陶哲轩博客写数学问题时，通常先把对象定义清楚，再给直觉、反例和证明轮廓。把「(Matilde Lalin) Attending conferences with small children」改写成可阅读的中文笔记，重点是：问题在问什么、已知到哪一步、下一步最容易走偏在哪。原站广告、分享条和导航已去掉。

问题在问什么

[This guest post is authored by Matilde Lalin , an Associate Professor in the Département de mathématiques et de statistique at the Université de Montréal. I have lightly edited the text, mostly by adding some HTML formatting. -T.]

Mathematicians (and likely other academics!) with small children face some unique challenges when traveling to conferences and workshops. The goal of this post is to reflect on these, and to start a constructive discussion what institutions and event organizers could do to improve the experiences of such participants.

已知结果和反例

The first necessary step is to recognize that different families have different needs. While it is hard to completely address everybody’s needs, there are some general measures that have a good chance to help most of the people traveling with young children. 在这类讨论里, I will mostly focus on nursing mothers with infants ( months old) because that is my personal experience. Many of the suggestions will apply to other cases such as non-nursing babies, children of single parents, c

The mother of a nursing infant that wishes to attend a conference has three options:

证明或构造的主线

It is important to keep in mind that each option has its own set of challenges (even when expenses and facilities are all covered) and that different families may be restricted in their choice of options for a variety of reasons. It is therefore important that all these three options be facilitated.

As for the effect these choices have on the conference experience for the mother, Option 1 means that she has to balance her time between the conference and spending time with her relative/friend. This pressure disappears when we consider Option 2, so this option may lead to more participation in the conferences activities. In Option 3, the mother is in principle free to participate in all the conference activities, but the frequent breaks may limit the type of activity. A mo

阅读时建议盯住的点

I want to stress, for the three options, that having to make choices about what to miss in the conference is very hard. While talks are important, so are the opportunities to meet people and discuss mathematics that happen during breaks and social events. It is very difficult to balance all of this. This is particularly difficult for the pumping mother in Option 3: because she travels without her baby, she is not perceived to be a in special situation or in need of accommodat

Here is the Hall of Fame for those organizations that are already supporting nursing mothers’ travels in mathematics:

值得单独记下的条目

• The American Institute of Mathematics (AIM) reimburses up to 500 dollars on childcare for visitors and they have some online resources that assist in finding childcare and nannies.
• The Joint Mathematics Meetings have been providing onsite childcare in the last few years.
• The Institute for Applied Mathematics (IPAM) provides childcare resources and funding to workshop participants with small children (comment from juliawolf ).
• The Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at Berkeley has a separate lactation room as part of some female washrooms (comment from juliawolf ).
• The London Mathematical Society (LMS) offers Childcare Supplementary Grants of up to £200 to all mathematicians based in the UK travelling to conferences and other research schools, meetings or visits (comments from Peter).
• Funding (for cost associated to child care either professional or by an accompanying relative).
• List of childcare resources (nannies, nanny agencies, drop-in childcare centre, etc).
• Nursing rooms and playrooms near the conference venue. Nearby fridge.

阅读和落地时建议先做的 5 件事

1. 用自己的语言重写定义和结论，不看原文能不能说清对象是什么。
2. 找一个最小反例或边界情形，确认假设少一条会怎样。
3. 把证明拆成可独立检验的引理，每步只保留一个新想法。
4. 若涉及计算或形式化，先写可复现的小例子，再谈一般情形。
5. 记下尚未解决的缺口：缺估计、缺构造，还是缺正确的范畴。

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