Travel: Third Workshop for Women in Computational Topology

该奖项将支持美国参与者参加第三届女性计算拓扑研讨会（WinCompTop 3），该研讨会将于2023年7月17日至21日在瑞士洛桑EPFL的伯努利中心举行。WinCompTop 3是一个研讨会，旨在促进在计算拓扑领域工作的初级和高级女性之间形成新的和持久的研究合作，计算拓扑领域旨在识别从医学成像到传感器阵列网络等领域的数据中的潜在模式和数学结构。本次研讨会旨在通过提供研究机会和独特的指导、合作和队伍建设环境，发展活跃在这一领域的女性网络。这类事件至关重要，因为尽管在过去几十年里有许多倡议和不可否认的进步，但数学和计算机科学领域的性别失衡仍然很严重。根据美国国家科学基金会（National science Foundation）最近收集的数据，数学和计算机科学是女性获得博士学位比例最低的三个学科中的两个。有相当多的证据表明，面向女性的会议和研讨会，如WinCompTop，可以而且确实产生了重大影响，参与者报告说，他们从这些研讨会中看到了巨大的好处，这些研讨会支持合作，扩大联系，并提高了更大的数学社区的知名度。WinCompTop 3研讨会隶属于女性研究合作会议的广泛框架，该会议受到数学女性协会的鼓励和支持。讲习班的大部分时间将用于在由该领域的知名领导人领导的小型工作组中解决悬而未决的问题。日程安排由工作小组进行研究的长时间块组成。在一周的两个或多个时间点，所有参与者将聚集在一起，每个小组的一名成员将简要总结他们小组的进展。此外，还将为研究生和早期职业参与者举办海报会议，并为处于职业生涯不同阶段的女性以及同事之间提供其他重要的交流和指导机会。这些关系将营造一种支持和社区导向的氛围，这是产生专业联系和合作的理想场所。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 the participation of US-based participants at the Third Workshop for Women in Computational Topology (WinCompTop 3) to be held at the Bernoulli Center at the EPFL Lausanne in Switzerland from July 17–21, 2023. WinCompTop 3 is a workshop that facilitates the formation of new and lasting research collaborations between junior and senior women working in the field of computational topology, a field that seeks to identify underlying patterns and mathematical structure in data from areas ranging from medical imaging to networks of sensor arrays. This workshop is designed to grow the network of women active in this field by providing both research opportunities and a unique environment for mentoring, collaboration, and cohort building. This type of event is critical, since despite numerous initiatives and undeniable progress over the past few decades, gender imbalance in mathematics and computer science remains significant. In particular, mathematics and computer science are two of three disciplines with the lowest percentage of women attaining PhDs, according to recent data collected by the National Science Foundation. There is considerable evidence that conferences and workshops, such as WinCompTop, geared toward women can and do make a significant impact, and participants report that they see strong benefits from these workshops, which support collaborations, broaden contacts, and raise visibility in the greater mathematical community.The WinCompTop 3 workshop fits under the broad umbrella of Research Collaboration Conferences for Women, which the Association for Women in Mathematics encourages and supports. The majority of the time at the workshop will be spent tackling open problems in small working groups headed by established leaders in the field. The schedule consists of long blocks of time for the working groups to do research. At two or more points during the week, all participants will convene and one member from each group will provide a brief summary of their team's progress. In addition, there will be a poster session for graduate students and early-career participants, as well as other crucial networking and mentoring opportunities between women at different points in their career as well as between peer colleagues. These relationships will foster a supportive and community-oriented atmosphere that is ideal for generating professional connections and collaborations.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.