Travel: Student Travel Grant for Symposium on Combinatorial Search (SoCS) 2024

该奖项支持在第十七届组合搜索研讨会（SoCS 2024）的博士联盟（DC）计划的选定参与者的学生旅行，计划于2024年6月6日至8日在加拿大阿尔伯塔的卡纳纳斯基斯举行。SoCS是一个专门为启发式搜索和组合优化领域的研究人员设计的成熟会议。SoCS的DC计划旨在支持博士的研究和职业发展。学生在学术旅程的各个阶段。DC计划的主要活动包括将学生与高级研究人员配对的导师计划，一些涵盖该地区各种有趣研究主题的大师班，高级研究员为学生提供研究建议的职业建议谈话，以及口头和海报展示机会让学生分享他们的研究。这些活动为学生提供了很好的机会，让他们与知名研究人员接触，获得他们的研究反馈，获得职业发展建议，并与同行和国际研究人员建立联系，从而可能导致未来的合作。启发式搜索和组合优化从人工智能（AI）的早期就一直是AI的核心。这一领域的研究在21世纪世纪稳步增长并取得了显著进展。例如，搜索现在是规划、机器人、离散优化、视频游戏、GPS导航、自动仓库以及计算机科学和运筹学的其他领域的主导范式。SoCS的一个重要方面是其在启发式搜索和组合优化领域的培养和支持学生的强烈关注。支持学生前往SoCS提供了DC计划之外的许多好处。赞助的学生将有充分的机会参加主要的SoCS会议，该会议有一个完善的计划，涵盖该社区的各种研究领域，包括邀请演讲，演讲，海报，社区会议和社交活动，为学生提供了与世界各地的研究人员进行讨论和探索新的研究方向和主题的绝佳机会。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得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来提供支持。

This award supports student travel for selected participants of the Doctoral Consortium (DC) program at the Seventeenth Symposium on Combinatorial Search (SoCS 2024), scheduled to take place in Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada, from June 6 to 8, 2024. SoCS is a well-established conference designed specifically for researchers in the area of heuristic search and combinatorial optimization. The DC program of SoCS is designed to support the research and career development of Ph.D. students at all stages of their academic journey. Key activities of the DC program include a mentorship program that pairs students with senior researchers, a number of master classes that cover various interesting research topics in the area, a career-advice talk by a senior researcher that offers research advice to students, as well as both oral and poster presentation opportunities for students to share their research. These activities provide great opportunities for students to engage with established researchers, get feedback on their research, gain advice on career possibilities, and network with peers and international researchers, potentially leading to future collaborations.Heuristic search and combinatorial optimization have been at the core of Artificial Intelligence (AI) from the very early days of AI. Research in this area has steadily grown and advanced significantly during the 21st century. For example, search is now a dominant paradigm in planning, robotics, discrete optimization, video games, GPS navigation, autonomous warehouses, and other areas of computer science and operations research. A significant aspect of SoCS is its strong focus on nurturing and supporting students in the field of heuristic search and combinatorial optimization. Supporting student travel to SoCS offers numerous benefits beyond the DC program. Sponsored students will have full access to the main SoCS conference with a well-developed program covering a diverse range of research areas in this community with invited talks, presentations, posters, community meetings, and social activities, providing students with great opportunities to engage in discussion with researchers worldwide and explore new research directions and topics.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.