Mathematical Sciences: REU: Mathematical REU Site at the University of Tennessee

REU Site奖为十名本科生研究人员提供支持，他们在几名教师顾问的指导下工作。该项目为期八周，包括个性化的研究项目，通常是一名学生和一名研究人员，以及本科课程中通常找不到的短期课程。计划举办一场教师研讨会，讨论研究兴趣，以拓宽学生的视角。与橡树岭国家实验室数学科学科的大力合作包括由该实验室的数学研究人员教授一些短期课程和指导学生项目。研究项目将涵盖一些领域，如将最优控制应用于种群模型，特别适用于竞争系统、捕食者-猎物模型和生物修复策略。其他工作将集中在应用统计决策理论来分析有限营养对根和地上部组织的替代分配模式，关于交换环的有限生成理想的最小生成集的大小，以及以某种类型的并行性操作的数值算法的开发。

This REU site award provides support for ten undergraduate researchers working under the supervision of several faculty advisors. The program runs for eight weeks as a combination of individualized research projects, usually one student with one researcher and short courses on material not normally found in the undergraduate curriculum. A faculty seminar with talks on research interests is scheduled to broaden student perspectives. A strong cooperative effort with the Mathematical Sciences Section of Oak Ridge National Laboratory includes some teaching of the short courses and the direction of student projects by mathematical researchers at the laboratory. Research projects will cover areas such as applying optimal control to population models with particular applications to competitive systems, predator-prey models and bioremediation strategies. Other work will focus on the application of statistical decision theory to analyze alternative partitioning patterns of limited nutrients to root and shoot tissue, on the size of minimal generating sets for finitely generated ideals of commutative rings and development of numerical algorithms which operate with some type of parallelism.