Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics

第21届内布拉斯加州数学本科女性年会(NCUWM)将于2019年1月25日至27日在内布拉斯加州大学林肯分校举行。自1999年创办以来，已有近4000名本科生参加了NCUWM。会议的主要目的是为数学专业的女学生进入研究生院做好准备，提高她们在研究生院的成功，并帮助她们利用数学找到潜在的职业。2019年，会议的组成部分包括来自著名女数学家的三次全体演讲，48次本科生演讲，一次有60多张海报的本科生海报会议，与受邀的研究生和学术界和工业界专业人士的小组讨论，关于特定主题的小组分组会议，以及其他网络机会。会议特别关注指导，不仅将本科生与同龄人联系起来，还将与广泛职业阶段的许多成功女性联系起来。2019年全体演讲者名单包括NASA兰利研究中心的克里斯汀·达登，她曾在著名的《隐藏的人物》一书中出现，普渡大学数学教授冯志兰，以及高盛退休合伙人、普林斯顿大学讲师玛格丽特·霍伦。除了从全体演讲者那里学习尖端数学之外，学生与会者还将从一系列学生演讲和海报演示中了解本科生数学研究前沿的当前发展。NCUWM对垂直指导的关注为所有与会者带来了职业发展机会。RMC Research Corporation在2015年NCUWM之后准备的一项综合评估得出结论，NCUWM强烈影响本科生参与者追求研究生水平的数学和与数学相关的职业的态度和信念。RMC Research在每次会议后继续以参与者调查的形式收集数据，这些数据在一定程度上是为了确保会议也能很好地服务于代表不足的人群。会议的网页可在https://www.math.unl.edu/~ncuwm/21stAnnual/This网站上获得，该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并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 21st Annual Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics (NCUWM) will take place January 25th-27th, 2019 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Since its inception in 1999, nearly 4000 undergraduate women have participated in NCUWM. The main purpose of the conference is to prepare women mathematics majors to attend graduate school, to increase their success in graduate school, and to help them identify potential careers using mathematics. In 2019, conference components include three plenary talks from prominent women mathematicians, 48 undergraduate student talks, an undergraduate student poster session with over 60 posters, panel discussions with invited graduate students and professionals in academia and industry, small-group breakout sessions on specific topics, and other networking opportunities. The conference has a special focus on mentoring, connecting undergraduate students not only with their peers but also with a number of successful women at a broad range of career stages.The 2019 slate of plenary speakers include Christine Darden of the NASA Langley Research Center, who was featured in the famous "Hidden Figures" book, Zhilan Feng, a Professor of Mathematics at Purdue University, and Margaret Holen, a retired partner at Goldman Sachs and Lecturer at Princeton University. In addition to learning cutting edge mathematics from the plenary speakers, student attendees will also learn about current developments at the frontier of undergraduate mathematics research from an array of student talks and poster presentations. The focus on vertical mentoring at NCUWM leads to professional development opportunities for all of the conference attendees. A comprehensive assessment prepared by RMC Research Corporation following NCUWM in 2015 concluded that NCUWM strongly influences the attitudes and beliefs of the undergraduate participants related to pursuing graduate-level mathematics and mathematics related careers. RMC Research continues to gather data after each conference in the form of participant surveys, and this data is used in part to ensure that the conference also well serves underrepresented populations. The conference webpage is available at https://www.math.unl.edu/~ncuwm/21stAnnual/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.