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DMS Division Of Mathematical Sciences |
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| Initial Amendment Date: | February 9, 2022 |
| Latest Amendment Date: | February 9, 2022 |
| Award Number: | 2206872 |
| Award Instrument: | Standard Grant |
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Andrew Pollington
adpollin@nsf.gov (703)292-4878 DMS Division Of Mathematical Sciences MPS Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences |
| Start Date: | April 1, 2022 |
| End Date: | March 31, 2024 (Estimated) |
| Total Intended Award Amount: | $20,000.00 |
| Total Awarded Amount to Date: | $20,000.00 |
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2221 UNIVERSITY AVE SE STE 100 MINNEAPOLIS MN US 55414-3074 (612)624-5599 |
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206 Church St. SE (Vincent Hall) Minneapolis MN US 55455-0488 |
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| NSF Program(s): | ALGEBRA,NUMBER THEORY,AND COM |
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| Award Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Fund Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Assistance Listing Number(s): | 47.049 |
ABSTRACT
This award will provide support for a ?Graduate Meeting on Combinatorial Commutative Algebra? at the University of Minnesota the weekend of May 13-15, 2022. It will bring together graduate students and researchers in related fields from a broad geographical region. At the event, research ideas and knowledge will be shared, encouraging collaboration and increasing connections between mathematicians at various career levels with algebraic and combinatorial interests, among others. This gathering will help build community and advance the professional development of graduate students and recent PhDs. This will be accomplished by longer lectures by postdoctoral faculty and shorter talks and poster presentations by those at the student level. Additionally, structured conversations during lunch breaks will provide career guidance and open dialogue on professional matters.
Combinatorial commutative algebra, the overarching mathematical theme of the event, has cross-disciplinary appeal, connecting to algebraic geometry and topology, applied and computational algebra, combinatorics, number theory, and representation theory. Therefore, participants in the conference will be exposed to, and share, a variety of research avenues and lines of questioning. The latest developments the field will be discussed. The meeting will take place the weekend before the international conference Open Problems in Algebraic Combinatorics occurs at the University of Minnesota. The breadth of the connections, as well as the proximity of the two events, will attract participants from around the country and enrich the intellectual environment of the meeting. Participants will learn about recent advances and techniques and be exposed to various research directions and open questions. For more information on the conference, see https://math.umn.edu/~mahrud/GradMoCCA.
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
Disclaimer
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This grant funded a national meeting in combinatorial commutative algebra for early-career researchers, especially graduate students. This in-person meeting was welcomed by participants after years of online-only conferences during the COVID-19 pandemic, which suppressed many kinds of professional activity and collaboration. The meeting had 68 participants, and was held 13-15 May 2022 at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Its main activities consisted of a series of talks and a poster session, along with time for informal interaction.
Feedback from participants on our exit survey indicates our event strengthened the national combinatorial commutative algebra community, exposed participants to new research in the field, and has fostered future collaboration.
Participants at the conference created a Discord server in order to continue communicating after the event had ended. Of 35 respondents, 34 said that they either learned "new things that might be useful" or things they are "curious to learn more about" from the poster session, and 37 of 39 respondents said the same of the talks. Many expressed excitement about follow-up talks with people they met at this conference in order to discuss research.
In addition to these immediate benefits, the time and location of this smeeting were chosen to immediately proceed OPAC, a large algebraic combinatorics meeting focused on open problems in the field. Participants commented that our event enhanced their experience at OPAC by providing a group of colleagues with whom to navigate the much larger conference.
A small amount of remaining funds were used to fund graduate student attendance at the Spring 2023 of CA+, a small regional conferences that rotates among the three host institutions: Iowa State University, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Wisconsin. These conferences promote a broad view of commutative algebra, inspiring conversations, and collaborations between different areas of algebra.
The smaller size of these conferences enables us to focus invitations on plenary speakers who are both doing cutting-edge research and have a record of excellent exposition. This promotes the training and education of graduate students and postdocs who attend and interact with these speakers. In addition, this advances discovery, as graduate students, postdocs, and junior faculty learn about exciting new work in commutative algebra.
This meeting also supports the development of research programs for the organizers (Berkesch, Erman, McCullough) and their graduate students and postdocs, through the development of a robust research community and through interactions with the plenary speakers and the local researchers at our institutions.
The organizers are committed to highlighting the work of women researchers via our plenary speakers. To further broaden the participation of those from groups that have been historically marginalized in mathematics, they also recruit and support a diverse group of graduate students and postdocs--including students interested in commutative algebra but working at an outside institution.
Last Modified: 07/28/2024
Modified by: Mahrud Sayrafi
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