NSF Student Travel Grant for 2019 Theoretical Computer Science (TCS) Women Meeting at Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC)

该奖项将支持学生参加理论计算机科学(TCS)女性活动，该活动将与2019年6月23日至26日举行的第51届计算机械协会(ACM)计算理论研讨会(STOC)共同举办，作为联邦计算研究会议(FCRC)的一部分。世界各地的科学家越来越多地认识到多样性的必要性。正在组织许多与多样性有关的讲习班，目的是建立社区，增进友情，并帮助少数群体分享他们的经验和接受指导。虽然这些少数族裔社区的讲习班和会议极其重要，但尽可能将这些会议与主要技术会议合并在一起也同样重要。这使更广泛的研究界能够听到少数群体提出的问题。它还可以让少数群体与会者更好地利用技术会议。STOC是理论计算机科学领域的旗舰年度研究会议之一。STOC以涵盖TCS所有方面的演示为特色，并鼓励发表拓宽计算机科学理论覆盖范围的论文。此外，同一地点的理论节组织了特邀会议，在TCS社区之外展示最好的理论论文。今年，STOC与ACM FCRC 2019旗下的其他十几个计算机科学会议并列举行，包括学习理论会议(COLT)、经济与计算会议(EC)、算法与架构并行性研讨会(SPAA)等。这一奖项将为大约10名学生提供部分支持，让他们参加这个领先的会议和塔塔咨询服务公司的妇女活动。这次活动将包括午餐、高级女性研究人员小组和一个向所有人开放的研讨会，由著名女性研究人员进行研究报告。一个重要目标将是为技术合作中心的妇女和少数群体研究人员提供建立网络的机会。它将有助于吸引更多未被充分代表的群体参与TCS研究，并将为他们未来的专业发展提供一个积极的环境。该奖项反映了NSF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。

This award will support student attendance at the Theoretical Computer Science (TCS) Women Event which will be co-located with the 51st Annual Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Symposium on the Theory of Computing (STOC), June 23-26, 2019, as part of the Federated Computing Research Conferences (FCRC). Scientists all over the world are increasingly acknowledging the need for diversity. Many diversity-related workshops are being organized with the goal of building community, increasing camaraderie, and helping minorities to share their experience and receive mentoring. While these workshops and meetings of minority communities are extremely important, it is equally important to co-locate these meetings with major technical conferences whenever possible. This allows the broader research community to hear the issues raised by minorities. It also allows the minority participants to better take advantage of the technical conferences. STOC is one of the flagship annual research conference in the field of Theoretical Computer Science (TCS). STOC features presentations covering all aspects of TCS and encourages papers that broaden the reach of computer science theory. Moreover, the co-located theory festival organizes invited sessions with the best theoretical papers presented outside the TCS community. This year, STOC is collocated with a dozen other computer science conferences under the umbrella of ACM FCRC 2019, including Conference on Learning Theory (COLT), Economics and Computation (EC), Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA), and many others. This award will provide partial support to approximately 10 students to attend this leading conference as well as the TCS Women event. The event will consist of a lunch, a panel of senior female researchers, and a workshop open to all, featuring research presentations by prominent female researchers. An important goal will be to provide opportunities for network-building among women and minority researchers in TCS. It will contribute towards attracting more under-represented groups to TCS research, and will provide a positive environment for their future professional development.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.