Travel Support for 16th Tri-Annual International Conference on Stochastic Programming (ICSP); Davis, California; 24-28 July 2023

该基金为参加2023年7月24日至28日在加利福尼亚州戴维斯举行的第16届随机规划国际会议的博士生和博士后研究人员提供资金。ICSP是随机规划学会的首要活动，是数学优化学会的技术会议，汇集了研究不确定性下决策的研究人员、学生和实践者。获得资助的参与者有望从事数据和决策分析、机器学习和运筹学交叉领域的研究，并将其应用于自主系统、气候适应和网络物理系统。强调新兴技术带来的新挑战需要在耦合系统中对决策过程进行概念化和建模的新方法。当使用优化模型来规划对自然灾害的响应时，多种不确定性来源变得常见。新的研究方向和思想有望在与会者之间汇聚。该项目减少了代表性不足群体参加会议的经济障碍，从而使STEM领域更加多样化和包容性。会议还为美国和其他国家的产业界和学术机构的研究人员提供了一个交流的机会。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 grant provides funds for PhD students and post-doctoral researchers to attend the 16th Tri-Annual International Conference on Stochastic Programming (ICSP), in Davis, California, 24-28 July 2023. The ICSP is the premier event of the Stochastic Programming Society, a technical session of the Mathematical Optimization Society that brings together researchers, students, and practitioners who work on decision-making under uncertainty. Funded participants are expected to engage in research at the intersection of data and decision analytics, machine learning, and operations research, with applications to autonomous systems, climate adaptation, and cyber-physical systems. The emphasis on new challenges brought by emerging technologies requires novel ways of conceptualizing and modeling decision processes in coupled systems. Multiple sources of uncertainty become common when using optimization models to plan for responses to natural disasters. New research directions and ideas are expected to converge among the conference participants. This project reduces financial barriers for underrepresented groups to attend the conference and thus makes STEM fields more diverse and inclusive. The conference also provides a networking opportunity for researchers in industry and academic institutions of the US and other countries.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.