REU Site: Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Mathematics at Lafayette College

REU 网站：拉斐特学院数学本科生的研究经验

• 批准号: 1063070
• 负责人: Qin Lu
• 金额: $ 22.99万
• 依托单位: Lafayette College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-09-01 至 2015-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1063070&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Research; Experiences; Undergraduates

Program abstract:The Department of Mathematics at Lafayette College will host an eight week summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program during the summers of 2012, 2013, and 2014. Approximately eight students per year will be selected from a national pool to explore three research topics under the guidance of faculty mentors. Three Lafayette students will also participate. Research projects, which will vary from summer to summer, will be drawn from the following areas: combinatorics, differential geometry, financial mathematics, finite geometry and games, geometric group theory, mathematical computation, number theory, mathematical biology, and recreational mathematics. The research program will be supplemented by student presentations, guest speakers, informal gatherings, along with possible workshops/conferences. These experiences will give the student participants the opportunity to share ideas, learn more mathematics and become part of a research community. Students will be encouraged to present their results at conferences such as the Joint Mathematics Meetings and, when appropriate, mentors and their groups will write up their results for publication. All projects will involve the investigation of open research problems under the direction of a faculty mentor. The faculty mentors come from a pool of successful researchers with extensive experience in working and publishing with undergraduates--students from past Lafayette College REUs have regularly presented at national conferences and have published in high-quality journals. By working in an exciting mathematical environment surrounded by talented peers, student participants in the REU will gain an in-depth, meaningful experience to supplement their undergraduate mathematical education. The program will also provide motivation for students considering graduate studies in mathematics-intensive fields.

项目摘要：拉斐特学院数学系将在 2012 年、2013 年和 2014 年夏季举办为期八周的本科生夏季研究体验 (REU) 项目。每年将从全国选拔大约 8 名学生来探索三个在导师的指导下研究课题。 三名拉斐特学生也将参加。 研究项目每个夏天都会有所不同，将来自以下领域：组合学、微分几何、金融数学、有限几何和博弈、几何群论、数学计算、数论、数学生物学和娱乐数学。 研究计划将通过学生演讲、客座演讲、非正式聚会以及可能的研讨会/会议来补充。 这些经历将使学生参与者有机会分享想法、学习更多数学并成为研究社区的一部分。 我们将鼓励学生在联合数学会议等会议上展示他们的结果，并且在适当的情况下，导师及其小组将撰写他们的结果以供出版。 所有项目都将涉及在教师导师的指导下对开放研究问题的调查。 教师导师来自一群成功的研究人员，他们在与本科生一起工作和发表论文方面拥有丰富的经验——拉斐特学院过去的 REU 学生定期在全国会议上发表演讲，并在高质量期刊上发表文章。 通过在一个由才华横溢的同龄人包围的令人兴奋的数学环境中工作，REU 的学生参与者将获得深入、有意义的经验，以补充他们的本科数学教育。 该计划还将为考虑在数学密集型领域攻读研究生的学生提供动力。