Mathematical Sciences Research Equipment

这个项目是数学科学计划科学计算研究设备活动补助金下的一项设备赠款。该项目涉及购买专门用于支持数学科学研究的特殊用途设备。一般来说，这种设备是几个研究项目共同需要的，很难单独在一个项目上证明是合理的。来自国家科学基金会的这项研究设备支持，加上制造商提供的设备折扣和捐款，以及提交机构的重大费用分摊。该项目为大学、产业界和政府合作支持数学科学的基础研究提供了一个很好的范例。这台设备将用于几个研究项目，特别是：(1)计算数论和筛子理论中的差微分方程组，(2)分析中的计算机图形学，(3)符号计算程序和算法。

This project is an equipment grant under the activity Grants For Scientific Computing Research Equipment For The Mathematical Sciences program. The project involves the purchase of special purpose equipment dedicated to the support of research in the mathematical sciences. In general, this equipment is required jointly by several research projects and would be difficult to justify on one project alone. This research equipment support from the National Science Foundation is coupled with discounts and contributions of equipment from manufacturers and significant cost-sharing from the submitting institution. This project provides a good example of university, industrial, and government cooperation in the support of basic research in the mathematical sciences. This equipment will be used in several research projects, in particular: (1) Computational number theory and the difference-differential equations that arise in sieve theory, (2) Computer graphics in analysis, (3) Symbolic computation programs and algorithms.