Great Plains Combinatorics Conference 2020; April 25-26, 2020; Fargo, ND

该奖项将为将于2020年4月25日至26日周末在新泽西州法戈举行的“大平原组合学会议(GPCC)2020”提供资金。这次会议由北达科他州立大学数学系主办。GPCC是一个组合学的地区性会议系列，已于2014年和2016年在堪萨斯大学和2018年在堪萨斯州立大学举行。很大一部分资金将支持学生、职业早期教师和属于代表性不足群体的数学家的参与。美国大平原西部的许多研究型大学都有从事组合数学工作的小团体(通常只有一到两名教师)，而大学的低集中度意味着组合数学专家在地理上彼此隔绝。因此，大平原组合学会议(GPCC)于2014年成立，为大平原地区的组合学家提供机会介绍和分享他们的研究，并发展不同组合数学领域之间的联系。会议在一个周末举行，大多数与会者在周五晚上到达。周六有4次全体会议，外加研究生海报会议，周日上午有3次全体会议，让与会者有足够的时间在周日晚上返回自己的母校。为这次会议创建了以下网站：https://sites.google.com/view/gpcc2020/This奖反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，通过使用基金会的学术价值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 provide funding for the "Great Plains Combinatorics Conference (GPCC) 2020" which will be held in Fargo, ND, during the weekend of April 25-26, 2020. The conference is being hosted by the Department of Mathematics at North Dakota State University. The GPCC is a regional conference series in combinatorics that has been held in 2014 and 2016 at the University of Kansas and in 2018 at Kansas State University. A large portion of the funding will support the participation of students, early-career faculty, and mathematicians belonging to underrepresented groups.Many research universities in the western Great Plains have small groups (often just one or two faculty members) working in combinatorics, and the low concentration of universities means that combinatorialists are geographically isolated from each other. Accordingly, the Great Plains Combinatorics Conference (GPCC) was created in 2014 to provide an opportunity for combinatorialists in the Great Plains region to present and share their research and to develop connections between different areas of combinatorics. The meetings are held over a weekend, with most participants arriving on Friday evening. There are 4 plenary talks on Saturday, plus a graduate students poster session, and 3 plenary talks on Sunday morning, leaving participants enough time to travel back to their home institutions by Sunday night.The following website has been created for the conference: https://sites.google.com/view/gpcc2020/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.