学便利程序（F-GAP）相协调，该程序在过去五年中每年帮助大约70名联盟学者进入研究生项目，到目前为止保留情况非常好。因此，这次会议是培养更多样化的专业数学人才计划的重要组成部分。此外，会议上还有一些活动，帮助教师指导实践，帮助学术部门转变他们的文化，更加支持学生的成功。梦的领域会议有几个目的，包括：为希望攻读博士学位的学生提供有关数学科学专业各个方面的信息；在nsf资助的数学科学研究所提供有关夏季研究项目和机会的信息；促进联盟学生在研究生课程中的适当安置；为我们的联盟教师提供专业的指导和文化能力发展；并为新的联盟博士获得者提供就业机会的信息交流中心。有关该联盟的更多信息，请访问www.mathalliance.org。2018年梦想领域会议计划，以及前几年会议的材料，可在https://mathalliance.org/field-of-dreams-conference/.This上获得。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，认为值得支持。

This award will partially support the 2018 Field of Dreams Conference, to be held at the Renaissance St. Louis Airport Hotel, in St. Louis, MO, from November 2-4, 2018. The Field of Drams Conference is organized by the National Alliance for Doctoral Studies in the Mathematical Sciences (Math Alliance), an organization whose goal is to increase the number of students from backgrounds underrepresented in the mathematical sciences who earn doctorates in those fields. Approximately 200 students will attend the conference, and about 75% of those will be underrepresented minorities. The conference coordinates with the Alliance's Facilitated Graduate Admissions Process (F-GAP), which has helped place approximately 70 Alliance Scholars in graduate programs each of the last five years with very good retention to this point. So, the conference is an essential part of a program to produce a more diverse professional mathematical workforce. In addition, there are events at the conference which assist faculty in mentoring practices and help academic departments transform their cultures to be more supportive of student success. The Field of Dreams conference has several purposes, including: providing information about all aspects of the mathematical sciences professions to students wishing to pursue doctoral studies; providing information about summer research programs and opportunities at the NSF-funded Mathematical Sciences Institutes; facilitating appropriate placement of Alliance students in graduate programs; providing professional development in mentoring and cultural competence for our Alliance faculty; and serving as a clearinghouse for employment opportunities for new Alliance doctoral recipients. More information about the alliance is available at www.mathalliance.org. The 2018 Field of Dreams Conference program, and material from previous years' conferences, are available at https://mathalliance.org/field-of-dreams-conference/.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.