NSF Student Travel Grant for 2022 Theoretical Computer Science (TCS) Women Meeting at Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC)

该奖项将支持学生参加理论计算机科学（TCS）女性活动，该活动将于2022年6月20日至24日在意大利罗马与第51届计算机协会（ACM）计算理论研讨会（STOC）共同举办。全世界的科学家越来越认识到多样性的必要性。正在组织许多与多样性有关的讲习班，目的是建立社区，增进同志情谊，帮助少数民族分享经验并接受指导。虽然这些少数民族社区的讲习班和会议极其重要，但尽可能将这些会议与主要技术会议放在一起也同样重要。这使得更广泛的研究界能够听到少数群体提出的问题。它还允许少数参与者更好地利用技术会议。STOC是理论计算机科学（TCS）领域的旗舰年度研究会议之一。STOC的特色演讲涵盖了TCS的各个方面，并鼓励拓宽计算机科学理论范围的论文。此外，同址理论节还组织邀请会议，讨论在TCS社区之外发表的最好的理论论文。该奖项将为大约10名学生提供部分支持，以参加这个领先的会议以及TCS妇女活动。该活动将包括午餐、资深女性研究人员小组和一个面向所有人的研讨会，由杰出的女性研究人员进行研究报告。一个重要的目标将是为妇女和少数民族研究人员在TCS之间建立网络提供机会。它将有助于吸引更多代表性不足的群体参与TCS研究，并将为他们未来的专业发展提供积极的环境。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 will support student attendance at the Theoretical Computer Science (TCS) Women Event which will be co-located with the 51st Annual Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Symposium on the Theory of Computing (STOC), June 20-24, 2022, in Rome, Italy. Scientists all over the world are increasingly acknowledging the need for diversity. Many diversity-related workshops are being organized with the goal of building community, increasing camaraderie, and helping minorities to share their experience and receive mentoring. While these workshops and meetings of minority communities are extremely important, it is equally important to co-locate these meetings with major technical conferences whenever possible. This allows the broader research community to hear the issues raised by minorities. It also allows the minority participants to better take advantage of the technical conferences.STOC is one of the flagship annual research conference in the field of Theoretical Computer Science (TCS). STOC features presentations covering all aspects of TCS and encourages papers that broaden the reach of computer science theory. Moreover, the co-located theory festival organizes invited sessions with the best theoretical papers presented outside the TCS community. This award will provide partial support to approximately 10 students to attend this leading conference as well as the TCS Women event. The event will consist of a lunch, a panel of senior female researchers, and a workshop open to all, featuring research presentations by prominent female researchers. An important goal will be to provide opportunities for network-building among women and minority researchers in TCS. It will contribute towards attracting more under-represented groups to TCS research, and will provide a positive environment for their future professional development.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.