Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics

内布拉斯加州数学本科女性会议

• 批准号: 1855160
• 负责人: Christine Kelley
• 金额: $ 4.95万
• 依托单位: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-03-01 至 2020-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1855160&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Nebraska; Conference; Undergraduate; Women; Mathematics

The 21st Annual Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics (NCUWM) will take place January 25th-27th, 2019 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Since its inception in 1999, nearly 4000 undergraduate women have participated in NCUWM. The main purpose of the conference is to prepare women mathematics majors to attend graduate school, to increase their success in graduate school, and to help them identify potential careers using mathematics. In 2019, conference components include three plenary talks from prominent women mathematicians, 48 undergraduate student talks, an undergraduate student poster session with over 60 posters, panel discussions with invited graduate students and professionals in academia and industry, small-group breakout sessions on specific topics, and other networking opportunities. The conference has a special focus on mentoring, connecting undergraduate students not only with their peers but also with a number of successful women at a broad range of career stages.The 2019 slate of plenary speakers include Christine Darden of the NASA Langley Research Center, who was featured in the famous "Hidden Figures" book, Zhilan Feng, a Professor of Mathematics at Purdue University, and Margaret Holen, a retired partner at Goldman Sachs and Lecturer at Princeton University. In addition to learning cutting edge mathematics from the plenary speakers, student attendees will also learn about current developments at the frontier of undergraduate mathematics research from an array of student talks and poster presentations. The focus on vertical mentoring at NCUWM leads to professional development opportunities for all of the conference attendees. A comprehensive assessment prepared by RMC Research Corporation following NCUWM in 2015 concluded that NCUWM strongly influences the attitudes and beliefs of the undergraduate participants related to pursuing graduate-level mathematics and mathematics related careers. RMC Research continues to gather data after each conference in the form of participant surveys, and this data is used in part to ensure that the conference also well serves underrepresented populations. The conference webpage is available at https://www.math.unl.edu/~ncuwm/21stAnnual/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.

第21届内布拉斯加州数学本科女性年度会议（NCUWM）将于2019年1月25日至27日在内布拉斯加大学林肯分校举行。自1999年成立以来，已有近4000名女大学生参加。会议的主要目的是为数学专业的女性研究生做好准备，增加她们在研究生院的成功，并帮助她们确定使用数学的潜在职业。2019年，会议的组成部分包括三场来自杰出女数学家的全体会议、48场本科生演讲、一场有60多张海报的本科生海报会议、与受邀研究生和学术界和产业界专业人士的小组讨论、特定主题的小组分组会议，以及其他交流机会。这次会议特别关注指导，将本科生与同龄人联系起来，还与许多处于不同职业阶段的成功女性联系起来。2019年的全体会议演讲者包括美国宇航局兰利研究中心的克里斯汀·达登（Christine Darden），她曾在著名的《隐藏人物》一书中出现过，普渡大学数学教授冯芷兰（Zhilan Feng），以及高盛退休合伙人、普林斯顿大学讲师玛格丽特·霍伦（Margaret Holen）。除了从全体会议演讲者那里学习前沿数学之外，学生与会者还将从一系列学生演讲和海报展示中了解本科数学研究前沿的最新发展。NCUWM对垂直指导的关注为所有与会者提供了专业发展机会。RMC研究公司在2015年对NCUWM进行了一项综合评估，得出结论认为NCUWM强烈影响了本科生参与者对追求研究生水平数学和数学相关职业的态度和信念。RMC Research在每次会议结束后继续以参与者调查的形式收集数据，这些数据的部分用途是确保会议也能很好地服务于代表性不足的人群。会议网页可在https://www.math.unl.edu/~ncuwm/21stAnnual/This上找到。奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。