Topology Student Workshop

拓扑学学生研讨会

• 批准号: 1822040
• 负责人: Dan Margalit
• 金额: $ 4万
• 依托单位: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-06-01 至 2019-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1822040&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Topology; Student; Workshop

This award supports participation in the Topology Students Workshop (TSW) held at the Georgia Institute of Technology during June 4-8, 2018. This is a five-day research and professional development workshop for graduate students in the fields of geometric group theory, geometry, and topology, designed to expose them to a wide range of current research, and to help build their communication, networking, and problem-sharing skills. Approximately sixty students will participate, guided by ten mentors, who come from a wide range of career stages and research backgrounds within this field. The conference provides essential training for the next generation of scientists, giving the participants many tools that will help them to succeed as scientists at the highest levels in graduate school and beyond. The professional development and research sides of the workshop run in tandem, with mentors giving guidance in both areas. The workshop emphasizes important career skills for mathematicians that are typically not taught in graduate school, including networking and etiquette, the job and grant application process, effective communication and research skills, and a panel discussion on career paths. The guidance is intended to be particularly beneficial to students from underrepresented groups. Mathematical topics presented at TSW will cover a broad range within geometry and topology, including contact and symplectic topology, three-manifolds, hyperbolic geometry, group actions, and complex dynamics. The research talks will model good communication and will also introduce research areas and relevant problems to students who are embarking on a research career. For many of the students, the TSW is the first conference at which they are presenting their own results; the workshop is designed to facilitate this experience. For instance, the first professional development session is an introduction to conferences and how best to benefit from them. The goal is to build confidence and research potential among students. The skills addressed here can be especially beneficial to students from minority groups, as indicated from responses from participants in previous iterations of the program. The panel discussion on career paths involves mathematicians from organizations such as NSA, Amazon, Google, and private high schools. Effective communication is a major theme: two evening sessions are devoted to workshop presentations in small groups; the final presentations are videotaped and critiqued by those in attendance. The web site for the conference is http://tsw.gatech.edu.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.

该奖项支持参加 2018 年 6 月 4 日至 8 日在佐治亚理工学院举办的拓扑学学生研讨会 (TSW)。这是一个为期五天的研究和专业发展研讨会，面向几何群论、几何学等领域的研究生和拓扑，旨在让他们接触广泛的当前研究，并帮助培养他们的沟通、网络和问题共享技能。大约 60 名学生将在 10 名导师的指导下参加，这些导师来自该领域的不同职业阶段和研究背景。该会议为下一代科学家提供必要的培训，为参与者提供许多工具，帮助他们在研究生院及以后成为最高水平的科学家。研讨会的专业发展和研究部分同时进行，导师在这两个领域提供指导。该研讨会强调了数学家通常不会在研究生院教授的重要职业技能，包括网络和礼仪、工作和资助申请流程、有效的沟通和研究技能，以及关于职业道路的小组讨论。该指南旨在让来自代表性不足群体的学生特别受益。 TSW 上提出的数学主题将涵盖几何和拓扑的广泛范围，包括接触和辛拓扑、三流形、双曲几何、群作用和复杂动力学。研究讲座将塑造良好的沟通氛围，并向即将从事研究职业的学生介绍研究领域和相关问题。对于许多学生来说，TSW 是他们第一次展示自己成果的会议；该研讨会旨在促进这种体验。例如，第一次专业发展会议是介绍会议以及如何最好地从中受益。目标是建立学生的信心和研究潜力。正如该计划之前几轮参与者的反应所表明的那样，这里讨论的技能对少数群体的学生特别有益。关于职业道路的小组讨论涉及来自美国国家安全局、亚马逊、谷歌和私立高中等组织的数学家。有效沟通是一个主要主题：两个晚上的会议专门以小组形式进行研讨会演示；最终的演讲会被录像并受到与会者的批评。会议的网站是 http://tsw.gatech.edu。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。