RTG: Geometry and Topology at Iowa

该奖项支持爱荷华大学几何和拓扑研究训练组的参与者。该项目旨在建立一个强大的垂直整合的数学社区，保持该部门对STEM中代表性不足的人进行研究生培训的传统，并将活动扩展到本科和博士后水平。研究培训小组的教师团队将在垂直整合的环境中招募本科生、研究生和博士后。博士后将加强部门内部的互动以及与外部数学界的联系。该项目还旨在通过专题讨论会和会议使其他部门、地区高校、国际合作者和公众的教职员工和学生受益。每年将有6名本科生和12名研究生获得研究培训小组奖学金，以促进研究和竞争力。该小组将开设两个夏季拓扑课程，一个本科生研讨会，一个本科生职业研讨会，并将举办三次会议：几何和拓扑全景，拓扑和代数研究中代表性不足的学生研讨会，拓扑数据分析。后者将特别有助于将参与者与应用学科联系起来。这些活动涵盖所有教育水平和职业目标，将帮助博士后在学术界建立平衡和成功的职业生涯，使更多的研究生从事学术或研究工作，并鼓励更多的本科生进入数学科学研究生院。少数族裔学生研讨会将提供交流机会，并促进少数族裔学生的研究。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 participants in the geometry and topology research training group at the University of Iowa. The project seeks to build a robust vertically integrated math community, maintain the department's legacy of graduate training for people underrepresented in STEM, and expand activities to undergraduate and postdoctoral levels. The research training group faculty team will recruit and work with undergraduate students, graduate students, and postdoctoral associates in a vertically integrated setting. The postdocs will enhance interactions within the department and connections to the outside mathematical community. The project also aims to benefit faculty and students in other departments, regional colleges and universities, international collaborators, and the public through symposia and conferences. Each year six undergraduates and twelve graduate students will be awarded Research Training Group fellowships to boost research and competitiveness. The group will institute two summer topology courses, an undergraduate seminar, an undergraduate career workshop, and will host three conferences: Panorama of Geometry and Topology, Underrepresented Students in Topology and Algebra Research Symposium, and Topological Data Analysis. The latter will particularly help to connect participants with applied disciplines. These activities, which span all education levels and career goals, will assist postdocs in building balanced and successful careers in academia, place more graduate students in academic or research jobs, and encourage more undergraduates to enter graduate schools in mathematical sciences. The underrepresented students symposium will provide networking opportunities and promote the research performed by minority students.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.