REU Site: Discrete and Continuous Analysis in Appalachia

REU 站点：阿巴拉契亚的离散和连续分析

• 批准号: 2150226
• 负责人: Robert Niichel
• 金额: $ 32.34万
• 依托单位: Fairmont State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-03-01 至 2025-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2150226&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Discrete; Continuous; Analysis

The Department of Computer Science and Mathematics at Fairmont State University will host an eight-week REU Site during the summers of 2022, 2023, and 2024. A primary goal of the site is to increase the preparedness of undergraduate students from the Appalachian region to pursue graduate school and STEM-focused careers. The program emphasizes the participation of students from groups that are underrepresented in mathematics, especially students from rural areas, first-generation college students, and students from a low socioeconomic status. The REU provides research experiences in calculus on time scales, a branch of mathematics that unifies and extends the common calculus and related theories, and has applications in mathematical biology, engineering, finance, and statistics, among others. Students improve their research abilities as well as their technical, oral, and written communication skills and acquire an understanding of educational and career opportunities available beyond an undergraduate degree. Participants are required to present their work based on the program projects at an annual local undergraduate research symposium and encouraged and assisted in preparing peer-reviewed publications.Each summer, ten undergraduate students, with roughly half from schools in the Appalachian region, are recruited to attend an eight-week long REU site. The first week of the program is dedicated to building the mathematical and programming prerequisites of participants, and to the formulation of research projects connecting calculus on time scales with control theory, special functions theory, and probability theory. Students provide reports of progress to advisors each week and present their work to all participants on Fridays. Professional development opportunities are offered on how to apply for graduate school, on strategies for effectively working in a group environment, on software systems for scientific document preparation, and on giving technical presentations. Participants are also exposed to other research areas in mathematics through a weekly Distinguished Speakers Series. This project is jointly funded by the Division of Mathematical Sciences and the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR).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.

费尔蒙特州立大学计算机科学和数学系将在 2022 年、2023 年和 2024 年夏季举办为期八周的 REU 网站。该网站的主要目标是提高阿巴拉契亚地区本科生的准备程度，以求进一步发展研究生院和以 STEM 为重点的职业。该项目强调数学弱势群体学生的参与，特别是来自农村地区的学生、第一代大学生和社会经济地位较低的学生。 REU 提供时间尺度微积分的研究经验，微积分是统一和扩展常见微积分及相关理论的数学分支，并在数学生物学、工程、金融和统计学等领域有应用。学生提高他们的研究能力以及技术、口头和书面沟通技巧，并了解本科学位以外的教育和职业机会。参与者必须在一年一度的当地本科生研究研讨会上展示他们基于项目的工作，并鼓励和协助准备同行评审的出版物。每年夏天，十名本科生（其中大约一半来自阿巴拉契亚地区的学校）被招募到参加为期八周的 REU 现场。该计划的第一周致力于为参与者建立数学和编程先决条件，并制定将时间尺度上的微积分与控制论、特殊函数理论和概率论联系起来的研究项目。学生每周向顾问提供进度报告，并在周五向所有参与者展示他们的作品。提供有关如何申请研究生院、在团队环境中有效工作的策略、用于科学文档准备的软件系统以及进行技术演示的专业发展机会。参与者还可以通过每周的杰出演讲者系列活动接触数学的其他研究领域。该项目由数学科学部和刺激竞争性研究既定计划 (EPSCoR) 联合资助。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，认为值得支持。