Field of Dreams: Growing a Diverse Mathematics Community

该奖项将部分支持将于2020年11月和2021年11月在明尼苏达大学校园举行的梦想领域会议。梦想领域会议是由数学联盟和数学及其应用研究所组织的，该组织的目标是增加在数学科学领域缺乏代表性的背景下获得这些领域博士学位的学生的数量。大约200名本科生和硕士研究生将参加会议，其中约80%将是代表不足的少数族裔。这项奖励的所有资金将用于支付其中一些学生的上课费。这次会议与数学联盟促进研究生招生程序(F-GAP)相协调，在过去六年中，F-GAP帮助平均每年约80名数学联盟学者进入研究生项目，到目前为止，他们的留存率非常高。这次会议是培养一支更加多样化的专业数学劳动力计划的重要组成部分。此外，会议上还有帮助教师指导实践和帮助学术部门转变其文化以更具包容性和支持学生成功的活动。梦想领域会议有几个目的，包括：向希望攻读博士学位的学生提供有关数学科学专业的方方面面的信息；提供关于NSF资助的数学科学研究所暑期研究项目和机会的信息；促进数学联盟学生在研究生项目中的适当安置；为我们的数学联盟教师在指导和文化能力方面提供专业发展；以及为新的(和最近的)数学联盟博士生提供就业机会的交流中心。欲了解有关数学联盟的更多信息，请访问www.mathalliance.org。来自前几年会议的材料，可在https://mathalliance.org/field-of-dreams-conference/，上查阅，2020年会议的页面是https://mathalliance.org/2020-field-of-dreams-conference/.This奖，反映了国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award will partially support the November 2020 and November 2021 Field of Dreams Conferences, to be held on the University of Minnesota campus. The Field of Dreams Conference is organized by the 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, and the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications. Approximately 200 undergraduate and terminal MS students will attend the conference, and about 80% of those will be underrepresented minorities. All funds from this award will be used to pay the cost of attendance for some of these students. The conference coordinates with the Math Alliance's Facilitated Graduate Admissions Process (F-GAP), which has helped place an average of about 80 Math Alliance Scholars per year in graduate programs the last six years with very good retention to this point. 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 inclusive and 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 Math Alliance students in graduate programs; providing professional development in mentoring and cultural competence for our Math Alliance faculty; and serving as a clearinghouse for employment opportunities for new (and recent) Math Alliance doctoral recipients. More information about the Math Alliance is available at www.mathalliance.org. Material from previous years' conferences, are available at https://mathalliance.org/field-of-dreams-conference/, and the page for the 2020 conference is https://mathalliance.org/2020-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.