Undergraduate Faculty Advancement in Mathematics (FAIM)

将举办两个为期两周的夏季研讨会，让本科教授熟悉离散数学、几何及其应用领域的新课程理念。每个领域的领导者，包括学者和实践者，将与来自全国各地的50名参与者进行互动，使他们能够了解这些数学领域的新发展，并准备适合在课堂上使用的基于应用的材料。讨论的领域是使用组合学和图论解决问题的策略，图论在社会科学中的应用，离散数学中的图算法。在几何方面，重点将集中在拼接、组合几何和计算几何的研究上。将在1989年1月举行的全国联合医疗辅助系统/医疗辅助系统联合会议上举行一次正式的后续会议，与会者将讨论培训对其校园的影响。本次会议之前将举行两次电话会议，在此期间，与会者和专家可以继续进行对话，并完善会议制定的课程材料。除了国家科学基金会的资金外，参与者所在机构还将为项目的运营提供约20%的差旅费用。

Two, two-week summer workshops will be held to acquaint undergraduate professors with new curricular ideas in the areas of discrete mathematics, geometry, and their applications. Leaders in each field, both academics and practitioners, will interact with fifty participants from all parts of the Nation to enable them to understand new developments in these mathematical fields and to prepare applications-based materials suitable for use in their classrooms. Areas to be discussed are problem- solving strategies using combinatorics and graph theory, applications of graph theory to social sciences, graphical algorithms in discrete math. In geometry, emphasis will center on tilings, combinatorial geometry, and studies in computational geometry. A formal follow-up session will be held at the national Joint AMS/MAA meeting in January of 1989, where participants will discuss the impact of the training on their campuses. This meeting will be preceded by two teleconferences, during which the participants and the experts can continue their dialogue and refine the curricula materials developed at the conference. In addition to the NSF funds, participants' institutions will contribute about 20% in travel costs to the operation of the project.