NSF/AWM Travel Grants for Women in the Mathematical Sciences

继续实施女数学家参加国内外学术会议的差旅资助计划。拟议的经费数额将允许在三年期间提供大约75笔赠款，数额从250美元到1 500美元不等。还需要额外的资金，以建立奖励女数学家旅行的试点方案，以便在其研究领域与特定的个人进行短期的合作。这些指导旅行补助金的拟议资助水平将允许每年提供3至6笔补助金，每次4000美元，为期3年。这两个项目都旨在提高女性数学家的研究能力和知名度，扩大她们工作的影响力，并提高她们的能力，以激励处于较低水平的女性在数学、科学或其他需要大量数学训练的领域追求（或继续）职业生涯。这两个项目都寻求（直接或间接）让女性出现在报告或完成研究的地方，这是一种不正常的专业期望，并缓解在许多数学会议上女性演讲者太少的长期问题。这两个项目都应该成为女性数学家在学术生活中留下的重要工具。为了评估该计划的影响，并看看是否有方法可以改进该计划，将研究过去NSF向AWM提供的旅行资助的有效性。

The Association for Women in Mathematics will continue the program ofawarding travel support for women mathematicians to attend domestic orforeign research conferences. The proposed level of funding will allowapproximately 75 grants, in amounts from $250 to $1,500, to be awardedover a three year period.Additional funds are requested to establish a pilot program of awardsto women mathematicians for travel, to work with particularindividuals in their research area for brief periods of time. Theproposed level of funding for these mentoring travel grants wouldallow three to six grants per year of $4000 each over a period of 3years.Both programs are intended to enhance the research capability and thevisibility of women mathematicians, to expand the influence of theirwork, and to increase their ability to inspire women at less advancedlevels to pursue (or continue) careers in mathematics, in thesciences, or in other fields requiring substantial mathematicaltraining. Both programs seek (directly or indirectly) to make thepresence of women at places where research is being reported or done anormal professional expectation, and to mitigate the persistantproblem of having too few women speakers at many mathematicalconferences. Both programs should be important tools for the retentionof women mathematicians in academic life. To assess the impact of thisprogram, and to see if there are ways the program could be improved, astudy will be taken of the effectiveness of past NSF grants to AWM fortravel grants.