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DMS Division Of Mathematical Sciences |
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| Initial Amendment Date: | May 11, 2022 |
| Latest Amendment Date: | December 8, 2022 |
| Award Number: | 2201218 |
| Award Instrument: | Standard Grant |
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Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska
jkaniaba@nsf.gov (703)292-4881 DMS Division Of Mathematical Sciences MPS Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences |
| Start Date: | June 1, 2022 |
| End Date: | December 31, 2024 (Estimated) |
| Total Intended Award Amount: | $26,650.00 |
| Total Awarded Amount to Date: | $26,650.00 |
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1 SILBER WAY BOSTON MA US 02215-1703 (617)353-4365 |
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25 Buick St. Boston MA US 02215-2411 |
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STATISTICS, PROBABILITY, GEOMETRIC ANALYSIS |
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| Award Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Fund Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Assistance Listing Number(s): | 47.049 |
ABSTRACT
This project funds participant support for the 11th and 12th annual Boston University/Keio University/Tsinghua University Workshops, with the 11th Workshop to be held June 27-July 1, 2022, at Boston University, focusing on Geometry and Mathematical Physics. The 2023 workshop will focus on Probability and Statistics. The funding is dedicated to travel and local expenses for advanced graduate students and recent PhDs based at US institutions outside the Boston area. The workshops will provide participants with the opportunity to hear advanced talks in their research fields, to present their own work in a professional setting, and to network with each other and with senior experts. Through their own sources of funding, Keio University and Tsinghua University faculty will bring similar participants to these workshops from Japan and China. As a result, these workshops strengthen research ties between the US, Japanese, and Chinese mathematics and statistics communities.
The workshops follow a format in which senior faculty lecture on recent research directions in the morning, and recent PhD recipients and graduate students present their own work in the afternoon. Poster sessions accommodate additional presentations, and each workshop includes a discussion section on open problems in the field and other issues of particular interest for early-career participants, such as career placement. The workshops provide websites with lecture notes and slides from the research presentations, which serve to disseminate these cutting-edge research results to the broad communities. More information can be found at the workshop website http://math.bu.edu/BKT2022.
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.
PROJECT OUTCOMES REPORT
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Since 2014, the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Boston University has hosted a joint workshop with the Mathematics Department at Keio University (Japan) on advances in research areas of common interest. Starting from 2021, the Department of Mathematics at Tsinghua University (China) has joined to organize the workshop.
These five-day workshops are explicitly designed to be accessible to advanced graduate students, and so are a complement to the many conferences that are aimed at senior research faculty. This NSF grant funds the participation of advanced graduate students and recent PhDs at the workshop, with the goal that junior participants find the atmosphere exciting but not intimidating. The funded participants have the opportunity to give a professional talk in an environment where networking with senior faculty is encouraged.
The four workshops covered by this grant are: Geometry and Mathematical Physics (2021 and 2022), Probability and Statistics (2023) and Differential Equations, Dynamical Systems and Applied Mathematics (2024). The schedule and lecture notes from these workshops are available at http://math.bu.edu/keio2024 (and the same URL with 2024 replaced by 2021, 2022 or 2023). Due to the COVID pandemics, the workshop in 2021 was held entirely online.
In total, this grant covered costs for 22 junior participants. The total number of participants in the four workshops was approximately 150. Funded participants anecdotally reported very favorable impressions from the workshops.
The workshops have had a profound and positive impact on all the junior and senior participants. Participants reported that presenting their work in such an accessible, non-intimidating environment gave them valuable feedback. The informal setting allowed for meaningful interactions between junior participants and senior faculty. Furthermore, presenting at these workshops helped junior participants build confidence in their ability to communicate complex ideas clearly to both peers and senior researchers.
The workshops have demonstrated the value of creating accessible platforms for graduate students and recent PhDs, providing them with opportunities to present their research and interact with senior faculty in a supportive environment. We look forward to continuing this initiative in future years, helping to further nurture the next generation of mathematicians.
Last Modified: 02/20/2025
Modified by: Siu-Cheong Lau
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