This award is made as part of the FY 2013 Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships Program. Each of the fellowships supports a research and training project at a host institution in the mathematical sciences, including applications to other disciplines, under the mentorship of a sponsoring scientist. The title of the project for this fellowship to Angela Hicks is "A New Approach to Parking Functions and the Diagonal Harmonics via the HMZ Conjecture." The host institution for the fellowship is Stanford University, and the sponsoring scientist is Dr. Persi Diaconis.