FOCS Conference Student and Postdoc Travel Support

FOCS 会议学生和博士后旅行支持

• 批准号: 2204910
• 负责人: Shanghua Teng
• 金额: $ 1.5万
• 依托单位: University of Southern California
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-01-15 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2204910&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: FOCS; Conference; Student; Postdoc; Travel

The IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS) is one of the two premier annual research conferences that covers the breadth of theoretical computer science. It is a conference of very long standing that has continued to played a formative role in the field; it is also at the leading edge of connections made to other fields. This project aims to increase the impact of this conference on students and postdocs, particularly those from under-represented groups, by encouraging and enabling their participation, especially in cases where travel expenses would otherwise preclude their attendance.Concretely, the investigator requests NSF fund to assist students and postdoctoral fellows for attending this year’s Annual FOCS conference, sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Mathematical Foundations of Computing (TCMF). The coming FOCS will take place at the Hilton Denver City Center in Denver, Colorado, between February 7-10 2022. As computing becoming ubiquitous, it is crucial to expand the participation of young scholars in cutting-edge research. FOCS has served as one of the most important venues for groundbreaking research in theoretical computer science – and increasingly, as a key ambassador to other areas within and outside computer science. The intellectual merit consists of supporting researchers at early stage of their career to present their work and to enhance their engagements. We anticipate that the resultant discussions will expose the awardees to a broad set of fundamental questions and ideas. We expect the community to benefit in turn, as such junior researchers have contributed substantially to the growth of theoretical computer science over the years. With emphasis on young scholars in need, the broader impact is on supporting under-represented junior researchers in this the stimulating exchanging of ideas, and for the conference attendees to benefit from the attendance of a diverse population. As the tools and techniques from theoretical computer science (such as novel models, algorithms, impossibility results, and unexpected connections in data science and machine learning) are becoming vital to several domains inside and outside computer science, it is anticipated that such broader participation of junior researchers will benefit society at large.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.

IEEE 计算机科学基础研讨会 (FOCS) 是覆盖理论计算机科学广泛领域的两个重要的年度研究会议之一。该项目也处于与其他领域建立联系的前沿，旨在通过鼓励和促进学生和博士后的参与，特别是在差旅费用较高的情况下，增加本次会议对学生和博士后的影响，特别是来自代表性不足群体的学生和博士后。否则阻止他们具体来说，研究者请求 NSF 资助学生和博士后参加今年的年度 FOCS 会议，该会议由 IEEE 计算机协会计算数学基础技术委员会 (TCMF) 主办。即将召开的 FOCS 会议将在丹佛希尔顿酒店举行。 2022 年 2 月 7 日至 10 日在科罗拉多州丹佛市中心举行。随着计算变得无处不在，扩大年轻学者对 FOCS 前沿研究的参与至关重要。作为理论计算机科学开创性研究的最重要场所之一，并且越来越多地成为计算机科学内外其他领域的重要大使，其智力价值包括支持研究人员在职业生涯的早期阶段展示他们的工作和成果。我们预计，由此产生的讨论将使获奖者接触到一系列广泛的基本问题和想法，我们希望社区能够反过来受益，因为这些初级研究人员为理论计算机科学的发展做出了重大贡献。年，重点关注有需要的青年学者，产生更广泛的影响。支持代表性不足的初级研究人员，促进思想交流，并使与会者受益于理论计算机科学的工具和技术（例如新颖的模型、算法、不可能的结果、以及数据科学和机器学习中意想不到的联系）对于成为计算机科学内外的多个领域至关重要，预计初级研究人员的这种更广泛的参与将使整个社会受益。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并被认为是值得的通过使用基金会的智力评估进行支持优点和更广泛的影响审查标准。