Travel: NSF Student Travel Grant for Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2024 (FC24)

该项目旨在通过资助学生参加2024年金融加密和数据安全会议来实现和扩大对金融密码学领域的参与。成立该会议的目的是研究数字现金和其他形式的电子金融，以及一般的隐私和密码学；多年来，它在密码学、区块链、安全经济学和相关主题的知识方面产生了重大影响。会议还汇集了安全和密码学研究人员和从业者、经济学家、银行家、实施者和政策制定者。这个旅行奖项将通过将有前途的年轻学生与围绕这次会议形成的研究社区联系起来，扩大金融密码学研究和相关领域的活力。通过吸收具有新观点的新参与者来扩展这一知识是该项目的一个主要目标。该项目鼓励新进入至关重要的安全和密码学研究领域。这些新进入者与现有研究界之间的对话将导致对当前问题的洞察和对未来的新想法。学生的选择将基于他们的经济需求和他们从会议中受益的能力，并着眼于机构和人口结构的多样性。扩大参与者队伍将使社会受益，这既得益于该领域对现实社会需求和偏好的更好响应，也通过增加接受过密码学和网络安全方面的研究培训的人才库。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已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。

The project seeks to enable and broaden participation in the field of financial cryptography by funding student attendance at the Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2024 conference. The conference was founded to study digital cash and other forms of electronic finance, as well as privacy and cryptography in general; over the years it has had major impacts in the knowledge of cryptography, blockchain, economics of security, and related topics. The conference has also brought together security and cryptography researchers and practitioners, economists, bankers, implementers and policy-makers. This travel award will expand the vibrancy of financial cryptography research and allied fields by connecting promising young students to the research community that has formed around this conference. The expansion of this knowledge through including new participants with new perspectives is a principal goal of this project. The project encourages new entrants into the vital field of security and cryptography research. The dialog between these new entrants and the established research community will result in insight into current problems and fresh ideas for the future. Students will be chosen based on their financial need and their ability to benefit from the conference, with an eye toward institutional and demographic diversity. Broadening the pool of participants will be benefit society both from the field's better responsiveness to real social needs and preferences, and through growing the talent pool of people with research training around cryptography and cybersecurity.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.