Symposium on Discrete Algorithms Science (SODA) 2019 Travel Grant

该奖项将支持学生和博士后参加2019年1月6日至9日在加利福尼亚州圣地亚哥举行的ACM/SIAM离散算法科学（SODA）年度研讨会。SODA是由计算机协会（ACM）和工业与应用数学协会（SIAM）共同发起的。SODA是离散算法领域的顶级年度研究会议，也是理论计算机科学领域的三大顶级会议之一。SODA自1990年以来每年举行一次会议，通常每年约有4000名与会者。它与三个较小的研讨会，ALENEX（算法工程和实验会议），ANALCO（算法分析会议）和SOSA（算法简单性研讨会）共处一地。SODA由世界各地的研究人员参加。算法领域是一个充满活力的领域，年轻研究人员的参与率很高，许多论文由学生作者撰写。对于这些学生作者和学生与会者来说，会议提供了宝贵的教育经验，无论是会谈的技术内容还是它提供的网络机会。该奖项将为大约30名学生提供部分支持，部分支付旅费和住宿费。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用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 support student and postdoctoral attendance at the Annual ACM/SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms Science (SODA) 2019, in San Diego, CA on January 6 to 9, 2019. SODA is co-sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). SODA is the premier annual research conference in the field of discrete algorithms and one of the three premier conferences in theoretical computer science. SODA has been meeting annually since 1990 and in a typical year has approximately 4000 attendees. It is co-located with three smaller workshops, ALENEX (Meeting on Algorithm Engineering and Experimentation), ANALCO (Meeting on Analysis of Algorithms), and SOSA (Symposium on Simplicity in Algorithms). SODA is attended by researchers all over the world. The field of algorithms is a vibrant one, with high participation rates from young researchers, and many papers with student authors. For these student authors and student attendees, the conference serves as a valuable educational experience, both for the technical content of the talks and for the opportunities for networking that it provides.The award will provide partial support to approximately thirty students, partly defraying the cost of travel and lodging. Efforts will be made to support students from under represented groupsThis 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.