Conference: NSF Computational Mathematics PI Meeting 2024

NSF计算数学(CompMath)PI会议是十多年来第一次这样的活动，将于2024年7月15日和16日在西雅图的华盛顿大学举行。会议对所有对CompMath感兴趣的人开放，特别强调吸引CompMath项目的当前和最近的PI，以及早期职业研究人员，如初级教授、博士后和在CompMath工作的博士生。会议旨在实现三个主要目标：(1)通过将CompMath社区聚集在一起，加强和扩大NSF支持的个人投资机构网络，从而在CompMath中建立社区。平行研究会议是一个平台，以突出个人投资和CompMath方案的成就；(2)通过海报会议吸引早期职业科学家参与，旨在突出他们的工作、旨在促进早期职业研究人员专业发展的活动，以及对这些与会者的旅行支持；(3)组织者将利用社区意见编写一份前瞻性报告，概述会议期间的讨论情况，总结会议提出的任何战略性社区建议和结果，重点关注CompMath的主要成就、当前的挑战和令人兴奋的新研究方向。NSF的CompMath学科计划支持各种研究努力，包括更多经典的数值分析、偏微分方程求解算法和数学优化，以及随机化线性代数、计算成像、数据科学和机器学习的数学方面的较新和/或萌芽的子领域。这些分领域的研究人员确实参加了各自学科的会议和专业活动，也有机会参加相关领域的会议。然而，在专注于CompMath中广泛的基础研究问题集合的大量研究人员之间，缺乏见面的机会。由于由NSF CompMath计划的项目奖励支持的PI社区没有社区广泛会面的有针对性的活动/会议，因此这项提议的主要动机是组织这样一次专业会议。PI会议将以集中的陈述会议为特色，在这些会议上，PI将突出他们在先前描述的技术研究领域中由NSF支持的工作。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。

The NSF Computational Mathematics (CompMath) PIs’ meeting is the first such event for over a decade and will be held on July 15 and 16, 2024, at the University of Washington in Seattle. The meeting is open to all with interest in CompMath, with a particular emphasis on attracting current and recent PIs of the CompMath program, as well as early career researchers such as junior professors, postdocs, and Ph.D. students working in CompMath. The meeting aims to achieve three primary goals: (1) Community building in CompMath by bringing together the CompMath community to strengthen and expand the network of NSF-supported PIs. Parallel research sessions serve as a platform to highlight the achievements of the PIs and the CompMath program; (2) Engagement of early career scientists through a poster session designed to highlight their works, activities aimed at the professional development of early career researchers, and travel support for these attendees; (3) A forward-looking report will be compiled by the organizers by leveraging community input that presents an overview of discussions during the meeting and summarizes any strategic community recommendations and outcomes from the meeting focusing on the major achievements of CompMath, current challenges, and exciting new research directions.The CompMath disciplinary program at NSF supports a variety of research endeavors, which include more classical foci of numerical analysis, PDE solving algorithms, and mathematical optimization, along with the more recent and/or nascent subfields of randomized linear algebra, computational imaging, and mathematical aspects of data science and machine learning. Investigators from these subfields indeed attend their own discipline-specific conferences and professional events and also take opportunities to attend meetings in related fields. However, there is a dearth of meeting opportunities between a large collection of researchers who focus on the broad collection of foundational research questions in CompMath. Because the community of PIs supported by project awards from the NSF CompMath program does not have targeted events/conferences where the community broadly meets, the main motivation for this proposal is to organize such a professional meeting. The PI meeting will feature focused presentation sessions where PI’s will highlight their NSF-supported work in the previously described technical research areas.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.