The U.S. National Science Foundation is an independent federal agency that supports science and engineering in all 50 states and U.S. territories. NSF was established in 1950 by Congress to promote the progress of science, advance the national health, prosperity and welfare, and secure the national defense.
The Combinatorics program focuses on funding research into discrete structures and spans various subfields including algebraic, enumerative, existential, extremal, geometric, and probabilistic combinatorics, alongside graph theory. It also extends support to conferences related to these areas, demonstrating a broad interest in fostering academic and scholarly developments within the field of combinatorics.