Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference 2020-2022

哈德逊河本科数学会议 2020-2022

• 批准号: 1936062
• 负责人: Margaret Robinson
• 金额: $ 0.95万
• 依托单位: Mount Holyoke College
• 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: 2019-10-01 至 2023-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1936062&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Hudson; River; Undergraduate; Mathematics; Conference

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.

该奖项为将于 2020 年 4 月、2021 年和 2022 年举行的哈德逊河本科数学会议的参与者提供支持。该会议于 1994 年首次举行，将继续为来自东北部各大学、学院和社区学院的学生和教师提供服务。会议的目标是激励各级本科生，特别是代表性不足的群体和女性，参加数学科学专业会议；为学生提供通过与同行和教师互动和建立联系来了解数学科学家群体的机会；并为本科生提供一个分享奖学金并通过准备和演讲练习沟通的场所。这次会议的独特之处在于它明确旨在让一年级和二年级学生参与其中，并且对与会者免费。因此，它能够滋养没有会议费用资金的机构的学生和教师的数学成长和协作经验。会议将包括两个小组：一个讨论如何充分利用自己的大学生涯，另一个讨论学术界内外的职业选择。会议的气氛令人兴奋和鼓舞，会议调查一再表明，参加会议和/或在会议上发言的经历是留住和鼓励数学科学学生的关键。在这些会议上培养的解决问题、推理和沟通技能是可以转移的，将为学生解决更大的社会问题做好准备。这三场为期一天的会议将分别汇聚 300-350 名数学科学领域的学生和教师。学生将在教师的指导下进行 15 分钟演讲的大部分（约 80%），这些演讲分为三个 1 小时的会议时间，每个会议时间按主题组织多个并行会议。所有会议参与者将齐聚一堂，聆听一位著名数学科学家发表的长达一小时的主题演讲，随后享用工作午餐和两个内容丰富的午餐小组讨论。会议组织者制定了一项评估计划，以修改会议的评估工具并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，并包括一年级和二年级学生以及高中生及其老师。 通过演讲的准备和演示，学生学习如何理解复杂的数学思想并以清晰易懂的术语表达它们。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，以加深他们的理解。有关本次会议的更多信息，请访问 www.skidmore.edu/hrumc.htm 该奖项反映了 NSF 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，被认为值得支持。