Conference: Field of Dreams Conference 2023-25

该奖项将资助2023年至25年参加梦想领域大会。这次会议聚集了大约200名本科生和硕士研究生，其中约85%属于NSF定义的代表性较低的少数群体。获奖资金将支持每年约150名此类学生的参与，其中许多人是数学联盟促进研究生招生程序(F-GAP)的参与者，该程序帮助学生通过研究生院的申请过程。自2013-14年度以来，F-GAP平均每年安排70名学生攻读研究生课程。会议还吸引了约150名教职员工，其中大多数是数学联盟的导师，约50名博士生(许多曾是梦想之地的本科生)，以及来自行业、政府、专业组织、科研院所和其他量化科学专业人员的代表。梦想领域会议是全国数学科学博士研究联盟(数学联盟)的顶峰活动，发挥着许多重要的社区建设作用。会议的一个主要焦点是为学生进入研究生项目并在其中取得成功做好准备，这一目标在一定程度上是通过一系列小组讨论来实现的，这些小组讨论的重点是学生在考虑自己的前进道路时所需的重要信息。还有导师交流最佳实践的会议、附属地区联盟会议、全体演讲和REU&Amp；实习生博览会。一个重要的会议活动是研究生项目交易会，学生们在那里会见来自许多研究生项目的代表和学生。小组为学生们做好准备，使他们在本届展会上最大限度地成功收集信息。数学联盟是一个全国性的辅导社区，由导师(教职员工)和学者(学生)组成，专注于扩大量化科学专业的参与。主要目标是增加来自历史上代表性不足的少数群体的学生的数量和比例，他们注册并毕业于广泛的STEM学科的博士课程，这些学科严重依赖数学和计算科学。我们的社区寻求支持这些科学家完成他们的本科教育、研究生申请程序、研究生课程，并进入量化科学专业。数学联盟提供了一个全国性的支持社区，并建立了一个由具有相似背景的同行组成的全国性队列，这些同行正在通过研究生课程和职业生涯取得进步。该奖项反映了NSF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 fund participation in the Field of Dreams Conference from 2023-25. This meeting brings together approximately 200 undergraduate and terminal MS students, about 85% of whom belong to underrepresented minority groups as defined by NSF. The awarded funds will support the participation of approximately 150 of these student attendees each year, and many are participants in the Math Alliance’s Facilitated Graduate Admissions Procedure (F-GAP), which helps students navigate the graduate school application process. F-GAP has been placing an average of 70 students in graduate programs per year since 2013-14. The meeting also attracts about 150 faculty members, most of whom are Math Alliance Mentors, about 50 doctoral students (many former attendees to Field of Dreams as undergraduates), as well as representatives of industry, government, professional organizations, scientific institutes, and other quantitative science professionals. The Field of DreamsConference is the capstone event for the National Alliance for Doctoral Studies in the Mathematical Sciences (Math Alliance) and serves many important community building roles. A major focus of the conference is preparing students for entry into and success within graduate programs, and this goal is addressed in part by a series of panels focusing on important information for students as they consider their path forward. There are also sessions for mentors to exchange best practices, meetings of affiliated regional alliances, plenary addresses, and an REU & Internship Fair. A major conference event is the Graduate Program Fair, where students meet representatives and students from many graduate programs. Panels prepare the students to maximize their success in gathering information at this fair. In recent years there have been as many as 70 tables at this event.The Math Alliance is a national mentoring community consisting of Mentors (faculty) and Scholars (students) focusing on broadening participation in the quantitative science professions. The primary goal is to increase the number and proportion of students from historically underrepresented minority groups who enroll in and graduate from doctoral programs in the broad STEM disciplines which depend strongly on mathematics and computational science. Our community seeks to support these scientists as they make their way through their undergraduate education, the graduate application process, graduate programs, and into the quantitative science professions. The Math Alliance provides a national supportive community, and builds a national cohort of peers from similar backgrounds who are advancing through graduate programs and careers.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.