Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference 2020-2022

该奖项支持哈德逊河本科数学会议将在2020年4月，2021年和2022年举行的参与者。该会议于1994年首次举行，将继续为来自东北不同大学、学院和社区学院的学生和教师提供服务。会议的目标是激励本科生，特别是代表性不足的群体和妇女，在各级参加和参与数学科学的专业会议；通过与同行和教师的互动和交流，为学生提供了解数学科学家群体的机会；并为本科生提供一个场所，分享他们的奖学金，并通过准备和发表演讲来练习交流。这次会议的独特之处在于，它明确的目标是让大一和大二的学生参与进来，而且对与会者是免费的。因此，它能够在没有资金支付会议费用的机构中滋养学生和教师的数学成长和合作经验。会议将包括两个小组：一个是关于如何充分利用大学生涯，另一个是关于学术界内外的职业选择。会议的气氛令人兴奋和鼓舞人心，会议调查一次又一次地表明，参加会议和/或在会议上发言的经历是留住和鼓励学生学习数学科学的关键。在这些会议上培养的解决问题、推理和沟通技巧是可转移的，并将为学生解决更大的社会问题做好准备。这三个为期一天的会议将分别汇集300-350名来自数学科学的学生和教师。在教师的指导下，学生将进行大部分（约80%）15分钟的演讲，这些演讲分为三个1小时的会议，每个会议按主题组织多个平行会议。所有与会者将聚集在一起，由一位著名的数学科学家进行长达一小时的主题演讲，然后是工作午餐和两个信息丰富的午餐小组。会议组织者制定了一项评估计划，以修改会议的评估工具，集中存储和访问会议数据，并制定了一项外展计划，以增加代表性不足群体成员的参与，包括一年级和二年级学生，以及高中生和他们的老师。通过准备和演讲，学生们学会了把复杂的数学概念用清晰易懂的术语表达出来。简而言之，他们正在获得数学科学家如何互动和交流的第一手经验，以进一步了解他们的理解。关于本次会议的更多信息可以在www.skidmore.edu/hrumc.htmThis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。

This award supports the participants of the Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference to be held in the month of April of 2020, 2021, and 2022. This conference, first held in 1994, will continue to serve students and faculty from a diverse list of universities, colleges, and community colleges in the Northeast. The goals of the conference are to motivate undergraduate students, in particular underrepresented groups and women, at all levels to attend and participate in a professional conference of the mathematical sciences; to provide students with an opportunity to learn about the community of mathematical scientists by interacting and networking with peers and faculty; and to provide a venue where undergraduates, share their scholarship, and practice communicating through preparing and presenting talks. This conference is distinctive because it explicitly aims to involve first-year and sophomore students as participants and because it is free to attendees. It is thus able to nourish the mathematical growth and collaborative experience of students and faculty at institutions that do not have the funds for conference expenses. The conferences will include two panels: one on how to make the most of one's college career and the other on career choices both in and out of academia. The atmosphere of the conference is exciting and encouraging and conference surveys have shown again and again that the experience of attending and/or presenting at the conference is key to retaining and encouraging students in the mathematical sciences. The problem-solving, reasoning, and communication skills developed at these conferences are transferable and will prepare students to solve larger societal issues. These three one-day conferences will each bring together 300-350 students and faculty from the mathematical sciences. Students, under the mentorship of faculty members, will give most (approximately 80%) of the 15 minute presentations which are organized into three 1- hour session times each with multiple parallel sessions organized by subject. All conference participants will come together for an hour long keynote speech given by a well-known mathematical scientist followed by a working lunch and two informative lunchtime panels. The conference organizers have an assessment plan to modify the conference's evaluation tool and to centralize storage and access of conference data and an outreach plan to increase participation by members of underrepresented groups and to include first and second year students, as well as high school students and their teachers. Through the preparation and presentation of talks, students learn to take complex mathematical ideas and present them in clear, understandable terms. In short, they are gaining first-hand experience on how mathematical scientists interact and communicate in order to further their understanding. More information regarding this conference can be found at www.skidmore.edu/hrumc.htmThis 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.