SACNAS Scientific Symposia Sessions in Mathematics; Gaylord Resort & Conference Center, MD - October 2015

2015年SACNAS全国会议将于10月29日至31日在马里兰州盖洛德国家度假村会议中心举行。该奖项将支持两次科学研讨会的参与者。奇卡诺人和美国原住民科学进步协会（SACNAS）是一个科学家协会，致力于培养西班牙裔/奇卡诺人和美国原住民科学家的成功，从大学生到专业人士，以获得高级学位，职业生涯，并在科学领域担任领导职务。SACNAS努力实现其目标的一种方式是通过他们的年度全国会议，其计划包括科学专题讨论会，由科学研究界的成员进行演讲。这些会议的目的是展示来自不同学科的研究，分享先进的研究和发现，与与会者互动，并指导理科生。作为这一特别计划的一部分，pi将组织数学科学专题讨论会；具体来说，他们将在本科、研究生和研究生阶段组织三次会议，讨论抽象代数的研究。这些科学专题讨论会讨论各种更广泛的影响。首先，通过在全国最大的拉美裔和印第安人会议期间组织这些会议，pi将接触到学术界传统上代表性不足的群体的学生和专业人士。这些参与者将有机会在2015年SACNAS全国会议上看到并为当前的数学研究做出贡献。此外，与会者将能够听到在众多数学研究项目中指导和建议学生的数学家的讲话；因此，参与者有机会听到可能的研究项目，并结识新的导师和/或顾问。本科部分，“本科生的抽象代数研究课题”，将介绍代数研究课题，适合具有后微积分背景的学生。重点将放在提供广泛的有趣的问题，以鼓励本科生继续他们的学习，并激励他们在数学方面进行进一步的研究和工作。研究生会议“On my way to becoming a algebraist”将邀请未被充分代表的研究生进行研究演讲，从而为他们提供一个展示学术工作的场所，与其他研究人员建立联系，并获得合作和进一步推进他们当前项目的机会。研究生课程“代数：远不止算术”将介绍来自代表性不足群体的数学家所做的前沿数学研究，并提供一个场所，与有兴趣指导代表性不足的数学学生的研究人员会面和互动。会议的设计包括每个科学专题讨论会的四位演讲者，允许在广泛的数学水平上讨论抽象代数主题的12次会谈。通过提供广泛的数学水平的数学讲座，会议旨在增加与会者的兴趣。此外，每次会议中至少有75%的演讲者将来自数学科学中代表性不足的群体。会议网站是http://sacnas.org/events/national-conf

The 2015 SACNAS National Conference will be held October 29-31 at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, Maryland. This award will support participants at two scientific symposia. The Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) is a society of scientists dedicated to fostering the success of Hispanic/Chicano and Native American scientists from college students to professionals to attain advanced degrees, careers, and positions of leadership in science. One way SACNAS strives to achieve their goals is through their annual National Conference, whose programming includes scientific symposia sessions featuring talks by members of the scientific research community. The purpose of these sessions is to present research from diverse disciplines, share advanced research and discoveries, interact with attendees, and mentor science students. As part of this special program the PIs will organize scientific symposia in the mathematical sciences; specifically, they will organize three sessions dealing with research in abstract algebra at the undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate level. These scientific symposia sessions address a variety of broader impacts. First, by organizing these sessions during one of the nations largest conferences for Hispanics and Native Americans, the PIs will reach students and professionals from traditionally underrepresented groups in academia. These participants will have the opportunity to see and contribute to current mathematical research presented at the 2015 SACNAS National Conference. In addition, conference participants will be able to hear from mathematicians who have mentored and advised students in numerous mathematical research projects; hence giving participants an opportunity to hear about possible research projects and meet new mentors and/or advisers. The undergraduate session, "Abstract Algebra research topics for undergraduates," will introduce algebra research topics that are accessible to students with a post-calculus background. Emphasis will be placed on providing a wide range of interesting problems so to encourage undergraduates to continue their studies and motivate them to pursue further research and work in mathematics. The graduate session, "On my way to becoming an algebraist" will invite underrepresented graduate students to present research talks, thus providing them with a venue to present their scholarly work, network with other researchers, and gain the opportunity for collaboration and furthering their current projects. The postgraduate session, "Algebra: much more than arithmetic" will introduce cutting edge mathematical research done by mathematicians from underrepresented groups as well as provide a venue to meet and interact with researchers interested in mentoring underrepresented students in mathematics. The design of the sessions include four speakers per scientific symposia, allowing for 12 talks with topics in abstract algebra at a wide range of mathematical levels. By providing mathematical talks at a wide range of mathematical levels, the sessions aim to increase interest among conference attendees. In addition, at least 75% of presenters in each session will be from groups underrepresented in the mathematical sciences. The conference website is http://sacnas.org/events/national-conf