Travel: Third Workshop for Women in Computational Topology

该奖项将支持美国参与者参加将于2023年7月17日至21日在瑞士洛桑洛桑联邦理工学院伯努利中心举行的第三届女性计算拓扑研讨会（WinCompTop 3）。WinCompTop 3是一个促进在计算拓扑学领域工作的初级和高级女性之间形成新的和持久的研究合作的研讨会，该领域旨在确定从医学成像到传感器阵列网络等领域的数据中的基本模式和数学结构。本次研讨会旨在通过提供研究机会和独特的指导，合作和队列建设环境，发展活跃在这一领域的女性网络。这类活动至关重要，因为尽管在过去几十年中采取了许多举措并取得了不可否认的进展，但数学和计算机科学领域的性别不平衡仍然很严重。特别是，根据美国国家科学基金会最近收集的数据，数学和计算机科学是获得博士学位的女性比例最低的三个学科中的两个。有相当多的证据表明，面向女性的会议和研讨会，如WinCompTop，可以而且确实产生了重大影响，参与者报告说，他们看到了这些研讨会的巨大好处，这些研讨会支持合作，扩大联系，并提高了在更大的数学界的知名度。WinCompTop 3研讨会属于女性研究合作会议，这是数学界女性协会鼓励和支持的研讨会的大部分时间将用于解决由该领域知名领导人领导的小型工作组中的公开问题。时间表包括工作组进行研究的长时间段。在一周中的两个或两个以上的时间点，所有参与者将召开会议，每组的一名成员将简要总结他们团队的进展情况。此外，还将为研究生和早期职业参与者举办海报会议，并为处于职业生涯不同阶段的女性以及同行同事之间提供其他重要的网络和指导机会。这些关系将促进一个支持性的和以社区为导向的氛围，这是产生专业联系和合作的理想选择。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。

This award will support the participation of US-based participants at the Third Workshop for Women in Computational Topology (WinCompTop 3) to be held at the Bernoulli Center at the EPFL Lausanne in Switzerland from July 17–21, 2023. WinCompTop 3 is a workshop that facilitates the formation of new and lasting research collaborations between junior and senior women working in the field of computational topology, a field that seeks to identify underlying patterns and mathematical structure in data from areas ranging from medical imaging to networks of sensor arrays. This workshop is designed to grow the network of women active in this field by providing both research opportunities and a unique environment for mentoring, collaboration, and cohort building. This type of event is critical, since despite numerous initiatives and undeniable progress over the past few decades, gender imbalance in mathematics and computer science remains significant. In particular, mathematics and computer science are two of three disciplines with the lowest percentage of women attaining PhDs, according to recent data collected by the National Science Foundation. There is considerable evidence that conferences and workshops, such as WinCompTop, geared toward women can and do make a significant impact, and participants report that they see strong benefits from these workshops, which support collaborations, broaden contacts, and raise visibility in the greater mathematical community.The WinCompTop 3 workshop fits under the broad umbrella of Research Collaboration Conferences for Women, which the Association for Women in Mathematics encourages and supports. The majority of the time at the workshop will be spent tackling open problems in small working groups headed by established leaders in the field. The schedule consists of long blocks of time for the working groups to do research. At two or more points during the week, all participants will convene and one member from each group will provide a brief summary of their team's progress. In addition, there will be a poster session for graduate students and early-career participants, as well as other crucial networking and mentoring opportunities between women at different points in their career as well as between peer colleagues. These relationships will foster a supportive and community-oriented atmosphere that is ideal for generating professional connections and collaborations.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.