AWM Travel Grants for Women in the Mathematical Sciences

数学女性协会将管理NSF-AWM旅行补助计划，从2008年10月15日开始，为期三年。这项计划已经运行了20年，支持希望积极参加国内或国际研究会议的女性数学家的旅行，以及与导师一起进行长期访问。资金以竞争性方式分配，允许在三年期间发放约145份定期旅行补助金和25份辅导补助金。大部分资金将用于数学研究，但五分之一的旅费将用于资助数学研究人员参加数学教育研究会议和数学教育研究人员参加数学会议。数据显示，妇女参加会议和数学工作坊的比例仍然低于她们在学术部门的比例，特别是初级人员。通过提供赠款，使妇女注意到分享她们的知识和交流她们的结果的好处，AWM正在进行积极的干预，以增加妇女在该专业中的作用。一名独立评估者的报告证实，该方案的目标群体是受过良好培训并具有重大研究潜力的妇女，她们无法持续获得使她们能够参加数学会议的资源。此外，辅导补助金成功地让许多年轻女性参与者开始了新的研究方向，并拓宽了她们对数学研究职业的看法。数学教育研究轨道开始被妇女在其职业生涯的所有阶段使用，并将促进教育研究人员对数学的理解和数学家对教育研究的了解。不同社区之间的这种交流有可能对正在进行的关于女童和妇女学习数学的对话作出建设性的贡献。

The Association for Women in Mathematics will administer the NSF-AWM Travel Grants Program for a three-year period beginning October 15, 2008. This program, which has run for the past twenty years, supports the travel of women mathematicians who wish to actively participate in domestic or international research conferences, as well as longer-term visits to work with a mentor. Funding is allocated competitively, and allows approximately one hundred and forty-five regular travel grants and twenty-five mentoring grants to be awarded over the three-year period. Most of the funding is intended to benefit mathematics research, but one fifth of the travel grants will fund mathematics researchers to participate in mathematics education research conferences and mathematics education researchers to travel to mathematics conferences.Data indicate that women's participation rates in conferences and mathematics workshops remain lower than their proportion in academic departments, especially at the junior ranks. By providing grants that draw women's attention to the benefits of sharing their knowledge and communicating their results, AWM is intervening positively to increase the role of women in the profession. Reports by an independent evaluator have confirmed that this program is reaching its target group of women with excellent training and serious research potential who do not have consistent access to resources enabling them to attend mathematics meetings. In addition, the mentoring grants have succeeded in starting many of the young women participants in fresh new research directions and have broadened their view of mathematical research careers. The mathematics education research track is beginning to be utilized by women at all stages of their careers and will advance the understanding of mathematics by education researchers and of education research by mathematicians. This communication between different communities has the potential of contributing constructively to the ongoing dialogue about the learning of mathematics by girls and women.