Maths TCC Follow-on-Fund: A National Taught Course Centre in Operational Research (NATCOR): 2011-2016

数学 TCC 后续基金：运筹学国家讲授课程中心 (NATCOR)：2011-2016

• 批准号: EP/J500938/1
• 负责人: Adam Letchford
• 金额: $ 19.11万
• 依托单位: Lancaster University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Training Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2011 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FJ500938%2F1
• 关键词: Maths; TCC; Follow; Fund; National; Maths; TCC; Follow; Fund; National

The concern to broaden and deepen UK doctoral study in the mathematical sciences was felt with particular force within the Operational Research (OR) community. As a consequence, NATCOR has enjoyed a very strong level of community support since its foundation in 2006. NATCOR's choice of a residential course model for delivery in part reflected a belief in its effectiveness in fully engaging participants and in part stemmed from an aim to build a larger and more strongly connected community of PhD students in OR to the longer term benefit of UK research in the subject. This latter aim has been strikingly fulfilled and the sense of a strong UK PhD community in OR is now palpable, with a newly established student conference effectively a NATCOR spin-off. The decision to offer five week-long courses meant that we could offer a curriculum sufficiently comprehensive in its coverage of the mathematics of OR. The choice of a two-year delivery cycle for the curriculum was dictated by a practical concern to have a sufficiently large student population (ie, of first and second year PhD students) to guarantee viability. The feedback we have received from students, supervisors, the wider community and recently from the EPSRC-commissioned DTZ reports suggest strongly that all of these basic design decisions have been vindicated as have other choices concerning NATCOR's structure for management and administration. We do not propose to make changes to these basic elements of NATCOR for the upcoming five-year period. Further, NATCOR will continue to profit from the support of both the OR Society and the Smith Institute for the period 2011-2016. Recent steps to make NATCOR more effective have included (i) the introduction of one-day workshops to complement two of our core courses and broaden their scope, (ii) an extension of the management team (Executive Committee) which now includes representatives of ten universities, (iii) engagement with the IMA to raise awareness of NATCOR more broadly, (iv) the commissioning of a new professionally designed website to more effectively promote course participation and facilitate course registration. Over the period 2011-2016 we plan to further strengthen NATCOR (inter alia) by (i) mitigating the risk of a downturn in student numbers by recruiting from as wide a student population as possible, (ii) conducting a major review of course content, (iii) facilitating formal assessment of students, (iv) continuing to subject all provision to rigorous evaluation, (v) continuing to bear down on costs such that the provision can be offered over the next five years with fee levels which are little changed from those at present, (v) evaluating NATCOR's impact on students' doctoral education and career choices and (vi) working toward sustainability post 2016.

在运营研究（OR）社区中，人们对数学科学的扩大和加深研究的关注感是在数学科学中的。结果，自2006年基础以来，NATCOR一直享有非常强大的社区支持。NATCOR选择的住宅课程模型用于交付，部分反映了其在使参与者充分吸引参与者方面的有效性，部分源于建立更大，更牢固地相互联系的Phd学生在该主题中或更长期相互联系的社区。后一个目标得到了惊人的实现，并且在英国博士学位强大的博士社区或现在显而易见的是，有效的学生会议有效地是Natcor的衍生产品。决定提供五个星期的课程的决定意味着我们可以在其对OR的数学范围内提供足够全面的课程。课程为期两年的交付周期的选择是由实际关注的问题决定的，即有足够大的学生人数（即第一年和第二年的博士生）来保证可行性。我们从学生，主管，更广泛的社区以及EPSRC委托DTZ报告的报告中收到的反馈强烈表明，所有这些基本设计决策都得到了证实，因为还有其他关于NATCOR的管理和管理结构的选择。我们不建议在接下来的五年期间更改Natcor的这些基本要素。此外，纳特科（Natcor）将继续从2011 - 2016年期间的社会和史密斯学院的支持中获利。包括（i）引入一日研讨会，以补充我们的两个核心课程并扩大其范围，（ii）管理团队（执行委员会）的范围，包括十所大学的代表，（iii）与IMA的参与，以更广泛的促进（iiv）促进新的专业委托活动，以提高委员会（III），（iii）的范围更广泛地促进了新的专业委托，以提高核心委员会（III），该委员会的范围更广泛，（ii）延长了我们的核心委员会（III），（III）的范围更广泛地宣传了新专业的专业，以促进新专业的委员 登记。在2011年至2016年期间，我们计划通过（i）通过（i）通过招募尽可能广泛的学生人数来减轻学生人数低迷的风险，（ii）对课程内容进行重大审查，（iii）（iii）对学生进行正式评估，（iiv）继续进行，（iv）继续进行了限制，以置于限制的情况下（v），（iiv）付出了（v），（iiv），（iiv）付出了范围，（iiv），（iiv）付出了（v），则（v）提供了范围（v），v）（v），（iiv）（v）提供了范围（v），（v）提供了范围（v），则（v）提供了（V）。接下来的五年，收费水平与目前几乎没有变化，（v）评估Natcor对学生博士教育和职业选择的影响以及（VI）致力于2016年的可持续发展。